Randem Systems Support Board

Released - Version 4.1 Build 5

CHG: Modified the SMF MailQueue so that it will send emails that are in the MailQueue.

CHG: Changed the sort direction for the dates in Analytics. The latest dates are now at the top.

ADD: Added blocked message counts to Analytics.

ADD: [WordPress] wp-config.php protection is now in settings.

ADD: [WordPress] Configuration Setting update BotBanish Settings table not just WordPress settings table.

ADD: .htaccess protection is now in setting.

FIX: .htaccess file that did not start with cr/lf before a BotBanish header would go into an endless loop on BotBanish uninstall.

CHG: Language files are now database tables. Removed language files from install. Language files for SMF still exist.

NEW: Signature, Website title and website URL for users will not to be allowed to show until a set number of post have been achieved. Will only work on SMF 2.1.x and higher. Default 10 posts. Helps to prevent forum spamming with signature and website URL's links from infrequent users and spammers.

CHG: Various modifications and fixes.
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07/04/2023 - Version 4.1 Build 4

CHG: .htaccess modifications. Will now attempt to remove any BotBanish instructions from .htaccess upon install to make sure that any installation failure can be cleaned up before re-install.

CHG: Bot resource lockout generated email/notice each time IP was encountered. Will now only generate one email/notice the first time IP is encountered.
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06/30/2023 - Version 4.1 Build 3

FIX: [WordPress] Viewing logs on some systems showed logs without line separators (CR/LF).

ADD: [WordPress] Xmlrpc Protection added.

CHG: [WordPress] Improved plugin activation and work flow.
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06/21/2023 - Version 4.1 Build 2

FIX: When uninstalling, a session error would exist when attempting to delete the package.

FIX: Incorrect displays in some language texts.

FIX: Package Manager would report incorrect version for update.

FIX: On some systems a 404 Document error would trigger a replacement of the root favicon.ico file with it's own file. BotBanish will now check to see if this favicon.ico file is really missing before copying one to the root.

CHG: Added additional information to some messages.

FIX: Various fixes and modifications.
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05/21/2023 - Version 4.1 Build 1

FIX: Various fixes and modifications.
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05/12/2023 - Version 4.1 Build 0

FIX: Time zone at install will take the current time zone of SMF. It can also be changed in BotBanish settings.

FIX: Corrected changes in .htaccess that took commands that were commented out as actual commands.

CHG: Improved language support.

CHG: Improved messaging.

CHG: Faster processing for Analytics.

CHG: Added new fields to some tables on install for user saved old data tables.

NEW: Added new settings and functionality

NEW: Added country blocking. Whole countries can now be blocked.

CHG: Added country and flag information to several areas of analytics.

CHG: Lessened data traffic to server for better client performance.

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12/28/2022 - Version 4.0 Build 6

FIX: New version checking restored in package manager.

FIX: When adding / removing spiders or IP's from the whitelist / blacklist, they are now added / removed from the .htaccess file also.

FIX: User additions to the applications database used table names that were not consistent with current usage (not all lowercase). Adjusted BotBanish to use names as they appear in the database in the Dump Database process (case does not matter).

CHG: Various changes to Analytics.

CHG: Added referrer to be shown in Analytics.
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10/09/2022 - Version 4.0 Build 5

FIX: Error in altered ShowAttachments.php that would not count the downloads if initiated by a spider or an admin. This error only happened in some SMF 2.1 rc releases.

FIX: Error on install for SMF 2.1.2 in ShowAttachments.php and some versions of SMF 2.1 rc releases.

CHG: Allowed client bad spider/bot check to determine if override is needed.

CHG: Improved bot whitelist / blacklist processing on client side.

CHG: Removed referrer from being shown on Analytics.

CHG: PHP 8.1.11 compatible.
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08/31/2022 - Version 4.0 Build 4

CHG: Hidden bot detection would place incorrect detection times in the client BotBanishClient_IP table.

CHG: Moved BotBanish Image folder.

CHG: Enlarged username field in email table to capture rogue bots that attempt to login to forums.

CHG: Improved fake user login detection.

CHG: Improved bot detection on registration.
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08/19/2022 - Version 4.0 Build 3

FIX: Corrected spider ordering. An error would be generated when reordering occurred.

FIX: Corrected issue with deleting bot data from htaccess table.

FIX: Corrected htaccess table being flushed to .htaccess file. Data would stay in the table and not be written to .htaccess file.

ADD: Ability to manage log files. default is 30 log files of each type to be kept. Will delete earliest version of logs of any type after reaching the max number stored on file system.

FIX: Corrected download count tracking for attachment downloads. This also affects BotBanish Analytics download tracking.

FIX: On some systems; errors would be generated when zipping of files for backup purposes on install even though the backup would complete successfully.

ADD: Allowed user to select NOT to delete BotBanish data on uninstall so that a new install can use the retained data.

NEW: Ability to view BotBanish log files in BotBanish Analytics.

CHG: Allowed invalid searches for image files (.png/.gif/.jpg) not to trigger 404 errors to the log files and database tables.

CHG: Corrected error 404 reporting to report actual URL causing the error.

CHG: Corrected issue with download tracking giving errors (SMF).
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08/09/2022 - Version 4.0 Build 2

CHG: Allowed BotBanish Analytics to track URL's. Prior versions only tracked webpage names. Best if used with SEO URL's.
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07/29/2022 - Version 4.0 Build 1

CHG: Default configuration is NOT to use the .htaccess file for IP blocking but will use bot blocking in the file. .htaccess file sizes got too big.

CHG: Removed support for earlier versions of BotBanish (Pre 4.0). Some tables have changed considerably.

CHG: Moved settings to a database table.

CHG: Many operations.
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