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SODA NS v0.8.3c is out, and it is a Major Security Update. On version 0.8.3b, database settings were moved to soda.cfg so that there would only be one settings file.
But stupid me, I forgot that soda.cfg is a plain text file which is accessable by any browser, and people can get information on mysql db (including hostname, username and password - enough to hack into the database) by going to http://server/soda/soda.cfg .
This was easily fixed by renaming soda.cfg to soda.cfg.php, so that PHP would interpret it. A simple tweak, but a critical one. Upgrade your soda now.
Sorry.

Partial changelog (I've started writing one in the middle of the development...):

* date details are not stored in the database as a Unix timestamp in INT (instead of DATETIME in soda_stories, soda_sumitted and soda_comments).
+ hebrew_date() function added in order to properly view timestamp, featuring a way to design the date viewing format.
- hebdt() and hebdate() have been canceled, hebrew_date() does their work and is much more advanced.
+ added a "GMT Offset" setting - all dates are stored in GMT, and displayed using the defined gmt_offset setting.
- strmaxwordlen() have been canceled, it became useless over the time and even created some problems.
* soda_forum table changed to soda_comments.
- path settings - path is now calculated automatically and stored in global var $path.
* conn.inc.php settings moved to soda.cfg. There is no need to edit conn.inc.php anymore.
* include.php renamed to include.inc.php.
- google box is down temporarily because of a very weird problem.
+ install.php has now default header and footer so that it would look okay on first installation.
* fixed *many* typos in README file.
* minor bug fixes.... read more

It took me too much time to decide, but here we go, v0.8.3 (Build #02032002) is available for download from the SourceForge servers.
Download, install, play with it, report bugs at the Tracker here, and contact me for any kind of information.

Enjoy ;)

I'm finally getting places =]

SODA NS was approved by SourceForge.net today, and I can now upload everything to my own server and manage the project using uber-kewl tools.

Anyway, because of the holidays I won't be here for the next four days (will be back at Thursday), so I won't be uploading anything until then.

Stay tuned for updates..