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1.8-beta "Summer Beta"

Categories: 1.8 series, Obsolete

Change Log

  • Validation of email address to activate user’s account on registration (enabled by default) (blueyed)
  • Users and anonymous visitors can opt-out from receiving emails through message form (blueyed)
  • Extended plugin architecture: (blueyed)
    • Event-driven instantiation of Plugins
    • Interface for Settings and UserSettings
    • Easy setup for a database schema a plugin wants
  • Antispam:
    • Basic guestbook spambot defeating techniques – basic spambots account for over 90% of the comment spam!! (fplanque)
    • Comment moderation (enabled for each blog by default) (fplanque)
    • Broadened keyword matching (fplanque)
    • Publish/Delete comments based on spam karma threshold, reported by plugins (blueyed)
    • "Basic Antispam Plugin":
      • Double-checking referers moved there (blueyed)
      • Option to check content in trackbacks about link to your blog; enabled by default (blueyed)
      • rel="nofollow" is now optional and used for 48 hours by default (blueyed)
      • Option to disable feedback from anonymous visitors (blueyed)
    • DNS Blacklist antispam plugin (blueyed)
    • Blocking requests where the referer has been detected as spam is now optional. Also it does not block requests to the backoffice any longer. (blueyed)
  • Usability:
    • "Exit to blogs…" link respects selected blog (blueyed)
    • Preview for comments in frontoffice (blueyed)
  • ItemList2 class which will replace ItemList. Better performance, security, stability and new features:
    • Filtering of posts on assignees with assgn=1 or assgn=1,2 or assgn=-1,2 or assgn=-
    • Filtering of posts on extra statuses with status=1 or status=1,2 or status=-1,2 or status=-
  • Scheduled tasks (cron) framework (fplanque)
    • Automatic retrieval of antispam blacklist (fplanque)
  • db_delta() functionality that allows easier upgrading (blueyed)
  • MySQL 5 strict mode compatibility (blueyed)
  • Fixed/Rewritten Auto-P plugin (blueyed)
  • ETag-header- and GZip-compression-support moved into transport optimizer plugin (blueyed)
  • Removed no longer supported Geeklog and Miniblog upgraders. (It is still possible to upgrade from those by upgrading to b2evo 0.9 and then to b2evo 1.x
  • Added /conf/_basic_config.php which holds just the basic settings (as _config.php before, but without the including the other files). You should merge your settings from _config.php to _basic_config.php.
  • Many many many bug fixes…

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