From B2evolution

[edit] Introduction

The 1.6 (alpha) release, titled 'Phoenix' refers to the first b2evolution release from the 1.x Series.

[edit] List of Changes

Here is a list of changes since the 0.x Series.

• File manager (blueyed)
• Multiple domain support (blueyed, fplanque) (TODO: (cookie/admin) Debugging!)
• Mailing lists: Subscriptions for new posts and/or new comments (fplanque)
• Who's online? (jeffbearer, blueyed, fplanque)
• Email form to contact authors without revealing their email address (jeffbearer, blueyed, fplanque)
• Paged display in antispam (fplanque)
• Improved hit logging (bluyed, fplanque)
• Stats enhanced with Flash charts (fplanque)
• Added options to allow a blog stylesheet or a user stylesheet to override the skin stylesheet. (edgester) (TODO: Only the "custom" skin works with the options at the moment. Other skins must be modified.)
• Lost password: sends a link to allow password changing instead of generating a new password right away (blueyed)
• New setting in the blog's advanced tab for choosing the comment's policy on a per blog basis. You can now choose if you want to allow comments on a blog, if you want to be able to disable them on each post, or if you don't want any comments at all (gorgeb)

• Added Global Features section to admin settings (halton)
  • Online help: started implementation (halton) (TODO: online help server, relocate function)
  • Blog by email: moved settings from config file, started alternate implementation (halton)

• Post editing extensions:
  • Alternative backoffice layout(s). A skin can be chosen in the backoffice user profile. (fplanque, blueyed)
  • "Deprecate now" function (fplanque)

• Post browsing extensions:
  • Complete contextual browsing: you can combine several filters: author, month, category, etc (fplanque)
  • Browse by author (fplanque)
  • Calendar: Links to next/prev month/year are only provided if there are posts in that direction (blueyed)
  • Calendar: Fixed contextual accuracy (fplanque)
  • Fixed ability to select multiple authors at once (via URL params) (fplanque)
  • Added ability to combine categories in search (fplanque)
  • New URL parameter 'dstart' allows to start browsing at specified date (same fprmat as 'm'). useful with unit = 'days'.
  • New URL parameter 'unit' allows overriding of configuration to select what to display: 'posts' or 'days' (fplanque)
  • Slightly enhanced week handling (weeks start on sunday or monday depending on user locale) (requires MySQL >= 4) (fplanque)

• Post extensions (fplanque)
  • Extra status
  • Post type
  • Popup calendar for dates
  • Assigned to
  • Priority
  • Deadline
  • Counting number of views for each item (template tag $Item->views()) (jeffbearer, blueyed, fplanque)

• Permissions:
  • Group based blog permissions (halton)
  • Extended group permissions (fplanque)
  • Blog permissions presets; Member, Editor, Admin (blueyed, fplanque)

• Packaged plugins:
  • Wacko markup plugin (fplanque)
  • WikiLinks plugin (fplanque)
  • LDAP authentification plugin (blueyed)
  • Some previously built-in features have been moved to plugins (fplanque)

• Code:
  • Day at the start of the week moved to properties of the locales (blueyed)
  • Subpaths now include trailing slashes (that was another odd b2 legacy...) (blueyed, fplanque)
  • User profile validity checking (fplanque, blueyed)
  • AdminUI object that allows easy skinning of the backoffice (blueyed, fplanque)
  • Enhanced debugging (blueyed)
  • Unit tests in /tests, using simpletest framework (blueyed)

• Fixes:
  • Fixed Mozilla/Firefox's scrolling to the top of the textarea when clicking on toolbar buttons
  • Atom 1.0 compatibility
  • And many more.. (yabba...)

[edit] History

• 2005-11-27: v1.6-Alpha Released