some serious new feature implementation:

- cookie-based persistent logins
- expanded activity reporting
- "top" and "fixed" left menus are now dynamically generated from XML config,
  not hard coded
- error reporting enhanced and protection increased
- "About Venice" page first draft
- new means of "framing" static content within the Venice "frame"
- base page now includes the "footer" itself, "content" pages don't anymore
- general cleanup of some heavyweight old containers, replaced with faster
  Collections framework containers
- probably more, there's a LOT of stuff in here

setup/database.sql

@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ CREATE TABLE users (
     uid INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT,
     username VARCHAR(64) NOT NULL,
     passhash VARCHAR(64) NOT NULL,
+    tokenauth VARCHAR(64),
     contactid INT DEFAULT -1,
     is_anon TINYINT DEFAULT 0,
     verify_email TINYINT DEFAULT 0,
@@ -345,6 +346,8 @@ CREATE TABLE topicsettings (
     uid INT NOT NULL,
     hidden TINYINT DEFAULT 0,
     last_message INT DEFAULT -1,
+    last_read DATETIME,
+    last_post DATETIME,
     PRIMARY KEY (topicid, uid)
 );