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b2evo 3.3.0-rc1 released!

Posted by fplanque on Jul 14, 2009 in New releases

b2evolution version 3.3.0-rc1 has been released!

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This is basically the stable version everyone has been waiting for, except we called it "rc1" instead of "stable". RC means Release Candidate. We called it rc1 because we are still finding and fixing little bugs every day. These are not major issues and we run 3.3.0-rc1 ourselves on dozens of production servers already. However, we thought we should play it safe and give it an extra week or two to iron out little quirks before this new release gets wide distribution.

"When will 3.3.0-stable be officially announced?"

I hope you can guess the answer from the paragraph above: when we're done with the little bugs.

"Yes, but give us a date?"

Here's a date: 7/31 8/8. (No, it's not a guarantee.)

Changes in 3.3.0-rc1

Btw, note you can follow/contact all contributors on twitter: b2evolution, tblue246, leeturner2701, walter, fplanque, yabs, blueyed, sam2kb.

  • Skins:

    • Skins can now have skin-specific translations ("locales" folder in the skin's folder, directory structure is the same as for plugin translations). (tblue246)
    • All skins now support setting RSS feeds to 'none' (leeturner2701)
  • SEO:

    • <meta> desc and <meta> keywords per blog post (leeturner2701)
    • Category descriptions can be used as meta description on category pages (walter)
  • Admin:

    • Remember whether or not the TinyMCE editor was last used on a per post and per blog basis. (fplanque)
    • Prevent clicking on "Publish NOW!' when a post is set to protected or private (tblue246)
  • Installer:

    • B2evolution no longer ships with _basic_config.php . It ships with _basic_config.template.php instead. That way, uploading a new release never overwrites the previous base config. The installer now creates _basic_config.php based on _basic_config.template.php + entered form values. (fplanque)
    • Language/locale selection moved to a place where it's visible! (fplanque)
    • Only one locale is now activated by default (the one selected during install). (fplanque)
    • Simplified main screen (fplanque).
  • Plugins:

    • Twitter plugin no longer requires curl (yabs)
    • New plugin hook: BeforeSessionsDelete (yabs, blueyed)
  • Other:

    • i18n/charset handling improvements (sam2kb)
    • Bug fixes! (blueyed, tblue246, sam2kb, yabs, leeturner2701, fplanque)

16 comments

Comment from: Sebastián Lalaurette Visitor

Sebastián Lalaurette

Getting better all the time!

2009-07-14 @ 21:20 Reply to this comment

Comment from: Ivica Visitor

Ivica

Will the uprgrade from 2.x be available in CPanel / Fantastico? Can not wait to install this :)

2009-07-16 @ 15:20 Reply to this comment

Comment from: fplanque Member

Yes, so far Fantastico has always supported upgrades.

2009-07-16 @ 16:04 Reply to this comment

Comment from: Biedl Visitor

Biedl

Great Work, thanks.

2009-07-19 @ 15:53 Reply to this comment

Comment from: Thomas Matti Visitor

Thomas Matti

Thanks for the SEO-Options ;-)

2009-07-20 @ 12:02 Reply to this comment

Comment from: michal Visitor

michal

Im sorry but I cant test it now. Is utf8 in this release?

2009-07-22 @ 00:49 Reply to this comment

Comment from: fplanque Member

utf8 has been in every release for at least 2 years now.

2009-07-22 @ 02:19 Reply to this comment

Comment from: Mike Keesling Visitor

Mike Keesling

3.3.0 rocks! I’ve been using B2 Evolution blogs for about two years now. They have proven to be of great value in SEO for many of my clients…this upgrade has some very powerful new SEO tools. I can’t wait to see if I can beat my record of 7 minutes from posting to number one position in Google for a fairly competitive keyword phrase.

2009-07-25 @ 07:36 Reply to this comment

Comment from: Ephricon Visitor

Ephricon

Good work guys. Very excited to see what the next version will bring :)

2009-07-28 @ 14:27 Reply to this comment

Comment from: David Zimmerman Visitor

David Zimmerman

Mike- give me some more details about your SEO success and I’ll write up a case study for b2evo, showing your quantifiable results

2009-07-28 @ 16:15 Reply to this comment

Comment from: Derek Visitor

Derek

Since when did the multiblogs.php stop working?(It works on 2.4.x) however, summary.php still works.

2009-07-28 @ 23:56 Reply to this comment

Comment from: Derek Visitor

Derek

On a test setup of xampp on Windows, multiblogs.php and multi-page entries do not work by default. After switching to the query(Use params) URLs, multiblogs and multipage posts works.

And .htaccess was in place.

On the test server, multipage posts work, but multiblogs.php does not.

2009-07-29 @ 20:19 Reply to this comment

Comment from: Alex Visitor

Alex

Just did the update to 3.3rc1 and everything works fine!

2009-07-31 @ 10:57 Reply to this comment

Comment from: Sebastián Lalaurette Visitor

Sebastián Lalaurette

Uh… multiblog navigation with crossposting is still flawed. But a very good release anyway!

2009-08-02 @ 22:08 Reply to this comment

Comment from: krao Visitor

krao

Hello,
I would like to know if the multilingual feature have been modify ?
I on’t fine a real multilingual Blog engine. 1 post for multiple translation, flag to switch and parameter in user profil or something like that.

2009-08-03 @ 14:43 Reply to this comment

Comment from: fplanque Member

Derek, these issues have been fixed in version 3.3.1 :)

2009-08-09 @ 18:08 Reply to this comment


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