b2evolution on SourceForge.net

Posted by on Aug 20, 2003 in b2evolution.net

b2evolution's development efforts have been moved to sourceforge.net lately. So if you're interested in contributing, localizing or even just in the latest cutting edge releases, feel free to visit: https://sourceforge.net/projects/evocms/ .


Actually the hot spot is the CVS repository. If you're unfamiliar to CVS and sourceforge.net you'll be able to find introductory information on this page: https://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=85535 .


CVS will let you seemlessly update your b2evolution test/develoment platform with the daily new enhancements.


Right now, for example, the CVS version has full internationalization/localization support... and a few translations are already available. ;)


Please note however that you should only use the CVS version of b2evo for testing and development purposes. You should always wait for stable (normal) releases before putting it into production.


...that is unless you know what you're doing of course ;)

b2evolution 0.8.2 (final) released B)

Posted by on Aug 06, 2003 in New releases

The final 0.8.2 version has been released.

Download here: http://b2evolution.net/downloads/

This version took a little time to mature because we wanted to release a very stable version before we start a new cycle of heavy modifications on the legacy b2 code. Here it is… ;)

Below’s a list of enhancements since version 0.8.0:

  • 0.8.2 (Final release)

    • Security fixes
    • Fixed pingbacks in b2mail.php
    • Fixed taborder is b2edit.php

  • 0.8.2-RC3

    • Fixed user reported bugs
    • Tooltips + shortcut keys on tag buttons
    • Fixed timezone handling

  • 0.8.2-RC2

    • Categories ordered by name
    • Fixed time difference for new post dates
    • Fixed bug preventing from editing comment dates

  • 0.8.2-RC1

    • Ability to link each post to an URL
    • Dynamic blogroll (the blogroll is just another blog on the system)
    • Supports multiple blogs per page
    • Supporting special blog #1 aggregating all blogs on the system
    • Sending email notifications with significant ‘from’ address
    • Checking if comment authors’ email addresses are valid
    • Fixed calendar some more (hum… legacy…)
    • Clean links for monthly/weekly/daily/post-by-post archives, including from calendar. (e-g: /blog/2003/06/ )
    • Archives show number of posts per month or day
    • Ability to limit number of archive links displayed
    • Ability to display full archive directory in main display area
    • Categories show number of posts per cat
    • Not accepting HTML tags in comments by default for security reasons.
    • single_month_title(-) now displays day of month or week number when available
    • Search can now be done on all words (AND), some words (OR) or whole sentence ("")
    • Displayed stats on blogs are filtered by the current blog
    • Slightly enhanced backoffice stats view, including ability to delete spam hits from stats
    • New & improved edit screen
    • Support for textile
    • New preview
    • Better post browsing in backoffice
    • In back-office: ability to display past or future posts only
    • In back-office: ability to display draft or published posts only
    • Supports using blogs as upcomming events calendars

    • Ability to limit viewable posts between two datestamps.

    • evoSkins now include a skininfo.html file for your information.
    • Automatically set wanted permissions and owner on newly created stub files

    • plain text urls, email, aim and icq addresses will be automatically converted to links, wherever they are displayed

    • Integrated XHTML validator (by Sakichan)

    • Filtering of illegal tags
    • cleaned up RSS feeds, better compliance to RSS 2 spec
    • Using GM times in RSS feeds (the only ones Syndirella can handle)
    • fixed bug with /archives/ page
    • Better cookie management. Cookies will be shared between www.yoursite.com and yoursite.com. However, if there are multiple b2evolution installs on the same site those will not share cookies (this is especially important if /~username/ subdirectories are used…)
    • Support for non permanent cookies
    • Some more code cleanup
    • Some more security fixes

Revamped backoffice

Posted by on Jul 15, 2003 in New features

One of the most significative enhancements in 0.8.2 is the revamped browsing & posting interface in the backoffice. You can check it out in the online demo.

Browsing your already written posts is now much easier. You can either navigate using the calendar or using powerful filtering options that can all be combined for even more control:

  • only show past/future posts;
  • only show draft/published posts;
  • only show posts containing specific keywords (AND, OR, sentence);
  • only show posts from a specific month;
  • only show posts from specific categories.

Accessing your previous posts to edit them has never been easier! :)

Posting new or editing existing posts also benefit from a new screen layout making it much easier to select the main and additional categories in the whole hierarchy of available subcategories.

Multiple blogs, single page, categories and blogrolls B)

Posted by on Jul 14, 2003 in New features

b2evo has been supporting multiple blogs for some time now. What’s new about version 0.8.2 is that you can now embed multiple blogs in the same page. You’ll find a demo displaying no less than 3 blogs on the index.php page in the distribution. :!:

Why would one want that, you may ask… :?:

Well, it actually starts to be interesting when each blog has a different purpose. For example, you could have the first one being your main blog, the second one being a calendar of upcoming events and the third one being your blogroll.

Speaking about blogrolls: b2evolution’s approach is to consider a blogroll just another form of a blog. It is a collection of items with title, description and link… The main difference being that you don’t usually display blogrolls by date like regular blogs, you just sort them alphabetically.

Of course, blogrolls benefit from all other b2evo’s blog features, like multiple and sub categories! And yes, you can even sort by category first, and then alphabetically in each category. Default 0.8.2 templates include such blogrolls by default.

Go check it out! ;)