Release Since V5.0

The most important releases and features are marked in this color .

V5.32

  1. POD for FreeBSD is out!
  2. Fixed a bug introduced in V5.31 that causes problems for DBs with records longer than 1000 characters.
  3. Updated documentation about POD for Unix version, which should be more accurately described as POD for Linux.

V5.31

  1. fixed a bug that causes POD to skip the last line of .ini file when the line does not end with a newline character.
  2. Small updates to documentation and code.

V5.30

  1. Documentation update.
  2. A few small updates and fixes.

V5.29

  1. Changed POD behavior so that it will not tie up server even when permission settings of files or folders are not set correctly. This mostly concerns POD for Windows users.

V5.28:

  1. Drastically improved and updated documentation.  Now search documentation is supported and a new set of hierarchy makes navigation and installation much easier for users.
  2. Fixed time stamp problem -- wrong formatted user input time stamp is now preserved as is.

V5.27

  1. Fixed an oversight that deals with some web server's strange ways of setting cgi programs' working directories. The manifest of the bug is fldb.exe stalls upon start and cannot complete request.

V5.26

  1. changed html email handling. Now POD uses sendmail to sendmail on Unix instead of mail. Path should be /usr/sbin/sendmail. In future version POD will search for path automatically.
  2. updated documentation and www.ming-yi.org will go out of usage in end of January 2002. Please use www.ming-yi.org instead.
  3. release.html is now packaged in the distribution.

V5.25

  1. Added support for the radio button in html forms.

V5.24

  1. conversion.exe for Unix is out. Now POD for Unix is almost exactly the same as POD for Windows!
  2. A bug for sending stats too often to DB administrator is fixed for POD for Unix. POD for Windows does not have this problem.
  3. Fixed a send mail inconsistency for POD for Windows.

V5.23

  1. Fixed a bug of inadvertantly deleting entries when a user convert DB entry itemsizebychanging.inifilethenlaunchfldb.exewithauthority=admin&act=profile or a similar tag. 
  2. Both fldb.exe and fldbconf.exe convert .ini and .txt file formats seamlessly b/w Unix and Win32 OS.
  3. Support "act=version" to get version # out of POD modules fldb.exe and fldbconf.exe.
  4. Support mail in Unix version (not fully tested yet).
  5. Fixed an inefficiency in V5.22 when converting newline character.
  6. Fixed a bug in mail reporting of statistics (reporting deleted entries).
  7. Some general improvements and modification of documents.

V5.22

  1. fldbconf.exe now automatically switch between Unix to Windows-styled text file.
  2. fldbconf now reads in its own full URL from .ini file to use in form action.

V5.21

  1. Recompiled Unix/Linux version to truly get rid of MakeCSV bug (in 5.20 Unix version I forgot to recompile) and make smaller executables.
  2. Deleted a erroneous tag production in PageLink.

V5.20

  1. POD for Unix is out! All POD's underlying code is now cross-platform. Windows and Unix version will be developed with the same pace in the future.
  2. Checkboxes are now supported as POD html outputs.
  3. Fixed a bug that causes POD to crash when "use csv files" is enabled.
  4. Enhanced warnings for a couple situations.
  5. Ensured consistent waste entry deletion handling.
  6. Configuration of POD now list name,size,type of the same item on the same line in a text area, instead of listing them separately in 3 single-line text boxes.
  7. Enhanced documenation.

V5.13

  1. Fixed a bug that crashes POD (without damaging DBs) when a user search only return one entry from a large DB. This bug was introduced in V5.0 when I tried to better a few other online DB scripts in concurrency handling. Now POD is indeed better in throughput because of this.

V5.12

  1. Changed a design decision so that now user can really do two searches at the same time without getting a DB locked warning. This increases throughput by 10%-30% as tested with 2 sessions.
  2. Added explanation of memory requirement of POD in OldbHelp.html.
  3. Lowered internal maximum allowed found number in a search to 50000 from 200000 for practical reasons (this change can be undone any time, though, as it is not necessary for POD's correct function).

V5.11

  1. Patched a bug that crashes the DB when two concurrent user search sessions last over a second (which means your DB has to be big enough to notice this bug).
  2. Raised max item number in an entry to 512 from 100 at the request of a user.
  3. Raised internal maximum allowed found number in a search to 200000 from 20000.

V5.10

  1. Support for european styled time stamps. New formats:
         1: mm/dd/yyyy
         2: Abbreviated day of week name, mm/dd/yy
         3: mm/dd/yyyy, hh:mm
         4: mm/dd/yy, hh:mm am/pm
         5: dd/mm/yyyy
         6: Abbreviated day of week name, dd/mm/yy
         7: dd/mm/yyyy, hh:mm
         8: dd/mm/yy, hh:mm am/pm
         9: yyyy/mm/dd
         10: yy/mm/dd, hh:mm am/pm
  2. Fixed a bug in time stamp mode 3 (12-hr format changed to 24-hr format).
  3. Changed codes to reflect a new philosophy of recognize time stamps.

V5.09

  1. Change max item in an entry to 100 from 40 and updated documentation accordingly.
  2. Add documentation to warn user NOT to use '+' in item names and MUST use '"' around html tag values.

V5.08

  1. Fix a problem with "<img..." tag display which the image was repeatedly displayed. "<a href..." tag does not have the same problem!

V5.07

  1. When "use own password=1" and DBA overrides with masterpassword, now POD leaves the user's own password unchanged! (previously it's changed to masterpassword and user cannot update again)
  2. Add documentation about the importance of set a password for add, change and master.
  3. Changed index, sort, page link making functions so that any ' ' is changed to '+' and changed back after output.

V5.06

  1. Numerous changes in an effort to not let the DB tied up.
  2. Fixed a couple bugs introduced after I close log and ini file in POD5.0. This version is very important fix over 5.05 (but problem was not actually all solved until V5.13 as I later found out).

V5.05

  1. POD now automatically set hit item to 0 if user did not enter an initial value when the entry is first added.
  2. Allow user to toggle sort if they click on the item they just sorted.

V5.04

  1. Allow user to use "admin-index" in DBItem Link, image link, and http link to force usage of administrative mode and make an index link. "user-index" behaves similarly.

V5.03

  1. Fixed a bug when "use own password" is set and user left both masterpassword and change password empty (that would create a security leak in previous versions). Now it won't.

V5.02

  1. Deal with Sambar server's mixed style of file path.

V5.01

  1. Error report is now logged and suppressed for a day once it's already reported. POD will retry reporting erros every 6 hours if it failed to send message out earlier.
  2. A bit code optimizaation.

V5.0

A huge improvement over the previous versions in terms of functionality, documentation or customizability.  Numerous changes were introduced .