Release Notes

Front-end

• Cleaner look for the 'Default' theme.
• Markup Schema support; good for SEO.
• reCAPTCHA support & honeypot traps for registration bots.
• Much improved 'online/offline' status detection for users.
• Improved search suggestion. Uses fewer resources and yields better results.
• Option to disable/enable the commenting system site-wide.
• Users can see their submitted videos as 'pending approval'.
• New function for users that suggests relevant users to follow based on a few factors.
• New translation for the 'Thai' language.
• New ad zones: 'floating ads' (new installations only).
• Improved page titles for categories, search results, tags, etc. (suffered from duplicate metas).

Back-end

• Editable video & article permalink URL.
• Updates for the WYSIWYG editor: cleaner look, spellcheck support and true 'what you see is what you get'
• HTML5 (<video>) and JavaScript (<script>) are now supported as embeddable videos.
• 'Pre-roll static ads' improvements:
  • Option to add a 'Skip' button on individual pre-roll static ads.
  • Option to target certain categories or video sources.
• Cleaner look & layout improvements. Works better with a larger range of screen resolutions.

New Video Sources

• vk.com
• video.mail.ru
• rutube.ru
• novamov.com

Front-end

• Duplicate meta title and meta description for listing pages.
• Duplicate/generic meta title for user profile pages.
• Search engine crawlers caused videos to appear as 'being watched now' & wasting resources.
• Search engine crawlers indexed non-value pages such as embed links (www.you.com/embed/03898).
• The maintenance page was missing the title & some other issues.
• Notifications for actions related to articles were missing.
• Misplaced RSS links for article pages.
• Some issues with the text & links on large displays.
• Some banners were 'stuck' to layout elements.
• Other theme fixes and HTML syntax problems.

Back-end

• Big problem : Renaming a video title was updating its URL.
• While editing categories, the 'name' field was not updated.
• While editing a video, the 'duration' field went up to only a max. of 99 minutes.
• Replacing a YouTube video with an mp4 video was not possible.
• Replacing a self-hosted video with an embed video caused problems in the RSS feed.
• Updated the 'Yahoo! Mail' presets.

Other

• Broken RSS feeds in some circumstances.
• Problem with sites hosted on https://.
• Problem with embedded YouTube videos in the sitemap.
• PHP Melody is no longer logging the password from failed login attempts (potential risk).