Change Log

• Enhanced stats (fplanque)
• Different item edit views: simple, advanced (blueyed, fplanque)
• Fixed previewing, if $redirect_to_postblog setting is used (blueyed)
• Cleaned up blog management (fplanque)
• Stay in same blog when accessing blog settings (fplanque)
• Visual skin selector (fplanque)
• Filemanager: basic image preview while browsing (blueyed)
• Post contents get pre-rendered and cached at edit time in order to speed up complex displays. The cache data gets invalidated automatically, e.g. if a plugin gets updated. However, just in case, there’s a "Delete item cache" action in the "Tools".
• Ping services are now implemented as plugins with b2evolution.net and Pingomatic included. There is also a "Generic ping plugin" which can be used for common RPC ping services. (blueyed)
• Different modes of hitlog/session pruning: per page, as cron job or "off" (fplanque, blueyed)
• Bonus template for standalone contact form. (fplanque)
• Enhanced result tables (progidistri, fplanque, blueyed)
• Enhanced handling of locale dateformats (especially when editing posts with other date format chars than "d", "m" and "Y"/"y") (blueyed)
• mailto:-links and relative links are valid again are get converted to absolute ones in feeds (blueyed)
• Added $htsrv_url_sensitive config variable which gets used where password are involved (blueyed)
• "Time difference" can now handle values like "1.5" hours. (blueyed, balupton)
• Plugins
• Enhanced smilies plugin (Yabba)
• Plugins can get localized/translated (blueyed)
• Plugin name and short description of installed plugins can be edited by the admin (blueyed)
• Plugins should not use a constructor anymore, but the PluginInit() method instead. The previous AppendPluginRegister() method has been "renamed" to PluginInit(). (blueyed)
• Plugins can be grouped (see Plugin::group and Plugin::sub_group) (balupton, blueyed)
• Added b2evo_Callbacks Javascript object to help plugins interact with the textarea and each other (blueyed)
• Optimized expensive queries in calendar plugin (fplanque)
• Added events/hooks: Logout, DisplayTrackbackAddr, GetCronJobs, ExecCronJob
• Added hook RenderItemAsText, removed general RenderItem
• Added hooks DisplayItemAsHtml, DisplayItemAsXml and DisplayItemAsText; removed general DisplayItemAllFormats (blueyed)
• Added hook ItemApplyAsRenderer for lazy renderers, which asks the Plugin if it wants to get added or removed as a renderer (blueyed)
• Added hooks GetProvidedSkins and DisplaySkin, so a Plugin can register skin handlers, e.g. for displaying something like Google * Sitemaps (blueyed)
• Added hook ItemSendPing: gets called, when pinging for new items (blueyed)
• Developer stuff:
• Enhanced form abortion detection javascript (fplanque)
• Application errors (from debug_die()) now get logged like normal PHP errors. See $log_app_errors in /conf/_advanced.php. Experimental. (blueyed)
• Charset handling improved; added $force_io_charset_if_accepted setting (blueyed)
• Cleaned up skins (fplanque)
• Optimized performance of (Abstract)Settings, especially get() (blueyed)
• Debuglog gets saved in user’s session, to simplify debugging when redirects get used, e.g. when a comment gets posted (blueyed, yabba)