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b2evolution 0.8.3-beta1 released :idea:
b2evolution 0.8.3-beta1 is available. You can download it here.
Here are some highlights for this release:
- Full localization support even without gettext on PHP! (more on this below);
- XML-RPC Blogger API now supports draft publishing;
- Better UTF-8 support (by Sakichan);
- Wordcount support (by Swirlee);
- Checking PHP version on install;
- Better XHTML compliance (moving towards Strict);
- A lot of fixes for PHP notices, a few bug fixes and a lot of code refactoring;
- New front page for 'my blogs' explaining a little more what's going on there
and some more changes in an attempt to remove confusion that some first time b2evo users have reported.
Okay, regarding i18n/l10n, this new release now supports localization without any hassle of setting up and enabling gettext on your PHP installation, much unlike previous release (alpha1). You can now translate b2evo seemlessly with a simple GUI tool (poedit) and enable it in b2evo as easily as you would activate any other option! 
Read all about it on the l10n how-to.
A few locales are already available in this release, and of course, anyone is welcome to contribute for his own language! 
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4 comments
Comment from: jay [Visitor]
How hard would it be to make b2 multiuser in the sense that users can register, login and create their own blogs (like livejournal)?
08/31/03 @ 15:56
Comment from: François PLANQUE [Visitor]
I'd say approx 2 weeks of dev + 2 weeks of testing.Most of b2evo's infrastructure is already ready for that.
08/31/03 @ 16:01
That (multiuser) would be supremely cool! Are any plans for that in the works?I love b2e; thank you.
09/08/03 @ 00:55
Comment from: François PLANQUE [Visitor]
Probably, but it is not a priority since it is only of interest to blog hosting providers, who are a minority of the user base.However, it's on the todo list. We just need to find some time... or a contributor ;)
09/08/03 @ 01:02
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