February 2003 Archives
Version 2.63 of Movable Type is now released. This is a bug fix release, fixing various localization, XML-RPC, Postgres, and Creative Commons errors. This update is also recommended using MT for private weblogs; your IncludeBlogs and ExcludeBlogs settings will now be applied to the experimental mt-view.cgi script. If you are using 2.62 and not experiencing any problems, there is no urgent need to ugprade. If you are having problems with 2.62, the changelog lists the changes and fixes in 2.63.
If you hadn't yet upgraded to 2.6, see the Guide to Movable Type 2.6 for explanations of the above features, and for instructions on adding these features to your existing weblog if you are upgrading.
If you're upgrading from any previous Movable Type release, use the upgrade instructions. If you're installing this release for the first time, use the installation instructions.
Beginning today, we are also be releasing nightly builds of Movable Type, based on CVS snapshots. These are development releases and are geared towards users comfortable with running development versions of software. The goal for the nightly build process is two-fold:
- By releasing changes to the software more often, we hope to make our stable releases even more stable than they are currently; more eyes looking at the software, and more users using it, should help to identify and eliminate bugs more quickly and therefore, hopefully, reduce the number of point releases.
- By opening up new features and hooks to developers, we will be giving them more time to implement new plugins before official releases.
As we mentioned in our original post on Text Formatting, we hoped that Text Formatting plugins would make it easier for non-technical users to author and format weblog content. We released 2.6 just last week, and already plugin developers have implemented some exciting new Text Formatting options:
- Timothy Appnel released a beta of his TikiText text formatting.
- Brad Choate released version 1.1 of his Textile plugin.
- Gregor Purdy released a POD text formatting text formatting plugin.
- And, since we forgot to mention it previously, Adam Kalsey released MovableJive, a "port of some classic text filters".
If you upgraded to 2.6 or 2.61, you need to upgrade immediately to 2.62. There is a security vulnerability in 2.6 and 2.61. If you have already upgraded, you can either download the upgrade distribution and perform a normal upgrade, or download the Author.pm file to replace the lib/MT/Author.pm on your server.
We're sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused. Because beta-testing with the number of testers we use makes it difficult to catch all bugs, we will most likely be implementing public beta tests in the future.
We've posted seven new language packs, along with updates to the existing language packs that provide translations for the changes in Movable Type 2.6.
The following language packs have been added: Persian (Aziz Ashofteh), Hungarian (Pintér Zoltán), Italian (Gianluca Neri), Dutch (Ab Stammeshaus), Portuguese (Sérgio Nunes), Russian (Rostyslav Siryk), and Taiwan Chinese (Jedi and Kevin Fyure).
The Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, and Spanish language packs have all been updated for 2.6.
Thanks to the translators for their hard work!
Update: There is a vulnerability in 2.6 and 2.61. See this post for more details. 2.62 is now the latest version of MT, with the fix for that vulnerability.
Version 2.61 of Movable Type is now released. This is a bug fix release, fixing various encoding, template, and other errors that were in 2.6. If you are using 2.6 and not having any problems, there is no urgent need to ugprade. If you are having problems with 2.6, the changelog lists the changes and fixes in 2.61.
If you hadn't yet upgraded to 2.6, see the Guide to Movable Type 2.6 for explanations of the above features, and for instructions on adding these features to your existing weblog if you are upgrading.
If you're upgrading from any previous Movable Type release, use the upgrade instructions. If you're installing this release for the first time, use the installation instructions.
Now that version 2.6 is released, we're pleased to announce that Movable Type Pro is in development for a summer 2003 release. Since our first release of Movable Type in October 2001, we've planned for a more deluxe version of the software -- a version with the features that power users require.
A small sampling of some of the features that will be in Movable Type Pro:
- Improved author management
- Remote publishing
- Custom entry fields
- Integrated spellchecker
- Registration for comments and posting
For a list of additional features and more information, please read the press release about Movable Type Pro.
Movable Type Pro will be a for-pay version, but as we always stated, donors will be offered discounted rates based on their donations. See the FAQ for more information. This is our way of saying "thank you" to all our users that have allowed us to continue developing during this past year and a half.
Version 2.6 of Movable Type is now released. This release adds the following major features:
- Text Formatting options.
- Support for Creative Commons Licenses.
- Adding a new category directly from the New/Edit entry screen.
- Sanitize, for cleaning up visitor-submitted data (thanks to Brad Choate).
- An <MTLink> tag.
- Enhanced options for comments: Closed, Open and None.
- Support for the metaWeblog.newMediaObject XML-RPC method.
- Support for RSD.
- PostgreSQL and SQLite database drivers.
- Improved usability of the comments form in the default templates (thanks to Jeremy Hedley).
See the Guide to Movable Type 2.6 for explanations of the above features, and for instructions on adding these features to your existing weblog if you are upgrading.
See the changelog for a full list of changes.
If you're upgrading from any previous Movable Type release, use the upgrade instructions. If you're installing this release for the first time, use the installation instructions.
The ultimate Movable Type plugin resource, the MT Plugin Directory has launched. Kristine Beeson (our support board's Kadyellebee) put a great deal of work into this project and, as a result, has created a extensive directory of plugins sorted by a variety of categories. The MT Plugin Directory will also be home to David Raynes' MT Plugin Manager. Thanks to all the plugin developers who made this possible.
