Feature Change Log

Contents:

Table of contents

• Changes from 1.72 to 1.80
  • New features:
  • New management features:
  • Core Changes:
  • New translations:
• Changes From 1.71 to 1.72
  • New General Features
  • Translations
• Changes From 1.70 to 1.71
  • New General Features
  • Translations
• Changes From 1.53 to 1.70
  • New General Features
• Changes From 1.52 to 1.53
  • New Languages
• Changes From 1.50 to 1.52
  • New General Features
• Changes From 1.01 to 1.50
  • New General Features
  • New Languages
  • New Templates
• Changes From 1.00 to 1.01
  • New General Features
  • New Languages
• Changes From 0.99 to 1.00
  • New General Features
  • New Languages
• Changes From 0.98 To 0.99
  • New General Features
  • New Language Translations
  • New Templates

Changes from 1.72 to 1.80

Release date 2009/03/09

New features:

• New question types and new questions attributes:
• New question types: Array Multi Flexible (Numbers & Text) (jcleeland)
• New question type: Slider - developed as a variant of multiple numbers question
• New question type: Array of checkboxes - implemented as a variant of Array Multi Flexible (Numbers) (lemeur)
• Questions updates: limit possible answers for rank questions (jcleeland)
• Questions updates: having many 'Exclude all others' (jcleeland)
• New Feature: Added min_answer feature for the following question types: Multiple options, multiple options with comments and ranking question - patch was kindly provided by F.Markham (c_schmitz)
• New Feature: Added question attribute "alphasort" to sort a list of radiobuttons or a dropdown list alphabetically before display. (maziminke)
• New Feature: Question attributes dropdown_dates_year_max and dropdown_dates_year_min for question type date using dropdown layout (maziminke)
• New Feature: Enable numbers_only attribute for Array (Multi Flexible Text) adapted from a patch by user level420. (lemeur)
• Question update: Dropdown list options can be grouped by categories

New management features:

• LimeSurvey Remote Control (Soap gateway to remotely control LimeSurvey) (wahrendorff)
• Support of ORed questions in conditions (adapted from Ron L.J. van den Burg's patch). (lemeur)
• New condition designer interface (lemeur)
• Added new setting 'public statistics' to survey settings, added link appearing at the end of a survey when 'public settings' is switched on (c_schmitz)
• Improved user registration email (c_schmitz)
• 'Iterate Survey' icon available in the browse answers screen (only available for non anonymous surveys with allow persistence for token answers set to yes.) (lemeur)
• New options in token reminder management to limit the numbers of sent emails to participants (max number, min delay between emails)
• Adding a start date to the surveys (c_schmitz)
• Added result export to R (patch provided by Livio) (c_schmitz)
• Add direct link to imported question/group/survey after import (lemeur)
• Improved Admin Login (c_schmitz)
• Added possibility to split up the amount of exported responses at one time (Problem with max_execution_time) (lemeur)
• Question Attribute "public_stats" to filter which question statistics should be shown to the user (maziminke)
• Expiry-Date Tag for E-Mails, Welcome Page,... (lemeur)
• Changed layout order of Dual Scale Matrix in statistics (Mazi)
• Added translations for question attributes (c_schmitz)

Core Changes:

• Templates have been changed for better accessibility and layouts without tables (eric_t_cruiser)
• Replaced jpgraph with pChart - that way nice graphs in statistics can be shown without installing jpgraph (c_schmitz)
• Database performance enhancements (bobc55)
• Fancy URLs (c_schmitz)
• Updated toolbar icons (c_schmitz)

New translations:

• New language: Dutch informal by Gert Mensing <gertmensing@gmail.com> (kadejo)
• Updated Language: Czech language updated. By Ivo Raisr. (kadejo)
• Updated Language: French. (b00z00)
• Updated Language: German (c_schmitz)
• Updated Language: German informal (c_schmitz)
• Updated Language: Dutch. By Jan-Willem ?. (kadejo)
• Updated Language: Finnish. By Juuso Heinisuo. (kadejo)
• Updated Language: French. (b00z00)
• Updated Language: French by Alain Cedelle. (kadejo)
• Updated Language: Galician language updated. By Carlos Neira Cortizas. (kadejo)
• Updated Language: Greek language updated. By Yiannos Katsirintakis. (kadejo)
• Updated Language: Italian. By Giovanni Chiozza. (kadejo)
• Updated Language: Norwegian Bokmål. By Reidar Øksnevad. (kadejo)
• Updated Language: Polish (xqleg)
• Updated Language: Portuguese Brazilian by Andréa Simões (c_schmitz)
• Updated Language: Portuguese Brazilian by Flávio Veras (c_schmitz)
• Updated Language: Russian. By Pavel Tokarev. (kadejo)
• Updated Language: Serbian language updated. By Miroslav Jovanovic. (first in Cyrillic alphabet). (kadejo)
• Updated Language: Slovenian language update (gasper_koren)
• Updated Language: Spanish translation updated. (kadejo)
• Updated Language: Swedish (maxz)
• Updated Language: Thai. By Worawuth Nilchawna. (kadejo)
• Updated Language: Turkish by A. Murad BAYRAM (c_schmitz)

Changes From 1.71 to 1.72

Release Date: 2008/10/07

New General Features

• Added template preview to survey settings (c_schmitz)
• Added the ability to the template editor to edit a CSS file - where the CSS filename must be the same name as the template. (c_schmitz)
• Added Prefix & Suffix Question Attributes for Short Text, and Multiple Short Text (jcleeland)
• Added feature request #02065 - Prefix & Suffix Question Attributes for Numerical Input (jcleeland)
• Added new attribute "other_replace_text" to use alternative text to "Other" for question types that have this option (jcleeland)
• PDF Orientation can be changed in config-defaults.php (stfreud)
• ssl/tls is now possible in emailer configuration, previously only tls was supported (Updated PHPMailer to version 2.02) (c_schmitz)
• Added qmail to possible mailer config settings (c_schmitz)
• Implemented 02113: Add some details to Naming of Excel Export File (jcleeland)
• Rewrite of SPSS export to fix numerous problems
  • SPSS 16 compatibility
  • Data is exported now with a sytax and a data file
  • While exporting the data is checked - if non-numeric data for a field is found the field is switched to alphanumeric
  • Data for numerical questions is handled as float
  • Label size is cut down accordingly (c_schmitz)
• Added new template mint_idea (c_schmitz)
• New variable $demoModeOnly, used to set limesurvey into a more secure demo mode. (machaven)

Translations

• Added Icelandic translation kindly provided by Jóhann Friðriksson ( johannfr -i-t- arskoli -d-i-t- is )
• Updated Albanian Language file by Eniel Ninka (e -d-o-t- ninka -a-t- univpm -d-o-t- it )
• Updated Basque Translation by inforbek13 i-t eps -d-a-t- mondragon -d-a-t- edu
• Updated Bulgarian translation by Alexander Simidchiev <simid -a-t- mail -d-i-t- bg
• Updated Chinese Traditional Language File by Mark Yeung
• Updated Croatian Translation by Ro Vino (c_schmitz)
• Updated Danish translation by Thomas Clausen
• Updated Dutch translation by Hans Delva, Gerton Poot
• Updated Estonian Translation by Villem Vannas (villem -dot- vannas(a) mail (dot) ee)
• Renamed Farsi to Persian (c_schmitz)
• Updated Finnish Translation by Juuso Heinisuo, Päivi Tyni (c_schmitz)
• Updated French translation (b00z00 and el Almoman walmoman -a-t- hemisa -d-o-z- com)
• Updated German translations (c_schmitz)
• Updated Greek translation by Christos Rodosthenous and Yiannos Katsirintakis
• Updated Hungarian, Macedonian, Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), Italian, Croatian & Estonain Language Files
• Updated Hungarian Translation by Daniel Fuleki (c_schmitz)
• Updated Italian translation by Eniel Ninka ( e d-0-t- ninka -a-t- univpm -d-a-t- it)
• Updated Korean translation submitted by the Korea National Police university translation team
• Updated Latvian translation provided by Marcis Trapencieris (marcic -a-t- sociology -d-i-t- lv)
• Updated Norwegian Bokmal and Nynorsk translations by dittaeva, Egil Hansen
• Updated Persian translation by Hooman Mesgary - mesgary -a-tt- gmail -d-o-tt- com
• Updated Polish Translation by piotr.plenik a-t-t- teamlab doott pl and xqleg
• Updated Portuguese-Brazilian translation by Luiz Rafael Santos (lrsantos11 -i-t- gmail -d-o-a-t com)
• Updated Portuguese Translation by Duarte Geraldes (duarte -it- roquettegeraldes -d-i-t- com)
• Updated Slovenian translation (gasper_koren)
• Updated Spanish translation (kedajo)
• Updated the swedish translation (maxz)
• Updated complete Turkish translation by Murad Bayram (murad dott bayram att rshm dott gov dott tr) (c_schmitz)
• Updated Turkish translation for calendar by A. Murad BAYRAM (c_schmitz)
• Added and updated calendar translations (c_schmitz)

Changes From 1.70 to 1.71

Release Date: 2008/06/02

New General Features

• Include new pdf-features (stfreud)
• Standard sitename and sitemail when creating survey (lemeur)
• Reworked the SPSS export to
  • a) remove redundant pass throughs of dataset (in DATA LIST build)
  • b) adjust DATA LIST column widths to account for data (uses tmpfile())
  • c) escape apostrophe's in a string to an html entity

Note, this was only tested with SPSS 15, it's likely there are UTF-8 problems. (awarren)

• Raised amount of tokens displayed on one page from 50 to 100 ((el-matador-69)
• Added more detailed error message on invitation and reminder sending (c_schmitz)
• Updated queXML-Export - Thx to Adam Zammit (el-matador-69)
• Adding support for debian packaging (nbarcet)
• Integrated table cell -> Radio button mapping (awarren)

Translations

• Added basic support for Right-to-Left languages
• Complete Korean translation submitted by Sehee Kim (cactusgrlkr -a-t- naver -dot-com) on behalf of the Korean Police School translation team.
• Added Farsi translation stub by Laurent Giacobino
• Added Welsh translation
• Added Indonesian translation by Lukas (c_schmitz)
• Numerous translation updates kindly provided by the project translators and users out there.

Changes From 1.53 to 1.70

Release Date: 2008/02/25

New General Features

• INSERTANS for Question Type: Y, E, C (lemeur)
• Automatic Translation of relative links (images) at Survey/Group/Question Import (lemeur)
• Automatic Translation INSERTANS tags at Survey Import (lemeur)
• Valid generic (non-error) front page with list of available surveys. (jasebo)
• Possibility to upload pictures to use in surveys (lemeur)
• Postgresql support (c_schmitz)
• FCKEditor integration for survey design (lemeur)
• Wizard to insert tags (INSERTANS,...) as a plugin to FCKeditor (lemeur)
• Quota Management (machaven)
• timestamp at survey start (c_schmitz)
• Dual Array Scale Question Type (Joesch)
• Super Administrator Right (lemeur)
• Patch/Modification: Implement User Management to Template Access (patched by machaven)
• Resume an incomplete (and not saved) survey (lemeur)
• Prefilled Surveys (lemeur)
• Authorize the 'preview survey' to authenticated LS users only (lemeur)
• Implement Captcha for Survey-Access (with or without tokens) and makes Captcha switchable for Survey-Access/Registration/Load-and-Save (lemeur)
• Delegate authentication to the webserver (lemeur)
• Using a {LANGUAGECHANGER} tag integrates a select box in templates to change language on the fly (lazar)
• Auto-incrementing answer codes (c_schmitz)
• Options to switch filter empty email field and filter duplicates in token import (c_schmitz)
• Emails can be sent as HTML (lemeur)
• Make Email Subjects of Admin Notifications Translateable (c_schmitz)
• Move submit button to last question page (c_schmitz)
• Correct error message and further instructions, if user has disabled Cookies (c_schmitz)
• Protection against token code brute force attacks (lemeur)
• Checkbox for Multiple Choice Other Option (c_schmitz)
• Mass Logic Eliminator (lemeur)
• New conditions operators on comparizons,regexp (dgeaperez)
• Total sum validation for "Multiple ShortText" Questions (jasebo)
• Randomize answers for Flexible arrays (jasebo)
• Re-organized survey creation/edition interface (lemeur)
• Alternative presentation of Dates question (jasebo)
• Print answers after completing the survey (c_schmitz)
• Survey description: Default values for additional surveys aren't set automatically (c_schmitz)
• SSL for STMP emailing (Patched by c_schmitz)
• QueXML Survey structure export (Patched by c_schmitz)
• Usability improvement: Hover effect for matrix questions (El-Matador-69)
• Display Label Set Name at Question Details (not only the Label Set ID) (c_schmitz)
• Increased token code entropy (c_schmitz)
• Moved Email settings from survey properties to "Tokens-Settings"-Menu (c_schmitz)
• Change conditions designer so that full question & answer text are visible (jasebo)
• Attribute to disable/clear other checkboxes in Multiple Options question (jasebo)
• Adding new questions to very large surveys, and question sorts (jasebo)
• Question Attribute "display_columns" for Gender Question--Type (jasebo)

Changes From 1.52 to 1.53

Release Date: 2007/11/01

New Languages

• Czech translation by Alice Cechová and Michal Sládek.
• Mexican Spanish Dialect by Francisco Bricio (http://www.gestionautomotriz.com)
• Basque translation kindly provided by Juan Ezeiza (http://www.axular.net)
• Albanian translation by Maroš Kollár (maros -at- zsi -dot- at)
• Thai translation by Worawutha Nichaowna
• Taiwanese Chinese Traditional translation by Finjon Kiang (kiange -at- gmail -dot- com)

Changes From 1.50 to 1.52

Release Date: 2007/08/19

New General Features

• Added a file extension check for the template editor (leochaton)
• Added numercical input and max_chars within multiple short text (thanks to skrat) (leochaton)
• Lots of security fixes regarding internal security - upgrade is highly recommended. (c_schmitz)
• Hint is now shown if database exist (c_schmitz)
• Added a warning message when the user did not change the 'password' Password (c_schmitz)
• Updated and now complete Spanish Translation by Luis M. Martínez
• Updated and now complete Polish Translation by Damian Kubiak

Changes From 1.01 to 1.50

Release Date: 2007/08/06

New General Features

• New design and new name
• Multi-lingual surveys - do the same survey in multiple languages at the same time
• Command line importer to import surveys (leochaton)
• Usage of {SAVED_ID} and {TOKEN} in the end URL to interact with other applications (leochaton)
• Separate installation directory that has to be removed on installation end
• Import Tokens using LDAP Query (lemeur)
• Check if the necessary requirements are fulfilled on installation and runtime (c_schmitz)
• Semantic differential scale questions - sponsored by a donation from tileca (c_schmitz)
• Preview question function (machaven)
• SPSS export re-worked (machaven)
• Reworked the token import to being more stable (machaven)
• Reworked the Excel export to be OpenOffice.org compatible
• Setting to config.php to manage the maximum session time & proper error message when taking a survey and the session is timing out for any reason (c_schmitz)
• Captcha feature to prevent automatic registering (machaven)
• Support for Microsoft SQL Server database (ferrisoxide)
• Moved the manual to online site (c_schmitz)
• New question attribute to limit the maximum number of answers in Multiple Options questions (attribute max_answers) (lemeur)
• New user authentication system with user right/roles & groups (moses)
• Re-ordering for groups and questions by up-down buttons instead of sorting by question/group name (c_schmitz/nkorfiatis)
• Some interfaces for editing answers where changed so you can save changes to all answers for all languages on one click. (machaven/c_schmitz)
• Added a new question type to change the survey language (c_schmitz)
• Completely overhauled interface icons. The basic style has been kindly created by Mitchell Butler.
• Added answer limiting based on a previous question for array question types (machaven)
• Added page-by-page saving of the answers (swales)
• Changed the translation system from language files to gettext system. That will make translations easier to handle and to update. Refer to the translation instructions here: How to translate LimeSurvey (c_schmitz)
• Graphical date picker to date question type and survey properties (c_schmitz)
• Overview of all surveys in addition to the existing combobox (nkorfiatis)
• Save the referring URL in survey results. Sponsored by Lawrence Weathers (docweathers) Coder: Richard Kavanagh (www.benbun.co.uk)
• Added feature to show custom attribute names in token interface
• Added random survey number generation to make guesses on the surveyid harder
• Moved admin interface styles to style sheets
• Fixed image links and included PNGFix in admin interface for crappy old IE6 browsers (nkorfiatis)
• Bubble hints on icons for FF (nkorfiatis)
• DB Versioning for easier updates to the DB in the future (c_schmitz))
• Removed experimental interface

New Languages

• Brazilian Portuguese by Anderson La‚cio Galindo Trindade
• Chinese Traditional (Area Hong Kong) by Mark Yeung
• Finnish by Matti Lassila
• Galician translation by Carlos Neira Cortizas
• Japanese translation by Hiroki Yoshino
• Polish by Maciej Zawado
• Serbian by Ivan Recevic
• Spanish by Carlos Juan Martín Pérez
• Vietnamese by Vinh Ngo

New Templates

• New default template
• New clear_logo template

Changes From 1.00 to 1.01

New General Features

• Replaced XPertMailer Email Class by PHPMailer library for much more stable invitation and reminder mailing. This should fix the lost email problem.
• You can now use an variable named {TOKENID} somewhere in your URL in survey settings. It will be replaced with the Token ID. Like this:

END URL: http://www.google.de?test={TOKENID}
URL Desc: Google is your friend

New Languages

• New Russian language file for admin and updated client language file by Alexei G. Tchernov ( alexei_g_chernov at mail dot ru )
• New Finnish language file for PHPSurveyor fronted by Markus Översti (markus dot oversti at edu dot haapavesi dot fi)

Changes From 0.99 to 1.00

New General Features

• Added SMTP relay and authorization
• Change survey sent/taken from "Y" to the date:When reviewing the tokens display, the fields telling if the survey request was sent, and the survey taken, display a N or Y. This was changed to be the actual date this event took place.This is giving some siginificant additional information to the survey author. (Patch by Thomas Ringate / tringate!)
• New global option that allows the administrator to specify what is the minimum number of remaining answers in an 'array - flexible' question that must be remaining before repeating the question headings. This avoids that the headings of the question are repeated if only a few answers are remaining. (Patch by Kris Ven !)
• Moved admin CSS styles to separate CSS file
• Moved config.php and common.php from admin directory to main one. This allow easy configuration of permission on IIS (Patch by freddy77)
• Use extensively dirname and __FILE__ constants. This allow inclusion using full path names limiting some possible security issues. (patch #326 by freddy77)

New Languages

• Japanese translation kindly provided by Masaru Ryumae
• Greek translation file kindly provided by Artemis Mendrinos
• Romanian translation kindly provided by Bogdan Anastasiei
• Swedish translation of administration kindly provided by Niklas Andersson
• Croatian language file (submitted by Ivana Pavic)!

Changes From 0.98 To 0.99

New General Features

• List type question divided into two question types - radio button or drop down, so you can choose on a question by question basis whether or not to have radio buttons or a dropdown list.
• New "flexible" list type question uses labelsets to make reusing sets of answers easier - one radio and one dropdown type
• New "Huge" text question allows for a _really big_ textarea
• UTF-8 conversion. Use any char of any language mixed together.
• Question attributes, allows for better control over the display and working of individual questions
• New system option to set the table type in MySQL
• New "assessments" feature which allows you to sum the answers to groups of questions, or the total survey, and then present an "assessment" when the users submits the survey.
• New survey options, including:
  • the capacity to set the "subject" of emails on a survey-by-survey basis
  • hide the "<< prev" button so users can only go forwards through a survey
  • Allow users to save a partially completed survey and come back to complete it later
  • Automatically load the "url" when the user has completed the survey
• VV Import and VV Export: A way of exporting and importing results directly to the responses table - which not only allows merging of survey responses run on different servers, but also the ability to add or remove questions to a survey while preserving the existing responses.
• W3C HTML 4.01 transitional and partial WAI 508 compliance
• Basic ability to integrate into other CMS

New Language Translations

• COMPLETE French translation of the instructions and updated french language file kindly provided by Sèbastien Gaugry
• COMPLETE Italian translation of the instructions and updated italian language file kindly provided by Mario Marani
• Bulgarian Language File kindly provided by Nikolay Tsanov <tsanov@tu...>
• Added Portuguese language kindly provided by Rosaura Gazzola & Job Vieira Lècio, Brazil

New Templates

• "Blue Heaven" theme
• "BluenGrey" theme
• "Vallendar" theme
• "Business_Grey" theme
• "Eirenicon" theme
• "SoftGreenCurves" theme

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