b2evolution 0.8.3-beta1 released :idea:

Posted by on Aug 27, 2003 in New releases

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! :D