PrivateBin version history

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- ADDED: Translations for Slowene and Chinese
- ADDED: re-introduced URL shortener support (optional), which was removed back in version 0.16 for privacy concerns
- ADDED: Preview tab, helpful for writing markdown code or check source code rendering
- ADDED: Automatic purging of expired pastes, done on paste creation
- ADDED: Option to disable icons in discussions (will only affect newly created pastes)
- ADDED: Composer support
- CHANGED: Renamed the ZeroBin fork to PrivateBin
- CHANGED: Removed unmaintained RainTPL template engine, replacing the templates with straight forward PHP files
- CHANGED: New favicon
- CHANGED: Upgrading SJCL library to 1.0.4
- CHANGED: Switched to GCM instead CCM mode for AES encryption for newly created pastes
- CHANGED: Switched to a SHA256 HMAC of the IP in traffic limiter instead of storing it in plain text on the server
- CHANGED: Introduced content security policy header to reduce cross site scripting (XSS) risks
- CHANGED: Refactored PHP code to conform to PSR-4 and PSR-2 standards
- CHANGED: Switched to Identicons as the default for comments with nicknames
- CHANGED: Vizhash is now optional and based on (128 byte) SHA512 HMAC instead of (144 bytes) combination of MD5, SHA1 and a reversal of that string
- FIXED: Content-type negociation for HTML in certain uncommon browser configurations
- FIXED: JavaScript error displayed before page is loaded or during attachment load
- FIXED: Don't strip space characters at beginning or end of optional password
- FIXED: Various UI glitches in mobile version or on smaller desktops with language menu, button spacing and long URLs
- FIXED: Removed unused code detected with the help of various code review tools
- FIXED: Table format for PostgreSQL, making it possible to use PostgreSQL as backend in addition to MySQL, SQLite and flat files
0.22 (2015-11-09):
- ADDED: Tab character input support
- ADDED: Dark bootstrap theme
- ADDED: Option to hide clone button on expiring pastes
- ADDED: Option to set a different default language then English and/or enforce it as the only language
- ADDED: Database now contains version to allow automatic update of structure, only if necessary; removing database structure check on each request
- ADDED: Favicons
- FIXING: Regressions in database layer, prohibiting pastes from being stored
- FIXING: Fixing "missing" comments when they were posted during the same second to the same paste
- FIXING: JS failing when password input disabled
- CHANGED: Switching positions of "New" and "Send" button, highlighting the latter to improve workflow
- CHANGED: Renamed config file to make updates easier
- CHANGED: Switching to JSON-based REST-API
- CHANGED: Database structure to store attachments, allowing larger attachments to be stored (depending on maximum BLOB size of database backend)
- CHANGED: Refactored data model, traffic limiting & request handling
0.21.1 (2015-09-21):
- FIXING: lost meta data when using DB model instead of flat files
- FIXING: mobile navbar getting triggered on load
- CHANGED: database table "paste" gets automatically extended with a "meta" column
- CHANGED: navbar of "bootstrap" template now spans full width of view port on large screens
0.21 (2015-09-19):
- ADDED: Translations for German, French and Polish, language selection menu (optional)
- ADDED: File upload and image display support (optional)
- ADDED: Markdown format support
- ADDED: "bootstrap-compact" template that hides some of the options in a drop down menu to ensure the nav bar fitting on one line on smaller screen sizes
- FIXING: Various usability issues with different screen sizes / device types in the "bootstrap" template
- CHANGED: Instead of having different options to enable and preselect certain formats there is now a generic [formatter_options] section where formats can be added to the displayed format drop down menu. A defaultformatter can be set, it defaults to "plaintext". The syntaxhighlighting configuration got deprecated.
- zerobin.js got a major refactoring:
  - moved from global namespace into anonymous function
  - events are no longer set via "onclick" attributes in the templates, but bound by from JS side
  - for simpler maintenance the functions were grouped into objects: zerobin (display logic, event handling), filter (compression, encryption), i18n (translation, counterpart of i18n.php) and helper (stateless utilities)
- Wiki pages were added to address common topics:
0.20 (2015-09-03):
- ADDED: Password protected pastes (optional)
- ADDED: configuration options for highlighting, password, discussions, expiration times, rate limiting
- ADDED: JSON-only retrieval of paste incl. discussion, used to be able to refresh paste when posting a comment
- ADDED: bootstrap CSS based template
- CHANGED: "Burn after reading" pastes are now deleted only after the paste was successfully decrypted via callback. This prevents accidental deletion by chatbots following URLs and the like. Usage of a password is suggested to ensure only the desired recipient is able to encrypt it.
- CHANGED: the "opendiscussion" option now only controls if the discussion checkbox is preselected. Use "discussion = false" to disable the discussion feature completely (which also removes the checkbox from the template).
- FIXING: Behaviour of several conflicting configuration options. As a general measure unit tests for 9 of the options and all their possible configurations were added via a unit test generator.
- updated JS libraries: jquery to 1.11.3, sjcl to 1.0.2, base64.js to 2.1.9, deflate to 0.5, inflate to 0.3 and prettify to latest
- generally improved documentation, both inline phpdoc / JSdoc source code documentation, as well as Wiki pages on installation, configuration, development and JSON-API
Alpha 0.19 (2013-07-05):
- Corrected XSS security flaw which affected IE<10. Other browsers were not affected.
- Corrected spacing display in IE<10.
Alpha 0.18 (2013-02-24):
- ADDED: The resulting URL is automatically selected after pressing "Send". You just have to press CTRL+C.
- ADDED: Automatic syntax highlighting for 53 languages using highlight.js
- ADDED: "5 minutes" and "1 week" expirations.
- ADDED: "Raw text" button.
- jQuery upgraded to 1.9.1
- sjcl upgraded to GitHub master 2013-02-23
- base64.js upgraded to 1.7
- FIXED: Dates in discussion are now proper local dates.
- ADDED: Robot meta tags in HTML to prevent search engines indexing.
- ADDED: Better json checking (including entropy).
- ADDED: Added version to js/css assets URLs in order to prevent some abusive caches to serve an obsolete version of these files when ZeroBin is upgraded.
- "Burn after reading" option has been moved out of Expiration combo to a separate checkbox. Reason is: You can prevent a read-once paste to be available ad vitam eternam on the net.
Alpha 0.17 (2013-02-23):
- ADDED: Deletion URL.
- small refactoring.
- improved regex checks.
- larger server alt on installation.
Alpha 0.16:
- FIXED minor php warnings.
- FIXED: zerobin.js reformated and properly commented.
- FIXED: Directory structure re-organized.
- CHANGED: URL shortening button was removed. (It was bad for privacy.)
Alpha 0.15 (2012-04-20):
- FIXED: 2 minor corrections to avoid notices in php log.
- FIXED: Sources converted to UTF-8.
Alpha 0.14 (2012-04-20):
- ADDED: GD presence is checked.
- CHANGED: Traffic limiter data files moved to data/ (→easier rights management)
- ADDED: "Burn after reading" implemented. Opening the URL will display the paste and immediately destroy it on server.
Alpha 0.13 (2012-04-18):
- FIXED: ''imageantialias()'' call removed because it's not really usefull and can be a problem on most hosts (if GD is not compiled in php).
- FIXED: $error not properly initialized in index.php
Alpha 0.12 (2012-04-18):
- DISCUSSIONS ! Now you can enable discussions on your pastes. Of course, posted comments and nickname are also encrypted and the server cannot see them.
- This feature implies a change in storage format. You will have to delete all previous pastes in your ZeroBin.
- Added Vizhash as avatars, so you can match posters IP addresses without revealing them. (Same image = same IP). Of course the IP address cannot be deduced from the Vizhash.
- Remaining time before expiration is now displayed.
- Explicit tags were added to CSS and jQuery selectors (eg. div#aaa instead of #aaa) to speed up browser.
- Better cleaning of the URL (to make sure the key is not broken by some stupid redirection service)
Alpha 0.11 (2012-04-12):
- Automatically ignore parameters (such as &utm_source=...) added //after// the anchor by some stupid Web 2.0 services.
- First public release.
Alpha 0.10 (2012-04-12):
- IE9 does not seem to correctly support ''pre-wrap'' either. Special handling mode activated for all version of IE<10. (Note: ALL other browsers correctly support this feature.)
Alpha 0.9 (2012-04-11):
- Oh bummer... IE 8 is as shitty as IE6/7: Its does not seem to support ''white-space:pre-wrap'' correctly. I had to activate the special handling mode. I still have to test IE 9.
Alpha 0.8 (2012-04-11):
- Source code not published yet.
- Interface completely redesigned. Icons added.
- Now properly supports IE6/7 (ugly display, but it works. "Clone" button is disabled though.)
- Added one level of depth for storage directories (This is better for higher load servers).
- php version is now checked (min: 5.2.6)
- Better checks on posted json data on server.
- Added "1 year" expiration.
- URLs are now converted to clickable links. This include http, https, ftp and magnet links.
- Clickable links include ''rel="nofollow"'' to discourage SEO.
- On my public service (http://sebsauvage.net/paste/)
  - All data will be deleted (you were warned - this is a test service)
  - Default paste expiration is now 1 month to prevent clogging-up my host.

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