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