dasBlog 1.8 Gold is released. I have updated this blog with the
latest version. Looks pretty stable. There are a lot of new feature and
new themes. New and noteworthy features are:
- Anti-Spam Features
- Automatic Referral and Trackback blacklist update
- CAPTCHA for non-admin users (Font warping has also been increased in this version)
- Logging and display of Comment IP addresses and resolved Hostnames for Admins
- DasBlogUpgrader can strip spam from existing content folders
- Support for rel=”nofollow”
- Ability to delete referrals and trackbacks directly from the Admin UI
- Security Features
- HttpOnly cookies
- Admin access auditing
- SMTP Authentication for outgoing mail
- Syndication Features
- Improved RSS Comments support for SharpReader and RSS Bandit
- Upgraded Atom support from 0.3 to Valid Atom 1.0. ATOM Syndication permalink changes but 301 is issued.
- RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 validates via FeedValidator.
- Ability to mark entries as “syndicated” or not. Entries can appear on the site but not in RSS/Atom.
- New between RC1 and Gold: Plugable, configurable pinging of Blog Search engines like pubsub and technorati.
- Performance Features
- Search Highlighting is optional now
- Referrals are logged but not stored in XML by default. Configurable.
(This has huge performance benefits for high traffic sites.) - DasBlog Upgrader can optionally remove all referrals.
(Again with high traffic sites some folks had 5meg XML files full of referrals) - Theme templates are now cached in memory.
- Installation Features
- New VBS for IIS permissions and VDir creation
- Support for running under ASP.NET 2.0
- Support for running on Win2k 2003 without changing permissions when impersonation is enabled
- Content Features
- Ability to pre- and post-date entries
- Permalinks based on Title and Date optional: 2005/06/06/title.aspx
- Latest build of Free Text Box including ability to upgrade FTB without upgrading DasBlog.
- Text Editor (FTB) supports IE7
- Text Editor (FTB) supports FireFox
- Blog Statistics macro
- Mail-To-Weblog continues to improves. Works with Thunderbird.
- Extensibility Features
- Custom Macro Plugin model without recompiling DasBlog (see the source for the example custom macro)
- Theme Features
- DasBlog now ships with 16 themes and a Theme Combo to change between them.
- New theme.manifest file makes themes and image assets more portable.
Here is the download link.
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