Private Mesage

Admin can send Public Message to all members

Support Sticky/Annoucement/GlobalAnnoucement thread type

Localize the message in Java files

Support Compression Filter for fastest tranferation on the network (enabled by default) (thread=1889)

Advanced Member Search with Lucene in the User Management

Support RSS 2.0 + Atom (including sorting option)

Most active threads in the week (or last 7 days)

Most active users in the week (or last 7 days)

Support spam prevention initiative by Google (rel="nofollow") http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html

Implement MemberInvisiable feature (enable with option enable_invisible_users)

Admin Zone: Log file Management in Admin zone to view/download/delete/backup any log file in the log folder

Admin Zone: a new page to show permission summary

Admin Zone: A new page to view cumulative permissions of any member and groups that is user belong to (thread=1974)

Admin Zone: Admin can turn on/off the access to the User area (such as for maintanence or urgent situation)

Admin Zone: Show Forum Uptime

Admin Zone: A new page to delete non activated members with no posts based on the registration day

Admin Zone: a new page that admin can change password (note that noone can change password of root admin)

Admin Zone: add new page to allow admin edit member information

Admin Zone: add new page to edit the freemarker template files

Admin Zone: new option to send email to all members in any group

18n: Localize to 4 new languages: Portuguese, Korean, Japanese and Greek

Moderation of threads/posts

Support Thread Status (Normal, Disabled, Locked, Closed)

Support Forum Status (Normal, Disabled, Locked, Closed)

Support Forum Type (Normal and Private)

Implement permission BYPASS_PRIVATE_FORUM : When a user have this permssion, then he can use the global permission even the forum has option "Private Forum"

Allow a ForumAdmin to add users and/or groups to a forum, then he can set forum-specific permissions to those users.

User can delete his own post/thread (if no reply has been made)

Add image (JCaptcha) to prevent automatically register member + lostpassword

MD5 Encode password in the browser by JavaScript before sending over network

Support Flood Control for these actions: login, new post and register member (max actions per hour)

Support User Agent filter (such as Teleport)

Support intercepting email, post content, loginID, attachment description

[Security Improvement] : Need explicit login in the Admin Zone (cookie is not allowed)

Improved sendmail page that let admin send mail to all members, all activated members and all non-activated members

New link in UserManagement that let you send activation mail to all non activated members

Now all email content can be edited in the FreeMarker template files

Change the configuration from properties file to xml file

Configuration Tool

Backup configuration file function

Add option to disable login in User zone

New config param: "default_watch_option" to change the default watch option (daily watch)

Add some new configurable parameter (enable_avatar, enable_new_member, rows_per_rss, rows_per_pages, ...)

Support providing extension to mvnForum in the build process by place the extension in folder "extension"

Change the home page to show more information like a portal

In addpost page, support inserting mvnCode with javascript in both IE and Netscape

In index page in Admin zone, add 2 buttons to check latest version of mvnForum and mvnCore

Refactor all database class to DAO pattern

Individual Persmissions

Forum-specific Permissions

Move threads between forums

New CSS (stylesheet) for improved forum customization

Search posts by user id

Search post ranking system

Print-friendly display for posts and threads

Customize Forum Title and Name in build

List online users sorts members above guests

Administrator can view IP and UserAgent of online users

mvnCode tags enabled in user signature

Localization: 4 additional languages: Arabic and Dutch

Database: 1 additional database: DB2

Support 2 additional mvnCode tags: [img] (embed image in thread) and [utl=mailto] (for mail link)

[Security]: User can now delete cookie (in login page) for better security

[Security]: Add configuration option to ensure Email Validation before the user can login

Support setting/customize Member's Title

Improved User Management

Support Global/Category/Forum/Thread Watch

Improved IP blocking: now support IP range blocking (eg. 127.0.0.*)

Powerful logging system with Jakarta Common Logging

Localization: 4 additional languages: Italian, German, French and Danish

Database: 1 additional database: SAPDB

Support 1 additional tags: [code] (to format code)

General features:

Based on MVC architecture

Built-in Database connection pool

Support Datasource configuration if your Servlet Container supports Datasource

Multi-databases (currently supports 6 DBMS: MySQL, Oracle, Sql Server, postgreSQL, hsqldb, Interbase/Firebird) [beta3]

Localization (currently localized in 6 languages: English, Vietnamese, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish) [beta3]

Internationalization (support all languages in the backend) [beta3]

Date/time are correctly formated based on user preferred locale [beta3]

Support automatic login (use cookie) [beta3]

New Online FAQ/Documentation [beta3]

Security features:

User cannot view email until he have logged in (avoid spam and email-harvest tools)

MD5 Encrypted Passwords for greater security

Password Reset via email (forgot password)

Support IP block to prevent certain IP to access the system [beta3]

In Admin Zone, only show links that user have previledge on them [beta3]

Support realm authentication [beta3]

Support any customized authentication [beta3]

User features:

Member lists

Viewable profiles

Comprehensive User Control Panel

Who's Online allows you to view all users visiting your board

User now can choose a prefered displayed language when registering [beta3]

Support Post Preview [beta3]

Users can (optionally) edit posts

Support 5 sorting options when viewing Recent threads and Threads in forum

Support most of mvnCode, such as [b] : bold, [color=deeppink] : Deep pink text

Support 5 additional tags: [quote] , [url] , [size] , [font] and [list] [beta3]

Support full mvnEmotion, such as [:)] , [:D] [improved]

User can choose avatar, either from built-in avatars or upload his own avatar (Jpg/Gif/Png) [improved]

Dynamic Signatures

Show link for AIM, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ [beta3]

Support Thread/Post icons [beta3]

Show new/nonew status of a forum [beta3]

Show hot/normal and new/nonew status of a thread [beta3]

Show member's title based on the number of posts [beta3]

Administration features:

Based on MVC architecture

Comprehensive system information and system diagnosis

Create an unlimited amount of forums

Re-order, edit forums at any time

Create an unlimited amount of categories

Re-order, edit categories at any time

Admin can view the IP of any post (both creation time and last edit time)

Enable/disable member (disabled member cannot login) [beta3]

ForumAdmin can delete any forums at any time

ForumAdmin can delete empty category [beta3]

Moderator can edit any posts at any time

Moderator can delete any posts at any time [beta3]

Moderator can delete any threads at any time [improved]

Assign members to any group at any time

Admin can remove member from group at any time

Admin can delete any groups at any time

Restrict permissions for an entire group at a time

Admin can email in the AdminZone

Allow access to the moderation features

Allow access to the Administration Control Panel