0.8.5.5 Release Candidate

Posted by on Sep 19, 2003 in New releases

Version 0.8.5.5 is now available for download.

This release is believed to be stable and will not be changed significantly until release of 0.8.6 (final).

Now is a good time for all translators to update their language files and send them in.

b2evolution 0.8.5.3-beta released :)

Posted by on Sep 11, 2003 in New features

b2evolution 0.8.5.3-beta is available. You can download it here.

Here are some highlights for this release:

  • Complete b2evo bookmarklet and sidebar;

  • You can now switch to another blog in the middle of a post and preserve all your current edits (uses javascript);

  • Comment spam prevention (vig-rx syndrome): blocks comments and posts containing blacklisted URLs (if you have had vig-rx posting on your blog, you know why you need this ;) ) This also applies to referrer spam.

  • New post statuses: protected, private and deprecated
  • New login/registering system. You can login directly on whichever function page you want. b2edit.php, b2browse.php, b2stats.php, etc… pick the backoffice homepage you prefer.
  • New template functions: user_login_link(), user_register_link(), user_logout_link(), user_admin_link(), user_profile_link()
  • Passwords are now stored encrypted in the database (by Swirlee)
  • Security pacthes (by Sakichan)
  • Smilies are now displayed in their correct chosen order. They are not displayed when they are deactivated.
  • $allow_cross_posting = 0 will disable cross posting among multiple categories.
  • Stats summary.
  • Fully configurable directory structure. Spread b2evo all across your site! ;)

b2evolution 0.8.2.2 maintainance release

Posted by on Sep 02, 2003 in New releases, Security info

At b2evolution's, one of our main concerns is security. While we constantly keep securing the legacy b2 codebase while developing new versions, we felt it was appropriate to release a security upgrade for our latest stable release (0.8.2).


We are pleased to announce availablility of version 0.8.2.2.


b2evolution 0.8.2.2 is a maintainance release intended to fix security issues discovered after release of version 0.8.2.


This release includes some fixes against XSS and SQL injection vulnerabilities.


All b2 users up to 0.8.2 are encouraged to upgrade their installation. These vulnerabilities most likely also affect other b2 forks but we have not checked them yet.


Vulnerabilities were also fixed in user-customizable skins, so users will need to reflect the changes to their own skins. Contributed skins on evoSkins.org may have the same vulnerabilities, but we have not investigated them yet.


Acknowledgements:

  • Some XSS vulnerabilities were found and reported by office
  • This release was compiled and brought to you by Sakichan.

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

Tracking system for b2evo needed

Posted by on Aug 22, 2003 in Development

Does anyone know a good PHP/mySQL bug/requests-for-enhancements tracking system?


I originaly wanted to install BugZilla but this one requires Perl and its latest modules... thus it won't run on any of my hosts, which are shared hosts, including b2evolution.net :-/


All of the PHP trackers I saw don't seem to be much more advanced than the basic SourceForge utilities... :|


Hum... I guess this is another one of my "I want more" fantasies... :roll: Well, you know how this is going to end up again? ;D