We just released b2evolution version 6.11.0-beta.

Among other features, it supports webmentions, as previously promised here.

The current stable version is 6.10.7. It is very stable at this point.

Next release will be 6.11.0 which will include a few new features like webmentions support.

Most of our efforts, though, are now focused on b2evolution v7. An alpha version is already out but the next release will include an all new "Quick start wizard" which should make it easier to get started with a setup that matches the user’s needs, rather than a default demo setup.

2015 has been pretty intense for b2evolution! So many things have changed! If you haven’t been paying attention, or have been lagging in upgrading, now is a good time to check out what you missed…

Let’s recap what happened over the past 365 days:

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Happy New Year Everyone!

Security Release

You have probably seen the invitation to upgrade on your dashboard last week. If you haven’t, please be advised we issued a security release (version 5.2.1) and for optimal security, we encourage everyone to upgrade.

If you’re using b2evolution 5.1+, you can upgrade very quickly with the auto-upgrade feature. Otherwise you can download the release here.

Translations & language packs

Now that version 5.x is very stable and not evolving much any more, we are updating all the language packs.

If you’d like to help translating b2evolution to your own language, now is a good time to head over to our Transifex Project Page where you can sign up for free and translate one, a hundred, or a thousand strings. You can also use Transifex to efficiently report any inconsistency or any problem you noticed while using the app in your own language: search for the problematic string and leave a comment on it (mark it as an issue). Of course, if you know a better translation, type it in!

b2evolution v. 6

We regularly update the development version of b2evolution version 6 on GitHub. If you’re interested in the latest cutting edge version of b2evolution and don’t mind a few bugs, you can get it from there.

You can also check out the growing list of features here.

Hello Everyone!

This month we’ve got some heavy releases! One stable and one alpha!

Version 5.2 (stable)

Beginning of December we released b2evolution 5.2.0-stable. Many bug fixes. Rock solid. It’s a recommended upgrade for everyone. Get it here.

Version 6.0 (alpha)

This is codenamed "i7" and it’s actually not really released yet BUT you can get it on GitHub since today! ;)

This one is really a massive leap forward with tons of new features. We haven’t even documented all the features yet but you’ll find some of them listed here.

This branch actually makes 5.2 seem obsolete already, but as we haven’t fully tested everything yet, we call it "alpha" still. Nevertheless, we wanted to make this available to our true fans without further delay.

If you have some time to play during the Holidays, we believe this should keep you busy for a little while ;)

Please feel free to report bugs for this version already. We’ll make fixes available on GitHub as we progress.

What happened to October & November?

I (francois) haven’t posted any news in the last couple of months. Sorry about that. I was all absorbed in the birth of my first son ;) Despite the silence, we have a great dev team who has worked relentlessly in between. I think that if you look at i7 you will notice! :)

Happy Holidays to all of you!

Hello everyone!

We hope you had a great summer!

Next release

We took a little time off but we’re back at fixing bugs in order to release version 5.1.2 and hopefully stick a "stable" label on it… We’re a bit picky about that ;)

Update: 5.1.2 has been released!

GitHub

In the meantime, please remember you can always get an up-to-date version, including the latest fixes, on Github here: https://github.com/b2evolution/b2evolution . This would be a good habit to take as we’re going to update GitHub even more frequently in the future. We’re also working on importing the previous project history onto GitHub (thanks to blueyed).

twitter

Are you following us on twitter already? https://twitter.com/b2evolution

Before the summer we posted quite a few interesting links about web design, front-end development and more generally: techniques to improve your website that complement the use of b2evolution. Did you find those helpful? Would you like some more?

UTF-8

While version 5.1.2 will remain unchanged, upcoming versions (internally "i7" which will probably translate to "6.0") will rely entirely on UTF-8. This is made possible because most web hosts now correctly support UTF-8 in PHP and MySQL which certainly wasn’t the case when we started b2evolution.

But we’re doing it not just because it’s possible. We’re doing it mostly because many users seem to have encoding problems as soon as they run blogs in multiple languages. By standardizing them all on a common character set — and UTF-8 is the de-facto standard for that — all those charset headaches might as well magically go away.

We also have a fallback for old web hosts that don’t have native UTF-8 support, at the expense of a small performance impact.

Globally we feel that moving towards UTF-8 will help us better fulfill our mission of providing a blog/CMS platform that just works from the moment you install it and with any content you add to it.

Stay tuned for more!