The JCE Support Forums have recently come under increasingly frequent attacks by spammers who have flooded the public forums with the usual nonsensical junk that is supposed to (in some bizarre alternate universe) convince people to click on the posted links and buy the advertised products.
Despite repeated attempts to prevent this, including implementing a Captcha challenge on new posts, blocking a range of IP Addresses used by some of the spammers and implementing Project Honeypot, the spammers seem to have found a way around these defences to continue their pointless and annoying pursuit.
In an effort to end these attacks and to provide a better support service to Subscribers, the support forums are now limited to read-only access for non-subscribers - a valid subscription will be required to post new and reply to existing topics.
This release adds support for flv files, either detected from the link URL eg: <a href="/movie.flv" class="jcepopup" or from the addition of a type attribute (in the case of off-site URLs) eg: type="video/x-flv"
I addition, percentages are now supported for popup dimensions, eg: rel="width[50%];height[300]".
A full changelog is available here
The Image Manager Extended has been updated to version 2.0.8
This update adds a new method for creating thumbnails on upload, utilizing the canvas feature of modern browsers, as used by the Image Editor and Thumbnail Editor. This may add a slight increase in upload time per file but should improve the stability of thumbnail creation, especially on servers with low PHP memory settings. A modern browser, ie: Firefox 8, Chrome 15, IE9, Safari 5, Opera 11.5 is required. Older browsers without canvas support will continue to use server-side methods to creating the thumbnails.
A full changelog is available
This release fixes an unfortunate bug introduced in JCE 2.0.18 which would produce errors in Image Manager, File Manager etc. caused by incorrect paths created for images, files etc.
In addition, following some early reports of strange cursor issues in CodeMirror2, the Source Code view has reverted to using CodeMirror1 until these issues can be resolved.
For a full list of changes and bugs fixed see the Changelog
Initially intended as a quick maintenance release to fix a few small issues with the new UTF-8 file name support and to address some upload issues, this release quickly snowballed into something more substantial, and now includes 15 fixes, 2 changes, 2 new options and a security update.
Security Updates
File / folder name cleanup has been improved following the move to full UTF-8 support with better detection of UTF-8 names and invalid character removal, and detection of invalid extensions has also been fixed. For this reason updating to JCE 2.0.18 is recommended for all users.
New Options
Still on the subject of websafe file and folder names, an option has been added to the Editor Parameters (in the FileSystem section) to set the websafe "mode" - name cleanup / detection can now be set to the default UTF-8 or ASCII, the latter will convert UTF-8 Latin characters into their ASCII equivalents, eg: ö will be converted to o.
The JCE MediaBox Popups options now include a new Parameter widget to easily add custom parameters to the Mediabox, eg: wmode for flash files (see below)
Codemirror2
The Source Code view has bee upgrade to use CodeMirror2 which generally improves the stability (and in future) features of the editor. This upgrade comes with a quicker loading time and some new themes.
Bugs Fixed
Thanks to everyone who reported issues and helped find solutions to the problems in one way or another. Notable bug fixes include issues in Pasting, fixes for Content and Menu links created by the Link Browser, a fix for upload issues in Firefox and a fix for 403 errors in the Source Code view.
For a full list of changes and bugs fixed see the Changelog