As promised, here it is!

There's so much good stuff in this one I don't even know where to start! ;D

So I'll start by thanking blueyed for the incredible work he did on this release. I don't think a single contributor has ever coded that much into a single release. It was quite hard for me to keep up! :>>

Okay, let's go for a quick rundown of new features:

• Install and start using b2evo without editing a single config file (fplanque)
• Localized install screens (blueyed)
• Most settings moved to backoffice
• Improved antispam with full control on what you report to the centralized blacklist (fplanque)
• RSS & Atom Feeds for Comments (fplanque)
• Comment authors are automatically identified with their profile if they are logged in (fplanque)
• Comment permalinks (fplanque)
• New template tags (object oriented) (this is the visible part of the code cleaning iceberg ;) (fplanque)
• Enhanced Calendar (counts posts, links to archive of month, browse by year...) (blueyed)
• More link type options (fplanque)
• Search Engine Friendly Permalinks: use post title in the url (URL titles) (fplanque)
• Community blogs: protected posts are now restricted to blog members and are no longer visible by any logged in user. (fplanque)
• Optional output buffer handling, which provides ETags-support and handles gzip compression. (blueyed)

• Plug-in system, with value added plugins included: (fplanque)

  • Texturize plugin.
  • Auto-P plugin.
  • Textile 2.0 plugin.
• Comments can be closed / open / disabled (post per post). (fplanque)
• Full locale support instead of lightweight language support.
• Locales can be fully administered in the backoffice now. (blueyed)
• b2evo will redirect to correct blog if permalinks point to wrong one (fplanque)
• Blogrolls have been renamed to Linkblogs which should be a little easier to understand.
• Backoffice improvements.

Go get it from the downloads page.

Press Release:

The b2evolution development team proudly introduces the next significant release of the b2evolution open weblog software, version 0.9 . b2evolution, a multi-lingual, multi-user, multi-blog engine, builds upon the system originally released as b2/cafelog.com .

Version 0.9 of b2evolution is focused on ease of installation and feature richness. Version 0.9 can easily be installed on almost any LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) host in a matter of minutes. With the latest release, no config file editing is necessary as all configuration is handled through the installer or administrative back-end.

This release also introduces plug-ins, a new feature allowing 3rd party developers to easily extend the functionality or add additional displays to b2evolution. By request from our users, several popular text formatting plug-ins have been included such as Textile, Auto-P, Greymatter, BB code, Texturize, and graphic smilies.

The b2evolution platform was developed to make available a free, feature rich, extensible, and easy to install solution for efficient web-publishing of information ranging from professional news feeds to personal weblogs.

You can preview version 0.9 with the online demo!

Translators, please send your language files before Sunday 16:00 UTC.

Detailed Features Here!

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, 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... ;)

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:

Terrorist attacks yesterday have taken a lot of joy away from us announcing the release of b2evolution version 0.8.7.

You can download it here.

This is a beta release and has not been fully tested, however it includes quite a few features you’ll soon wonder how you could have lived without until now! :P Besides, we are using this version on several production servers already, so don’t worry too much.

Major additions are:

• AntiSpam Deluxe: Get rid of referrer and comment spam thanks to a community maintained spam database (more on this later);

• Pruning of old stats;
• MMS Moblogging support;
• Backoffice relooking;
• Ping to Technorati.

Special thanks to Vegar aka “Funky M” who probably did more coding than myself for the past few months. And big thanks also to all other contributors! B)

Note: if you want to upgrade from the original b2, please use version 0.8.6.2; you can still upgrade to 0.8.7 later.