Communiqué de Presse:

L'équipe de développement de b2evolution est fière de présenter la prochaine version significative du logiciel libre de gestion de weblogs b2evolution, version 0.9 . b2evolution, un moteur multi-blogs, multi-utilisateurs, multilingue est développé sur la base du système diffusé anciennement sous le nom b2/cafelog.com .

La version 0.9 de b2evolution met l'accent sur la facilité d'installation et la richesse fonctionelle. La version 0.9 peut aisément être installée sur pratiquement n'importe quel serveur LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) en l'espace de quelques minutes. Avec la dernière version, il n'est pas nécessaire d'éditer un quelconque fichier de configuration dans la mesure où toute la configuration est prise en charge par le script d'installation ou l'interface d'administration.

Cette version introduit également un système de plug-ins permettant à des tiers d'étendre facilement les fonctionnalités ou d'ajouter des méthodes d'affichage supplémentaires. A la demande de nos utilisateurs, nous avons inclus plusieurs plug-ins de formatage de texte populaires tels que Textile, Auto-P, Greymatter, BB code, Texturize et les smilies graphiques.

La plateforme b2evolution a été développée avec l'objectif de rendre disponible une solution libre, fonctionnellement riche, extensible et facile à déployer pour la publication efficace d'informations sur le web, qu'il s'agisse de flux de news professionnels ou de weblogs personnels.

Vous pouvez voir la version 0.9 dès à présent dans la démo en ligne

Okay everyone, version 0.9 is nearly complete and the language files are now considered stable.


Now would be a good time to start translating if you want your language to be up to date in the release.


Version 0.9 is packed with new code, and that also applies to interface strings. There are 50% more strings than in 0.8! So there's no time to waste! :>>


If you wish to translate but don't know how to get the latest version from CVS, you can contact me directly.


Update: Please note there is now a second lang file for the install help files, see http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=1139

Okay, it's been a little longer than planned, but version 0.9 should be released in less than a week from now.

Translators warm up your editors, but be warned that some strings will most probably change significantly before release. I'll notify you when the POT is stable.

Apropos translations, I have codenamed this release "Europe" as a late celebration of the new 25 countries / 450 million people wide Europe and I hope we'll have b2evo localized to all European languages asap! ;)

When you look at 0.9 now you can start to see the shape of the real thing we're moving to... and hopefully will reach soon with version 1.0.

There's been massive code refactoring again but also many kewl new features, such as:

• Easy installing (without editing a single conf file manually).
• Comments RSS & Atom Feeds
• Plug-ins
• Improved antispam
• and a lot more that I'll tell you later... ;)

I got an email today from Gerhard Zielinski, CEO of YellowTip Software BV, informing me that they included b2evo in their YellowTip Web Server.

It is a free open-source package that will allow you to easily install everything you need to run b2evo locally on your Windows machine: Apache, PHP, MySQL and b2evolution. All in one step and ready to use!

As an added benefit, you also get Zend Optimizer and phpMyAdmin.

I cannot test it right now but I think this is cool enough to deserve immediate relaying on this site. Here's the press release:

YellowTip Web Server 2.0 released!

29 April 2004

The YellowTip development team proudly introduces the next major release of YellowTip Web Server, version 2.0.

The main new feature of Web Server 2.0 is the inclusion of Apache 2. Apache 2 was developed with Windows deployment in mind. As a result it's much faster and much more stable than previous Apache releases for Windows. Next to Apache 2, Web Server 2.0 includes the latest stable versions of PHP, MySQL, Zend Optimizer and phpMyAdmin.

Due to high demand, our developers have included a selection of the most popular Open Source packages with Web Server 2.0: PostNuke, phpBB, b2evolution and Gallery.

The YellowTip Web Server was developed to make available a highly professional and easily installable package of Apache2, PHP4, MySQL4, phpMyAdmin and Zend Optimizer for the Windows platform (Win2K, WinXP).

With a convenient all-in-one installer, all components are installed in a single directory and can be used immediately after the installation process has completed. An uninstaller allows you to remove the YellowTip WebServer from your computer.

From now on, b2evolution will have no more even/odd release distinction.


It won't even have an alpha/beta/RC/final classification.


We will try to issue releases on a regular schedule, all of them being fairly functionnal. See Roadmap & Unified Process on the Wiki for more.


So there will probably be more releases as there have been last year. However it is illusory to state in advance how stable a release is going to be... unless we go through very long test cycles, which we obviously cannot afford.


Thus, the downloads page will now give extended information about each release, especially how stable it has proven to be.


You can help us with this goal, just by telling us how comfortable you feel with each new release once you have used it for a while.

Spring has come! Nature is getting greener. So is b2evolution! :D

Though it’s a beta, bet this new release has enough to keep you indoor this week-end: :b

• Private blogs: assign individual user rights for each blog
• User groups / Roles based security
• Comments can be set open or closed on a post by post basis
• Several conf options moved from the _conf files to the backoffice.
• More blog dependant settings (instead of gloabl options)
• Users can choose if they want to receive notifications or not for new comments/trackbacks/etc on their posts
• The HTML checker now allows tables in posts by default
• Made RSS 2 valid. Added icon to feedvalidator.org.
• Atom 0.3 support.
• Quicktags made compatible with mozilla (Ron)
• Automatic loading of /conf/hacks.php if this file exists

Download and stay tuned for more! :yes: