Today we have released the first official service pack to Community Server 2007. You can grab it from the new store/download center. For those of you doing brand new installs, you can ignore the service pack since all the other versions have been updated as well.

There are a quite a few updates. Most of them small, but should be welcomed to just about every community.  

Here is a quick run down of what has been fixed:

User Experience Improvements

• Corrected width of modals in the Control Panel.
• Updated Control Panel to hide Manage Licenses for non-admins
• Updated "Default" theme comment styles to correct overflow styles.
  

Help text clean-up and Improvements

• Fixed email template typo
• Changed messaging for license restrictions on Points, IPBanning, Reporting
• Missing Resource issue resolved on Blogs.aspx page.
• Added XML Comments to Controls

• Updated folder line and icon URLs in the content selectors.
• Updated avatar handler to support passing username on querystring to retrieve avatar
• Updated ConfigurationForm to correct an issue that occurs when multiple appended/prepended tabs are defined.
• Fixed issue with CA:Callback control
• Fixed premature searching issue in the RelatedIndexPostList control.
• Fixed searching issue where you couldn't search within a section
• Fixed issue with how MailGateway stores and uses the encoding name on messages
• Fixed issue with threading caused by not passing the post object when checking Reply permission for replies to a post
• Fixed MailingLists object not setting the SettingsID
• Fixed cs_system_SampleForum setting owner information, which throws off permission checks in MG for the admin user on the Sample Forum
• Fixed: Admin & Anonymous user’s LoweredEmail was never set in CreateCommunity so some MembershipAPI lookups (FindByEmail) would never work
• Fixed: Bad redirect from forum moderation “Approve & View”
• Fixed: Duplicate key exception thrown for non-existent threads
• Corrected rounding error when selecting colors using the ColorSelector.
• Corrected russian language issues with the DateTimeSelector.
• You can now approve a post that starts a thread and it will still be visible in the forum.
• The mark as read button now only shows to those with permissions to view it (moderators) or thread authors whenever enable status tracking is enabled.
• Changed TinyUrl HttpHandler away from using a 302 statuscode to redirect to a 301 to help SEO