This version contains several major changes which are listed below.

IMPORTANT: This upgrade includes a data conversion process for custom fields in your user database. Depending on the size of your membership and whether or not you use custom sign-up fields, this upgrade process may take SEVERAL minutes!

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• Includes a new and more flexible custom membership fields process
• Adds the ability to determine exactly which membership/profile fields are visible or required
• Converts all existing custom-field user data, if applicable
• Replaces the existing sign-up process with an overhauled, customized sign-up process
• Separates the "My Profile" page from the sign-up page into profile.php
• Adds method that performs email verification on all new users
• Improves admin-side member management
• Added premium1,premium2 flags to member download data
• Added "Admin?" checkbox to admin member add/edit function

• Fixed a bug in the Download Membership List piece
• Added the ability to make the Membership Referral Source question optional or non-applicable
• Fixed a bug on the Sign-Up page
• Aestethic cleanup of the Sign-Up and Edit Profile pages
• Fixed bug in process to members to recover forgotten passwords via email
• Added Admin option to search for exact usernames
• Added option to turn off the primary sidebar entirely when using pull-down menu elements in header of a site.

• Fixed a critical bug in the member authentication process.

• Fixed a bug in the sign-up process so that prospective members can now re-send their validation email in case they never received it.
• Fixed a bug so that administrators can forcibly activate a user's membership if the user can't receive their validation email.
• Added an administrative button for user's of Bondware to click to provide feedback about their Bondware experience.
• In the administration end, added a warning notice of expiring sessions, and the ability to renew sessions in the background, for those administrators of our Intranet communities, so that any changes they are currently making will not be lost if they are logged off.

• Made the visibility of custom membership fields on the profile and signup pages optional, changeable on the custom field edit page.
• Fixed a bug with multi-select checkboxes and options with apostrophes in custom fields.
• Added support for secure (SSL) logins to a site. In order to take advantage of this, a site must have it's own SSL certificate with same hostname for the secured & unsecured URL.
• There is a new toggle under the Admin|Site Setup|Site Address to activate this feature. This is required by new PCI guidelines for any site over a certain credit card transaction volume.
• Enhanced error message/instructions after login failure on an Intranet site.
• Added support for domain-wide cookies for saving session & login info. This is needed in larger sites that run Bondware on multiple servers in a clustered or load-balanced configuration.

Release Notes Version 68:

• CSS fixes to enable advanced features within skins.
• Session management changes to prevent bots/crawlers from overwhelming a site.
• Critical fix to prevent loss of site configuration settings in a very specific situation.

Release Notes Version 69:

This release includes the following new features and bug fixes:

• Fix for anonymous opinion posting on articles when member's session has expired
• Member type made optional on member profiles
• Blocking of member login from a given IP address after a number of failed login attempts. This prevents a brute force attack on Bondware username/password combinations.
• Extensions to member role permission system to support roles that expire in the future.
• Removal of blog terminology from Content Management system, replaced by "Submit Article" language.

Improved failed login handling and reporting
Improvements to member management tools and help detail
Improved Web Forms to support multi-select form fields
Added CSS classes to section_withsumm & section_full elements

This is a maintenance release that includes the following:

• Improved form processing for required fields
• Added Location in Profile to Who's Online (onlinemem.php)
• Fixed bug limiting Article graphics to JPG files. Now handles GIF,etc.
• Added support for new improved site level search (sitesearch.php) which gives site admin control of search result order, count and branding
• Misc improvements to member homepages

This is a maintenance release that includes the following:

• Improvements to core newsletter features & alignment of core newsletter with advanced emarket features
• Added session count to Who's Online report
• Fixes to module hooks when adding members from an email list or syncing premium members
• Improved SEO optimization for member homepages

• Completed the Bondware Help Center
• Changed administrative menus so that administrators see actual module names rather than their "short names"
• Improved performance of the site and module licensing system

• Added view counting for pages/articles
• Created the ability to have articles open in a new window
• Improved security for intranet sites
• Created the ability for intranet sites to make the homepage and sidebars visible to visitors
• Separated primary and secondary sidebar settings (width, bullets, etc) to make them more customizable
• Made changes to the login process to increase security and smoothness
• Made the login page welcome message and the sign-up page title variables controllable in Members -> Communications
• Added a Site Favicon (favorite icon or bookmark icon) setting to Design -> Basic Design Settings
• Performed some database and file system cleanup and maintenance after the changes made in the version 77 upgrade