The final 0.8.2 version has been released.

Download here: http://b2evolution.net/downloads/

This version took a little time to mature because we wanted to release a very stable version before we start a new cycle of heavy modifications on the legacy b2 code. Here it is… ;)

Below’s a list of enhancements since version 0.8.0:

• 0.8.2 (Final release)

  • Security fixes
  • Fixed pingbacks in b2mail.php
  • Fixed taborder is b2edit.php

• 0.8.2-RC3

  • Fixed user reported bugs
  • Tooltips + shortcut keys on tag buttons
  • Fixed timezone handling

• 0.8.2-RC2

  • Categories ordered by name
  • Fixed time difference for new post dates
  • Fixed bug preventing from editing comment dates

• 0.8.2-RC1

  • Ability to link each post to an URL
  • Dynamic blogroll (the blogroll is just another blog on the system)
  • Supports multiple blogs per page
  • Supporting special blog #1 aggregating all blogs on the system
  • Sending email notifications with significant ‘from’ address
  • Checking if comment authors’ email addresses are valid
  • Fixed calendar some more (hum… legacy…)
  • Clean links for monthly/weekly/daily/post-by-post archives, including from calendar. (e-g: /blog/2003/06/ )
  • Archives show number of posts per month or day
  • Ability to limit number of archive links displayed
  • Ability to display full archive directory in main display area
  • Categories show number of posts per cat
  • Not accepting HTML tags in comments by default for security reasons.
  • single_month_title(-) now displays day of month or week number when available
  • Search can now be done on all words (AND), some words (OR) or whole sentence ("")
  • Displayed stats on blogs are filtered by the current blog
  • Slightly enhanced backoffice stats view, including ability to delete spam hits from stats
  • New & improved edit screen
  • Support for textile
  • New preview
  • Better post browsing in backoffice
  • In back-office: ability to display past or future posts only
  • In back-office: ability to display draft or published posts only
  • Supports using blogs as upcomming events calendars

  • Ability to limit viewable posts between two datestamps.

  • evoSkins now include a skininfo.html file for your information.
  • Automatically set wanted permissions and owner on newly created stub files

  • plain text urls, email, aim and icq addresses will be automatically converted to links, wherever they are displayed

  • Integrated XHTML validator (by Sakichan)

  • Filtering of illegal tags
  • cleaned up RSS feeds, better compliance to RSS 2 spec
  • Using GM times in RSS feeds (the only ones Syndirella can handle)
  • fixed bug with /archives/ page
  • Better cookie management. Cookies will be shared between www.yoursite.com and yoursite.com. However, if there are multiple b2evolution installs on the same site those will not share cookies (this is especially important if /~username/ subdirectories are used…)
  • Support for non permanent cookies
  • Some more code cleanup
  • Some more security fixes