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v5.6.0 - July 2, 2007

CHANGES:
    - A great deal of Wacintaki/Wax code and feature unification.
    - New sorting system prevents pictures from being deleted out-of-order.
    - New sorting also prevents picture counter from resetting.
    - Complete security rewrite, using Wacintaki-style admin ranks and bootstrap.
    - Applets now send data headers to prevent cookie/POST data conflicts.
    - Changed SQL password handling in cpanel, so wrong passwords are unlikely (web browsers remember and sometimes confuse passwords).
    - Fixed some cosmetic template issues (unstyled fields, uncolored text, etc.).
    - Revised mailbox policy so suspended members may read mail, but not send/reply.
    - Fixed ability to leave comments when registering (Wacintaki/Wax naming confusion).
    - Revised ban screen for low bandwidth.  None of the header menus work, anyway!
    - Finally cleaned up and fixed template editors.  They've been wonky for a while.
    - Added wrapper for mail() to resolve PHP mail return issue.
    - New "w_gpc()" function filters GPC better and obsoletes "slash_it()".
    - Cleaned up navigation links in mailbox.
    - Cleaned up "mode" and "action" processing in functions.php, and removed conflicts.
    - Profile links in memberlist.php are now url-encoded correctly.
    - Max upload filesize for animations is now processed properly.
    - Changing canvas size in PaintBBS will no longer redirect to NoteBBS.
    - Proper edit/retouch/animation support with PaintBBS.
    - Fixed possible HTML encoding issue with error.php.
    - Unified animation viewing code.
    - Cleaned up cookie usage.
    - Cleaned up control panel indentation and removed excess font tags.
    - Removed MySQL info from control panel.  Why it was ever there, I have no clue.  Use the MySQL tool in the documentation folder, instead.
    - Simplified installer to use mostly defaults, and highlight permanent information that cannot be changed in the cpanel.

FEATURES:
    - Support for multiple filetypes (PNG, GIF, JPG).
    - Proper upload support.
    - Better thumbnail support, with dynamic sizing.
    - New draw screen for selecting applet options.
    - Smilies (customize in hacks.php).
    - Adults Only flag in control panel, with age statement on registration screen.
    - There is now a proper size cap for uploaded pictures in the control panel.
    - Draw screen shows dynamicly sized preview image.
    - Option in ShiPainter to import canvas instead of animation (solves corrupt animation problems when retouching).
    - Resize button for paint applets.
    - Wacintaki-style memberlist shows admins seperately, as well as web sites.
    - Draw times are now shown as hours, minutes, and seconds.
    - Board now supports display of birthdays and automatically calculates age in member profiles.
    - Template editor considerably reworked and simplified.
    - New diagnostics page, accessable by owner only from main menu.
    - Wax now has a hacks.php file, like Wacintaki.  It allows advanced admin functionality and must be manually edited in a text editor.
    - DNS host lookup may be disabled in the hacks file.  Lookup may cause major page load delays on some servers.
    - New hacks setting for cookie domains.
    - New hacks setting for date formats.
    - New hacks setting to use CSS instead of size approximation for applet area (use with caution).