[ZendTo] ANNOUNCE: Version 5 public beta available

[Jules]

Folks,

Well, it's out there. I think it works.

Now it's time for you folks to help test it and find the bits that don't !!!

See
     http://zend.to/beta.php
for instructions, and please read the notes before you try a fresh 
install (with the beta installer at 
http://zend.to/files/install-beta.ZendTo.tgz) or any form of an upgrade.

The major new features are:
- Newly updated "flatter" user interface graphics, borrowed heavily from 
the great work done by Mitchell St. Amant <mstamant at nnet.ca>.
- Drag-and-drop support for adding multiple files at once to a new drop-off.
- Multiple file selection supported for adding multiple files at once to 
a new drop-off.
- Internationalisation (i18n) support via gettext.
   Please see http://zend.to/translators.php for more information.
- All libraries (jQuery, jQuery-ui, Facebox, DataTables) updated to 
latest versions.
- Internet Explorer 8 is no longer supported. If you absolutely must 
have support for IE 8, please use ZendTo version 4.
- "Request Codes" are now 3 3-digit numbers by default, but can be 
switched back to the old 3 3- or 4-letter words.
- New preferences added to totally disable emailing recipients about new 
drop-offs, and to disable ability to put Passcode in those emails.
- New tick-box when creating a new drop-off, so you can choose not to 
send the Passcode to the recipients, only the Claim ID. When they click 
the link they receive, they are prompted to enter the Passcode necessary.
- Bug fix: 'warnDaysBeforeDeletion' used to warn about drop-offs that 
had been picked up in some cases.
- All traces of the old "AreYouAHuman" captcha removed.
- Bug fix: When picking up a drop-off, the email address passed in the 
link was not being verified, so opened up a means of attack.
- Bug fix: If you knew a valid Claim ID, you could attempt to guess the 
corresponding Passcode by brute force.
- Many other enhancements and bug-fixes.

Sorry I have had to drop IE8 support, but the last jQuery library that 
supported it was version 1, and they're on version 3 now. And not even 
Microsoft's own homepage at www.microsoft.com works on IE8 now (I tried 
it yesterday), so I don't feel too bad. Anyone trying to use it with IE8 
will get an alert box on main menu telling them to use a better browser. 
And yes, you can of course customise and/or translate the text in that box.

The installer also now supports Debian 9, so the total list of supported 
systems (for the installer) is
     CentOS 5, 6, 7
     RedHat 5, 6, 7
     Ubuntu 12, 14, 16
     Debian 8, 9
You can install ZendTo very quickly onto a minimal server install of any 
of those by fetching it from
     http://zend.to/files/install-beta.ZendTo.tgz
then unpacking it, cd-ing into it and running ./install.sh as root.
It will walk you through it, in a fairly friendly way.
If you know the installer will get it right, run it with "./install.sh 
--defaults" and the only bit you will be asked for is your timezone. If 
someone can tell me how to guess that accurately enough, please do let 
me know!

Please do let me know what you think, and of course report any bugs or 
niggles or anything else you find that you don't think is quite right.

Thanks folks!

Jules

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