Release notes for every version from 2.0.0 onwards are published with the
release itself, on
GitHub.
They are not repeated here.
What follows is the part of the project's history that predates GitHub, kept
because there is no longer anywhere else to find it.
The project moves to GitHub (2026)
UNS moved to
github.com/TechIdiots-LLC/UNS
and is now maintained by TechIdiots LLC. Releases are published there rather
than on SourceForge.
Worcester State University (2011-2015)
There was no public release between 1.0.1 and 2.0.0, but UNS
stayed in production use at Worcester State University, maintained there as a
separate branch.
Two things from that period fed straight into the modern
releases: a script that switched emergency mode on when an alert arrived from
Rave, and a Chrome/Chromium based alert client. The Rave script is what 3.0.0's
cross-platform emergency monitor replaced, and the browser extension is what
became the Manifest V3 client.
The abandoned Version 2 rewrite (2012-2014)
A ground-up rewrite was started - a new file structure under
/lib/, array-based configuration, PDO, and the Smarty templating engine. It was
abandoned unfinished in 2014 and never released.
When work resumed, that branch was set aside and 2.0.0 was
built from the 1.0 line and the Worcester State work instead. Smarty finally
arrived in 3.0.0 by a different route.
v1.0.1 (2010-11-30)
Fixed some
issues with redirecting pages.
Installer was
mal-forming the hostname
variable for the config file.
Base URLs to
the server were being skewed.
Added
emergency flag to XML output on
client index.
v1.0 (2010-10-04)
Active Directory based authentication
Allows multiple client computers with separate list of urls
Emergency messages. Easily set a message on all client computers in the event of an emergency. This overrides the clients standard lists.
Create quick custom pages. These can be used in the client url list or the emergency url list
Copy URLs from one client to another
Save a list of URLs for future use
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