mChat 2.1.4

New features & Improvements

• Compatibility with phpBB 3.3.x and jQuery 3
• Added support for Emojis in Rules and Static Message fields
• Allow adding line-breaks when editing a message
• Allow setting initial number of messages to 0
• Update username of post notification when changing post author
• Delete post notification when a post is deleted
• Adjusted avatar size & message text padding
• Updated autosize.js plugin to 4.0.2

Bug fixes

• Minor language fixes
• Removed delay & animation when adding multiple messages causing Chromium-based browsers to freeze
• Don't fetch config_text table values on every request
• Fixed vendor-specific CSS fallback values for justify-content

Events

• Added event dmzx.mchat.process_message_before
• Added event dmzx.mchat.get_messages_modify_rowset
• Added event dmzx.mchat.assign_bbcodes_smilies_before
• Added event dmzx.mchat.header_link_template_data
• Added event dmzx.mchat.process_notifications_after
• Added event dmzx.mchat.process_notifications_before
• Added total_messages to dmzx.mchat.render_page_get_messages_before
• Deprecated event dmzx.mchat.get_messages_modify_sql

mChat 2.1.3

New features

• Added flood messages option. This option allows the admin to set a number of messages a user can send consecutively before another user is required to post in the chat.

Bug fixes & Improvements

• Relaxed flood time limit from 1 minute to 1 hour
• Fixed wrong escaping in smiley codes
• Remove tags from hidden username string
• Enable autocomplete and spellcheck on textarea
• Removed unused parser dependency from functions service
• Fixed typo in disallowed BBCodes setting

mChat 2.1.2

Improvements

• Allow remembering font color by long pressing/clicking (for mobile users)
• Added vendor prefixes to CSS rules
• Decreased size of sound files
• Don't generate whois URL if user doesn't have permission to use it
• JavaScript: stop work more gracefully upon page unload
• Minor language improvements
• Relaxed limits of several options:
  • Relaxed refresh rate limits from 5/60 to 2/3600
  • Removed limit of maximum message length
  • Removed limit of initial number of messages to display

Bug fixes

• Fixed Ctrl+Enter triggering submit action on buttons
• Fixed wrong _referer in AJAX requests if URL rewriting is disabled
• Fixed submit button disappearing if no max message length is set
• Fixed footer row spacing
• Fixed link color of mentioned user names
• Removed unused MCHAT_LIVE_UPDATES template variable

Style changes

• Added support for we_universal style
• Adjustments for HexagonReborn, CleanSilver and Project Durango (thanks MannixMD)

Event changes

• Added event dmzx.mchat.log_add_before
• Removed response parameter from dmzx.mchat.action_refresh_process_log_row

mChat 2.1.1

New features

• Added support for phpBB 3.2 quotes
• Added compatibility with Authorized for urls extension by RMcGirr83 (requires at least 1.0.5)

Bug fixes

• Updated compatibility with Collapsible Categories extension (requires at least 1.0.1)
• Improved displaying long links
• Fixed scrolling glitch when using certain styles
• Fixed bottom pagination container on archive page
• Fixed path issues by sending referer in AJAX requests
• Removed UI controls for input area option
• Fixed ACP option text not wrapping

Events

• Added event dmzx.mchat.render_page_get_messages_before
• Added sql_where and sql_order_by to dmzx.mchat.total_message_count_modify_sql
• Added template_data and jump_to_id to dmzx.mchat.render_page_pagination_before
• Added template_data to dmzx.mchat.render_page_after

mChat 2.1.0

Support for phpBB 3.1.x has been dropped.

See here for a version compatibility matrix.

New features

• Added message reparser: all mChat messages in phpBB 3.1 and earlier format are converted to phpBB 3.2 format automatically, behind the scenes
• Moved many links (archive, rules etc) and options (toggle sound etc) to a new navbar dropdown menu to clean up the user interface
• Modernized text-area and BBCode & smilies buttons
• Added ACP option to disable logging of all mChat actions (edit, delete, prune, purge)

Front-end changes

• Moved status icons to mChat's container header
• Removed session details from user interface
• Removed input auto grow
• Removed option "Display link in the navbar" (navbar item is always displayed)
• Don't display popup when trying to send an empty message
• Don't display a zero in navbar item if no user is chatting
• Moved "who is chatting" and character count below input field
• Fixed "who is chatting" display issue on custom page
• Added some space above legend on custom and archive pages
• Fixed textarea background color in custom styles
• Display message and end chat session if board is disabled
• Don't display BBCodes and smilies panels more than once (improves compatibility with other extensions)
• Moved ACP option for sessions in navbar link to correct place

Minor improvements and bug fixes

• Check for minimum required PHP version when installing mChat
• Improved client session handling
• Improved wording of like and quote permissions
• Improved wording of global user settings explanation
• Fixed display issue of static message in IE
• Fixed checking user permissions when adding login notification
• Skip one refresh request when AJAX request failed
• Don't render BBCodes in post subjects and forum names of notification messages
• Use custom template name for form token (improves compatibility with other extensions)
• Fixed spelling in error messages
• Removed unused error messages from language files
• Removed pause on input feature

New Events

• Added PHP event dmzx.mchat.purge_before
• Added template events dmzx_mchat_panel_whois_after, dmzx_mchat_static_container_before, dmzx_mchat_static_container_after

mChat 2.0.3

Bug fixes

• Fixed error when not using relative time
• Removed character limits for rules and static message from language strings
• Don't remove line breaks in [code] tags
• Minor code improvements

Please note that this is the last version that supports phpBB 3.1. The next mChat update will require at least phpBB 3.2.0.

mChat 2.0.2

New features

• Added option to enable checking for u_mchat_use permission before adding a post notification message. This is useful for bot users that are not supposed to generate "new post" messages.
• Moved rules and static message texts to the phpbb_config_text table. This allows you to use more than 255 characters.

New events

• Added PHP event dmzx.mchat.prune_sql_before

Bug fixes/changes

• Removed username from prune log message
• Removed broken profile URL when mentioning guest users
• Fixed who is chatting updates not working under certain conditions
• Improved wording in ACP for message sorting on archive page
• Don't send AJAX requests if page is unloading
• Use correct user IP for mChat sessions table
• Fixed removing disallowed BBCodes
• Removed duplicate root path in profile links
• Many other small code improvements

Style improvements

• Use Twig template syntax
• Hide some options in the UCP if the user doesn't have u_mchat_use permission
• Removed space between navbar icon and text on 3.2.x installations
• Fixed HTML markup on ACP Global settings page
• Adapted ACP Submit/Reset buttons to phpBB's ACP style

Custom style adjustments

• Fall back to default icon color for Subway style if Options Panel extension isn't enabled
• Allow collapsing mChat when using the Elegance style
• Adjustments for MyInvision style (thanks to MannixMD)
• Adjustments for Hexagon style (thanks to MannixMD)

mChat 2.0.1

New features

• Added ACP option for sorting messages in the archive
• Added profile link when mentioning users
• Added option to delete user's mChat messages when user is deleted

Bug fixes/changes

• Fixed undefined error if audio file can't be loaded
• Display meaningful error when deleting/editing missing messages
• Fail gracefully if localStorage is not available
• Don't use HTML entities in mChat action URLs
• Remove copyright below input field
• Fixed resetting input field width when clicking the submit button
• Update input field width when quoting and liking messages
• Fixed wrong forum ID in notification after moving a topic
• Removed 00: if session length is shorter than one hour
• Remove leading & trailing | characters to not break allowed BBCodes
• Only add CSS for mChat container height where necessary
• Removed redundant custom page explanation in ACP
• Minor improvements for ACP language

Style improvements

• Fixed space between sound checkbox and label
• Fixed zooming on mobile devices when focusing input element
• Fixed displaying messages for Canvas style on mobile resolutions
• Removed collapse icon in PBWow3
• Fixed wrapper height for Modern-silver style
• Added white message icons for 19 dark styles
• Added template events dmzx_mchat_messages_header_before, dmzx_mchat_messages_header_after, dmzx_mchat_messages_text_before, dmzx_mchat_messages_text_after, dmzx_mchat_messages_icons_after

mChat 2.0.0

Final release of mChat 2.0.0.

There are no changes between 2.0.0-RC7 and 2.0.0-final except for the version number.

mChat 2.0.0-RC7

Release highlights

Version

• Bumped minimum phpBB version to 3.1.8-RC1
• Fixed mChat version check

Improved ACP & pruning settings

• Added units to ACP general settings page
• Added time selector in pruning settings
• Added prune GC interval to pruning settings

Added new events

• Added events to ACP pages
• Added events to UCP preferences page
• Added events to settings class
• Added overall_header|footer template events
• Added template events for adding message icons
• Added template variables for IP and permission buttons

Changes & bug fixes

• Added headings to custom and archive pages
• Added message background color animation
• Don't display popup for unknown and timeout errors
• Fixed bugs when auto-scrolling messages
• Fixed animation duration & easing
• Limit image size to 100%
• Fixed message order in archive if not mchat_message_top
• Take user's mchat_posts config into account when viewing the archive
• Fixed removing all BBCodes if no BBCodes are disallowed
• Update character count when clicking on BBCodes and smilies
• Moved checkbox for disabling sound before text
• Fixed disallowed BBCodes for 3.2.x
• Fixed notifications of deleted posts
• Fixed displaying mChat at the top of the index page for Canvas style

Template fixes behind the scenes

• Use @vendor_extname/ for all INCLUDEs
• Moved CSS media rules to the end of the file
• Moved inline CSS for container height to style tag in header
• Added data-last-responsive attribute to navigation element for 3.1.x