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v10 Updates

2025.11.05	11.4 - Site adapted to run under PHP 8.x, Sphider updated to latest 5.3 version
	11.3 - Gallery improved - image titles displayed on thumbnail rollover
	11.2 - Site theme transparency levels tweaked, colour now manually selectable from Theme page
	11.1 - Avatars, based on Star Fleet characters, ships and locations, added to site comment system
	11.0 - News subsystem sidebar navigation revised
	10.9 - Avatar resizing added to forum phpBB updated
	10.8 - Forum login now displayed on site sidebar
2023.10.09	10.7 - Theme selector upgraded with dusk, dawn, day and night modes
2023.10.01	v10.4 - Ruby, Site Search
2023.09.30	xbomber.com domain transferred and imported
2022.10.27	Automatic media folder updates added to news subsystem
2022.07.29	Comments system re-instated
2021.12.29	v10.3 - About and Game Media sections unified under "The Game" section SFXB Forum update and re-skin
2021.01.31	v10.1 - FB content re-integration Forum database cleanup and UI fixes
2020.04.29	v10 - database functions rewritten for PHP 7 compatibility

10.6	Theme selector (dark / light)
10.5	Chameleon mode prototype

10.2	2021.05.07	HTML5 video, webp handling
	2021.04.16	Reorganisation of Star Fleet Artwork
	2021.04.05	Admin interface upgraded
	2021.03.12	News subsystem navigation improved
			'Like' option added

Site History

2004.05.07	v5 - Complex frameset, Left menu, Menalto Gallery

2005.01.27	Shoutbox and CMS
2006.01.10	v6.5 - frameset, top menu, + Greymatter CMS
2006.04.08	v7 - iFrame, left menu, rebuilt and simplified
2006.09.14	v8 - PHP, top menu, download details iFrame,
		new forum provided by SFXB

2007.11.16	Move to Dreamhost, left menu

2009.04.08	Previous Versions and Source Code (PVSC) upload completed
2009.06.06	v8.6 - top menu, ImageVue X2 gallery, increased security, PVSC
2010.01.08	X-Archive Coppermine Gallery
2010.05.26	CuteNews CMS
2010.12.03	uploaded Star Fleet and X-Bomber screenshot packs
2010.12.31	Improved layout and CuteNews UTF-8 9 CMS with Captcha

2011.07.06	Version control database w/ source code
2011.09.06	Own CMS; based on MySQL and PHP

2013.04.21	Error handling improved
2013.06.29	Replaced Screenshot Packs (total 3GB) with Star Fleet Galleries
		 - Started creating detailed version history
2014.04.01	Move to Krystal Hosting, Media indexes sub-folders
2014.06.20	Layout and readability improved, 
2014.10.19	Media gets bigger thumbnails, clearer navigation/layout, 
		separation of media files and downloads
2014.12.04	High score uploads unblocked, Site menu reconfigured

2017.11.19	Improvements to the website's handling of very large images.

2019.08.24
First Star Fleet Saturday, featuring fan art from Rokogu Aono, Aru and Shiina
2019.10.18
Star Fleet Saturday #9: the first that was shared on Star Fleet a.k.a. X-Bomber a.k.a. Ekkusu Bonbā Facebook page, featuring Starlog magazine cross sections of Dai-X, as requested by Pete Clark

Previous Locations

Originally, the X-Bomber Game Project had a single page on my site at piersbell.tripod.com, (back in 2002, when people had homepages).

Once the project expanded and the game was released, within the space of about 18 months, the game's website was hosted in the following locations as I was trying to get as much bandwidth and flexibility as possible for free and with a minimum number of adverts:

	2003.02.14	xbomber.tripod.com
	2003.05.06	v1 - members.lycos.co.uk/xbomber
	2003.06.03	v2 - www16.brinkster.com/xbomber
	2003.10.31	v3 - btinternet.com/~xbomber

On 16th December 2003, xbomber.co.uk went up, featuring version 4 of the site. This featured a left navigation bar, used frames and was hosted by Krystal hosting.

Directory contents last updated: 2022.08.10

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