Terrorist attacks yesterday have taken a lot of joy away from us announcing the release of b2evolution version 0.8.7.

You can download it here.

This is a beta release and has not been fully tested, however it includes quite a few features you’ll soon wonder how you could have lived without until now! :P Besides, we are using this version on several production servers already, so don’t worry too much.

Major additions are:

• AntiSpam Deluxe: Get rid of referrer and comment spam thanks to a community maintained spam database (more on this later);

• Pruning of old stats;
• MMS Moblogging support;
• Backoffice relooking;
• Ping to Technorati.

Special thanks to Vegar aka “Funky M” who probably did more coding than myself for the past few months. And big thanks also to all other contributors! B)

Note: if you want to upgrade from the original b2, please use version 0.8.6.2; you can still upgrade to 0.8.7 later.