We are proud to announce that the latest version of KBPublisher v6.0 is now available.
New Modules and Features
Sphinx Search Engine support
- Sphinx is a full-text search engine that provides fast and relevant full-text search functionality.
- Key Sphinx features are:
- high indexing and searching performance
- advanced indexing and querying tools (flexible and feature-rich text tokenizer, querying language, several different ranking modes, etc)
- proven scalability up to billions of documents, terabytes of data, and thousands of queries per second
- Supports Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages.
SAML authentication
- SAML is to enable Single Sign-On for the application across various domains and services.
User Activity Report
- The User Action Report Module allows you to monitor what user is doing in the system, or who viewed a specified article, etc.
- It can flexibly generate transaction reports according to the users' needs, such as number of views/downloads per day, week or month.
Quick Create an Article
- This option allows quick inline creation or update of articles in Public Area.
New Export Modules
- Export to PDF/HTML module enables users to export the entire KBPublisher data, or a particular directory for offline browsing.
- You can add your own header and/or footer to PDF template and it will be included on every page.
Also
- CKEditor updated to v4.6.2
- Added an option to upload file with the same name and it will not be renamed
- Added an option to change article author and/or updater in a bulk
- Added functionality to move articles to Drafts
- Added an option to print, convert to PDF set of articles - previously added to the pool
- Added a category condition to Automation
- Added more Automation placeholders, which allows to parse all matches in one email
- Added functionality which allows to add "Tooltips" to the articles
- Added a feature "Report an issue", if a user sees something incorrect with a particular article - he can report about this
- Added support for automatic sign-in (Keep me signed)
- Added SEF URL for category links
- Added an option to open a file in browser in Downloads section
- Other minor enhancements
Improved Items
- Improved forms: submissions, processing, validating - now uses AJAX
- Improved functionality: assigning a category for the article and/or file in the Admin Area
- Improved Custom Fields module, now organized with tabs
- Improved "Share" menu and functionality to manage it
- Improved articles history module, instead of date added to history - now it displays initially updated date,
and instead user who added the article to the history - now it displays the user who updated the article and it's added to the history
- Improved API, now uploaded images are parsed and have full (http) URL in article/news body
- Improved user import functionality, added extra fields, notification email is sent to user
- Improved LDAP auth functionality, added * wildcard support to role/priv mapping
- Improved attachment functionality, it is more easily and intuitive to attach files to article
- Improved search experience in Client Area
Removed Items
- Removed old functionality to approve articles/files, use drafts instead
- Removed "Spotlight" functionality in Admin area, if Sphinx is not installed
- Removed TCPDF library which allows to export single article to PDF
Security Updates
- Password should be at least 8 characters and includes at least 1 uppercase letter, 1 lowercase letter and a number.
Fixes
- Fixed issue where custom fields checkbox is not set, as checked by default
- Fixed issue with "#" sign in URL, it was not converted in SEF URL's
- Fixed issue with "Trash", tab did not display if user is not an admin
- Fixed issues with export to CVS export, it was not removing new lines
- Fixed issue with disappearing {value} in custom fields templates
Notes
- If you are upgrading and using remote authentication - please review your LDAP authentication settings. Enabling and disabling remote authentication has been changed, moved from config file to Settings.
- KBPublisher 6.0 supports PHP 7.1 and MySQL 5.7.x series
