MyConversations: releases and other announcements

[Laird]

MyConversations version 1.2.3 has just been released.

This is a bugfix and minor feature release. No security issues are involved, so upgrading is not a high priority.

New feature and fixes:

• A bunch of warnings under PHP 8 were resolved. I've tried to be thorough but might have missed some. To the extent that my thoroughness has succeeded, this plugin is now compatible with PHP 8.
  
• Bugfixes: There were a couple of issues with exporting conversations, one being that the Date Limitation option wasn't effective (all messages were always exported) and the other being that MyBBEngine was listed as a participant/sender where it shouldn't have been.
  
• Bugfix: The prefix "Re: " was always shown for messages in message folders, even for the first message when it ought not to have been.
  
• Bugfix: Pagination was broken on group conversation listing pages.
  
• Bugfix: An SQL query was selecting non-aggregate columns in a "group by" query, which caused a database error on certain database settings.
  
• Bugfix: MyBB Engine messages were not being shown.
  
• Bugfix: Sometimes, some messages were mistakenly showing as unread in search results.
  
• Bugfix: Attachments weren't being uploaded when the Quick Start button was clicked.
  
• Bugfix: There was an SQL error in a query in the function to delete a conversation.
  
• The list of group participants in the conversation compose form now auto-updates when a group is selected.
  
• Allow non-group-owners to add extra participants to new group conversations even when they do not have the group "add" right.
  
• Improved spammer purging.
  
• Miscellaneous minor fixes and improvements.
  

[Laird]

MyConversations version 1.2.4 has just been released.

New features:

• Adds Big Board support to the Find Orphaned Attachments admin tool.
  
• Adds admin permissions for running the migration tools.
  

[Laird]

MyConversations version 1.2.5 has just been released.

New features:

• A bunch more warnings under PHP 8 have been resolved, along with the minor bugs that some of them revealed. This improves the plugin's compatibility with PHP 8.
  
• Improves the responsiveness (mobile-friendliness) of the plugin's pages.
  
• Provides better global access to unread counts and related status messages for use in templates, via `$mybb->user`.
  
• Bugfix: A database error was occurring in the PMs->conversations migration due to the failure to supply an entry for the `likedby` column of the `cnv_messages` table, which requires a value.
  
• Bugfix: Auto-linking of bare URLs in messages was partly broken due to MyConversations mistakenly setting the parser option to allow HTML (which breaks auto-linking in MyBB core)..
  

[Laird]

MyConversations version 1.2.7 has just been released (1.2.6 was not released publicly).

New features:

• Resolves even more PHP 8 warnings and any minor bugs they indicated.
  
• Bugfix: The collapse/expand functionality in the UserCP left sidebar menu was broken.
  
• Bugfix: Messages hard-deleted by a member were showing up in his/her search results.
  
• Bugfix: `{$cnv_ucp_options}` was not being removed from the `usercp_options` template on plugin deactivation.
  
• Bugfix: The incorrect redirect function was called when clicking "No" at the uninstallation warning.
  
• Bugfix: When participants were removed from a group, they were not removed from group conversations in which their rights had been customised.
  
• Bugfix: The database table prefix was hard-coded to the default `mybb_` in some generated SQL.
  
• Adds admin logging of the migration procedures.
  
• Adds better redirection from "Send PM" links: now, they link to the conversation-starting form with the member in question as a pre-filled recipient.
  
• Improves the presentation of member profile contact details: sometimes, they weren't shown when they ought to have been, and, even when MyConversations was active, the link to send a PM was shown.
  
• Adds better handling of absolute paths when removing attachment files and directories.
  
• Fixes some hook parameters.
  
• Reduces the length of the key on the `attachname` column of the `attachments` table for broader MySQL/MariaDB compatibility.
  
• Improves and hardens error-handling around folder IDs and names.
  
• Makes various other minor improvements and resolves various other minor issues/bugs.
  

A big thanks to @HLFadmin for his help in identifying and resolving issues.