Creative Commons' ccHost 3.0 Overview

Release notes for the latest release of ccHost.

New features (end-user)

Native forums support

Fully functioning hierarchical forums, totally integrated with user profiles. Admins can create forum groupings, sticky announcements, move threads, etc.

e-mail notifications

Registered users can get email notifications when they have been reviewed, rated or remixed, when someone else has uploaded or have been remixed

'Recent reviews'

New sidebar content list out the latest reviewers in the system

'How I Did It' browser now sortable

Users can now sort based on artist or date

Stats and more stats

Now track number of reviews, forum messages and times remixed.

New/Improved (admin)

• FTP-less file manager
• Bayesian rating scheme
• Suggested tags in submit forms
• Sub navigation tabs
• File permissions now settable within ccHost
• Thumbnails can be turned off
• Spam flood protection
• Configure min number of tags for BrowseTags

Compatibility

• PHP5 support
• Sharedhost support (e.g. dreamhosters)

Bugfixs

• getID3 can be disabled

Security

• Certain URLs allowed escaping out of mySQL