Release Notes

Front-end

• New video uploading procedure with an upload progress bar.
• Built-in floating sharing widget (Facebook, Twitter & Google) for videos, articles and pages. The widget can be enabled/disabled from Admin Area.
• RSS links for listing pages in the footer.
• New visualization plugin for mp3 files.
• Video resizing button, which expands the video player to the entire width of the page.
• 'Delete' button on each video page, next to the existing 'Edit' button.
• Included more details about video and article author with an option to follow this user, right form the content page.

Back-end

• Edit the '404 Error' and 'Terms of Agreement' pages right from the built-in 'Page Manager'.
• Option to choose which of the pages should appear in the header menu, or not.
• Built-in JW Player 6 license code field on the 'Settings' page.
• Optional keyboard shortcuts.
• Updated listing pages for videos, articles, pages, etc.
• Easily create new categories, without leaving the editing/submission pages (videos and articles).
• Easy to re-upload and/or download locally hosted videos without leaving the video editing page.
• Easily replace/upload video thumbnails without leaving the editing pages.
• New option to manually approve new user registrations. Allows you to create a closed community.
• New option to disable comments on any videos or articles.
• New option to auto-approve any uploaded/suggested video, without any moderation (use with caution).
• 'Custom Fields' which allow you to define meta data for each video, article and page.

General

• JW Player 6 was taken out of the 'experimental' stage and it has been fully integrated into PHP Melody v2.0.
• Totally revamped the video embed codes, which now include the option to show pre-roll ads. Old embed codes will continue to work.

• Video listings can now be sorted alphabetically in addition to date, views and rating.
• Video uploads will autocomplete the 'title' with the uploaded file name.
• Updated JW Player 6, as well as some 3rd party scripts.
• Revamped listing pages for videos, articles, pages, etc. (Admin Area).
• The default theme was improved in more ways than one. Better styling and fewer HTTP requests thanks to image sprites.
• Admin area improvements in loading speed and across multiple screen resolution.
• All premium themes have also been improved and issues with listings and certain browser-specific issues were fixed.

Front-end

• Mac OS color fix: The gray color way too light and unreadable.
• Header dropdown was showing sub-sub-sub categories without mouseover.
• Video listing issues on certain pages; especially when used with non-English languages.
• 'My favorites' listings alignment issue (in Chrome).
• Thumbnail flickering issue on mouseover (in Chrome).
• Long video descriptions were cut off.
• Sharing of videos on Facebook prompted an empty player with the wrong thumbnail.
• Registration form validation issues.
• Registration did not accept non-Latin usernames.
• Generated embed codes contained the wrong width and height.
• MP3 player font color.
• Fixed cases where the meta_description was empty.
• Top videos appear empty for a long time after the installation because the default sorting is by 'rating'.
• Avatar upload page shows the old avatar after update.
• Admin status was updated each time a pending comment was approved.
• Activity stream fix for grouping similar activities.

Back-end

• Blip.tv video source.
• Double login into the admin area (on certain browsers).
• Issues with Admin Area login (the login form would not appear in IE8).
• YouTube user import from usernames containing Cyrillic characters.
• URLs containing IP addresses (not hostnames) are recognized as local URLs.
• The 'HTML counter' text area saved unwanted characters.
• Editing a video stream 'breaks' the listing.
• Category editing changes the category position and messes other categories.
• Database export/backup saves *.sql files compatible with MySQL 5.

Other

• Mobile Melody: Activation Link from account confirmation emails doesn't work on mobile.
• Mobile Melody: blocked access to the Admin Area from tablets and mobile phones.
• Mobile Melody: copy/paste issues from the installation manual (PDF).