You can now append fully themable polls to any article.
You can now have Symbio e-mail you when a new comment is posted.
The control panel has been entirely revamped for your convenience.
You can now choose between 12- and 24-hour time format.
There is now a minimalistic intermediate page between commenting and reloading, mainly to ensure proper use of cookies.
The waterfall, cows and desert themes now support the scroll wheel and the Home, End, PgUp and PgDn keys in recent versions of IE.
The author, version and targetversion fields have been removed from themes' parameters.txt file, since there was no real use for them. As a theme author, you can now include a plain text file called description.txt, which will be used for theme information in the new control panel.
Large parts of the code are now a lot faster.
To upgrade from version 1.4 or 1.4.1, follow these steps:
Upload all script files to the script directory.
Create a new directory called cp in your resource directory and upload the files in the local cp directory there.
Upload loading.gif to the img directory.
Upload the updated language file to the language directory.
Upload the updated themes to the themes directory.
Upload the updated theme resources to the img directory.
Create a new writable directory called polls in your script directory and upload the .htaccess file in the local polls directory there.
Remove the css directory inside your resource directory.
Note that pre-1.5 themes and language files will still work in this release, but you will be unable to use any of the new features.
Please replace scroll.js in img's subdirectories cows, desert and waterfall with this updated version to enable scrolling using the keyboard.
To allow visitors to vote after you've recreated an existing poll, or appended a new poll to an article, you will have to change line 23 of the file cp_pollconfiguration.pl to: