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Visible improvements with AdRotate 3.7

User Baron over at www.hawaii247.com aparently has some insight in his servers CPU use. A feat i’d like to have on my hosting package.

Anyway. It seems he’s monitoring it and noticed a very very visible improvement over previous versions of AdRotate after upgrading to AdRotate 3.7. He linked me a screenshot of the graph on the forum. Also shown below.

Going from a average load of 0.25-0.35 to 0.05-0.10 doesn’t seem like a big deal. But for websites it can make the difference between a fast or slower site. This is where the dozens of improvements of AdRotate come into play. Optimized code. Smaller, less complex arrays and ofcourse less MySQL interaction where possible. This is what the update was all about!

Do you see similar improvements? Post them in the comments!

More bugs, ideas? Anyone?

Over the past days i’ve been reading through a heap of feedback from various people. Quite a few were about missing notifications and being told ads were broken while they weren’t. Fret no more! AdRotate was broken. The 3.7rc5 and 6 that is.

If you have found more quirks or oddities, let me know. Stable or RC doesn’t matter. If you think you have a great idea or found a bug. Let me know!

Currently i’ve fixed the following for rc7:
[fix] Updated user capabilities management
[fix] Expiration notices on dashboard
[fix] No longer tells you about expired ads that are disabled
[fix] Blocks now correctly allow a margin and padding of 0px
[fix] Blocks dynamically resize to the amount of ads if it’s less than the specified amount without distorting the site
[change] Role capability advertiser_report has been renamed to advertiser

For the capability change you might need to reset the role assignment but the upgrade script should take care of it for you.

I’ve had one report of missing database fields after the upgrade to RC6. Apparently the “timeframe” field was not added in the automatic upgrade. If anyone else noticed this please let me know. I was unable to reproduce this on 3 servers.

Everybody who sent in their comments and complaints, thanks! You helped solve bugs, as listed above!
AdRotate 3.7rc7 should be available shortly after i wrap up some loose ends. I expect this to be early next week.

AdRotate 3.7rc5 now available

That went faster than expected. A first version of the new blocks is now implemented. I’ve tested this on my 2 servers and it seems to work fine.This update entails some database changes to the blocks table. This is done automatically when you re-activate AdRotate.

If you upgrade from any previous version be aware that your blocks as they are now will look funny and you need to reconfigure them. This applies ONLY to blocks. Any ads or groups inside those blocks should be fine since no changes are made there. The most important change you’ll see is that blocks no longer look for the total amount of ads and breaks those in columns. The new way is that blocks now look for rows and columns without setting a total amount of ads. This will allow for a more conventional and spreadsheet like behavior. Additionally you can now more easily style the block with margins and such rendering the current “wrapper” function deprecated.

Changelog compared to rc4:

[new] Improved block shapes and settings

Download here:

Beta page

Localization:

If you want your translation included in the initial 3.7 download i need those files.
You can find the po and mo files here. And send them to me via the forum.
Version 3.7rc5 has (according to Poedit) 34 new phrases. But i think a bunch of them are combined with existing ones.

Feedback:

Keep sending your feedback folks, this is very important to bring a bug free and super awesome version.