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   9     <h1><span>Special Ops 2 Changelog</span></h1>
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  16     <p>This is sort of in reverse chronological order.</p>
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  19       <h2>SO 2.50 - This is SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!1</h2>
  20       <p>Everything has been completely redone in this version. The main highlights are speed improvements, security
  21          improvements, UI improvements... everything really.</p>
  22       <p>Most of the speed optimisation in this version was made possible thanks to XDebug [http://xdebug.org].</p>
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  24         <li>Added <var class="file">docs/</var> dir, changelog</li>
  25         <li>Got rid of the ugly <var class="function">User::has_priv()</var> function and replaced it with a much better
  26             designed <var class="function">User::has_access()</var>, which also enabled finer-grained board access control.</li>
  27         <li>Implemented SO1-style userlevels and board access controls</li>
  28         <li>Rewrote themeing system to allow more fine-grained control of custom CSS, and cleaned up the theme page</li>
  29         <li>Added a few more HTML form utility classes</li>
  30         <li>Added a full, correct timezone setting instead of an hour offset - DST works automatically</li>
  31         <li>Fixed up the HTTP caching slightly</li>
  32         <li>Moved <var class="function">namelink()</var> and <var class="function">fdate()</var> functions out of
  33             <var>User</var> and into <var>Page</var> class, which also required making <var class="file">user.php</var>
  34             partially viewable for anonymous users.</li>
  35         <li>Replaced per-page username cache with memcache-based one. This has had major side-effects, in particular a bunch of
  36             SQL query joins used to speed up the old namelink code are now completely unnecessary (and gone!)</li>
  37         <li>Rewrote the FO3 messagelist display to display quotes only when it makes sense to do so (in the threaded view, this
  38             is almost never; HTML output is much smaller now).</li>
  39         <li>Rewrote (message|topic)list paging code, previously it was an appaling mess of nested ternary operators.</li>
  40         <li>Rewrote options.php with cleaner code and slightly better UI.</li>
  41         <li>Rewrote <var class="file">stuff.php</var> - stats code many times smaller, text moved into separate XML files in
  42             <var class="file">res/</var>.</li>
  43         <li>Moved sensitive data out of <var class="file">con.php</var> into <var class="file">res/config.ini</var></li>
  44         <li>Removed all mysqli code, now using <var>SO2_PDO</var> class.</li>
  45         <li>Made a <var>SO2::*</var> container class for stuff that used to use <var>$GLOBALS</var></li>
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  50       <h2>SO 2.14 - This is madness!</h2>
  51       <p>Beginning of rewriting everything for PDO.</p>
  52       <p>This one works, but it's half finished and a mess (two DB objects for nothing).</p>
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