A vulnerability was found in FuseTalk that could allow a user to inject SQL syntax into one of FuseTalk's queries.  Please log in to the Client area, and download the patch.  If you do not have an active support contract, you can download the patch from one of the appropriate links below.

Affected Versions: FuseTalk ColdFusion/.NET 3.x only

Installation Instructions

Copy the files in the patch over top of your existing files.

FuseTalk ColdFusion

FuseTalk 3.2
http://www.fusetalk.com/downloads/fusetalk_32_julysecpatch.zip

FuseTalk 3.1
http://www.fusetalk.com/downloads/fusetalk_31_julysecpatch.zip

FuseTalk 3.0
http://www.fusetalk.com/downloads/fusetalk_30_julysecpatch.zip

FuseTalk .NET

You must be running FuseTalk.NET version 3.1 to install this patch.  3.1 upgrades are found in the Client Area.

http://www.fusetalk.com/downloads/fusetalk_net_31_julysecpatch.zip

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Edited: 07/29/2008 at 03:28 PM by FuseTalk Blog Moderator

FuseTalk Inc., the leading provider of enterprise-grade Online Discussion Forum Software, announced the official release of its 3.2 version for Adobe's ColdFusion platform. Available immediately, this version provides a portfolio of enhancements to what was already a highly configurable, scalable and reliable software.

FuseTalk's product line is designed to enable organizations to build an interactive community where members can communicate, through exchange of knowledge and experiences, information and views, as well as help solve problems, and identify and execute on opportunities.

"Organizations of all types and sizes choose FuseTalk as the foundation for their community and we're committed to continuously investing in that foundation. With this release, there are improvements in virtually all aspects of the software for all types of users," says Greg Waite, President of FuseTalk Inc.

The evolutionary release takes into account many suggestions from thousands and thousands of licensees, administrators and moderators, who represent millions of active users. "Unlike many technology companies, we're a market-driven company who knows that, often, the best directions come from customers and users," added Waite.

There is a rich set of enhancements in this release, some of which are: new administration settings, administration of approvals, user attachment list viewing and added security, external avatar support, password complexity enforcement, new WYSIWYG editor, enhanced Chat, enhanced Blogs, enhanced breadcrumbs, enhanced user dashboard, editor enhanced calendar, and multiple forum polls support.

English, French, Spanish, German and Portuguese dictionaries are currently available at no cost at time of purchase, are included free of charge in all hosting plans, and are available on a continuous upgrade basis for paid-up licensees and subscribers. Corporate and Government resellers and developers in unilingual and multilingual communities are welcome.

 

About FuseTalk Inc.:
FuseTalk Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Future Path Development Group, is the leading provider of discussion forums, blogging tools and collaboration solutions. Available in ColdFusion MX and .NET platforms, FuseTalk enables organizations to build an interactive community that can share knowledge, exchange information and views, and help solve problems. FuseTalk brings the power of discussion to your customers, partners, employees, and stakeholders through its fully-featured, secure and customizable web interface. Highly scalable and configurable, FuseTalk accommodates any number of users, and offers an easy-to-use friendly user interface. A single FuseTalk installation can run a thousand different forums - all with different access rights and users.

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FuseTalk Inc. will be at CeBIT 2008 in Hannover, Germany again! FuseTalk is looking for language/country specific distributors, partners, consultants, web developers and affiliates. If you're looking for new revenue opportunities consider FuseTalk. All technology companies should consider building up their customer relationship with FuseTalk. What better way to reinforce your commitment to customers than to provide them with the opportunity to view, capture and exchange ideas around products, service, implementation, sales, features and many other issues. If you are at CeBIT, be sure to drop by our booth in Hall 2, Stand D48!

Looking to get more information on FuseTalk's features and the "how to's"? Please check out our tutorials here.

FuseTalk would like to wish everyone a safe and wonderful Holiday Season, and may the New Year bring happiness and good fortune!

Seasons Greetings!



Please note: FuseTalk's office will be closed during the Holiday Season, from December 24, 2007 at noon (EDT) to January 1st, 2008, inclusive. FuseTalk will resume operations on January 2nd, 2008.

For emergencies, please email FuseTalk Support at support@fusetalk.com. Emails will be checked daily.

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How To Easily Manage Your Web Site Content & Online Communities

Webinar Presented By:
Jeff Riddall, Sales Manager, Hot Banana Software Inc. and
Karen Lee, Account Manager, FuseTalk Inc.

* Do you want to bring the power of discussion to your customers, partners, employees, and stakeholders?
* Do you need an easier way to manage your Web site as well as your online communities?
* Would you like to do everything on the Web using your Web Content Management System (Web CMS) as an eMarketing platform?

IT'S EASY!

Adobe Solution Partners, Hot Banana and FuseTalk, are making it easier for marketers to build online communities. Both are built on Adobe's ColdFusion MX platform, which makes third-party integration simple.

This one-of-a-kind partnership enables Web site administrators to simultaneously control forum logins from within Hot Banana's Web CMS and update the Web pages where FuseTalk resides.

The joint Hot Banana / FuseTalk solution provides users a faster, easier way to manage discussion forums with a single sign-on. Many eMarketers are already enjoying the benefits of this successful integration.

Like to find out more? Download this Webinar!

Download this complimentary Webinar to learn how you can easily manage both your Web site content and FuseTalk discussion forums from within Hot Banana's Web CMS.

FuseTalk Inc., a top provider of discussion forum, blogging and collaboration solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with Vertabase Inc. that gives users a compelling project management solution combining discussion, collaboration, control and visibility.

With both tools built on Adobe's ColdFusion platform, Vertabase and FuseTalk unveiled the new capability at the MAX 2007 Adobe User Conference, here through Oct. 3. Under the agreement, Vertabase will provide an integration plug-in for FuseTalk to its clients and FuseTalk will promote Vertabase's project solution to its current and new clients. The alliance provides a seamless marriage of the softer aspects that surround a project and the technical tools to manage schedules, resources, budgets and documents on projects.

The Vertabase-FuseTalk integration provides a single sign-on from Vertabase and allows project participants to access, launch and create discussion categories and topics that are relevant to projects, milestones, resources, pre-project plans, project review and project assessment. "Much of a project's discussion is lost in email, boardroom meetings and conversation. FuseTalk captures this softer aspect of a project and facilitates further productivity," said Mark Phillips, President and CEO of Vertabase. "Stakeholders can collaborate online with a range of tools such as message boards, blogs and RSS feeds. Discussion is captured and searchable. This winning combination marries the previously intangible aspects surrounding a project's approval, execution and review with tools to measure, monitor and control a project. It's a great way to capture knowledge and build a culture of success."

"Vertabase is a first class project management platform and we're very excited to be associated with this level of quality software from a solid industry veteran. Our intranet and extranet clients who are very group and team oriented could benefit by this very well-crafted and easy-to-implement project management solution. We see a number of team, committee and goal-oriented communities that would really benefit from Vertabase," said Greg Waite, President of FuseTalk.

"Often, projects flounder through a lack of control and visibility. Timelines are blown, resources are mis-allocated and companies lose track of whether they are making money or not. Vertabase shines at giving organizations control and visibility through easy-to-use, yet robust project management."

"FuseTalk really shines when it comes to integration with software products or custom web initiatives. The ability to integrate, and affect interface changes without touching code and introducing technology risk makes FuseTalk stand out." ColdFusion developers and CF based independent software vendors want reliability, configurability and scalability. They don't want risk, unknown licensing rights, and volatile version/change management issues," added Waite.

"It's exciting that two Adobe ColdFusion award finalists have come together to offer the best of disciplined project management with the intangible aspect of project discussions," added Phillips.

About FuseTalk Inc.: FuseTalk Inc. is the leading provider of online discussion forum software. Available in ColdFusion MX and .NET platforms, FuseTalk enables organizations to build an interactive community that can share knowledge, exchange information and views, and help solve problems. FuseTalk brings the power of discussion to your customers, partners, employees, and investors through its fully-featured, secure and customizable web interface. Highly scalable and configurable, FuseTalk accommodates any number of users, and provides an attractive and easy-to-use interface.

About Vertabase Inc.: Vertabase's flagship product, Vertabase 4, is a best-in-class project management software solution. Vertabase's unique design and approach make powerful, results-oriented project management tools accessible to non-technical enterprise users. Vertabase 4 features include advanced resource planning, project tracking, time tracking, project dashboards and comprehensive document management. Vertabase 4 is written in Adobe ColdFusion and uses AJAX, JavaScript and Flash Video in its interface. It is available in a Software as a Service or hosted model. Vertabase is an Adobe Solution Partner. Founded in 1997, Vertabase is headquartered in Oak Park MI. For more information, please call (888) 505-0566 or visit http://www.vertabase.com

FuseTalk is a registered trademark of FuseTalk, Inc. Vertabase is a registered trademark of Standpipe Studios L.L.C. All other product and company names are or may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners including, but not limited to, Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE).

Edited: 10/01/2007 at 10:32 AM by ftmarketing

Discover The Power Of Discussion!

Complimentary Webinar Presented By:
Jeff Riddall, Sales Manager, Hot Banana Software Inc. and Karen Lee, Account Manager, FuseTalk Inc.

Do you want to bring the power of discussion to your customers, partners, employees, and stakeholders?

Do you need an easier way to manage your Web site as well as your online communities?

Would you like to do everything on the Web using your Web Content Management System (Web CMS) as an eMarketing platform?

IT'S EASY!

Adobe Solution Partners, Hot Banana and FuseTalk, are making it easier for marketers to build online communities. Both are built on Adobe's ColdFusion MX platform, which makes third-party integration simple.

This one-of-a-kind partnership enables Web site administrators to simultaneously control forum logins from within Hot Banana's Web CMS and update the Web pages where FuseTalk resides.

The joint Hot Banana / FuseTalk solution provides users a faster, easier way to manage discussion forums with a single sign-on. Many eMarketers are already enjoying the benefits of this successful integration.

Like to find out more?

Join Hot Banana and FuseTalk on Wednesday, September 26th @ 1pm EDT to learn how you can bring users together and easily manage FuseTalk discussion-forum logins from within Hot Banana's Web CMS.

Ottawa, ON September 19, 2007 -- FuseTalk Inc., the leading provider of enterprise-grade Online Discussion Forum Software, announced the official release of FuseTalk Version 3.1 built on Adobe ColdFusion. This significant upgrade has been fully tested on ColdFusion 8 with stellar performance improvements noted across the entire application. Average page time and requests per second turned in a whopping 50% improvement from version 7 to 8.

Aside from performance improvements associated with ColdFusion 8, the FuseTalk 3.1 upgrade boasts a myriad of improvements including enhanced security, optimized query performance, a strengthening of user administration and added blog functionality.

FuseTalk's product line is designed to enable organizations to build an interactive community where members can communicate, through exchange of knowledge and experiences, information and views, and help solve problems.

"Online communities are a valuable source of timely business intelligence. We've updated FuseTalk to make it easier for companies and organizations to identify the interests and needs of their community members and to create actionable responses," says Greg Waite, President of FuseTalk Inc. "There are a lot of advantages to mining community data, and having the tools to act proactively upon opportunities and issues raised by members is a major benefit of the FuseTalk solution."

"Adobe's ColdFusion 8 is a real break-through product for the Web community at large -- it offers incredible flexibility, performance and stability." ColdFusion developers can easily create the personality and application behaviour that they are looking for in FuseTalk. An abundance of customization options for global and standalone forums are accessed in the FuseTalk API. The intuitive GUI enables the creation of forums that have distinct personality and behavior characteristics. "Add the power of ColdFusion to run across multiple platforms, simplify complex web development and provide enrichment and extensibility to other standards such as JAVA, .NET, Exchange, Flex and AJAX and PDF, and you have a powerful winning combination for building WEB 2.0 communities." Waite added.

Enhancements and fixes are posted on: FuseTalk (ColdFusion) v3.1 Release Notes. If you haven't used FuseTalk, download a 30-day trial.

About FuseTalk Inc.: FuseTalktm Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Future Path Development Group, is the leading provider of discussion forums, blogging tools and collaboration solutions. Available in ColdFusion MX and the Microsoft .NET Framework, FuseTalk enables organizations to build an interactive community that can share knowledge, exchange information and views, and help solve problems. FuseTalk brings the power of discussion to your customers, partners, employees, and stakeholders through its fully-featured, secure and customizable web interface. Highly scalable and configurable, FuseTalk accommodates any number of users, and offers an easy-to-use, friendly user interface. A single FuseTalk installation can run a thousand different forums -- all with different access rights and users.

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Edited: 10/16/2007 at 02:21 PM by FuseTalk Blog Moderator

FuseTalk Inc., the leading provider of enterprise-grade Online Discussion Forum Software, announced the official release of FuseTalk Version 3.1 built on the Microsoft .NET Framework.

In order to be adaptive and responsive to evolving market conditions, businesses are demanding more flexible, customizable solutions from software developers

Ottawa, Ontario (PRWEB) August 14, 2007 -- FuseTalk Inc., the leading provider of enterprise-grade Online Discussion Forum Software, announced the official release of FuseTalktm Version 3.1 built on the Microsoft .NET Framework. This significant upgrade now provides developers with features that have made FuseTalktm a long standing favorite within the ColdFusion environment.

FuseTalk's product line is designed to enable organizations to build an interactive community where members can communicate, through exchange of knowledge and experiences, information and views, and help solve problems.

"Online communities are a valuable source of timely business intelligence. We've updated FuseTalktm to make it easier for companies to identify the interests and needs of their community members and to create actionable responses," says Greg Waite, President of FuseTalk Inc. "There are a lot of advantages to mining community data and having the tools to act proactively upon opportunities and issues raised by members is a major benefit of the FuseTalk solution."

FuseTalk leverages the rapid implementations of the Microsoft .NET Framework right out-of the box. Developers can easily create the personality and application behaviour that they are looking for in FuseTalktm. An abundance of customization options for global and standalone forums are accessed in the FuseTalk API. The intuitive GUI enables the creation of forums that have distinct personality and behavior characteristics.

"FuseTalk is a mature product that substantially satisfies the business requirements for discussion forums within the rapid application development environment."

Using the knowledge base system in FuseTalk, community administrators or moderators can take action on discussion topics by converting discussion content into knowledge base content, or adding new content to the knowledge base, both done very quickly and easily.

The upgraded search mechanism provides users with more Boolean style features that deliver more relevant results.

"In order to be adaptive and responsive to evolving market conditions, businesses are demanding more flexible, customizable solutions from software developers," said Jeff Zado, Senior Product Manager, Developer Solutions, Microsoft Canada Co. "At Microsoft we are pleased to support ISVs like FuseTalk, who leverage the power of Microsoft .NET to create dynamic and user-friendly solutions for their customers."

Major FuseTalk Forums V3.1 feature additions include:

Automatic Moderation - automatically ban users based on rating thresholds that the Administrator sets

Built-in Blogger - personalize your community by offering blogs to your members

Calendar - publish forum events in the Calendar

CMS tag - extract topics from categories that you wish to display on your website

Ignored Users - ignore those users' messages that you don't want to view

Keyword notification - receive notification of new message posts that interest you

Knowledge Base - mine important content into knowledge base articles and place them in knowledge base categories

Ratings System - rate forum community members and/or their message posts

Search & Related topics - a complete redesign of FuseTalk's search engine, including a new feature called Related Topics

XHTML - XHTML 1.0 compliant, along with a new skinning format

About FuseTalk Inc.:
FuseTalk Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Future Path Development Group Inc., is the leading provider of discussion forums, blogging tools and collaboration solutions. Available in ColdFusion MX and the Microsoft .NET Framework, FuseTalktm enables organizations to build an interactive community that can share knowledge, exchange information and views, and help solve problems. FuseTalktm brings the power of discussion to your customers, partners, employees, and stakeholders through its fully-featured, secure and customizable web interface. Highly scalable and configurable, FuseTalktm accommodates any number of users, and offers an easy-to-use friendly user interface. A single FuseTalktm installation can run a thousand different forums - all with different access rights and users.

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Edited: 08/14/2007 at 10:07 PM by ftsales

A few users have contacted FuseTalk after the most recent CFMX 7 release, reporting various connectivity issues when running against MySQL database.

We have ascertained that the Connector J drivers within CFMX 7 have known bugs/issues relating to the use of certain MySQL syntax as well as issues relating to the use of <cfqueryparam> tags.

The errors usually throw the following message: "Communications Link Failure: Unknown Command"

Below is a link to the ColdFusion TechNote detailing the fix for these issues:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/k.../index.cfm?id=tn_19170

For virtually hosted customers, you should pass this link on to your hosting company if you encounter any errors.

NOTE: Ensure that you follow the technote instructions completely to avoid further issues.

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Edited: 09/18/2007 at 08:38 PM by ftsales

For users of CFMX6.1 and CFMX 7.02, it is necessary to update your Java JVM to version 1.4.2_11 to avoid any issues with posting dates in FuseTalk.

Please see the following Adobe Technote for more details:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/k.../index.cfm?id=d2ab4470

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Edited: 09/18/2007 at 08:38 PM by ftsales