PolarBlog V1.7.0 (Homing Pigeon) Released
PolarBlog V1.7.0 (Homing Pigeon) has been released. The major focus of this release is that addition posting via email, reworking of the installation/upgrade utility and resolution of a RSS handling error.Enhancements
- Added blog posting via email!
- Major rewrite of the installer/upgrade utility.
- Added Multi-Section "Other Blogs" support.
- Added Ping-O-Matic! checkbox to entry add/update (if USE_PINGER enabled).
- Additional validation of input data for improved security.
- New pb_input_text CSS replaces pb_title in most places.
* pb_title = Entry Title and Entry Index Date
* pb_input_text = Edit input field text
- Database performance improvements to entry selection.
- Addition of English and Spanish translation in UTF-8 character sets.
- Bad header redirect (304) is causing the RSS feed to not be sent when no updates have been made, but the user doesn't currently have the file! This has been corrected by redirecting to the existing RSS feed.
- FULLTEXT entry search may have not been created properly in a previous upgrade. This condition is automatically checked and corrected in the new upgrade process.
- Undefined variable $display in PolarBlog::buildComment() issuing a PHP Notice.
- Edit topic or user cancel button returns to main page. While editing a topic or user when you cancel it now returns to the section selection menu.
- Added USE_TIMER
- Added POP3_MODE
- Added POP3_HOST
- Added POP3_PORT
- Added POP3_USER
- Added POP3_PASSWD
- Added POP3_MAIL
- Added POP3_TOPIC
This release is named "Homing Pigeon" because of the ability for PolarBlog posts to now find their way back to your blog! November 29, 2005 @ 04:06 pm | Category: Software Development