Webmobo

Demo website updated

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:30:56 GMT

The demo website for WB News has been updated to using the new 2.0.1 version of WB News. We have also done a new design for the webmobo site which we are slowly releasing across the entire webmobo domain, which started on the forums and now the demo site. The main site will be upgraded within the next week or so.

A New Year

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 08:43:31 GMT

A little late in saying so as its already Febuary but its a New year and its going to be quite a big year ahead. Within the next few days a bug fix to v1.4.0 will be released there are several fixes most of these are minor fixes and there are no security fixes.

Later this year we are looking at hopefully putting the first of very many Beta's of version 2. There are some major internal changes within the system and hopefully we will have a Rich Text Editor built and stable across all supporting browsers. There is still time to list improvements you would like to see in this up coming version. On a minor note the current forum system will be changing over within the next few months we are hoping before May/June (so a fair way off).

I hope the year so far has been good to all.

Forums now require Registration

Sat, 27 May 2006 10:17:39 GMT

As of today I have changed the forum permissions to require users to now register to post a topic or reply to one. This is due to the increase in spam messages associated with guest users. You can read more about it in the Forums.

Webmobo.Org

Fri, 26 May 2006 05:24:01 GMT

I have recently registered Webmobo.Org which points to Webmobo.com. The main reason was to show that projects here are Open Source and non-profit, which .com gives the exact opposite impression. You can update your bookmarks to the .org address however both .com and .org will funciton the same.

Upcoming Release

Wed, 24 May 2006 12:59:31 GMT

The next upcoming release is v1.3.0, will hopefully be released next week although we are a long way off to completion. Next week is of importance to Webmobo as it is 2yrs of WB News. Thats right next Friday 2nd June will be exactly 2yrs since the very first release of WB News v0.0.1 (or previously known as v0.01). I am hoping that the release will be finished and tested and ready to go out the door on this date but like I previously said there are a lot of things still to be done.

A noticable miss will be the restructuring of the Usergroup system, the reason for this is the actual changes were going to affect more than the Usergroup System. A few bug fixes will also appear in this release one being Windows fix as some Windows Installations do not work. A patch will also be issued for those of previous versions to upgrade correctly. For those interested changes that have already been made are available in CVS although downloading from CVS is at a "Use at your own Risk"

Access to CVS is simple here are the commands required

cvs -dserver:anonymous@wbnews.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/wbnews login
cvs -z3 -dserver:anonymous@wbnews.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/wbnews co -P wbnews

Bug release later today

Fri, 12 May 2006 04:07:25 GMT

There was suppose to be a Bug Release released earlier in the week however CVS has had some issues and at the moment have no access to it on this computer to update and release. I have started up subversion and put an updated version of v1.2.1 in the repository. I will also update the Demo website to the latest version which will be v1.2.2 when its released later today.

A windows patch fix which was suppose to be issued in this release has kind of been put off due to this issue, it will be fixed before v1.3.0 however.

Bug Fix to be released

Fri, 07 Apr 2006 06:31:52 GMT

There have been a few bugs reported some that were reported before the release of v1.2.0 but didn't make the deadline to be fixed. I am aiming at releasing this just after Easter. There are a few bugs that deal with security which are not critical. Also MySQL 5 and table Aliases will be fixed for this release, there have been several Emails as well as requests on the forums about the issue of MySQL 5 and Queries not running correctly.

I also have WB News set up as a project on sourceforge its been on for almost a Month now and will be this weekend adding files there ready for development for v1.3.0.

Just to finish off have been asked to give a TODO/Roadmap list of what will be happening over the next few versions so I will release this shortly as there is one available just not to the public.

Release Update

Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:35:28 GMT

Progress has been a lot slower than usual for v1.2.0. I was hoping to have this version out last week, however a few things have forced to delay the release. I plan to now have it released late this week, early the following week. This will be the last version offering support to 0.8.0 and 0.9.0 as it is quite old now and WB News has changed quite a bit since.

Its highly recommended that when it is released all users upgrade as soon as possible, as it has a few Bug Fixes and additional functionality. I am also looking for 1 or 2 Developers to help out with the project. Previously there was 3 however due to personal commitments can no longer help out. Feel free to contact myself via the Support Link or even the forums if you wish to help out, please make sure you leave some way to be able to be contacted. I will post something later on about what skills you should have and what will be happening.

Where Back Up

Wed, 04 Jan 2006 03:44:54 GMT

We did some server maintanance which is not yet completed however we have put both the Forums, Demo, Beta and main website back online. I have upgraded the WB News system on both Demo and the main site we are now using the latest version. The delay was due to some modifications needed to additional scripts which use both sites.

Both sites have been tested to make sure they work correctly however there is no guarantee set ups are 100%, so if you do get an error or something like that please let me know so it can be fixed as soon as possible.

Also development again will begin in a couple of days, have taken some time off due the Christmas and New Year which I hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable one.

Downtime Tomorrow

Tue, 03 Jan 2006 10:28:18 GMT

In roughly 12-14hrs time from now there will be a few hours of down time. We will be putting up v1.1.0 for the current site, currently we are running 0.9.0 but use additional administrative features which have only recently become ready to be put online. We will also be updating the Demo site with v1.1.0. This downtime will last roughly 3-4hrs. Downloads will be made available and the Forum will still be online.

A few critical bugs found

Wed, 09 Nov 2005 01:45:06 GMT

Today we have discovered a few critical bugs with the upgrading of the news table throwing database errors. Another bug is also found for any user adding extra menu sections and menus in that section where the a Database error would occur.

These are two critical bugs and we are not 100% sure yet on how many users this may be affecting we will be pushing another bug fix within the next couple of days, we highly recommend any user wishing to upgrade to wait until version 1.0.2 is out. These two bugs will only affect users upgrading and not installing, so it is still safe to install, any user that has v1.0.0 or v1.0.1 who has already upgraded or new install will not need to download v1.0.2 as this is only a bug fix for the upgrade system itself not the news system and administration.

If you have been affected please get in contact with us, to help get your system back up and running.

Webmobo Back Online

Wed, 01 Jun 2005 12:49:13 GMT

We were offline for short while, as the web account was suspended, we are now back online.

A few updates as we have not had many in a while.

Our forum which will replace the PHPBB forum is getting close to being ready for testing still a few things to completed and testing. WB News 1.0.0 has started to really pick up speed in development, there is quite a lot to still do and we expect a Beta to be released sometime late July the very earliest.

Upgraded WB News

Thu, 21 Apr 2005 12:30:29 GMT

Last night we upgraded to v0.8.0 with only a small hitch with a small bug found in the news.php file its now all fixed and we are successfully running v0.8.0. You can read more about the release http://webmobo.com/wbnews/53/viewcomments.html

Site Maintenance

Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:02:53 GMT

We have successfully fixed the IE bug within the site which displayed contents and structure of the site incorrectly users of Firefox (All Mozilla browsers), Opera should have not recognized this bug.

Unfortunately this fix is only a work around using Javascript, so some users of IE browsers and IE-related browsers may still see the incorrect display of the site if Javascript is off, or IE header changes are made. We will be in future looking for a proper fix however at this point in time we are quite busy getting next WB News version complete and tested.

Upgraded to v0.5.0

Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:12:18 GMT

We have successfully upgraded to WB News v0.5.0, please read the article here it has links to other sections of the site with help on this Installation as it will break some setups.

Mailing List

Fri, 04 Feb 2005 02:06:53 GMT

We have a thread asking if you wish to be notified about Updates on WB News. Please read the thread http://forums.webmobo.com/viewtopic.php?t=15 and vote on what you think should happen if you have a comment on it or some advice please feel free to reply, you do not have to register to post a reply to this topic.

Updated Site

Fri, 14 Jan 2005 06:37:15 GMT

We seem to have very little downtime during our site maintenance, which we are also pleased to announce our new design has been uploaded there maybe a few bugs here and there which we havent figured out mainly design wise however we are happy with it.

The reason for the new design was because our old one wasnt very attractive and was extremely basic and hard to navigate. With this one we wanted it to be simple yet easily to be able to find what your looking for. We hope you enjoy it.

Scheduled Downtime

Thu, 13 Jan 2005 02:48:41 GMT

Tomorrow we are going to have a lot of downtime between 12-24hrs worth. We are trying to re-organise Webmobo and the server. During the downtime the WB News Downloads will be taken offline however we will try and get them up as quickly as possible. You can also keep in touch with Developers with the Forum, to post Bugs or ask for help, we will try and be on as much as possible however we will be quite busy during the downtime.

We hope to put our new Design we have been creating during the past week to go online as well as WB News v0.4.0. We hope the downtime is as short as possible. We are sorry for any inconvience this may cause.

Bugs Database Closed

Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:32:29 GMT

We have closed the Bugs Database and redirected all traffic too our Forums, to post instead of the Bugs Database. You do not need to register to post a Bug in the forums so do not worry about that.

Sometime during this week there will be some downtime for Webmobo and all traffic will be redirected to our Forums. We will be doing quite a lot of maintenance and putting up our sites new design as well as hopefully v0.4.0 or within the next few days afterwards.

We hope this doesnt isnt an inconvience for anyone however it is for the best and we hope the downtime is quite minimal, we expect somewhere between 12-24hrs of downtime. We will also be available on the forums as much as possible during the maintence for support.

Welcome to the New Year

Tue, 04 Jan 2005 12:31:14 GMT

We are happy to announce we are back and ready to kick start the 2005 and start back into WB News development very soon. We hope everyone had a good and safe Christmas, and for those that didnt in the Asia area we hope that you can find some joy soon.

We have recently also put a forum up we hope we can start and get some activity soon its there until we finish development of our own which will work a lot better with the site.

An outlook of the year ahead and we hope to have version 1.0 out for WB News within mid year (June-August) time there is quite a lot of work that will be done a lot of changes to be made to make it ready for a fully stable production News Script.

Webmobo Forum Announcement

Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:21:30 GMT

We have installed PHPBB Forums as a temporary forum, we suggest that all users of WB News use this to get much of the latest information, we will be taking down our Bug Database within the next few weeks.

These forums will allow a much easier way to stay up to date with WB News and Webmobo, Report Bugs and also make suggestions for webmobo and WB News. We will be creating our own forum which will not be due until mid-late 2005.

A few Changes coming about

Sat, 30 Oct 2004 05:43:01 GMT

We will be redesigning the site to be easier to navigate we have had a few users emailing us that come from hotscripts that they cannot easily find the downloads within a click. We are currently fixing this up, also this will help us for search engine spiders and placement. If you wish please feel free to link to WB News.

Also within the changes over the coming weeks and months we will be putting a forum up which is still being largely developed devoting a fair amount of time off WB News. We plan at least one more release of WB News before Christmas.

Also remember to post bugs you find at http://bugs.webmobo.com we have found a few minor bugs one which we will be focusing on highly.

Upgraded WB News to v0.1.0-gold

Wed, 13 Oct 2004 05:04:46 GMT

We have successfully upgraded to v0.1.0-gold the stable version which will be released to everyone tomorrow, we have installed it just to make sure that we have everything clear and in good working order. At the moment besides a fault of our own which we accidently deleted a few crucial files the upgrade went without a hitch and we hope that will be the same for everyone.

Remember to checkout your "Check Updates" link in your Administration Panel to see when the update has been released. We thank everyone again who have downloaded the Alpha this has made it quite a smooth transition from v0.06 to v0.1.0.

A Big thanks from Webmobo Team

Mon, 11 Oct 2004 05:45:41 GMT

We have had over 200 alpha testers which we would like to thank who took the time to go over and see this new verison which comes out later this week. We also like to thank those that emailed us before the Alpha was released they have been a great help posting bugs in the bug database or reporting it directly to us we could not have done it without you.

We have also had a few developers that have wished to join the team unfortunately we have tried to keep the team as small as possible as there are 3 of us we will be looking for more developers in future and we thank those that have offered to give there services. For those that have emailed us we suggested maybe making modifications to the scripts to help us out and submit them back to us to give back to the community.

Once again a big thank you for all that have helped out this last week you have made our jobs a lot easier, with this we have an Official release date of Thursday 14th October for those that have versions 0.05 and onwards will notice that when they check there Check Updates Menu in there Administration Panel that it will be released as v0.1.0-gold.

Errors Occuring

Sat, 09 Oct 2004 09:15:20 GMT

It appears that the Upgrade for some reason has somehow damaged our config.php file. We have fixed it however it appeared to be affecting downloading we seem to have fixed it for now but seem concerned at how it just happened after working we will be keeping a close eye out to make sure it doesnt continue.

Upgraded v0.1.0-alpha

Sat, 09 Oct 2004 07:26:13 GMT

We have upgraded to v0.1.0-alpha which didn't upgrade as well as we thought it should have one minor error which will be sorted out before the gold release sometime next week.

Remember if you are using the Alpha and find a bug please report it, we can only find so many bugs so we need your help.

Successfully upgraded to v0.06

Tue, 21 Sep 2004 01:52:59 GMT

We upgraded to v0.06 without a hitch we will be releasing the new version and hopefully last version of this release phase. Our next phase will begin with 0.1.0.

Please test around here posting comments etc, to find any loose ends before we release v0.06 publicly.

New Updater Available

Sun, 19 Sep 2004 09:49:20 GMT

We have tried optimizing the Updater to not much success however we have fixed it so you should be able to see if you require the update or not. Please click here to download and update it as quickly as possible.

Also we are getting ready to start work on our last of this release phase v0.06 will hopefully fix the majority of the remaining bugs as well as a lot more improvements. Be on the look out within the next few weeks.

Have a suggestion for WB News?

Thu, 16 Sep 2004 02:05:53 GMT

We have been given a few suggestions over the past week prior to releasing Version 0.05. What would you like to see in the next version of WB News?

To add your suggestion just add a comment to this news post. Please try to avoid making duplicate suggestions, we will later select a few for a future release.

Finished Maintenance

Wed, 15 Sep 2004 05:06:36 GMT

We just like to say that we have managed to upgrade from 0.04 to 0.05 with WB News. We also did some maintenance to the site with a few additions because of the new WB news version which we will try and get out within the next 48hrs or so.

Please be patient we are still doing some testing but at the moment we seem to have the bugs out that we can find. If you find any bugs within the site after the upgrading please contact us

Webmobo downtime soon

Tue, 14 Sep 2004 08:07:47 GMT

Within the next 48hrs Webmobo will be going down for maintenance in this process we will be uploading the new v0.05 of WB News which will be tested thoroughly online before we release to public.

We hope that this will be a smooth transition and be up within 1-2hrs from going down. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause while we are down.

WB News v0.05

Mon, 13 Sep 2004 10:39:13 GMT

For those waiting the major bug fix and heaps of additions to WB News, we look to be almost ready to release sometime this week. We are currently doing some major tests and will install it here before we make it available to public.

Please be patient as this is a major upgrade from 0.04 and we are trying to make sure that all goes smoothly.

Server Change - Errors Fixed

Sun, 05 Sep 2004 01:49:10 GMT

It may have appeared earlier that there were some errors on the site, yes that is true we have no eradicated the problem which occured when the site was transferred to another server.

We hope there is no more downtime now however we are unsure at this point of time that there maybe another transfer of the site.

Finally back online

Fri, 03 Sep 2004 01:36:59 GMT

Since Wednesday we have been down, we finally came backup today we will be moving servers sometime during this month more then likely during the next 2weeks or so. So do expect a bit more downtime hopefully not to much.

The reason for the downtime is the data center that hosts the server is in a finacial mess. Im sure if you attend WebHostingTalk.com you would have most likely heard of it

WebMobo New Design Complete

Sun, 22 Aug 2004 02:35:55 GMT

Welcome to the new design, we have worked hard to get it up and running smoothly we are also using version 0.04 of our news script which works well. However we will be having dramatic change to the way it works rebuilding it from the ground up.

This is too allow easier integration of WB News with your site. We hope to release it within the next few weeks.

WB News v2.0.2 Released

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:05:00 GMT

WB News v2.0.2 has now been officially released it fixes a few issues with the Administration which you can view here. It is recommended that all users upgrade to this release. Users of v1.4.x will need to firstly upgrade to v2.0.0 before upgrading.

Moving forward for Webmobo

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:20:25 GMT

For those that don't follow the Roadmap you would have missed a major change in direction WB News is taking, which will take full affect come version 3.0.0. WB News will be slowly phased out and Webmobo or Webmobo CMS will take over come version 3. WB News v2.4.0 which will be released by the end of February.

The reasoning for this is simple, WB News no longer meets my needs and rather than closing the project for good and starting from scratch I am going to support WB News until v3.0.0 is production ready which is quite a while away and allow people to move to the CMS or continue on WB News without future support. Being open source people are free to take the project in which ever direction they please. I will be providing more information about the CMS at a later date.

Moving forward also Webmobo will now be using SVN for the CMS and remain on CVS for WB News. SVN repository is not yet set up with the CMS however if people wish to aid in the development of view the direction anonymous access will be available. Trac project management will be integrated with the SVN repository to create tickets for improvements and bugs.

If you wish to find out more about Support or information regarding the change in direction please post in the Support forum.