TNG/Neuste Version

Quelle: http://lythgoes.net/pipermail/tngusers_lythgoes.net/2018-May/000652.html

Hi everyone,

This is to announce that a new major upgrade, TNG version 12.0, is now available. The cost of this upgrade is $15.99 for all users who already have TNG 9.0 or higher (users with older versions will get a lesser discount). To get the discount price, log into your previous TNG downloads page and look for the payment options in the TNG Updates section. As usual, an option exists for you to pay for the installation as well. If you need your access information again, feel free to contact me directly (please note that responses from me may be slow today).

Here is a blog post with tips for having a successful upgrade. It was written a few years ago, but it still applies:

http://tngsitebuilding.com/blog/genealogywebsites/tutorials/tips-for-a-successful-upgrade

Please remember to follow the instructions. I've tried to make it easier this time, but this is still important. Please especially take note to make a backup of your config files. One of the significant changes in v12 is that your template settings will now be stored in a database table. If anything goes wrong during the upgrade installation, it would good to have those backups.

Thanks also to all the testers and translators who helped with the finished product!

Here is a summary of the changes:

1. Admin Menu: A message about map instructions and obtaining a map key has been included in the "important to dos" list.
2. Branches: The branch fields for people and families have been increased from 100 to 512 characters.
3. Calendar: The year of each event will now also be shown.
4. CSS: The body tag on each page now includes an ID ("bodytop") and a class corresponding to the page name.
5. DNA: Jeff Robison's DNA mod has been incorporated. This provides several significant enhancements to the previous method of tracking DNA tests.
6. Events: When the New/Edit Event popup appears, the focus will automatically be put on the first field.
7. Events: Custom Event Types can now be flagged as LDS (meaning that the events will not show if the user does not have rights to see LDS data).
8. Fan Chart: The chart was misaligned and the wrong popup messages were being displayed when the chart was resized to 100% of the available width. Chart will now only be resized if 5 or more generations are being shown.
9. File Picker: The list of files can now be sorted by the file date.
10. File Picker: The width of the dialog has been increased by 100 pixels to help with the display of longer file names.
11. First Names: New pages contributed by Adrian Oates show first names along the same lines as the current Surnames pages.
12. Help: The online help is now translatable (using Google Translate).
13. Import: The GEDCOM import will now restart immediately after the file upload and again if nothing happens in 10 seconds. This should prevent most import stalls.
14. Import: The GEDCOM import will now recognize more "_FLGS" custom events as generated by Brother's Keeper.
15. Import: If media records include a DATE or _DATE tag, the information following will be placed in the media date field.
16. Installation: The installation guide has been simplified. It is also now translatable (using Google Translate).
17. Languages: Support added for Chinese UTF-8, removed for Polish ISO-8859-2.
18. Media: When a tree is selected in the Media Info section, that selection will carry over to the Media Links section and other parts of the Add/Edit Media page.
19. Media: TNG can now create thumbnails from some PDF files (only from the Add/Edit Media screens).
20. Media: Media may now be linked to citations, and citation media links can be imported from a GEDCOM file (warning: these links cannot be perpetuated beyond a subsequent GEDCOM import).
21. Media: Settings now govern what happens to the physical file when a media record is deleted. You can choose to delete the physical file always, never or on confirmation.
22. Media: Fixed bug that made the image preview disappear when mousing over the bottom shadow of a thumbnail.
23. Media: The thumbnails on person and family pages may now be displayed on a single row (if more than one exists). Configurable from the General Settings.
24. Media: Image previews now show the title/caption on top of the preview, near the bottom.
25. Media: The error report on the Generate Thumbnails page is more readable, with numbering and a better description for each issue.
26. Media: A permissions problem with default photo thumbnails on PDF reports has been fixed (the images were showing when they should have been withheld).
27. Media: The "checklogin" function can now be suppressed from "historytemplate" pages by setting $nologin = 1 before the "tng_begin.php" library is included.
28. Media: The media search will now also search the "Owner" field.
29. Media/Trees: Media linked to a tree can now be stored in a separate folder for that tree (within the corresponding media folder).
30. Miscellaneous: A "Maintained by" message showing the site owner will now be displayed in the standard footer (across all templates).
31. Miscellaneous: TNG will be able to detect if it is online. If not, online libraries like jQuery will use local versions, and online services like Google Maps and the share icons will be disabled.
32. Miscellaneous: The PHP Mailer library has been upgraded to version 5.2.22.
33. Miscellaneous: The jQuery and jQueryUI libraries have been upgraded to versions 3.3.1 and 1.12.1 respectively.
34. Miscellaneous: A dozen or more other very small bugs were fixed (not significant enough to mention them individually).
35. Mod Manager: Rick Bisbee, Ken Roy and others have added significant improvements to this utility.
36. Mods: The commented message in each cust_text.php file has been changed back to English for all languages (to benefit mods).
37. PDF: Fixed errors on PDF reports with PHP versions 7 and higher.
38. PDF: UTF-8 characters will now display properly on PDF reports.
39. Pedigree: The boxes on the Standard chart have been made larger.
40. Pedigree: The mobile ancestor charts will all default to 3 generations.
41. Pedigree/Descendancy: The font size of these pages has been made larger.
42. Pedigree/Descendancy: Birth and death years are now shown on the standard charts.
43. People: The Admin/People/Merge page no longer requires the person prefix as part of the ID(s).
44. People: The Find Person dialog now shows First Name first and then Last Name to be consistent with other pages.
45. People: Death dates (in addition to birth dates) will be shown for all children, spouses and parents on the Edit Person/Edit Family pages.
46. People/Families: The last tree used will be preselected when creating the next new person or family.
47. People/Families: The width on the label (left) column will be decreased when the page is viewed on mobile.
48. Places: The "places subject to deletion" mod has been incorporated.
49. Relationship: The formatting of the birth and death years has been corrected.
50. Search: Criteria entered in the First Name field will now search nicknames as well as first names.
51. Search: The Advanced Search page now lets you limit searches to a particular branch.
52. Search: Branch names will be displayed with the tree name in search results (where applicable).
53. Secondary Processes: New "Refresh Living" utility will re-mark people as living or deceased, depending on dates entered or time elapsed from birth.
54. Secondary Processes: New "Make Private" utility will mark people as private if they have been deceased less than a configurable number of years.
55. Security: The nocaptcha reCaptcha mod has been incorporated into the standard code.
56. Security: A security hole on the reset password page has been patched. A few other minor security issues were also patched.
57. Settings: A custom footer message can now be entered in the General Settings, under Site Design & Definition (appears on all templates).
58. Settings: The warning about backups can now be suppressed by changing the number of backup days to zero.
59. Suggest/GEDCOM: Fixed the forms on these pages so the columns aren't too wide.
60. Surname Cloud: The Surname Cloud will now be restricted to a user's assigned tree (if applicable).
61. Surname Cloud: Jeff Robison's tooltip mod has been incorporated (shows counts when hovering your mouse pointer over the name links).
62. Surnames: The Surnames and First Names pages will now show the top 50 names in two columns, along with pie charts to show the top 10 breakdown.
63. Statistics: Added pie charts to the stats page to show gender, living status and media breakdowns. Charts use C3 and D3 charting libraries.
64. Statistics: Children who died before age 3 will not be included in the "Average Age" statistic (to change that value, set $CUTOFF_YEARS in customconfig.php).
65. Templates: Three new templates have been added (16, 17 and 18).
66. Templates: Template lists and dropdowns have been reversed so that the newer templates are listed first.
67. Templates: A new table has been added to store template settings (they will no longer be kept in the templateconfig.php file). This should make it harder for bad code and other "accidents" to destroy the current settings.
68. Templates: Extra top-row links have been added to templates 11, 13, 14 and 15. These links do not show if no label exists.
69. Templates: Templates 1, 2 and 3 now have intro (or "welcome") paragraphs.
70. Templates: The links at the bottoms of the home pages for templates 11, 13 and 14 now flow evenly across all columns.
71. Templates: Template 15 now has a search form in the top right.
72. Trees: A pie chart will be shown if more than one tree exists (to show the breakdown among people in the various trees).
73. Users/Trees: Users can now be assigned to multiple trees (although only one assignment is active at any one time). Users assigned to multiple trees will be able to change their active tree at any time. When they log in, they will first see the tree they were using most recently.
74. Users: It was not obvious that a user's ability to edit their profile also controlled the user's ability to request a password change. Text on the Admin/Users pages has now been changed to reflect this.
75. What's New: Branch names will be shown in the People and Families sections (where applicable).

One more note: Some of you have asked about the GDPR (new European privacy law). I am still consulting about how the law affects TNG or sites made with TNG. When that is clear, another update may be forthcoming.

Sincerely,
Darrin Lythgoe