El desarrollador de Aardvark Topsites PHP había prometido para el primer trimestre del año una nueva versión de su topsites. Por razones de tiempo esto no se pudo concretar pero durante el mes de mayo realizó cambios realmente significativos que hasta incluyen un cambio de aspecto del sitio de desarrollo.

En menos de 30 días se lanzaron la 5.2.0 beta, RC1 y RC2 y se prevee que durante la primera semana de junio se lance la versión definitiva aunque el autor considera que la RC2 no tendrá más cambios.

A continuación pueden leer las características generales de esta versión:

FEATURES
- Option in the admin to fill empty rows with "Your Site Here"
- Backup database tool in the admin
- A more secure captcha, with a link for users to get a new captcha if the user
can't read the first one
- Redesigned gateway page for the Fusion skin by OS-Mark
- Banning of sites by URL, IP address, username, email
- Optional security question on join to block spammers
- By default, new members must be approved by the admin before they are listed
and changes to the title or URL of a site must be approved by the admin
- New skin file table_wrapper.html to easily display things only on ranking
pages
- Overall stats page with complete overall stats
- Summary of overall stats displayed on the main page
- Password confirmation on the join page to prevent typos
BUG FIXES
- Unapproved sites will not be automatically deleted for inactivity
- Validates $_SERVER before use
- Displays the banner max width/height in the join and edit forms
- When you enable admin approval of new members, the welcome email is delayed
until you approve the site
- button.php only displays a button for valid, approved members
- Users cannot create their own categories by bypassing the join/edit forms
- Under normal usage, there should be no PHP error messages, even at E_ALL
- Users pending approval will not be allowed to login to the user control panel
- Checks if allow_url_fopen is On before checking banner size and checking for
the latest version
- Missing </option> tags were added so that all pages should validate as XHTML
1.0 Transitional
- user_cp.php renamed to user_cpl.php because of mod_security on some servers
- Several small fixes that have been omitted from this list for brevity 

En Top Sites CMS ya está instalada la RC2 y corre sin problemas.

Enlace | Aardvark Topsites PHP