OneBody Change Log

This document lists the more notable changes in each release. For detailed change history, view the Git log (http://github.com/seven1m/onebody/commits).

1.0.0 / October 15, 2009

• New Debian package release.
• New virtual appliance (OVF) release.
• Ability to add/remove group memberships from profile edit page.
• Improvements to the layout of the administration section.
• New rake task for modifying settings (even hidden and global ones) from the command line.

0.9.1 / October 5, 2009

• Fix bug when normalizing bible verse reference.
• New Debian package building task. Needs more testing.
• Update install cap recipe to install latest Rubygems.
• Add group batch editing feature at /groups/batch.
• Fix bug getting/setting lines-based settings.
• Fix bug deleting stale pid in script/inbox.
• Expire cache when tour starts or stops.
• New admin interfaces for checkin module (separate).
• New admin interfaces for attendance.
• Initial support for Ruby 1.9.
• Hide repetitive stream items on stream page.
• Dramatic speed ups to stream page.
• Cache stream items.

0.9.0 / September 14, 2009

Upgrade Note: Database migrations have been rolled up from previous releases; you must first upgrade to version 0.8.1 and run all database migrations before upgrading to this release.

• Upgrade to Rails 2.3.4
• New "stream" metaphor on home, profile, and group pages.
• Feed import: Facebook, Twitter, etc.
• Improved visual cues for certain interface items.
• Improved group editing interface.
• New Site Tour feature; shown upon first login.
• Link to YouVersion and eBible on verse page.
• Allow admins to remove themselves from albums and pictures.
• Add option to albums to be public or profile-only.
• Set the first uploaded pic in an album to the cover pic.
• Add feed for stream page.
• Improved wall posting feedback.
• Improved site selection from console.
• Improved email header reading/writing.
• Safeguard to prevent script/inbox from running more than one process at the same time.
• Added Yahoo map to group page.

0.8.1 / July 7, 2009

Upgrade Note: Prerequisites have changed on Linux; be sure to read InstallOneBody.

Upgrade Note: Gem dependencies have changed, so be sure to run rake gems:install.

• Upgrade to Rails 2.3.2
• New Calendar tab with merged church-wide and group calendar events (thanks to PowerChurch)
• Ability to comment on pictures (thanks to PowerChurch)
• New "Tabbed Profile" option
• User generated News section
• Low level support for syncing a group with a Campaign Monitor subscriber list
• Feed auto-discovery for publications, friend activity, and news
• Allow HTML content in emails
• Ability to have multiple Publications groups.
• Speedups for viewing large groups
• Improved News RSS feed grabbing
• OneBody plugins are now Rails engines
• Cap recipes to install/deploy on Ruby Enterprise Edition
• Bug fixes

0.8.0 / March 7, 2009

Upgrade Note: Database migrations have been rolled up from previous releases; you must first upgrade to version 0.7.8 and run all database migrations before upgrading to this release.

Upgrade Note: Gem dependencies have changed, so be sure to run rake gems:install.

Upgrade Note: Scheduler has been removed. Visit CrontabSetup for more information.

• Upgrade to Rails 2.2.2
• Add custom person fields.
• Add custom person type.
• Remove Scheduler in favor of plain old crontab.
• New custom theme editing and asset management.
• Improve performance of profile page by eliminating/consolidating sql queries and making use of MySQL indices.
• Simplify person gender to only use Male/Female/nil.
• Improve performance by storing settings in a global instead of class variable.
• Reenable caching on profile page.
• Improve performance by denormalizing blog items into separate table.
• Remove some plugins from vendor and include as gem dependencies.
• Better report following people import, including errored records and reason(s).
• Simplify profile page look.
• Improved search.
• Groups now have pictures.
• Speed up group memberships, especially linked groups and "parents-of" groups.
• New group membership privacy controls.
• Improve update submission process and interface.
• Use popup date picker for birthday and anniversary selection.
• New option to specify updates must be approved or not.
• Catch bots signing up for account using a dummy hidden field.
• New option to groups to allow users to join without requring admin approval.
• New settings to change default sharing/privacy options for new families.
• New solucija_ib theme.
• New solucija_im theme.
• Tons of bug fixes.

0.7.8 / October 23, 2008

• Upgrade to Rails 2.1.2
• Add site time zone support. Add rake task to convert existing times to UTC.
• Add l10n phone and date formatting options.
• Add optional embedded Google Calendar to groups.
• Add setting to allow unencrypted logins (for mobile phones, etc.)
• Allow system and help page editing even when CMS feature is disabled.
• Do a “soft delete” on people and families.
• Ability to add existing person to a family.
• Add setting to enable/disable email relaying for people with their email addresses shared.
• Track sign in failures and lock out account/ip based on configuration setting.
• Change generic group picture to be more consistent with site design.
• Design and usability tweaks thanks to Ben Hudson.
• Show randomly-selected, limited number of “groupies” on profile with link to show all.
• Add Yahoo Map link next to profile home address (Ben Hudson).
• Populate Directory search name field from quick search box (Ben Hudson).
• Change appearance of private group.
• Show hidden people when doing a select_person search (admins only).
• Fix friendship mirroring bug.
• Work around WYSIWYG editor escaping special syntax for inserting setting values.
• Fix bug saving family upon new account signup.
• Use male silhouette for thumbnail as fallback when gender is not set properly.
• Fix friend reordering.
• Fix bug displaying upcoming birthday icons.
• Don’t show duplicate items in the blog.
• Don’t send duplicate message to group member who received an email out of band.
• Don’t crash if friend has been deleted.
• Fix family member reordering.
• Fix log item view when showing a comment on a deleted item.
• Fix CSV import creating duplicate families; Add access/permission options to import.
• Fix add verse on existing verse.
• Fix bug showing Prayer Request in activity feed.

0.7.7 / September 26, 2008

• Add community logos.
• Allow “off the street” signups for certain types of communities. Sign ups can either be required to be approved by an admin or auto-approved.
• Directory can now be printed with family pictures.
• Added ACS Converter to Update Agent.
• Add legacy/external id editing to person edit form.
• How group listings are displayed
• Appearance of site header and slogan
• UpdateAgent moved to new GitHub project: seven1m/onebody-updateagent
• Group create/edit experience.
• Form feedback and textarea styling.
• Security of mass assignment in profile editing.
• Appearance of buttons and tabs.
• Reject mail from/to postmaster.
• Resize photos to 800×800 max and discard original (this will save hundreds of megabytes of disk space for sizable communities).
• Add hook to restart scheduler after a standard cap deploy.
• Ease up log flagging a bit.
• Set cap deploy.rb example config to checkout “stable” branch by default
• Update Setup mode to know about stable release vs dev release.
• Capistrano deployment recipes
• Bug sending body of email when attachment present
• Fix bug preventing people being moved to a new family.
• Fix dates of 0000-00-00 in MySQL.
• Rake newuser task should add to super admins, not overwrite it.
• Fix bug creating new site publications group.
• Fix new note ownership.
• Fix group category selection and form feedback.
• Add Publications group for new sites.
• Generate api key in onebody:api:key rake task if not present.
• Batch compare and update should take site_id into account.
• script/inbox should not take –site arg since it is determined by Notifier#recieve anyway.
• Fix bug detecting secondary host.
• Fixed incremental search for City and State
• Fix group membership admin page
• Connector and sync script has been depreciated. Please use UpdateAgent from now on.
• UpdateAgent has been moved into its own project. Installation is only a “gem install” away.

0.7.6 / September 11, 2008

• Upgrade to Rails 2.1.1
• Better feedback for new account activation.
• Update Agent: overhaul for speed and efficiency
• Use BigInts for phone numbers.
• Ignore database.yml and auto-copy upon startup. Sorry, but this will likely break existing non-Capistrano installations.
• Improve Update Agent feedback and REST API efficiency.
• Bug fixes.

0.7.5 / September 3, 2008

• Improvements to OneBody plugin architecture.
• Start of attendance tracking for groups.
• Scheduler now reads tasks from the database rather than files with admin screen to manage scheduled tasks.
• Better contextual help for admins getting OneBody up and running.
• CMS can use a page as its template.
• REST API work, including basic authentication with API key.
• Improvements to the onebody:sites rake tasks.
• Improvements to Capistrano install and setup recipes.
• Passwords are now more securely encrypted.
• RSA encryption is used with JavaScript to provide added security when signing in and when changing user password (all without the need for SSL).
• Compression of JavaScript files to lighted bandwidth usage.
• Linked groups can now have manually added members.
• A basic REST API is now in place, along with an Update Agent script to sync your OneBody instance remotely.
• Lots of bug fixes and more regression tests.

0.7.0 / July 23, 2008

• Content Management System - Use OneBody as your church website and your online directory.
• Split Theming - Use a different theme for your public website than for your directory, all from within the same software.
• Export of People, Family, and Group data as either XML or CSV.
• Import of People and Family data from CSV.
• OneBody plugins allow for added functionality without hacking the core system.
• Simplification of “Shares” into the “More” tab, along with easier picture uploading.
• Rewrites of nearly every controller to conform to the RESTful Resource pattern
• Tons more tests.