eggBlog

v4.0rc1 Released

posted by Egg @ 12:35pm, Monday 3 December 2007.

Following some hefty feedback and feature requests, eggBlog 4.0rc1 is now available.

This is being released as a release candidate due to the number of new features and thus, possible bug fixes that will subsequently be required.

Major updates include:

• fckEditor WYSIWYG upgraded to v2.5
• favicon.ico moved to theme folder
• sticky articles included on all pages
• captcha code required on user registration
• custom header and footers support through themes
• article tagging support added
• social bookmarking links added to foot of articles
• "reply" email alerts for forum topic posters

Download
Download the latest version of eggBlog from http://eggblog.net/download.php.

Installation & Upgrading
Full details are available online at:
http://eggblog.net/news.php?id=5

If you are upgrading from eggBlog 4.0.0b then you must run the upgrade_4bto4.php file to create the SQL tables required for tag support.

As before, your feedback is vital due to the number of new features and possible big fixes that will be required.

Themes
All themes have been updated to allow for the introduced tag and social bookmark support.

The full change log:

4.0.0rc1 (2007-12-03)
- fckeditor wysiwyg upgrade to v2.5
- "<hr>" replace with "<div id='hr'><hr /></div>"
- change stickys from "<h3>" to "<ul id='stickys'>" list
- "favicon.ico" moved to theme folder
- "eb_stickys" moved to all pages in "eb_head"
- bug: html entities displayed on editing a forum post
- bug: registration redirect from "accounts.php" to "mydetails.php"
- bug: "eb_textpreview" slicing html entities
- bug: missing opening "<ul>" in eb_articlelist
- bug: deletion of all eb* tables on installation
- bug: new members given wrong "user_flag"
+ email alerts to forum topic replies
+ captcha on user registration
+ support for "_lib/inc.foot.php"
+ support for "_lib/inc.side.php"
+ support for "inc_head.php" in theme folder
+ support for "inc_foot.php" in theme folder
+ article tagging support
+ "upgrade_4bto4.php" including for upgrading from 4.0b to 4.0
+ social bookmark links

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