[Ranakin]

We are happy to announce the immediate availability of Predator CMS version 1.5.0. As always, this version is based on feedback by our customers, and should extend the lifetime of the 1.x version of Predator, whilst we work on version 2.

This version adds the following fixes/changes:

• FFMPEG Integration - Convert wmv/avi/mov/3gp/mp4 to flv
  
• FFMPEG Integration - Rip screenshot from uploaded video
  
• Admin area permissions system - ability to restrict accounts for paid content submitters for example.
  
• Much improved SEO url management
  • Ability to display category in content url
    
  • Ability to change character casing
    
  • Ability to remove words from seo urls
    
  • Ability to change word seperation character (-, _, ~)
    
  • Urls are less "messy" - Funny characters are automatically stripped from urls.
  
  
• Webmasters area content submission options
  • Set minimum required amount of words in titles
    
  • Set maximum words allowed in titles
    
  • Set minimum required amount of words in descriptions
    
  • Set maximum words allowed in descriptions
    
  • Word/Phrase Blacklist
    • Prevent users from using shitty words/phrases in their titles
      
    • Prevent users from using shitty words/phrases in their descriptions
      
    • Case insensitive matching
  
  
• Content queue system
  • Very easy to configure, only one option to change
    
  • Admins can choose to obey or bypass the queue system. Defaults to bypass for video submissions
  
  
• Ability to order stats table in admin area (unique todays in desc, total hits in ascending etc. etc.)
  
• Added rip from remote url for thumbnail in admin area
  • Added to add/edit plugs section
    
  • Added to add/edit videos section
    
  • Added to add/edit blog articles section
  
  
• Improved repair statistics function - rebuilds output cache blocks in templates
  
• Much improved memcached integration
  
• Improved session engine efficiency
  
• Many core optimisations
  
• Fixed html entities template engine bug (& and all affected characters)
  
• Fixed cache error when switching ownership of a site to another user
  
• Success page in admin area no longer returns "Click here to add another plug" for everything you submit - Now detects content type and will link to correct location
  
• Template engine no longer assigned to session, fixes issue when changing the default template for existing logged in users.
  
• New header template tags
  • {meta_title}
    
  • {meta_descriptions}
    
  • {meta_keywords}