Pixelpost version 1.4.2 Upgrade

Welcome to the PixelPost Version 1.4.2!

The files in this package work for the following situations:

1) First install of PixelPost 1.4.2
2) Upgrade from older versions of Pixelpost to Pixelpost 1.4.2

   It works for the following upgrades:
   - PixelPost Version 1.4.1 to PixelPost 1.4.2 (no install-script, just replace files)
   - PixelPost Version 1.4 to PixelPost 1.4.2
   - PixelPost Version 1.4BETA to PixelPost 1.4.2
   - PixelPost Version 1.3 to PixelPost 1.4.2


Version 1.4.2:
Development Team:
Ramin Mehran, Connie Mueller-Goedecke, Robert Prouse, Will Duncan, Joseph Spurling, GeoS
Version 1.1 to Version 1.3: Linus <http://www.shapestyle.se>

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Pixelpost www: http://www.pixelpost.org/

Contact: thecrew@pixelpost.org
Copyright © 2005 Pixelpost.org <http://www.pixelpost.org>
License: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.

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Security Information
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PixelPost 1.4.2 is mainly a security upgrade.
Many of our users suffered from heavy referer-spam in the last time and
that's why we concentrated especially on security in this version.

The main aspect is to stop referer-spam and to minimize server-load which
can be caused by heavy referer-attacks.

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INFORMATION
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To find information about PixelPost, the installation and
configuration, read the files in the directory: /doc

There you will find all information:

- Readme-File:
  for installation: ReadMe_install.txt
  for upgrading:    ReadMe_upgrade.txt
- A changelog
- A list of all PixelPost-Tags
- An instruction for upgrading from existing versions to Version 1.4
- the GNU license information

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PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
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These are the requirements for PixelPost:
- sufficient Webspace: not for PixelPost (around 400 KB), but for your images ;=)
- Apache Webserver or Windows IIS
- PHP, version 4.3.0 or higher
- PHP with GD-lib with JPG-support, required for thumbnailing
- MySQL version 3.24.58 or higher
- a MySQL database already working. If you have no MySQL Database running, create
  a database first (or ask your hoster to do it for you)

To install PixelPost, you will need  the following MySQL-database-informations
before you start to install:

- name of the database-host, often "localhost"
- database username
- database user password
- database name

If you don't have these informations, ask your hoster to provide you with these
informations

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FIRST INSTALL
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Please read the file "ReadMe_install.txt" in the directory /doc

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UPGRADE
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Please read the file "ReadMe_upgrade.txt" in the directory /doc

Please note that PixelPost now does not use anymore CSS-classes with "_",
so check your templates and change "_" to "-"
more information on that is found in the ReadMe_upgrade.txt

Please note as well that PixelPost is fully UTF-compliant, so you might change
your CSS-codepage-metainformation as well.
More information on that is found in the ReadMe_upgrade.txt