On the road to 3.0, this version fixes a lot of bugs and expand the new architecture to make the software more and more modular. Basic plugins are implemented for all the new features such as metadata, notification, various previewer and online image editors, new uploaders,etc.  See the full changelog between 2.7.2 and 2.7.3 here.

Beta testers read this!

If you are interested in giving a hand, please give a try to this version! But to be really helpfull, it will be useless to install, test a folder browsing and say « ok it’s working ».  Instead, you should focus on a given set of feature you want to test, and try to tweak it in many ways to find bugs.

For example : Install a plugin that is not activated by default : check that it’s easy to install, does it need a little documentation? Can you write it in english and send it to us? Then try using the plugin in various ways, various configs, in conjunctions with other plugins, using special characters when you can (like accented characters), etc.  Switch to you language and look for missing i18n strings!

Once you have found various bugs, and once you have checked they are not already in the forum, open a thread in the forum and post them as a bunch, selecting the 3.0 Bugs category, and avoiding posting one thread per bug. Use an explicit title like : « 2.7.3 editor.pixlr bugs ».

Download and docs

• Download page on Sourceforge : install core and patches contained in the 2.7.3 folder. I’ll publish patch as needed if we encounter really blocking bugs during testing phase;
• Developper Documentation
• ChangeLog

[message : donate or hire me!]You like AjaXplorer ?  Please support with a donation! You are more and more users, and you know that it’s crisis for everyone… So it’s getting harder to spend free time leading the project. Also if you are interested in hiring me for making custom works (on AjaXplorer especially, but not only), please do contact me ! <team (at) ajaxplorer (dot) info>.[end of message]

AjaXplorer 2.6.1

Minor version, still enhancing the security, fixing non-flash upload for FTP plugin, and fixing the auth.remote plugin for interfacing with other CMS. Thus upgrade is recommended if you want to use the bridge between Wordpress or Joomla and AjaXplorer, or if you are encountering problems with FTP.
[Upgrade from 2.6] If you want to postpone the upgrade, you should just at least remove the plugin access.ssh to fix the security hole. Otherwise, basically, the upload and override should be ok, except for the conf.php file if you have modified it. If you have a « basic » install, there should be no problems, backup your server/conf and server/users folders to be safe.

• AjaXplorer 2.6.1 download page : Download on Sourceforge
• Documentation : http://www.ajaxplorer.info/wordpress/documentation/
• Demo : http://www.ajaxplorer.info/demo/
• Forum : http://www.ajaxplorer.info/forum/
• Donation for supporting can be done here : donate!

CMS Interface : Wordpress & Joomla

Thanks to Manfred from Austria who hired me to develop the Joomla plugin, you can now interface joomla users and ajaxplorer. The wordpress one has been updated with more parameters, and rewritten into a php class. Warning, these will work only with 2.6.1.

• Wordpress-AjaXplorer-0.4 download page : Wp-AjaXplorer-0.4.zip
• Joomla-AjaXplorer-0.2 download page : Joomla-AjaXplorer-0.2.zip

How-to is included inside both archives. Basically, you’ll have to both configure AjaXplorer to use the auth.remote plugin as authentification plugin, and configure your CMS to use the specific plugin distributed in the zip.

AjaXplorer 2.7.2 : Another Beta for AjaXplorer 3.0

Following the 2.7.1 which introcuded a brand new architecture, the 2.72 fixes a great number of bugs, improves layouts on many way, introduce the PDF viewer via ImageMagick, etc. See directly the release note, download, play, test, report back!

Now that it’s getting stable, I’ll focus on new plugins for the next dev release, pdf viewers, images editors, mail notifications, etc. If you have time, please have a look at the existing plugins, try to understand how they work, and contribute with new ones! We need help!

• AjaXplorer 2.7.2 download page : Download on Sourceforge

Vulnerabilities were found in the previous versions by Julien Cayssol. They are fixed in 2.6 version and thus UPGRADING IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for all productions environnements. If you are using 2.5.5, a specific package is released that you can very simply use to override your current installation without touching anything to your configs. Otherwise, you’ll have to follow the 2.5.5 and previous upgrade instructions.

As the vulnerabilities where found during a massive refactoring, the 2.6 just contains the  vulnerabilities fixes, nothing more. See 2.7.1 if you would like to test the latest features!

• AjaXplorer 2.6 download page : Download on Sourceforge
• AjaXplorer Upgrade 2.5.5 -> 2.6 : Download on Sourceforge
• Documentation : http://www.ajaxplorer.info/wordpress/documentation/
• Demo : http://www.ajaxplorer.info/demo/
• Forum : http://www.ajaxplorer.info/forum/
• You like it ? Please support us with a donation! We do need it, as you are more and more users…

AjaXplorer 2.7.1 : Early Beta for AjaXplorer 3.0

A huge refactoring was performed on both the server and the client side, leading to a very high degree of modularisation of the architecture. This should still be totally compatible with the previous versions configs (users, repositories, preferences), but not with the plugins and GUI customizations that will probably need a bit of rewriting.

Due to the profound changes, we need to beta-test the architecture and we need help for that! Every people willing to install and play with this package is welcome! You may then follow the 2.7.X versions that should fix the bugs and lead to the stable 3.0. Some features are still not totally finished (ssh does not work, for example), some may be added before main release, with your help. I’m spending some time writing developer documentation, it can be found here). Thus if you have customized your  installation with specific plugins or GUI customisation, you may want to have a look, ask questions, play with the new architecture… May be your specific customization can turn out to be a killer plugin for next version??

I will open a « 3.0 Bugs » category in the forum, please use it as the bugtracker, setting any bug you add with this category. Please check for duplicates, and be precise in bugs description. Already a very special « big up » to Jean-Marie for testing the SVN and helping me going to this 2.7.1!

• See release note for more details about the bugs fixed and features.
• AjaXplorer 2.7.1 download page : Download on Sourceforge [Once again, beware, this package should not be installed in a production environnement!]

• Google Analytics support : just enter you Analytics ID in the config file and access to Ajxp will be logged. Also implemented a base for the analytics « Event » (see in your analytics reports « Content »> »Events »), if you turn this on, AjaXplorer actions are also logged in google analytics. Only the « download » action is implemented in this release.
• GUI layout persistance across sessions : going a step further in ergonomy, various GUI parameters are now automatically stored in the user preferences, allowing to find your GUI back when you log in on another computer for example.
• « Create Zip » online action : this was in fact nearly done, since the multiple download was creating a zip then sending for download.
• New configuration variables to ease customization : as there are as many configs as servers, some simple variables are added for example to disable the Zip functionnalities (very high memory consuming), disable the flash uploader, etc.
• WP-AjaXplorer-0.3 : First « external plugin » officially supported working with the previously released auth.remote. Integrate AjaXplorer seamlessly in your Wordpress authentication system. Tested with Wordpress 2.9.1. AjaXplorer 2.5.5 Necessary. Wp-AjaXplorer is an external download,  that can be found here.

See release note for more details about the bugs fixed.

AjaXplorer 2.5.5 download page : Download on Sourceforge

Wp-AjaXplorer 0.3 download page : Download on Sourceforge

Documentation : http://www.ajaxplorer.info/wordpress/documentation/

Demo : http://www.ajaxplorer.info/demo/

Forum : http://www.ajaxplorer.info/forum/

You like it ? Please support us with a donation!

The AjaXplorer team is glad to wish you a happy new year 2010. All the best!

A little gift for those running the forum hunting for a wordpress integration, here is the WordPress-AjaXplorer first realease! It’s of course a beta, but should be working for the basic create/delete users and login/logout from within wordpress GUI. And it’s a very good illustration of how to use the remote.auth plugin for external interfacing.

And by the way, there are also an update of the german language file, and a new file for our friends from Poland. Download i18n files here. Thanks to the translators!

Ok, we are still fixing bugs here and there and developing the integration of AjaXplorer with other CMS, stay tuned!

I’m packing for a week of ski here in France, so on behalf of the team, I want to wish every ajaxplorer user a merry christmas! We still have a lot of plans for next year, among others the developement of those CMS-integration-plugins (at least trying to test them better), the potential developement of other backends (java?), and of course the never-ending bug chase. All of this trying to keep time to develop our own projects, not always evident…

A very special thanks for this year’s donators : Hannes Bärstchi, Jean-Marie Mauclert, Craig Olofson, and sourceforge users dlmfisher, bossmancg, naich and kevandju. If you want to follow their example, remember that every cent you give will help us pay the rent and bitrate for the hosting. Link is here

Sincerely

Charles

Like in the previous release, you are stronly encouraged to upgrade, as a lot of bugs have been fixed. If you are already using 2.5.*, upgrade will be straightfoward. If you are using version 2.4 or before, please read migration instructions here.

Download page : Download on Sourceforge

Documentation : http://www.ajaxplorer.info/wordpress/documentation/

Demo : http://www.ajaxplorer.info/demo/

Forum : http://www.ajaxplorer.info/forum/

You like it ? Please support us with a donation!

Check the complete release note here!

You are stronly encouraged to update, as a lot of bugs have been fixed. If you are already using 2.5.*, upgrade is straightfoward. If you are using version 2.4 or before, please read migration instructions here.

Download page : Download on Sourceforge

Documentation : http://www.ajaxplorer.info/wordpress/documentation/

Demo : http://www.ajaxplorer.info/demo/

Forum : http://www.ajaxplorer.info/forum/

You like it ? Please support us with a donation!

NEW IN 2.5.3 (release note extract) :

GUI & FEATURES :

• Cross-repository copy : Using the new wrapper concept, it’s still experimental but is already working for FS and FTP.
• New gui for flex uploader, autostart loading, should take less place for small screens.
• Some cosmetic for public link dialog, and the password download page
• Danish translation
• At last added a scrollbar to the info panel
• Handle massive directory listing case (pagination equivalent for the tree)
• Added support for breaking brute force login attempt. The current limits are: 4 maximum failed attempt, then the login is locked for 5mn.
• Remote Authentication plugin for interfacing with external systems (see doc for more info)

SERVER :

• Generalisation of the Recycle Bin management to enable for plugins differents from fs.
• Introduction of a « wrapper » concept for all plugins, to access the files via an url like ajxp.ftp://repositoryId/path/to/file.
• Generic handler for better errors reporting through the Ajax GUI.
• PHP 5.3.0 compatibility
• New generator to update i18n files, the en.php file being the reference.

Also, we are very near from a 2.5.3 release, which will fix a big amount of bugs, enhance some layout problems, and introduce cross-repository copy (depending on the repository driver). Thus, there are new strings introduced in the i18n files, and we need the translators to have a look to the latest SVN version of language files and update them! As usual, don’t forget to open and save the files as UTF-8. You can send me your changes at team (at) the_site_your_are_on.

Other translators, please send me your update files for all languages! <team (at) this site>.