b2evolution 2.4.6 "New year" has been released by popular demand!! (yes you twitter peeps got me down to it :p)

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This release is more a collection of small fixes and improvements that could easily be backported from the 3.0 branch (alpha coming soon) without requiring a database upgrade.

Therefore, if you are already running 2.4.5, this will be a 30 second "replace a couple of files" upgrade. See Quick upgrade patches »

Update: as always, HostMonster & BlueHost have been extremely reactive and they already offer automated install & upgrade of b2evo 2.4.6 through their simplescripts installer.

2.4.6-stable

• Additional antispam measures

• External Feeds/Feedburner support (waltercruz, fplanque)

• Fixed trackback (tblue)

• Fixed multiple category parent/child recursion issues. It should no longer be possible to "lose" categories by creating loops. (fplanque)

• Extended DTD for <embed> tag

• Additional bug fixes (yabs, blueyed, tblue, waltercruz, fplanque...)

b2evolution 2.4.5 "Monument Valley" has been released!

In a nutshell: 3 months worth of bug fixes, a new skin (Glossy blue), additional skin template and widget params, enhanced display speed in backoffice and better URL handling of tag pages.

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Also note that the new download page now includes links to download quick upgrade patches if you are already running 2.4.1 or 2.4.2. You have to scroll down though, I figured we would not want to have those displayed too high which might be confusing new users.

Upgrading from a previous 2.x version will only take you a couple of minutes. Skins from any previous 2.x version are compatible. Plugins from any 1.10.x or previous 2.x version are compatible. Version 3.0 will be an alpha release and will not be stable for a couple of months. We highly recommend you upgrade to 2.4.5. This guarantees your site is as secure as possibly be.

This version will also install a demo photoblog (as blog #4) for first time installers. If you already have b2evo running but would like to see it, check out the demo server.

2.4.5-stable "Monument Valley"

• Search widget radio buttons are now optional.
• New skin: GlossyBlue
  (including support for default widget containers)
• More skin template params
• The installer now creates a demo photoblog
• Enhanced backoffice display speed
• More tag URL options
• Enhanced URL resolution for categories and tags
• Enhanced sitemaps
• Fixed the bug where thumbnails are not created in skins when the viewer is not logged in
• Additional bug fixes

It was about time we released an enhanced 2.4-stable! Here it is!

b2evolution version 2.4.2 "Palms" is the same awesome stable version as 2.4.1 with removed bugs and added skins! It's even nicer to use as many little quirks have been ironed out and it is also nicer to look at as it has 3 additional cool skins preinstalled: Pixel Green, Terrafirma and Vastitude (All these skins are new versions for 2.4).

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Upgrading from 2.4.1 is insanely easy too: just download this ZIP file containing only modified files from version 2.4.1 to 2.4.2 and replace the files on your server.

If you are running 2.4.0, download the complete ZIP and replace files on your server (except /conf/basic_config.php).

If you are running an older version download the complete ZIP and follow the instructions within. (This general procedure works for ALL previous versions from 0.8 to 2.4.1).

Changes summary:

• New skins (including support for default widget containers)
  
  • Terrafirma
  • PixelGreen
  • Vastitude
• Improved compatibility with older skins.
• Fixed calendar bug when entering DST on the last week of the month.
• Fixed bug with date entry (months were off by 1 month, again...)
• Fixed bug with individual post footers.
• Fixed additional minor bugs.

It may have taken a couple weeks more than initially expected but we couldn't resist kicking off the new year by adding yet a handful of new features. So we bumped the version number to 2.4...

Nonetheless, we also spent considerable time in ironing out the remaining quirks. We call this "Release Candidate 2" just to give us an excuse if some little bug sneaked past us... but... as Danny puts it: "This is a really good release." ;)

Actually ready for production!

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Among the new stuff, you will find:

• Admin screens:
  
  • Select list for installs with more than 7 blogs. (fplanque)
  • XHTML validator, security rules and antispam checkinh can now be configured on a per usergroup basis. XHTML validation can also be specifically disabled for XML-RPC calls. (fplanque)
  • Enhanced upload screen. (fplanque)
  • Extended system checks (fplanque, blueyed).
  • Additional help icons throughout the admin interface. (fplanque)
• Podcast support: (fplanque)
  
  • enter the URL of an mp3 file into 'Link to url:' and select 'Type: Podcast'.
  • Embedded mp3 player.
  • <enclosure> support in RSS 2.
• Improved comment handling:
  
  • Do not send notification if to author if he comments on his own post (personman2).
  • Auto publish comments from users with permission to moderate comments (fplanque).
  • Option to edit comments while in antispam banning mode (fplanque).
• New skin features:
  
  • The evobar is now fixed on top of the screen.
  • New Template tags: (fplanque)
    
    • $Blog->footer_text()
    • $Item->footer()
  • Enhanced thumbnails (including PNG support). (fplanque)
• Tag URLs: (fplanque)
  
  • Cleaner tag URLs.
  • Canonic handling of tag URLs.
• XML-RPC has been debugged and reorganized. Each API is now in its own file:
  
  • Blogger API debugged (fplanque)
    
    • blogger.newPost no longer requires a cat ID ( <category>123</category> ) to be passed. It will use the first/default cat available in the targetted blog.
  • b2 API debugged (fplanque)
  • MetaWeblog API debugged (fplanque)
  • Movable Type API debugged (fplanque)
  • Added Really Simple Discoverability (RSD) support (fplanque).
• Better default install: The installer will now create the default blogs with cleaner URLs by default. We do believe these will work on 99% of the current Linux hosts. It is always possible to change the URL scheme in the Blog Settings.
• Security enhancements...
• Bug fixes (fplanque, yabba, blueyed)

b2evolution 2.3.0-rc1 “Renaissance” has been released.

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This is a Release Candidate. You can consider it to be stable enough to run on any production site. Only minor cosmetic details prevent us from calling this “final"… Anyway, it is a good time to consider upgrading, no matter what version of b2evolution you are currently running. (And if you’re not running b2evo yet, it’s a good time to check it out ;))

This version brings more than bug fixes over the 2.2-beta. You will also find new widgets, more customization options, a better WordPress importer, a 2.0 version of the Miami Blue skin and – by popular demand – more SEO presets!

In addition to Aaron Wall and Stephan Spencer, this version now includes search engine friendly presets recommended by Andy Beal (Marketing Pilgrim), Michael Gray (Graywolf) and Rand Fishkin (SEOmoz).

New features in 2.3.0 are summarized below:

• Widgets
  
  • Tag cloud widget (fplanque)
  • Comment list widget (yabba)
  • Many additional widget params (yabba)
  • UI enhancements (fplanque, yabba, awall)
• Nofollow handling in comments. Can be disabled on a comment by comment basis. (fplanque)
• Skins: (fplanque)
  
  • Modular templating of comments makes it easier to customize comment display without going through PHP code.
  • WordPress compatibility layer makes it easier to port WP themes to b2evo skins.
  • Miami Blue skin ported to 2.x and included.
  • XML feeds can now optionally include full posts. (fplanque)
• Additional SEO settings:
  
  • Additional presets by Andy Beal, Rand Fishkin and Michael Gray.
  • Additional internal nofollow handling (fplanque)
• Enhanced WP importer (fplanque)
  
  • tag import
  • empty slug handling
• Installer updates (fplanque)
  
  • Better out-of-the-box experience including Blog A being pre-assigned as default.
  • Blogroll added by default to blog A & B.
• Bugfixes (yabba, blueyed, fplanque)

b2evolution 2.2.0-beta "Vegas Again" has been released.

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Among many incremental improvements and fixes, version 2.2 introduces Search Engine Optimization (SEO) presets, compiled by two of the best SEOs out there: Aaron Wall (SEO Book) and Stephan Spencer (NetConcepts). Check out the SEO tab under "Blog Settings" to see how the SEO experts would optimize your blog. And you can now have it all done in one single click! ;)

Version 2.2 also fixes a lot of small issues with 2.1 and we're now moving towards a stable 2.x release around the end of the year. Don't hold your breath though, with the new skins 2.x, upgrades are much easier than in the past. Playing with the beta will not require redoing any work when the stable comes out.

More detailed change list:

• Photoblog: (fplanque)
  
  • more accurate photo index.
  • better browsing to previous/next post in single post mode
• User interface cleanup (upload, antispam, etc.) (fplanque)
• Date archives, category pages and tag pages: it is now possible to set how many posts are displayed on each of those pages. (fplanque)
• Additional SEO settings (fplanque)
  
  • Presets by Aaron Wall & Stephan Spencer
  • It is now possible to use internal nofollows on specific links (sspencer)
• Normalized skin template names (fplanque)
• Security fixes (blueyed)
• XHTML compliance (yabba, hari)
• Bug fixes (blueyed, afwas, fplanque)