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Version 23.100.0

Date update : December 28, 2023

Now supporting PostgreSQL.
UTF-8 processing improved.

Version 23.0.0

Date update : January 19, 2023

Known PHP 8 update related issues fixed.

Version 22.0.0

Date update : August 3, 2022

Helvetica and Open Sans fonts use standardized.

Version 21.400.0

Date update : November 17, 2021

Minor issues fixed.
Performance improved.

Version 21.300.0

Date update : August 24, 2021

Performance improved.
Minor issues fixed.

Version 21.200.100

Date update : September 14, 2021

Enables compatibility with main 21.700.0 update.

Version 21.200.0

Date update : June 2, 2021

Fixed issue in "Popular Posts" widget.
Fixed issue showing user inside quote in notification.
Fixed issue sending new message notification to all employees.

Version 21.100.100

Date update : June 15, 2021

Fixed minor issues.

Version 21.100.0

Date update : March 16, 2021

Improved PHP 8 compatibility.

Version 21.0.0

Date update : January 11, 2021

Now supporting new form for creating messages in mobile app newsfeed.
Other minor improvements.

Version 20.100.100

Date update : November 3, 2020

MySQL 8 performance improved.

Version 20.100.0

Date update : October 27, 2020

Fixed issue showing comments in the component blog.post.comment when minimum one feedback response is posted.

Version 20.5.0

Date update : September 10, 2020

Fixed minor issues.

Version 20.0.200

Date update : April 2, 2020

Fixed minor issues.

Version 20.0.100

Date update : January 27, 2019

Fixed issue saving photo settings in the Social Network module.
Other minor improvements.

Version 20.0.0

Date update : October 24, 2019

Fixed minor issues.

Version 19.0.200

Date update : December 3, 2019

Fixed issue converting video from Activity Stream post.

Version 19.0.100

Date update : August 5, 2019

Now supports dynamic blocks for landing pages.

Version 19.0.0

Date update : May 17, 2019

Now supporting new user profile component (bitrix::intranet:profile) for corporate portal.
Now user is notified when receiving appreciation badge.
Improved emoji support.
Other minor issues fixed.

Version 18.1.0

Date update : September 6, 2018

Changed algorithm to add a new message recipient when mentioned in a comment.
Minor issues fixed.

Version 18.0.0

Date update : June 18, 2018

An Activity Stream message's author is now notified when an attached video file starts and finishes conversion.

Version 17.6.1

Date update : May 17, 2018

Minor issues fixed.

Version 17.6.0

Date update : April 13, 2018

Now supporting ratings with reactions.
Fixed minor issues.

Version 17.5.8

Date update : January 22, 2018

The Blogs composite component now implements flat comments view.
New component blog.post.comment.list to show blog comments as a flat view.
Tree comments view now uses AJAX based page navigation.

Version 17.5.7

Date update : October 21, 2017

Posts containing video can now be scheduled for publishing at a later time.
Minor improvements.

Version 17.5.6

Date update : October 21, 2017

Improved hashtag support in the Activity Stream posts.
Minor issues fixed.

Version 17.5.5

Date update : August 4, 2017

Activity Stream can now filter by message tags.

Version 17.5.4

Date update : July 17, 2017

Activity Stream now supports the "Polls" and "Appreciations" filters.

Version 17.5.3

Date update : July 10, 2017

Added personal data collection policy agreement options to the blog profile and comments.
Fixed issue not setting the fields with existing data when editing a profile.
Comment text editor improved.
Text editor buttons can now be personalized for each blog.
Poll questions and answers are now added to the Activity Stream search index.

Version 17.5.2

Date update : May 16, 2017

Fixed issue not showing line breaks in the blog posts.
Migrated the blog post and comment editor to the new version.
Fixed issue with lost user names of logged in users in comments.
Fixed issue with lost line breaks.
Fixed issue with maximum image width and height options.
Fixed the "Maximum file size" option issue.
Fixed issue with blog post address conflict when a blog post title contained only numbers.
Improved blog user data caching for better performance.
Blog post view links are now added to the search index.
Fixed other minor issues.

Version 17.5.1

Date update : May 3, 2017

Fixed the "The user ID is missing" issue in blog comments.

Version 17.5.0

Date update : April 15, 2017

Post and comment content is now added to search index to enable search in Activity Stream.
Minor bug fixes and improvements.

Version 17.0.0

Date update : March 2, 2017

Fixed issue that occurred when some components rendered themselves in multi-page mode (current page remained the same after the page parameter was removed from the URL).
Improved performance rendering blogs featuring multiple authors.
Improved performance deleting blog posts.
Increased max. blog post length.
Increased max. tags that can be added to a post.
The post comment notifications now include comment text and the author's avatar.
The post and post comment notifications now include quick reply feature.
Added blog post tag management feature.
Fixed issue not adding the contents of an attached file to the search index when re-indexing site (portal related issue).

Version 16.6.0

Date update : October 11, 2016

This update supports the new bitrix24 template.

Version 16.5.8

Date update : October 6, 2016

Added support for Activity Stream post and comment moderation notifications.
Improved performance when adding blog posts and comments to the Search module.
This update supports changes made to the "Social Network" module to grant access to a public group's messages.

Version 16.5.7

Date update : August 24, 2016

Now supporting service comments to Activity Stream messages.

Version 16.5.6

Date update : August 23, 2016

Service update to support changes made to the "IM" module.

Version 16.5.5

Date update : July 4, 2016

Fixed issue incorrectly calculating access permissions to indexed workgroup messages for the owners and moderators.
CRM contacts are now supported as e-mail users.

Version 16.5.4

Date update : June 7, 2016

This update follows changes made to the Kernel's text parser.

Version 16.5.3

Date update : May 24, 2016

The commenting feature is now fully composite mode compatible.

Version 16.5.2

Date update : May 5, 2016

Fixed previous update's regression that produced incorrect e-mail notifications for languages other than English, German or Russian.

Version 16.5.1

Date update : March 31, 2016

Now supporting PUSH notifications of messages to all users and department wide messages.
Minor fixes and improvements.

Version 16.5.0

Date update : March 5, 2016

A user mentioned in a comment to an Activity Stream post is now added to the post recipient list if they lack access permission for that post.
Minor fixes and improvements.

Version 16.0.4

Date update : February 11, 2016

Files on Drive attached to messages and comments created in the e-mail context can now be edited.
Minor issues fixed.

Version 16.0.3

Date update : December 29, 2015

Minor changes.

Version 16.0.2

Date update : December 22, 2015

An e-mail message can now be sent to Bitrix24 to post to Activity Stream.

Version 16.0.1

Date update : November 18, 2015

E-mail features are now seamlessly integrated in Activity Stream.

Version 16.0.0

Date update : November 11, 2015

Introduced the page previews in links.

Version 15.5.4

Date update : October 12, 2015

Minor changes.

Version 15.5.3

Date update : September 9, 2015

Minor changes.

Version 15.5.2

Date update : August 20, 2015

Minor issues fixed.

Version 15.5.1

Date update : July 8, 2015

Minor changes.

Version 15.5.0

Date update : June 16, 2015

Added conversion counter support.

Version 15.0.4

Date update : March 10, 2015

Minor changes.

Version 15.0.3

Date update : February 24, 2015

Minor changes.

Version 15.0.2

Date update : January 30, 2015

Minor changes.

Version 15.0.1

Date update : November 21, 2014

Some changes to support new features in the "Social Network" and "e-Store" modules.
Minor issues fixed.

Version 15.0.0

Date update : October 4, 2014

Social Network module compatibility update.
Performance improved.
Minor issues fixed.

Version 14.5.0

Date update : April 13, 2014

Added an option to specify a SEO description for the message details page.

Version 14.0.1

Date update : March 12, 2014

Social Network module compatibility update.
Performance improved.
Minor issues fixed.
Introduced the duplicate comment and post protection.

Version 14.0.0

Date update : September 17, 2013

Minor issues fixed.

Version 12.5.3

Date update : June 3, 2013

Minor issues fixed.

Version 12.5.2

Date update : May 6, 2013

Fixed issue not displaying publicly available events in workgroup Activity Streams
Fixed some minor issues.

Version 12.5.1

Date update : April 26, 2013

Minor issues fixed.

Version 12.5.0

Date update : April 21, 2013

Option to keep user preferences for posts.

Version 12.0.3

Date update : March 18, 2013

Minor issues fixed.

Version 12.0.2

Date update : February 13, 2013

Performance improved.

Version 12.0.1

Date update : December 25, 2012

Performance improved.

Version 12.0.0

Date update : October 17, 2012

Transitioning to the new version.
Minor issues fixed.
New slider added in messages and comments sections for viewing images.

Version 11.5.5

Date update : October 3, 2012

Minor issues fixed.

Version 11.5.4

Date update : June 15, 2012

Minor issues fixed.

Version 11.5.3

Date update : May 30, 2012

Fixed error converting blog and microblog posts into social network conversations. You will have to re-index your social network using the public section tools.

Version 11.5.2

Date update : May 5, 2012

When re-indexing the social network content, expired blog posts and conversations (whose lifetime is defined by the "Days to keep update log" parameter) are added to Activity Stream.
Introduced mentions in conversations.
Option to attach arbitrary files to conversation messages
Changed the way the image files are uploaded and attached to posts and conversations.

Version 11.5.1

Date update : April 27, 2012

Various issues fixed.

Version 11.5.0

Date update : April 23, 2012

Various issues fixed.

Version 11.0.8

Date update : March 31, 2012

When used in the social network, blogs are now called “conversations” and treated as such.
New permissions for conversations for use in social networking.
Introduced support for custom properties in comments.
Better integration with the Social Network module.

Version 11.0.7

Date update : January 19, 2012

Introduced a new microblog post form.
The blog images can now be shown with respect to user permissions (this can be enabled in the module settings).
In the social network, a blog author can now post to any available group from his or her blog or microblog.

Version 11.0.6

Date update : December 14, 2011

Auto-saving of (unfinished) posts has been added (this can be turned off in the module settings).
Minor changes and corrections.

Version 11.0.5

Date update : November 16, 2011

Minor fixes and improvements.

Version 11.0.4

Date update : November 8, 2011

New microblog post form.
Support for new access permission mechanism in Activity Stream.
Changed event and comment formatting in Activity Stream.

Version 11.0.3

Date update : October 21, 2011

Ratings engine: votings can now be enabled or disabled everywhere at once.

Version 11.0.2

Date update : October 11, 2011

AJAX-based navigation without page reload.
Fixed error adding comments using the single user blog template (one_blog).

Version 11.0.1

Date update : October 4, 2011

Comments can now be added using AJAX (can be enabled in the component parameters).
New comments can now be highlighted.

Version 11.0.0

Date update : September 14, 2011

Support for website specific "Full Access" permission in the Social Network module.
Introduced time zone support.

Version 10.0.4

Date update : June 21, 2011

LiveFeed now supports comments.

Version 10.0.3

Date update : April 28, 2011

Live Feed synchronization support.

Version 10.0.2

Date update : April 7, 2011

The tag cloud can now be created from the blog tags.
New design for comments.
Added microblog support.
Other minor fixes.

Version 10.0.1

Date update : March 9, 2011

Introduced Live Updates for the social network.

Version 10.0.0

Date update : February 14, 2011

New visual editor for posts and comments.
The blog post images are now resized when displaying (the image size can be specified in the component parameters).
The blog posts can now use a symbolic code rather than the SEF ID (can be enabled in the component parameters).
Support for video in comments (can be enabled in the component parameters).
Major parser improvements: support for tables, text alignment, image size (works with HTML text as well).
Introduced the comment administration form.
Added to comments a “Spam?” link visible to the administrators only. This feature can be enabled in the component parameters.
Hyperlinks in comments can now be restricted (can be configured in the component parameters).
Fixed other errors in the module and the components.

Version 9.5.1

Date update : October 22, 2010

Improved the post and comment parser.
Improved the search index integrity.
The posts can now be copied or moved to other blogs. This feature can be enabled in the component parameters.
Minor fixes and improvements.

Version 9.5.0

Date update : October 5, 2010

Rating feature introduced: points for user posts and comments; user activity tracking. This can be enabled in the component parameters.
API: introduced the add/edit/delete events for posts and comments.

Version 9.0.7

Date update : September 13, 2010

The components can now use the social bookmarks bar.

Version 9.0.6

Date update : August 10, 2010

Minor social network related changes.

Version 9.0.5

Date update : August 9, 2010

Fixed image deletion error.

Version 9.0.4

Date update : July 5, 2010

Minor bugs fixed.

Version 9.0.3

Date update : June 3, 2010

Fixed error with comments caching.

Version 9.0.2

Date update : June 3, 2010

Changed the styles and templates of sample websites.
Fixed error in the post editor occurring when using the “old_version” template.

Version 9.0.1

Date update : May 26, 2010

Fixed error parsing the URL tag.

Version 9.0.0

Date update : May 6, 2010

The “User Name And Tooltip” component added to the standard component templates to display users.
Added support for moderation and premoderation of posts and comments.
Introduced a new single user blog template (the old one renamed to one_blog_old_version).
Added access control to posts and comments.
Better parsing of the post text.
Various improvements and fixes in components.
Improved blogs in social network.
New styles in components to help customize the component appearance.
API: new event to customize views ("blog", "videoConvert").

Version 8.5.3

Date update : October 15, 2009

New component: bitrix:blog.metaweblog to import MetaWeblog format messages (http://www.xmlrpc.com/metaWeblogApi). Allows to add blog posts from Microsoft Word and Microsoft Live Writer. The component can be added to any page of your choice. By default, the component is a part of the composite component (SEF mode: /blog/metaweblog.php, non-SEF mode: /blog/index.php?page=metaweblog).

Version 8.5.2

Date update : October 7, 2009

Fixed Blogs module installation error for the Oracle version.

Version 8.5.1

Date update : October 3, 2009

Additional improvements for SEO.
Number of component error fixes.

Version 8.5.0

Date update : September 25, 2009

Improvements for SEO.
Number of fixes in components.

Version 8.0.5

Date update : August 24, 2009

Blogs are now performing correctly in the social network.
The composite component now supports multiple blog groups.
Only the tags in use are now displayed.
Permission check for the display of the blog index page contents has been redesigned.
A special flag added to indicate the blog is in the social network. Attention! You have to select the blog groups for use in the social network on the module settings page. Otherwise, the blogs will not work correctly in the social network.
The module classes can now be auto included.
Multiple selection blog group filter in Control Panel.
All the components now support blog group restrictions.
Added subscription for blog post comments in RSS format.
New module settings option: "Add rel='nofollow' and <noindex> to links".
New module settings option: "Send Ping About Blog Updates".
Comments of an individual post can now be disabled in social network.
Authors can now edit their comments unless at least one reply exists on those comments.
New e-mail templates for the blog / user add-to-friends events.
The components are now more stable in Internet Explorer.

Version 8.0.4

Date update : June 11, 2009

Minor changes and fixes.

Version 8.0.3

Date update : April 23, 2009

Minor changes and fixes.

Version 8.0.2

Date update : April 17, 2009

New! Updated Blog component templates. The old templates still can be applied in component settings as "old_version".
New! Updated composite component theme "general_page".
Updated ".default" theme for the composite component. Two color schemes were added.

Version 8.0.1

Date update : April 8, 2009

A composite component template updated. Attention! This update will install a new Blog template by defaul. The old template still can be applied in Blog component parameters using name "old_version".
Fixed RSS export error (Oracle).
The default avatar size changed.

Version 7.1.6

Date update : January 23, 2009

Minor component fixes.
Notification templates for Social Network module were improved.

Version 7.1.5

Date update : December 30, 2008

New email templates were added NEW_BLOG_COMMENT_WITHOUT_TITLE and NEW_BLOG_COMMENT2COMMENT_WITHOUT_TITLE.

Version 7.1.4

Date update : December 9, 2008

Fixed error with comments re-indexing.

Version 7.1.3

Date update : December 6, 2008

The Search module now adds comments to the search index.
New component bitrix:blog.new_posts.list to show posts of all blogs.
The complex component themes: general_page and .default can now support only one, user-defined user group. In this mode, the component shows a link to view all the group blogs. The main page shows a link to all blog posts.
Added missing parameters (e.g. PATH_TO_GROUP_BLOG_POST).
Only the text before the <CUT> tag is now sent to RSS, a link to full text is added.
Option to not add the post subject to a comment (in the component parameters).
Added the module settings option to control CAPCTHA in blogs; the option has global scope.
Fixed URL tag parsing in bitrix:blog.new_posts.
Fixed error in the visual editor when used by users without administrative permission.

Version 7.1.2

Date update : November 5, 2008

The Social Network module now supports notifications about new comments and posts.
Minor improvements in the system kernel and components.

Version 7.1.1

Date update : October 13, 2008

Fixed problem with font sizes for all components. Please remove increased font size settings wrapping your components if you have added any.
New! Social Network module support was added.
Smiles were updated.
Posts parser was improved.
Filter on blog group was added for the home page components.
Error fixes in components.

Version 7.0.5

Date update : September 15, 2008

New file save method.

Version 7.0.4

Date update : August 12, 2008

Each blog can now be excluded from the search index. This is a per-blog setting.
Movies can now be added to posts.
CBlog::GetList() and CBlogPost::GetList() can now sort by custom fields.
New component: "Favorite Posts" (bitrix:blog.blog.favorite). Shows blog posts picked by a blog author (requires specifying a sort weight for each post to make the component aware of proper post display order).
New permission "Administration" for blog posts.
Minor fixes in the post parser.
Fixed a quote-to-" conversion issue occurred when adding a comment.
Better compatibility of the visual editor with Internet Explorer.
New visual theme for the blog composite component to make a single blog look like the blogs main page.
Minor fixes in components.

Version 7.0.3

Date update : June 6, 2008

Links are now handled better in the comment and message creation form.
Comment doubling is now fixed in the blog.new_comments component in MySQL version.
Minor improvements in component templates.

Version 7.0.2

Date update : May 27, 2008

blog.post.comment component:
added redirect to commented page;
option to use forward breadcrumbs.
blog.post.comment component:
[CUT] tags can now be used in the visual editor;
the visual editor is now loaded only on first demand.
New Date and time format option in components.
New components:
blog.commented_posts - shows most commented blog posts;
blog.new_comments - shows new blog comments;
blog.popular_blogs - shows popular blogs;
blog.popular_posts - shows popular posts.
Blog main page redesigned.
Blogs are now checked whether they are active and bound to a site.
Fixed permission verification errors in some components.
Better UTF-8 support.
Module installer improved.
Better display of components (font size).
Tag cloud settings moved to parameters of the compound component.
New parameters in the compound component.
View counter in blog posts.

Version 7.0.1

Date update : April 1, 2008

Fixed error with CUT tag in components.

Version 7.0.0

Date update : March 27, 2008

The module is now UTF-8 enabled.
Preview for messages and comments.
The bitrix:blog.blog module can now be assigned an external filter.
New e-mail message template for sending a notification of comment on previous comment.
Posts can now be created in HTML format using the visual editor (requires enabling the options in the module and blog settings).
User property filters in CBlogPost::GetList() и CBlog::GetList().
The "Allow Trackbacks" option moved to the module settings.
Minor improvements in Control Panel and Components 2.0.

Version 6.5.2

Date update : December 18, 2007

New theme for the "bitrix:blog" complex component. Displays only one blog in the simple mode. The blog address can be specified in the template parameters.
The performance and design of many blogs has been improved.
The component cache is now updated when the blog user picture or the blog parameters change.
Fixed the Internet Explorer 6 image rendering error in bitrix:blog.post.comment.
Messages with upcoming publication date could disappear sometimes; now fixed.

Version 6.5.1

Date update : November 24, 2007

All blogging components now display multiple tags.
Better component caching for anonymous visitors.
Component usability improved.
Improved the performance of the "blog.post.comment" component.
Improved data integrity verification when deleting messages.
Fixed error occurring when saving message drafts.
Fixed error occurring when clicking on a tag cloud link in non-SEF mode.

Version 6.5.0

Date update : September 22, 2007

New! Tag cloud support is added. Tags can be entered in blog posts. Categories were renamed in "tags".
Tag cloud was added in the Blogs composite component for all blogs and for each blog in the system.
Tags for blog posts now can be multiple.
To developers: added CBlogPostCategory class for working with tags.
Attention: Changed components that work with tags. It is recommended for developers to check their work after update.
Note! For correct work with tags you need to re-index blog posts in the Search module.

Version 6.0.3

Date update : August 8, 2007

Fixed error with displaying incorrect level of comments.
Added user defined properties for user profile, post, blog.
Fixed error when blog address modifying was disabled.
Small fixes and improvemants.

Version 6.0.2

Fixes in RSS components.
Fixed error with duplicating email message templates after module installation.
Fixed: Images from /bitrix/images/blog/ folder are no longer being deleted when module is uninstalled.
Fixed module language messages.
blog.blog.edit: fixed error with editing Blog address.
blog.groups: fixed error with group duplicating.
blog.post.comment: fixed error with caching when page navigation is used.

Version 6.0.1

Warning on comment deletion was added in post.comment component.
Changed default access permissions in blog for the new blog user groups.
Improved module installer.
Fixed error in component caching (now access permissions are also matched).

Version 6.0.0

Significant optimizations in blog.new_posts.
Sorting error is now fixed in the Oracle version.
Various fixes in Components 2.0.
The component blog.menu now has links "Make a friend" and "Add to friends".
Session ID caching and runtime result reporting errors are now fixed in components.
Composite components now support themes.
Changes in API: CBlogPost::GetList() now can receive and filter by BLOG_URL, BLOG_ACTIVE state, BLOG_GROUP_ID, BLOG_GROUP_SITE_ID, and by access permission.

Version 5.9.3

New option added in module settings that disables IP displaying in comments.
Fixed error with displaying full RSS in case there are no messages in blogs.
Fixes in Components 2.0.

Version 5.9.2

Styles in component templates has been reworked to display correctly.
New parameters in composite component: count of messages and blogs on main page; number of message comments per page.
New component blog.rss.all: exports messages of a blog or a group to RSS.
The component blog.post.comment now features backward pagewise comment navigation.
The component blog.rss.link can now display links to a blog group RSS and a site RSS.
The component blog.rss.link can now display browser link to RSS (add a call to CMain::ShowHeaderString() to the site template, to emit extra headers).
Various minor bugs fixed in components.
New API: new method CBlog::BuildRSSAll() to render all messages of a blog or a group to a common RSS feed.

Version 5.9.1

Fixed errors in Components 2.0.
Improved HTML layout in Components 2.0.
New parameters added to the modeule settings: pathe templates to blogs/blog messages/blog users.
Attention: In case of using Components 2.0 on the site it is strongly recommended to specify path templates in the module settings for using Search in blogs.

Version 5.9.0

Added components 2.0.
New: ability to delete Trackbacks.
New: added function CBlog::GetByUrl() for getting a blog by its URL.
Minor module changes.
Fixed and improved module API.

Version 5.1.1

Fixed caching error in the "Recent messages" component used on the blogs main page;
Fixed error occured when checking permissions for adding comments in the public components.

Version 5.1.0

For the component "Last blogs messages" a new parameter added - message_lenght - maximum length of displayed message;
Fixed errors with RSS generation;
A number of improvements in module components;
Performance improved in number of components;
Fixed error with sorting blog messages in Oracle version.

Version 5.0.7

User deletion improved
An error in 404 handler has been fixed that might occur if DocumentRoot and FILE are different. To apply this patch, reinstall the module while preserving tables, and rewrite the public section.

Version 5.0.6

Added feature for editing of categories in public part of the site;
Fixed error with checking access permissions to blog posts for blog owner;
Fixed error with deleting/editing of drafts;
Added public page for editing categories;
Added link to user's blog in user profile;
Unified displaying of the links to blog and user profile. Now icon always linked to the user profile and user name is linked to his blog;
Added feature for editing of user profile by administrator directly from public site section;
Icons for deleting/ editing of the post now moved to Blog's panel;
Fixed error with using the [CUT] tag;
Fixed error with Search. Attention: You need to reindex Blogs module for correct work of search.

Version 5.0.5

Fixed error of image resizing in some cases.
Minor fixes.

Version 5.0.4

Fixed error that prevented modifying of the access permissions to the posts for first two user groups for the blog with ID=1

Version 5.0.3

Fixed error with RSS caching
Minor fixes

Version 5.0.2

Added option to choose which variant of public files include (with or without 404-error handler)
New design and layout of public program components
Added email notifications:
- To the Blog's author if there were new posts added
- To the Blog's author if there was comments to his post added
- To the Blog's author if there was an answer to his comment added
Added option to turn on/off emails with comments to the Blog
A number of changes to module kernel
Added feature to attach images to the post and specify their location in the post
Modifications in public program components
Added option to forbid Blog's URL changing after registration
Added special panel for formatting comments to the post and for insterting images to the comments
Fixed error of accessing administrative section
Added Friends line component
Changes in module installer
Note! For correct module work the new public files need to be copied. To perform this task you can completely reinstall the module (with all the table data saved) and then choose the variant of public files and use option for overwriting the existing files for the choosen site.

Version 5.0.1

Added feature to set user groups that have the right to create their own blogs
Minor interface changes in public components