1.x Series

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1 Introduction
- 1.1 Use Cases
2 Features
3 Status
4 Versions
5 History
6 Support

[edit] Introduction

The 1.x series are the next generation from the 0.9 series, and are currently the most recent generation.

[edit] Use Cases

B2evolution is a blogging system. But with the new plugin framework within the 1.x series, they can expand out to other uses.

[edit] Features

The 1.x series has many changes, these include; performance upgrades, plugin framework updates, better spam protection, and many new features and improvements.

[edit] For the User

Post Types
And lots more

[edit] For the Developer

Plugin Framework has been dramaticly improved.
Skin Framework has had a few changes. See Skinning in v1.6-Alpha or Upgrade evoskins.
And lots more

[edit] List of Changes (1.6-alpha)

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] List of Changes (1.8-beta)

Validation of email address to activate user's account on registration (enabled by default) (blueyed)
Users and anonymous visitors can opt-out to receive emails through message form (blueyed

Extended plugin architecture: (blueyed)
- Event-driven instantiation of Plugins
- Interface for Settings and UserSettings
- Easy setup for a database schema a plugin wants

Antispam:
- Basic guestbook spambot defeating techniques -- basic spambots account for over 90% of the comment spam!! (fplanque)
- Comment moderation (enabled for each blog by default) (fplanque)
- Broadened keyword matching (fplanque)
- Publish/Delete comments based on spam karma threshold, reported by plugins (blueyed)
- "Basic Antispam Plugin":
  - Double-checking referers moved there (blueyed)
  - Option to check content in trackbacks about link to your blog; enabled by default (blueyed)
  - rel="nofollow" is now optional
  - Option to disable feedback from anonymous visitors (blueyed)
- DNS Blacklist antispam plugin (blueyed)
- Blocking requests where the referer has been detected as spam is now optional. Also it does not block requests to the backoffice any longer. (blueyed)

Usability:
- "Exit to blogs..." link respects selected blog (blueyed)
- Preview for comments in frontoffice (blueyed)

ItemList2 class which will replace ItemList. Better performance, security, stability and new features:
- Filtering of posts on assignees with assgn=1 or assgn=1,2 or assgn=-1,2 or assgn=-
- Filtering of posts on extra statuses with status=1 or status=1,2 or status=-1,2 or status=-

Scheduled tasks (cron) framework (fplanque)
- Automatic retrieval of antispam blacklist (fplanque)

db_delta() functionality that allows easier upgrading (blueyed)
MySQL 5 strict mode compatibility (blueyed)
Fixed/Rewritten Auto-P plugin (blueyed)
ETag-header- and GZip-compression-support moved into transport optimizer plugin (blueyed)
Removed no longer supported Geeklog and Miniblog upgraders. (It is still possible to upgrade from those by upgrading to b2evo 0.9 and then to b2evo 1.x
Added /conf/_basic_config.php which holds just the basic settings (as _config.php before, but without the including the other files). You should merge your settings from _config.php to _basic_config.php.
Many many many bug fixes...

[edit] Status

The latest release in the 1.x series in Summer Beta (1.8), it was released on the 10th of July, 2006.

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