- Minor Fix to Captcha Output on Url Creation Note: There are no database changes in this release.

- Front-end:
   - New "Nova" front-end theme built with Alpine.js and native ES modules for fast file browsing
   - Rebuilt file manager with grid/list views, folder tree, breadcrumbs, drag-to-folder, multi-select, create/rename/move/copy/delete
   - Added folder upload, drag-and-drop uploads and remote URL uploads with inline background URL-download support
   - Added full-screen file preview with Details / Stats / Activity panels, inline editing and similar files
   - Added "Download bundle" to download multiple selected files and folders together
   - Added thumbnail loading queue for faster and smoother file listings in image-heavy folders
   - Added light/dark mode with selectable colour schemes, saved as a per-user preference
   - Added file-only view for guest users
   - Added in-app user notifications as part of the core theme
   - Rebuilt guest download pipeline including simple timed, compare timed, compare all, file info and captcha, with a native countdown and no jQuery dependency
   - Rebuilt authentication flows including login, 2FA, register/complete, forgot/confirm/reset with non-JavaScript fallbacks
   - Added account settings tabs for Account / Security / Settings / API
   - Added file manager details pane for quick file information
   - Added option to set folder colours within the file manager
   - Added chunk upload support to the API upload endpoint
- Front-end (general):
   - Added dynamically generated /sitemap.xml and /robots.txt for SEO, with config and plugin awareness and private/admin URLs excluded
   - Added folder search within the file manager
   - Improved breadcrumb navigation and language-selection UI
   - Unified login and password-recovery logic for more consistent behaviour
- Admin Area:
   - Complete admin-area redesign with new collapsible dual-rail sidebar, icons, cards and a modernised shell
   - Added new Appearance settings for light/dark theme mode, primary colour, light/dark colour schemes and card skin
   - Rebuilt data tables with server-side processing, autocomplete filters, saved filter state persisted in cookies, loading spinners and improved pagination/page-size controls
   - Files are now edited on a dedicated file view/edit page, replacing the old modal, with preview + summary sidebar and tabs for Info, History, Stats, Artifacts and Access Restrictions
   - Added keyword tagging to the dedicated file view/edit page
   - Added reusable confirm modals, toast notifications and autocomplete components across the admin area
   - Improved sharing management with a date picker and improved filters
   - Improved dashboard, advertising settings UI and global admin search
   - Added admin area section for sending internal notifications to users
- Architecture, security & performance:
   - Relocated document root to a dedicated web/ directory. _config.inc.php, app/ source, vendor/, logs/ and private cache/ are no longer web-reachable, providing major security hardening
   - Plugin/theme public assets are now published into web/assets/ when installed or enabled
   - Generated thumbnails/previews are now written under web/cache and served as static files after first generation, significantly reducing PHP load on file-heavy pages
   - Completed dependency and security remediation including migration from Twig 2 to 3, migration to Guzzle 7, AWS SDK patches and resolution of all outstanding advisories
   - Added dependency advisory-block policy enforcement
   - Minimum PHP version raised to 8.1+
   - Improved session handling and translation caching
   - Performance improvements across download tracking, statistics/template helpers, account file statistics and folder listings
   - Added new database indexes to improve performance on large sites
   - Removed the legacy Evolution theme
- Plugins:
   - Payment Gateways (major consolidation)
      - The 21 native gateway plugins and the Omnipay payment plugin have been merged into a single driver-based "Payment" plugin and are now included with the core script
      - Added admin option to reorder configured payment gateways
      - Checkout/upgrade page now lists payment gateways in the configured order
      - Legacy webhook/IPN URLs (/payment_ipn) continue to work via aliases, ensuring existing gateway configurations remain functional

Release notes:
- This release is a major upgrade to the codebase. To upgrade existing installs, please see the "Upgrade" tab in the /install/ folder.

- Support for PHP 8.3
- Added Docker files
- Other minor fixes and performance improvements

- Script initially released for download on MFScripts.com.

- Improvements to styling for new WHM layout.

- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):
--- Added checkbox onto registration page to confirm acceptance of terms.
--- Added privacy policy and linked it into the site footer.
--- Added optional cookie notice to front-end pages. Enabled by default, control via the admin area, site settings.
--- Added checkbox on account edit page to unsubscribe from site mailing list.
--- Set all users to be unsubscribed by default, as per GDPR requirements. Users must opt in to subscribe.

- Update to use random hashes in folder sharing urls instead of the incremental folder id.
- Option to set admin account approvals on all registrations.
- Support for friendlier url routes in plugins.
- Improvements to upgrade checker & guidance.
- Fix to file action queue handling on Flysystem storage points.
- Minor fix to ensure the batch import plugin is enabled if an import is triggered. Avoid fatal error.
- Support for all UTF8 characters within import plugin.
- Replacement of direct.php and thumb.php links with friendlier urls.

- Bundled payment gateway API with support for over 50 gateways using Omnipay. Includes:
--- Stripe, BitPay, PaySera, WebMoney, Coinbase & lots more.
- Replacement of mcrypt functions with OpenSSL for PHP7.2+.
- API changes - New admin only endpoints:
--- /account/create
--- /account/edit
--- /account/delete
--- /package/listing
- Added optional CDN support for image previews and thumbnails. (via file server management)
- Added optional captcha to user login screen.
- Added optional captcha to admin login screen.
- Big changes to how the delete file process works within the code:
--- All deletes are now scheduled within the file action queue, including FTP, S3 and Flysystem adapters.
--- Better management of file server paths - stored against the file server in the admin area.
--- Removal of ajax calls to remote storage server on delete, significant performance improvement.
- Admin area changes:
--- Moved "Max Image Uploads Per Day" into account packages.
--- Moved "Accepted Upload Image Types" into account packages.
--- Moved "Blocked Upload Image Types" into account packages.
--- Added option to auto clear trash items older than x days in account packages.
- Better feedback on login failures for the admin area.
- Better handling of core FTP storage when passive mode is enabled.
- Improvements to how the account avatar is loaded to avoid restrictions on certain servers.
- Fix to Amazon S3 storage configuration issue.
- File server option to download over different protocol compared with main site.
- Moved the local storage path from _config.inc.php into the file server admin.
- All database tables changed to 'InnoDB' & 'utf8mb4_general_ci' to allow for MySQL clustering support.
- Update of PHPMailer to fix recently announced security issue - https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/releases/tag/v5.2.22
- Moved script version number into the database.
- Minor XSS fixes.

- FTP Upload Plugin:
--- Automatic import of FTP uploaded files.
--- Admin user interface to view and delete FTP credentials.
--- Moved uploader tab content to ajax request to limit browser hanging if FTP host has gone away.
- Social Login Plugin:
--- Updated LinkedIn integration due to changes on their site.
- Rewards Plugin:
--- Friendlier site urls (removal of the plugins path in the url)
- Vouchers Plugin:
--- Friendlier site urls (removal of the plugins path in the url)

Release Notes: There are database changes within this release. See /install/resources/upgrade_sql_statements/v1.7 - v1.8.sql

- Added download as zip option on publicly shared folders
- Fixed bug on admin language CSV import
- Fixed missing site settings which can trigger exceptions on later PHP versions

Release Notes: There are database changes within this release. See /install/resources/upgrade_sql_statements/v2.1.1.sql
- Please review the installation documentation for guidance on how to upgrade.

IMPORTANT: You can download this release via your account on CodeCanyon. The process for upgrading is documented below.