Ray 3.1 Released. Dolphin 6.0.0004 Released.

Andrew Boon posted 5th of February 2008 in . 41 comments.

We've been working on this one for quite a while. You've seen the betas and RCs. Now it's time to use this combo.

Dolphin 6.0.0004

The Patch 4 brings a big set of fixes and improvements - List of closed tickets in trac.

Most importantly however that this is the FIRST Dolphin package that has been actually tested and configured to run on a distributed/clustered platform. This means that there's now no software limit for the amount of online visitors or total numbers of registered members that your Dolphin-powered site may handle. Just add extra servers - and rock.

Additionally, we have made a few DB and code optimizations for better site performance. On the test cluster setup we made some stress-testing and found lagging queries, optimized them - and voila - faster Dolphin.

All in all - this update is very recommended and is most likely to be the last 6.0 Patch. Further on - you're looking at 6.1 to come out.

Ray 3.1

This one adds a good deal of features and fixes too. We're still looking forward to release 3.5 soon, but 3.1 will make your members busy and ecited at the time being:

A/V Chat

Video In A Separate Window (full screen mode);

View Video Instead Of Photo Of The Profiles When Their Cams Are On;

New Video Controls: Start/Stop Casting Buttons, Volume Controller;

Overall Bug-fixes;

Chat Loading Optimization;

Reconnect;

Messenger

New Video Controls: Start/Stop Casting Buttons, Volume Controller;

Loading Optimization;

“Invitation Denied” Notification Message;

Reconnect;

Video Player

Full Screen Mode;

Administration Panel: Approve/Disapprove Videos;

Choose A Custom Snapshot For Your Video;

Videos playlist support (non-Dolphin integration)

Music Player

Administration Panel: Approve/Disapprove Music;

Music Library From Admin For Site User To Choose For Their Playlists;

Desktop

Free Version With Ads and Banners

Video Recorder

Video Playback Optimization By Caching Files;

Full Screen Mode;

Choose A Custom Snapshot For Thumbnail Of The Video;

Reconnect;

Whiteboard

Reconnect;

Shoutbox NEW!!!

New Widget Added;

RMS

chat and video applications changed

ffmpeg converter added for video converting needs

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There you go... grab them on BoonEx.com download pages and update your sites. As always - be careful with custom mods.

Good luck community masters!

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Dwain•5th of February 2008

I have a feeling this is if the version that will make all of the beta testing and waiting worth while. I hope I am right.

Thanks Team.

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Dwain•6th of February 2008•to Dwain

I just wanted to say even with limited time I was able to create a site with no problems at all and every thing went extremely smooth.

So far everything I have had time to check is functional and working perfectly. I must say I am so pleased with things that I want to call in sick to my "real job" and stay home and play.

Congratulations Boonex Team Great Job!

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Lifeform

Lifeform•7th of February 2008•to Dwain

Excellent CMS this.

A few suggestion for the chat;

Make it open to guests! Don't have to register.

I also would like to see MODERATION beeing upgrade. With live ban, visible presence of moderators directly in the chat.

Also: multiple webcam-windows (move em all around).

Else: THANKS for fullscreen webcams, with more. Incredible cool and great ap this one!

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bebtt

bebtt•5th of February 2008

Sounds great but I really dont know how to do step 5 in the upgade:
Step 5: You have to edit the path to your script's inc/header.inc.php inside ray/modules/global/inc/header.inc.php, replacing [path_to]inc/header.inc.php with the absolute path to it. Also you have to do the same action for periodic/notifies.php file.
Can someone explain how I do that part, the rest looks easy.
Am I gonna have to re-install the mods I put in and will they still work at all?

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CyberXing•5th of February 2008

unoboonex - would this apply to the SP packages as well ?

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Saks

Saks•5th of February 2008

HI Andrey - The way youve written the blog suggests you did a lot of homework on this patch ! LOL ! Altough I have not tested it as yet - downloading it right now.

There is another suggestion - I suppose everyone uses Download Accelerator. Almost all sites, for which i download stuff - Support RESUME - but unfortunately NONE of Boonex websites support it-which means if im downloading something and get disconnected - i have to download it all over again ! Please look into this too - JUST A SUGGESTON see more

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warriorgroup

warriorgroup•5th of February 2008

So where is the link? Is this possible to do as a 'patch' or upgrade only. To me video chat didn't work in 6.003 so I wonder if this is going to be the same. I hope this works.
Boonex, could you also post where are the links for email - as you should really put buttons and organize that area. It does not look good at all. This probably is the worst part of Dolphin and hope you can pretty it up. To be able to have previous text included when replying on email is also essential.

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humbods

humbods•5th of February 2008

Hi there can someone please tell me wot steps I need to take to upgrade? Do i just upload all the files and install.

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Singlemonster

Singlemonster•5th of February 2008

Hi, where can I see the update Files/changes?? I have a highly modded site!

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atermaner

atermaner•5th of February 2008

where is the patch? here http://get.boonex.com/Dolphin-Patch-v.6.0.0004-Free or here http://www.boonex.com/products/dolphin/download/

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praveenkv1988

praveenkv1988•5th of February 2008

I am also looking for the files that are changed in this version.... (patch)

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sunnyone341

sunnyone341•5th of February 2008

I no longer receive any errors when searching through the members. Thank you, thank you!!

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edmond

edmond•5th of February 2008

uh!!no instruction for patching?!

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remynation

remynation•5th of February 2008

Any live demo somewhere??? would love to see it in action...

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danielmarseille

danielmarseille•5th of February 2008

Hello to everyone

Congratulations to the entire team bonnex :)
For your version 6.0.004 and for this new blog.

I did a complete install easily locally.
The changes you made on Ray are really good.

I am a little beginner and when we know it is sometimes difficult to change or changed something on its website.

Thanks to you I have my site on the internet.

big thank you

Please
Upgrade Instructions from 6.0.0003 to 6.0.0004
Detailed more

(Sorry for my English)

daniel

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zorro

zorro•5th of February 2008

HI Andrey,

Thanks so much. Can you tell me if there is a way when building custom mods to make sure they are going to be compatable with future releases?

Zorro.............................

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Carmen

Carmen•5th of February 2008

yea, I would also like to see 6.004 in action before I attempt to scew things up on my site. What would happen if I just waited for the 6.1 that everyone is talking about? WOudl I have to update to 6.004 then to 6.1? or would i would I be able to update from 6.003 to 6.1 directly? thanks, Carmen

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UnionDance

UnionDance•5th of February 2008

Is it critical, the update? I've made some custom modifications to dolphin's files and database and i don't want to lose them... And can i update only ray? If yes, how? Good job, keep it up =)

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tango3d

tango3d•5th of February 2008

I have lots of custom mods, where can I view the file changes for this patch?

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Simion

Simion•5th of February 2008

for those who are looking for the instructions for upgrading 6.003 to 6.004 you can get them here:

http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/wiki/6.0.0003to6.0.0004

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PkChatzinc

PkChatzinc•5th of February 2008

bebtt
Step 5
The patch file : include("[path_to]inc/header.inc.php")
Older versions looked like this :
include("/home/yourpass/public_html/inc/header.inc.php");
the patch file needs the full address like the older versions.
Nice work on the Upgrade team.

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zorro

zorro•5th of February 2008

I made another post on the importance of well documented standards so that developers can develop mods and still stay in alignment with future upgrades. As we can see by everyone’s comments that many of you are concerned about how to upgrade and be able to maintain your mods as I am as well.
Microsoft and many other software apps would be in big trouble if there was no way to upgrade without losing all your custom mods or apps. Now I realize no software is capable of sustain and upgrade and completely see more 100% for anything somebody else creates. But by creating a clear and easy framework to work within can avoid many of the challenges upgrades present to third-party mods.
I cannot stress enough the importance of the future of this community to succeed as a team the importance to devising a set of standards that are clearly communicated so that many developers can work on the development of mods for Dolphin.
Here you can see this product we also work with that is a world class CMS and they have a great developers section that empowers developers to develop third party apps they refer to as extensions. http://dev.joomla.org/ Because they have went the extra mile to clearly communicate interworking of the Joomla’s core that in return aids web entrepreneurs and developers to develop even more extensions to make the core even more flexible. http://extensions.joomla.org/
So I say look at what some of the other successful open source groups are doing and try a mimic their successes as much as possible. The Alexa growth and success says a lot about how much attention the community is paying attention to Joomla http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/joomla.org
I personally like Joomla especially the latest 1.5 version. It’s easy to use and there are tons of extensions available to address just about any kind of need you want.
The closest extension however they have that makes Joomla act somewhat like is a product called Community Builder. Still way behind the curve compared to Dolphin. Also there is no such thing as Ray. So Joomla while I like what they have done with their community involvement of third party modules and developers they have a lot of catching up to do before they will even be close to what Dolphin does.
However, I think we need to be looking at what they are doing right. Clearly the Alexa rankings indicate its hot and doing something right. And I think what they are doing better right now than Boonex products and please take this only as constructive criticism and don’t smack me to hard because I like you guys and love your work so far. Anyway they are communicating better on all levels. Plain and simple. Because they are doing a better job at doing this I think you are seeing a lot of professionals get involved in making the product even better.
It’s very hard to want to make something better if you’re not sure how well everyone is collaborating together and if your efforts are really going to be utilized for the good of all.
Notice how they have the core team outlined here and they are not Joomla employees http://www.joomla.org/content/blogcategory/43/85/ http://www.joomla.org/content/blogcategory/42/87/
As a business man trying to make desions about what product you should go forward with these kinds of things are very important. It’s great that you Boonex has a bunch of sites that are up and running and working great but exactly how do we as web entrepreneurs add our own individuality to the Dolphin core and still stay on track with the rest of the folks.
In my opinion one of two things will happen without proper guidance here:
1. Many web entrepreneurs will move on and find another product they can use and then build it out from there making it their own.
2. Or they will use the Boonex core in its current state build it out from there like in example one but because their product begins to take a completely different path because of custom mods they then become trapped with a legacy version and are also never able to continue to contribute back to the community. And by the way that only add more work on the core Boonex team.
When I look at http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/wiki/DolphinDocs I see a lot of incomplete or documents that are just not up to date and a lot of support questions could be eliminated if someone on the core team was dedicated to making sure this is not the case. While there is a great timeline and roadmap here where is the documentation that would aid a developer I would hire to build a compatible plug-in or third-party mod.
Just some thoughts and please do not miss read this I love all the hard work everyone has done and is doing I am only trying to give some feedback to help make it better.
Zorro………………………….

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LHAdmin

LHAdmin•5th of February 2008

Can anyone please help me with Step 3: "Upgrading your database. Upload the two files from the upgrade patch called upgrade.php and upgrade.sql in your Dolphin's home directory. Run the following script in you favorite browser to upgrade your database" I don't know what this means? Should I see these files included in the .004 set of files? Because I do not.

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zorro

zorro•6th of February 2008

Is there a working demo of frontend and backend of 6.0.0004 anyware we can play with yet?

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Nakko

Nakko•6th of February 2008

Hey,

a lot of webmaster have problems to include own templates into Dolphin because it is VERY VERY difficult...

So please do something !

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maceee

maceee•6th of February 2008

I have a problem with new release.

It seems that when i click at user profile the url that brings is invalid.

Where from should i correct it?

Thank you

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Sunkal

Sunkal•7th of February 2008

hi, where can i download the new Dolphin for my Site...Greetings from Germany

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Nighto2007

Nighto2007•7th of February 2008

thank you boonex team for your sussecc work .. now I'm install last patch 6.0004 to my site then I will give you my comment .. about it :)

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amrzien

amrzien•7th of February 2008

hello ,

i upgraded 6.0003 to 6.0004 , and i generated new license for ray3.1 , but when i add it, it tell me wrong license?

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integralparts

integralparts•7th of February 2008

Looks like I'll continue to use my working 3.0001. I really can't afford to upgrade monthly and risk breaking my site.

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gabriel9999

gabriel9999•8th of February 2008

Friends I have problem only in upload music I have undefinid ... - I need to send the fix for ray ? this will solve this problem ?

http://www.rela1.senior.eti.br
test user : test
passw ; test

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colin

colin•8th of February 2008

Where might i find this 4 patch please, i have searched this site now 2 days in a row and i cant find it.

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chidananda

chidananda•10th of February 2008

nice 4

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craftstorez2008

craftstorez2008•10th of February 2008

How do I get a free license for PMusic?
It does not give me the key

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etrini

etrini•10th of February 2008

Do i have to upgrade to 6.0.0003 first then to 6.0.0004 ? Is there a working Demo available?

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danielmarseille

danielmarseille•11th of February 2008

hello

I resurfaced licenses Free
There are more licence DESKTOP
And I have no button movie video

Thanks for your help

daniel

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iamgamers

iamgamers•11th of February 2008

when i play a movie on site there are no controls buttons..... how can this be fixed?

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Bramin

Bramin•14th of February 2008

Thanks Andrey and all the staff who put this all together and pulled it off and thanks EVERYONE else for all your impute and questions and ESPECIALLY your questions and complaints...we learn to improve even more when we get those.

In the meantime, feel free to all trust in each other and YOURSELF that we are all working on resolving those issues as quickly as possible to make things function and work like a Swiss time piece...or should I say like the heavens? OK, you're right that might be overstating see more

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wazoo

wazoo•15th of February 2008

When I am in the Ray panel for A/V Chat and click on the Admin button I get Admin Authentication Failed. This is my last hurdle before upgrading my production site. Any idea why this is happening and what I need to do to fix. I have applied the hot fix. Thanks.

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Vlatiska

Vlatiska•20th of February 2008

when i play a movie on site there are no controls buttons for me too, like daniel and iamgamer. Why anyone from boonex can tell us why this bad thing happen to us??

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adplus

adplus•1st of March 2008

I also have no control buttons on video player, how can this be fixed ?

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