We have two new releases today:

2.4.7-stable “Tilman”

This release contains several bug fixes tracked down and applied mostly by Tilman (Tblue) with the help of Walter (waltercruz). Also we missed Tilman’s birthday but I believe we’re still close ;)

If you’re already running 2.4.6, there is a quick upgrade available. (For previous b2evolution versions, use the regular upgrade procedure.)

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Quick list of fixes:

• Bugfix: Old chapter URL titles containing underscores work again (fplanque)
• CSS bugfixes (yabs)
• Bugfix: Set post type to “Post” when creating a post using the “Simple” form (tblue)
• Bugfix: Don’t display the user’s full name if it isn’t set when deleting users (tblue)
• Fixed “Duplicate entry” SQL error after renaming plugin events (sam2kb)
• Display submit button on category widget when requested (tblue)
• Validate w and m URL params (tblue)
• tempskin param: Do not allow the use of not installed skins (tblue)
• Fix bug in Photoblog skin (media index) (tblue)
• Completed German translation (tblue)
• Localization system fixes (tblue)
• Bugfix: The plugin info screen now shows correct info for installed plugins (tblue)
• Additional bug fixes (walter)

3.2.0-beta “Woodland Hills”

In this release, we added many new features over 3.1.0 so we called it a “beta” again… but it’s getting pretty close to our goals for version 3… (planning for this dates back to when I was living in Woodland Hills ;)

We are running several blogs on 3.2 in production already – including b2evolution.net.

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Feature rundown:

• Skins:

  • Post attachments. Non image files that are linked to a post will be listed and linked below the post. (sam2kb)
  • All default skins now support featured posts and intro posts. (fplanque).
  • Category, tag, archive and search pages now only display post excerpts by default. (Requires a 3.x skin; otherwise the skin will display full posts as before). This can be controlled in the Blog settings > SEO. (fplanque)
  • Skins can now have a _skin.class.php file to override default Skin behaviour and provide skin specific settings. Demo: the custom skin has configurable header colors. The settings can be changed through Blog Settings > Skin Settings (fplanque) – Anyone is welcome to extend those settings for any skin you like.
  • Skins can now have an item.css file to specify content formats. This will be reused in WYSIWYG editors. (fplanque)

• URLs & SEO:

  • Homepage: option to 301 redirect to canonical homepage. (fplanque)
  • Date archives: option to 301 redirect to canonical urls. (fplanque)
  • Option to support rel="canonical” instead of or when 301 redirect cannot be used. (fplanque)
  • Options to select how much content to display (excerpt|teaser|normal) on different types of pages. (fplanque)
  • Tag pages: Prefix only mode allows urls like http://…/tag/tag-name with no trailing character (blueyed)
  • Optional rel="tag” attribute (blueyed)
  • Return to a clean url after posting a comment (fplanque)

• Logging & stats:

  • Detect new Google “ajax search” urls as search referers. (fplanque)
  • Log “serprank” (start= or dc=) param if given in search url. (fplanque)
  • Added goal tracker: /htsrv/track.php (fplanque)

• UI:

  • User Interface cleanup (fplanque)
  • The blog is now always displayed after publishing a post. If anyone doesn’t actually want this, we can make it an option. (fplanque)
  • TinyMCE upgraded to 3.2.4.1 — missing buttons are fixed. (fplanque)

• Plugins:

  • Plugins can now have Settings that are specific to each blog. (fplanque)
  • Included twitter plugin based on twitterlution and extended to handle blog specific twitter accounts.(Lee Turner, fplanque)

• Other:

  • Combined CSS files in order to reduce number of CSS files loaded. (Yes I combined more than I splitted ;) Stubs are left in place for backward compatibility and to prevent 404 errors. (fplanque)
  • Bug fixes (tblue, blueyed, waltercruz, fplanque, sam2kb, yabs)
  • CSS fixes (tblue, blueyed, fplanque)
  • Internationalization fixes (tblue)