Movable Type Changelog
NAME
mtchanges - Revision history for Movable Type
SYNOPSIS
This document contains the revision history for Movable Type. Names in
parentheses indicate the names of user(s) who pointed out the bugs, suggested
the features, etc.
CHANGES
2.6 (2003.02.13)
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Added Text Formatting options. Instead of a simple Convert Line Breaks
checkbox, you can now set a different formatting option for each entry.
Plugins can add new options to the Text Formatting menu, which allows for
greater integration with the formatting within the system (for example,
Text Formatting will be applied on the preview screen).
-
Added PostgreSQL and SQLite database drivers.
-
Incorporated Brad Choate's Sanitize plugin, adding an mt.cfg setting for
a global default and a per-blog setting to override it. Sanitize is turned
on automatically for the following tags:
<$MTCommentAuthor$>
<$MTCommentEmail$>
<$MTCommentURL$>
<$MTCommentBody$>
<$MTPingTitle$>
<$MTPingURL$>
<$MTPingBlogName$>
<$MTPingExcerpt$>
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Added an
<MTLink> tag to automatically generate the URL for
an index template or an entry (by entry ID).
-
You can now add a new category from the Primary Category menu on the
new/edit entry screen by choosing Add new category... from the menu.
-
Added a
Closed status for Allow Comments and turned it into a
pulldown menu rather than a checkbox. This allows you to turn off new
comment posting for an entry, but leave up the old comments.
-
Added support for Creative Commons Licenses. You can select a license in
your blog configuration, and the appropriate metadata will be set on your
weblog index page and in your RSS 1.0 file.
-
Added metaWeblog.newMediaObject implementation for uploading files via
XML-RPC.
-
Added an RSD template and a
<link> tag referencing it, which
simplifies XML-RPC client configuration. (Ben Hammersley)
-
Localization improvements:
-
More strings have been abstracted to language packs, including those in the
default templates, which means that they can now be localized.
-
Password recovery, notification list, and comment/TrackBack notification
messages can now all be localized in language packs.
-
Added a tag for the
<$MTPublishCharset$> setting from mt.cfg,
if using a different encoding. Default templates now use this tag, which
defaults to iso-8859-1.
-
PublishCharset is now sent as the charset in notification messages and
comment and TrackBack ping notifications.
-
dirify now converts certain high-ASCII characters (accented characters,
etc) to their low-ASCII characters, meaning that something like
crudité will be converted to crudite.
-
Fixed problem with updating pages when file sizes are the same and MD5
is not installed (now we compare file contents rather than sizes).
-
Added MT::PluginData, a storage area for plugins. It uses the same
data storage method being used by the rest of MT (eg Berkeley DB, MySQL,
etc). Thanks to the mt-dev list for the idea.
-
XML-RPC server now returns int instead of boolean for
mt_allow_comments and mt_allow_pings.
-
If comments are not allowed on an entry, they are now rejected at the core
of the system, rather than just obfuscated by not putting up a form. This is
a side effect of the new open/closed/none distinction.
-
Changed comment forms in default templates to be more usable with respect to
position of the ``Remember me'' elements. Thanks to Jeremy Hedley for the
suggestions.
-
In addition to removing any properly-formed HTML tags, MT::Util::remove_html
now encodes any remaining
< characters into < entities.
(Seth Woolley)
-
Fixed problem with TrackBack auto-discovery and sending TB pings from entries
created/edited via XML-RPC. Thanks to Annoying Old Guy for the debugging
help and a patch.
-
Fixed the non-HTML::Entities encode_html routine to not double-encode
things that look like entities (numeric or otherwise).
-
Added PingInterface, PingProxy, and PingNoProxy configuration
settings for setting up proxy server info. Thanks to Christopher Laco for
the patch.
-
Improved encode_xml (and decode_xml). It now checks whether the
string to be encoded looks like it contains HTML tags or entities, and
wraps it in CDATA if it does. Thanks to Timothy Appnel for the code.
-
Fixed bug in search engine where SearchTemplatePath setting could be
overridden through the query string params. (Frank von Vliet)
-
Made MT::App subclasses Apache::Filter-aware by using filter_register
if Filter is turned on. Thanks to Christopher Laco for the patch.
-
Fixed wide-character bug when using MD5, by utf8-encoding the data.
Thanks to John @ John's Jottings for the patch.
-
HTML in entry titles was not properly encoded in the main blog menu (it was
on the list/edit entries screen). This is now fixed. (Richard Soderberg)
-
Added note to installation docs on protecting mt.cfg with .htaccess
file. (Patrick Gibson)
-
<$MTCGIRelativeURL$> now returns the full CGIPath setting
if it doesn't look like an absolute URL (rather than the empty string).
-
Fixed bug in getting directory name on Win32 machines, where we were
discarding the volume name. Now use dirname instead of splitpath.
-
Errors that occur when sending pings are now logged in the activity log,
and an error message placed on the saved entry screen.
-
Fixed bug with password verification on certain FreeBSD versions of
crypt(3) (where the implementation uses Blowfish), and made it work
better in general by passing in the entire encrypted string and letting
crypt deal with it (rather than trying to determine the salt).
-
Fixed bug where
<$MTCategoryCount$> would include a count of
drafts in the category.
-
Fixed bug where categories containing only drafts could still be listed by
<MTCategories>. (girlie)
-
Call MT::Entry::permalink in all places where it should be called (rather
than building from archive_url, etc).
-
Added sort_by and sort_order parameters to the search form, to
allow for sorting within blogs in the search results.
-
Added month=``last'' attribute to the
<MTCalendar> tag to
easily create a calendar for the previous month. (wgriffin)
-
Fixed bug where pings would not be sent after previewing an entry.
-
If PublishCharset is set in mt.cfg, send it in the HTTP headers for
search results, comments, and TrackBack.
-
Added Slovak date formatting and fixed Czech formatting. (Bill Shakespeare)
-
When setting form elements, the search script now uses
selected="1" and
checked="1" instead of just selected and checked, for the sake of
validity.
-
Added mt.getRecentPostTitles, which is a bandwidth-friendly version of
getRecentPosts, returning only title, date, post ID, and the user ID of
the creator. (Adriaan Tijsseling)
-
The XML-RPC server now sends and receives the mt_convert_breaks field
as a String value, rather than a boolean, to support the Text
Formatting options.
-
Keywords can now be set and retrieved via the XML-RPC server in the
mt_keywords field.
-
TrackBack ping URLs can be set via the XML-RPC server in
metaWeblog.newPost and metaWeblog.editPost, in the mt_tb_ping_urls
field.
-
Added code to untaint plugin filenames. (sdelmont)
-
Authors who do not have access to edit author permissions should not be able
to get to the permission-editing screen, even manually. This is now fixed.
(Jonathan Auer)
-
MT::Util::html_text_transform (the default ``convert line breaks'' code)
will no longer add
<p> tags around paragraphs that start with
certain HTML tags (pre, table, ol, ul, pre, select,
form, and blockquote). (Phil Ringnalda)
-
Linefeed (\r) characters are now stripped from templates and entries.
-
<$MTArchiveTitle$> and <$MTArchiveLink$> now work in
Individual Archive Templates, and they do what you'd expect.
-
Fixed bug with inconsistent results for
<$MTEntryCategory$>
in search result templates.
-
A search query containing only whitespace is no longer considered a search;
instead, the
<MTNoSearch> container is rendered.
-
Refactored database code so that most of it can be shared amongst the
database drivers.
-
Patched German date formatting so that %x and %X are
language-sensitive. (Alex)
-
Fixed bug where an empty return value in an archive template would be
treated as an error. (Jason Kottke)
-
Added
<br clear="all" /> to the main index template to work
around the IE problems. (Blake)
-
Fixed bug with global attribute overloading, where both the overloaded and
the overloader would be called. (Timothy Appnel)
-
Added error checking for
eval "use $user_class". (Dennis Haney)
-
Change mod_perl docs to have extlib added to @INC. (Dennis Haney)
-
Changed all visible instances of blog to weblog in the system and in the
documentation.
-
Changed the Convert line and paragraph breaks in comments option into a
Text Formatting selector to select a Text Formatting option. (Kristine
Beeson)
-
Moved the Text Formatting option on the new/edit entry screen down below
the Status and Authored On elements.
-
Fixed security hole where any author could create a blog. (Paul Hammond)
-
Set tab order in comment templates using tabindex, so that tabbing from
name to email address to URL to comment text field still works.
(Kristine Beeson)
-
Fix unitialized value warning with empty DB password. (Adam Kalsey)
-
Provide empty plugins directory in full install. (Anil Dash)
2.51 (2002.10.29)
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Added Windows right-click bookmarklet functionality, where you can use a
Post to MT Blog right click option to open the bookmarklet. Thanks to
Anil Dash for the code.
-
Added a generic
<MTElse> tag, which can be used to supply an
``else'' condition to any conditional. Thanks to Brad Choate for the code.
-
Added an
<$MTEntryPermalink$> tag, which does the right thing
when displaying the link for an entry: if an individual archive, it is not
followed by an anchor; otherwise, it is.
-
When rebuilding files, only rewrite the original file if the content has
changed. If the content is identical, leave the existing files in place,
which won't update the modification time on the file. This allows better
use of caching and conditional GETs when retrieving RSS (and other files).
(Phil Ringnalda)
-
Removed
<lastBuildDate> from the default RSS 0.91 template and
made <pubDate> what it should have been (the date of the most
recent entry). This allows better use of caching and conditional GETs when
retrieving RSS.
-
Added a no_colon attribute to
<$MTBlogTimezone$> to be used in
constructing RFC822 dates, and fixed the format of <pubDate>.
-
Fixed bug with password-protected TrackBack-enabled categories by changing
the URL to stick the passphrase into the path_info.
-
Fixed ImageMagick bug where older versions of Image::Magick would cause
MT to give an error
Can't locate auto/Image/Magick/Resize.al when
creating a thumbnail. Thanks to Erin for the use of her server in figuring
out the problem.
-
Fixed bug with anchors in permalink URLs sent in TrackBack pings. (Brenna)
-
Improved titles of MT screens so as to aid navigation, etc. (Justin Hall,
and others)
-
Added a
<$MTSearchResultCount$> tag, which counts results across
all blogs found in the search. (mcroft)
-
Fixed bug with the TrackBack bookmarklet and single item TrackBack, where
a typo was causing the checkbox with ping URL not to appear. (Anil)
-
Set charset in HTTP header to the same encoding we set in the
meta
tag.
-
Fixed problem with TrackBack URLs and servers that screw up the path info.
-
Added decode_xml as a global tag attribute. (Timothy Appnel)
-
Fixed bug where extra update pings would be sent on already-pinged entries,
if the entries were saved from the preview screen.
-
Added a SafeMode config setting, on by default, to check for security
and/or other issues and disallow them, but which can be turned off.
-
Disallow certain file extensions from being used in linked file templates,
for security purposes: .cgi, .pl, .pm, and .cfg, if you're
running in SafeMode. Thanks to Michael Croft for the note.
-
Made ``Edit your Profile'' description clearer so that users know they select
their language there. (Eduardo Arcos)
-
Added PublishCharset option to mt.cfg to override the character encoding
corresponding to your Preferred Language.
-
Fixed bug with finding ppmquant when creating thumbnails of GIF images;
MT::Image was looking only in the PATH.
-
Changed text of
MORE... link in default templates to Continue reading
E<lt>$MTEntryTitle$E<gt>, to clearly identify the target of each link
(for accessibility purposes). Thanks to Timothy J. Luoma for the suggestion.
-
Fixed bug in import where auto-extracted titles were only copied, not cut
out of the entry body. Also, fixed a bug where multi-line titles would not
be recognized between ``title start'' and ``title end''.
-
Added CONFIGURATION SETTINGS section to the manual with a description of
all of the available mt.cfg settings.
-
Fixed bug where archive config screen didn't work properly if it was viewed
in a non-English language.
-
Added a check for whether an alternate template (AltTemplate) has been
specified for a given Template name in search. If not, give an error.
The system previously gave a much more confusing error.
-
Added option to
<MTGoogleSearch> to pull query from entry
keywords. (Jason Trommeter)
-
Fixed
Can't use "No title" as a method name bug (l10n-related).
-
Fixed bug in dc:date in TrackBack RDF (no
T). (Phil Ringnalda)
-
You can now add the Keywords field to your bookmarklet.
-
Keywords are now exported and imported properly.
-
Fixed bug with
<MTPings> showing all pings in the system if
an entry doesn't have TrackBack enabled, but the tag is used.
-
Fixed bug with the password recovery screen. (fmt)
-
Added numeric check for limit to be used in SQL query. (Michael Stillwell)
-
Fixed TrackBack URL when it contains a passphrase on category edit screen.
-
Fixed
? link for Local Archive Path in upload popup. It was showing the
Local Site Path. (tylerted)
-
Fixed a bug in MT::ObjectDriver::DBM that caused range searches not work
when using join. This wasn't actually breaking anything in MT, but it was
still a bug.
-
Fixed a bug where AdminCGIPath was used where it shouldn've have been.
(Jeremy Beker)
-
Work around decimal places in old versions of MySQL with blog timezone.
-
Fixed perl doc typo in MT::Placement. (Sen Nagata)
2.5 (2002.10.08)
-
Localization: the MT interface can be available in multiple languages, on
a per-author setting.
-
Integrated Jay Allen's mt-search (Thanks, Jay!). We've made the following
changes from version 1.31b:
-
Rewrote ``new comments search'' to make it more scalable (using
recently_commented_on functionality)
-
Added a search log through the Activity Log.
-
Added search request throttling, to help against denial of service attacks.
-
Merged mt-search.cfg directives into mt.cfg.
-
Customized default search templates to use MT stylesheets.
-
Including Template Modules using
<MTInclude> tags now works,
though you should be careful if you have more than one blog in the system.
See the documentation for more details.
-
Added an IncludeBlogs config setting and form field to allow for
setting a list of blogs to include in the search (as an alternative to
excluding a list of blogs). IncludeBlogs overrides ExcludeBlogs.
-
Changed AltTemplateN directives to just AltTemplate. You can now set
an infinite number of alternate templates.
-
Renamed TemplateDir setting to SearchTemplatePath to avoid confusion
with the TemplatePath setting.
-
Reworked as an MT::App subclass.
-
Added ability to ping blo.gs and other services.
-
Made default templates more accessible: added summary to calendar
table; changed month name to a
<caption> tag; changed day names
to <th> headers and added abbreviations; blog title in banner
is now linked back to main page; now use real header tags, eg <h1>;
now use relative font sizes, eg small; use <label> on comment
form elements. Thanks to Mark Pilgrim's 30 Days to a More Accessible Weblog.
-
Image thumbnails can now be created using the NetPBM tools, if your system
has those. Look at the ImageDriver and NetPBMPath settings in mt.cfg.
The default is still to use ImageMagick.
-
Added TrackBack auto-discovery, which can automatically find TrackBack ping
URLs based on permalinks in entry bodies. These entries can then be pinged
without any extra effort. Inspired in part by the pingback specification.
-
Added a new stylesheet as the new default style for new blogs.
-
Added a Keywords field to the new/edit entry screen, for storing search
keywords/metadata, along with a
<$MTEntryKeywords$> tag.
-
Fixed RSS 1.0 template so that we're now using Dublin Core tags instead of
RSS 0.9x extensions. Thanks to many concerned parties. :)
-
Fixed a bug in the MySQL implementation with recently_commented_on when
using MySQL 3.23.45 (or earlier?). Thanks to Adam Kalsey for the fix.
-
TrackBack pings should now be sent using POST instead of GET.
-
Added
encode_xml="1" to the <$MTEntryLink$> tags in the default
RSS templates (to encode ampersands, among other things).
-
Update pings (eg weblogs.com, blo.gs, MT, etc) are now sent only when an
entry is either new (and published), or was previously a draft, and is now
published.
-
Send entry title in subject of notification messages.
-
Added two new date formatting tags,
%x and %X. The former displays
the language-sensitive date, and the latter the language-sensitive time.
-
Improved the default settings for TemplatePath, ImportPath,
PluginPath, and SearchTemplatePath, so that they are now based on
the detected directory where MT is run from, rather than just ./foo
(off of the current working directory).
-
Added
<MTBlogs>, a container tag to list all of the blogs in
the system.
-
Fixed thumbnail and HTML popup filenames when the uploaded image filename
contains multiple
. (periods). (Ask Bjørn Hansen)
-
<$MTCategory*$> tags can now be used in category archive file
templates.
-
MT::Util::encode_xml now encodes apostrophes for XML. (Timothy Appnel)
-
All container tags in MT::Template::Context now propagate conditions
properly. (Brad Choate)
-
Added sprintf global tag attribute. Thanks to Brad Choate for the patch.
-
Increased height of main entry text window if there is no extended entry.
-
Changed RDF so that TrackBack ping URL is now in trackback:ping.
Should be backwards-compatible.
-
Added AdminCGIPath setting to use if mt.cgi URI is different than
public URI (eg if you're using https).
-
<$MTBlogEntryCount$> no longer includes entries marked Draft.
(Brad Choate)
-
Added MT->version_number for just the numeric portion of the version.
-
Changed TrackBack ping URLs to use path info for TrackBack ID instead of
query string. This allows using POST requests.
-
Tags can now be used with XMLish / (forward slash) at the end, which
allows using a tag both as a container and as a variable tag. Multiline
attributes are also possible. Thanks to Brad Choate for the patch.
-
Search and replace (within MT) can now search in keywords.
-
Set default date formatting language to English if not set.
-
Added optional language attribute to
<$MT*Date$> tags,
allowing you to override your per-blog language date formatting setting.
(Justin Hall)
-
Added entry title to comment and TrackBack ping notification messages.
-
Added
<MTPingsSent> container to list the TrackBack pings sent from
a particular entry.
-
Added
<$MTBlogSitePath$>, the Local Site Path from blog config.
-
Fixed bug with OR in part of category name when using boolean with
<MTEntries category="Foo OR Bar">.
-
Container tags can now be nested within container tags of the same name
(eg
<MTEntries> inside another <MTEntries>) without
using a template module. Thanks to Brad Choate for the patch.
-
Default PingTimeout setting is now 15 seconds instead of 10.
-
Added checkbox in bookmarklet TrackBack item when there is just one TB-enabled
entry. Thanks to Phil Ringnalda.
-
Fixed bug with half timezones and MySQL by changing blog_server_offset
column to a float.
-
Improved security when deleting objects--now we perform the ``has-permissions?''
check not only before displaying the option to delete in the UI, but also
before deleting the actual object in the system.
-
Fixed CGIMaxUpload example in mt.cfg; the underscore was causing the
postmax to be set to 500 bytes, causing spurious
Uploaded file too large
errors.
-
Daily, Weekly, and Monthly archives are now rebuilt in segments, N entries
at a time, just like individual archives. N is based on a multiplier of
the EntriesPerRebuild setting in mt.cfg.
-
Moved all XML-RPC implementation methods into MT::XMLRPCServer, so that
mt-xmlrpc.cgi is just a shell. This allows using the XML-RPC implementation
with mod_perl.
-
Added mt_allow_comments, mt_allow_pings, mt_convert_breaks,
mt_text_more, and mt_excerpt extensions to the content struct in
metaWeblog.newPost and metaWeblog.editPost, and to the return
values in metaWeblog.getPost and metaWeblog.getRecentPosts.
-
Only show ``5 most recent comments'' and ``5 most recent pings'' if there are
any.
-
Fixed bug with OR/AND booleans and categories: the OR/AND now respects the
context in which it was used, and filters the list of entries already in
context, rather than always listing all entries that match in the entire blog.
Thanks to Ben Hatton and others.
-
Added CommentScript, TrackbackScript, and SearchScript config
variables to make it easier to configure MT for mod_perl or in situations
where Perl scripts need .pl extensions.
-
Documented the words=``N'' attribute to
<$MTEntryBody$>.
-
When rebuilding an index template, the rebuilt screen now has a ``View
this page'' link.
-
List 5 most recent pings on the main menu for a blog.
-
Now use Resize instead of Scale when scaling images using ImageMagick.
Also, remove all profile information from the image. Thanks to Michael S
for the patch.
-
TrackBack pings are now imported and exported like comments.
-
When exporting, make sure to set date language to English, so that exported
AM and PM will be in English.
-
metaWeblog.newPost and metaWeblog.editPost now accept a dateCreated
parameter in the struct in ISO.8601 format to specify the authored-on date.
Thanks to Bill Kearney for the reminder.
-
If an author's password is NULL, mt-db2mysql.cgi now converts it to the
empty string before sticking it in MySQL.
-
mt-check.cgi now displays the version of the module installed.
-
Attributes hash ref is now localized before being passed in template tag
handlers, which means they can modify the list of attributes in a localized
scope. Thanks to Brad Choate for the idea.
-
Template parser now parses attributes with embedded
$ characters
properly (like <$MTFoo bar="/baz$/"$>). Thanks to Brad Choate
for the pointer.
-
Fixed bug with invalid (empty) ALLOW PINGS values.
-
Added
title="page title" to link created in bookmarklet posting window.
-
Added validity checking for URLs sent in TrackBack pings.
-
Only load files in the plugin directory whose extensions are .pl.
(staggernation)
-
Added show_email and show_url to
<$MTEntryAuthorLink$> and
<$MTCommentAuthorLink$>. These let you control whether the email
address or URL is displayed in a particular instance of the tag. (syndromes)
-
Added the following languages for date formatting:
- Japanese (Justin Hall)
- Icelandic (Einar Orn Einarsson, Ingvi)
- Slovenian (gandalfar)
- Czechoslovakian (Johanka)
- Danish (henrik hammer berthelsen)
-
Link from bookmarklet now includes title attribute with title of page.
(Todd Dominey)
-
Fixed postion to position in the default stylesheet. (Doug Feuerbach)
-
Added a link to the edit-entry screen on the edit-comment screen to edit the
entry on which the comment was made.
-
Fixed bug where author count could include authors who no longer have
permissions on the blog.
-
Added mt.publishPost method to XML-RPC interface to rebuild the files for
a particular entry.
-
Improved detection of MT directory (now detected from Config parameter to
MT::new).
-
Changed TrackBack entry pulldown in bookmarklet to menu-long style.
(girlie)
-
TrackBack RDF data is now enclosed in HTML comment tags.
Added comment_wrap attribute to
<$MTEntryTrackbackData$> to
turn off this wrapping.
-
Added namespace URLs to the
<html> tags in the default templates.
-
Fixed bug when importing data when using the MySQL version when ``import as
me'' is unchecked. (Kristine)
-
If the path you specify as your DataSource in mt.cfg does not exist,
you will now get an error. This should help in figuring out installation
problems, perhaps.
-
Added MT::Template::Context::add_global_filter to add a global tag
attribute.
-
Added NoLocking config option for use on systems using Berkeley DB where
flock() and link() are both unimplemented (some Windows systems). Not
to be used unless one knows what one is doing. Thanks to dws for the patch.
-
Added the
<MTCommentEntry> tag, a container tag representing the
entry on which a comment was posted. So you can use <$MTEntry*$>
tags inside of that container referring to the entry.
-
Fixed dc:identifier and URL sent in TrackBack ping so that they include
the numeric ID for the permalink, if the preferred archive type is not
individual.
-
Added the
<$MTStaticWebPath$> tag, which displays the value of
the StaticWebPath that you've set in mt.cfg.
-
The comment sort order you've chosen in Blog Config | Preferences is now
used to sort the comments used in
<MTComments lastn="N">. You
can override this with the new sort_order attribute. Thanks to morbus
for the patch.
-
Changed order of tag initialization in MT::Template::Context::init. Now
tags created in plugins are set after the defaults, which means you can
override the default tags. This should, of course, be done with caution.
Thanks to Jay Allen for the reasoning.
-
Fixed compatibility problem with older versions of DBD::mysql, where
the auto-increment column value is returned through
$dbh->{insertid},
rather than $dbh->{mysql_insertid}.
-
Added MT::Template::Context::add_conditional_tag to add a conditional
tag. This makes it easy for plugins to add conditional tags.
-
Fixed bug causing double slashes in
<img> code for thumbnails.
2.21 (2002.06.28)
-
Very important bug fix to MySQL schema: Changed all *_created_on columns
to the datetime type instead of the timestamp type. The latter could
have very bad effects if used within the MySQL shell (although through
MT's libraries it is not a problem). Thanks to shanson for finding this.
-
The plugin framework can now create container tags (thanks to Adam Kalsey
for pointing out that it couldn't before).
-
Added encode_xml global tag attribute to escape special XML characters.
-
Changed default RSS templates to use encode_xml=``1'' rather than
encode_html=``1'', because the latter will encode characters into undefined
XML entities.
-
Added encoding=``iso-8859-1'' to default RSS templates. This means that
users using other encodings will have to change the RSS templates.
-
Made bind_columns usage compatible with older versions of DBI that
expect the attributes hashref as the first arg.
-
Fixed bug with Allow pings default not being unchecked after pressing
save. (Robyn)
-
Fixed MySQL usage under mod_perl to look in the right spot for the
mt-db-pass.cgi file. Thanks to Ask Bjørn Hansen for the patch.
-
Fixed mt-load.cgi to set email to the empty string, so that it's
not NULL.
-
Changed from using
lib->import method back to unshift @INC because
the former seemed to be causing problems for some people.
2.2 (2002.06.26)
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Added TrackBack, a peer-to-peer framework for communication between weblogs.
Can track cross-weblog conversations/discussions, provides remote content
repositories. Has password protection, IP banning, automatic RSS output, and
email notification.
-
Added MySQL backend support.
-
Added the
<$MTBlogRelativeURL$> tag to produce a relative URL to
your main blog.
-
Added
<link> tag navigation (prev, next, start) to Individual
and Date-based archive templates. Thanks to Mark Pilgrim.
-
Strip HTML from author, email, and URL comment fields.
-
Added decode_html global tag attribute to decode HTML entities.
-
Added title=``1'' and excerpt=``1'' attributes to
<MTGoogleSearch>. Thanks to Dave Sifry for the patch.
-
Added the ability to easily add new tags via the plugins directory and
the MT::Template::Context::add_tag method. Thanks to Felix S. Gallo for
the idea.
-
Improved text generated from uploaded image or file. (Brad Lauster)
-
Changed appearance of pinging and rebuilding windows.
-
Auto-select default post status when blog is selected in bookmarklet.
-
Added permaLink element to the struct returned from metaWeblog.getPost
and metaWeblog.getRecentPosts.
-
Fixed bug with saving entry you created when you don't have rebuild
permissions.
-
Added PingTimeout setting.
-
Split off rebuild and ping from save entry, so that they now occur on
separate screens (though still automatically). This gives a better indication
of status to the user, as well as enabling more ping options (like
TrackBack).
-
Added descriptions for categories and the
<$MTCategoryDescription$> tag.
-
If entry does not have title in search results, first 22 chars of body
will be used instead.
-
Fixed bug where entries saved as Draft would show up when using
OR or
AND in the <MTEntries category="..."> tag.
-
Fixed
related="1" google search.
-
Added Finnish as a date formatting option. (skithund)
-
Made
<$MTEntryDate$> work in comment listing template.
-
Standardized stylesheet links in default templates.
-
Changed admin:generatorAgent to the proper format (a URI).
-
Added <link> tag for RSS template to default main index.
2.11 (2002.05.03)
-
Updated documentation on linking to comments.
-
Fixed bug with
<$MTCommentPreviewIsStatic$> tag causing build
errors when previewing comments. (Introduced in 2.1)
-
Fixed bug with
<$MTArchiveCount$> not working properly for
category archives.
2.1 (2002.05.02)
2.0 (2002.03.20)
-
Fixes for typos, broken links, etc.
-
Fixed truncated
Delete and Cancel buttons on edit comment screen.
-
Fixed Mac IE problem in multiple category selection screen--when selecting
all of the options in the left box, the right box would jump around on the
screen. Fixed by adding a dummy category when the source box is going to be
empty.
-
Preferred Archive Type option will now only show archive types that you
have selected in Archiving.
-
Added a
changes saved method after saving in power edit.
-
Made
<MTComments lastn="N"> work when placed in entry context; it
will only display the last N comments from that particular entry.
2.0b6 (2002.03.12)
-
Added docs for entry screen customization.
-
If editable authored-on date is not to be displayed on customized entry
screen, display an uneditable version instead (because this is useful
information).
-
Fixed bug with creating thumbnails on Windows (binmode issue).
-
Fixed bug where
<$MTArchiveTitle$> on category archive would display
incorrect category label (because it was retrieving the label from the first
entry's primary category).
-
Fixed bug where convert line breaks and allow comments values would not be
set to default when using Custom entry screen settings without those two
checkboxes.
-
Fixed bookmarklet login bug that was introduced in 2.0b4 or somewhere.
-
Power edit and list & edit entries now only show authors that are
registered for the particular blog.
-
Added the
encode_php global tag attribute (thanks to Brad Choate for the
patch).
-
Fixed bug with saving profile without setting a password (introduced in
2.0b4).
-
Moved setting of global app variables back into load_tmpl, because some
other parts of the code call it directly, bypassing build_page.
-
mt-xmlrpc.cgi now checks if it has XML::Parser; if not, it uses this
knowledge to determine whether or not to decode HTML entities.
-
Fixed bug in date/time-formatting: times in the hour of 12 PM were being
displayed as 12 AM.
2.0b5 (2002.02.27)
-
New and edit entry screens are now modular and customizable; you can set the
fields you'd like to appear, and set where you would like the button bar (top
or bottom of page).
-
Increased width of Category pull-down in bookmarklet window.
-
The form you get after you've uploaded a file will no longer submit in err
when you press return; all submits are through the buttons using JS anyway,
so the form submit is now disabled.
-
Changed error screen so that there are now 2 buttons: CLOSE and GO
BACK. So it's clearer what happens when you click the buttons.
-
Refactored build_page and load_tmpl code; CMS-specific logic now goes
into MT::App::CMS::build_page, and parameter-setting goes into
MT::App::build_page. So load_tmpl now just loads the template.
-
Fix import so that new imported entries get
Convert Line Breaks set
properly.
-
When listing Five most recent entries on editing menu, grab first 22
characters of entry body if no entry title.
2.0b4 (2002.02.25)
-
Added
border="0" for thumbnail image after choosing popup image; also
fixed the invalid XHTML.
-
Fix thumbnail creation error by providing Image::Magick with the image
format on $magick object creation.
-
Fix bug on category-editing page where an error will be displayed if the user
who created a category has been deleted.
-
When creating a new author, give an error if no password is provided.
-
Fix bug with Convert Line Breaks being unchecked for pre-2.0 entries even
if the default in blog config is set to on.
blog
-
Cache format hashes for dates after creating them.
-
Added another speed enhancement, particularly for large archive pages, by
caching the MT::TemplateMap preferred object for an archive type.
-
Moved excerpt below entry body and extended entry body in bookmarklet window
to match layout on edit/new entry pages.
2.0b3 (2002.02.23)
-
New
New Entry and Upload File icons for left nav.
-
Added troubleshooting section for mt-load.cgi and DataSource errors.
-
Added
Post Status pulldown to import so that "Status" default in blog
config can be overriden. Added help links to import options.
-
Added Javascript validation for every DELETE button that deletes items from a
list; if nothing is checked, now gives a JS alert.
-
HTML-formatting buttons (bold, italic, URL, etc.) will now only show up when
using a browser that supports them.
-
mt-upgrade.cgi now detects if MT databases are already upgraded; if so,
it stops, and doesn't try to upgrade again.
-
When running under mod_perl, use Apache::Request instead of CGI.pm,
because it's faster, less bulky, etc. Required changes to any code calling
CGI.pm functions other than param.
-
Deleting entries from the power edit screen will now return you back to the
power edit screen (as opposed to list & edit entries).
-
Saving the power edit screen will now maintain the same page that you were on
when you saved, rather than starting back at the beginning.
-
Fixed a bug in MT::ObjectDriver::DBM where offset would not be applied
when using a join.
-
Fixed heights on power-edit input boxes and on thumbnail boxes.
-
Fixed Monthly rebuild slowness (thanks to Norch for the shell access so I
could debug it). Turns out it was due to some unimplemented short-circuit
logic. In addition, templatemaps are now cached to speed up rebuild even
further.
-
Category and author Filter pulldowns are now sorted alphabetically.
-
Fixed Email Address => IP Address on IP Banning screen.
-
Fixed help links (broken when help file names were shortened).
2.0b2 (2002.02.20)
-
Sort categories and authors in power-edit screen.
-
Changed input box styles back to 20px so that they are not too small in
Windows.
-
Added caching of templates when rebuilding archives; this means that for
each archive type, each archive template need only be loaded once. Hopefully
this will improve performance.
-
Fixed bug where
Convert Line Breaks setting was not applied to preview
page.
-
Shortened manual split page names so that they don't get truncated.
-
Export now exports in ascending chronological order. (morbus, and others)
-
Added <p> and </p> around the welcome message on the editing
menu, so that anything typed in (even without adding HTML) will get the
proper type formatting.
-
Untaint template's linked file path; we allow anything, assuming that the
user who set it up knows what he/she is doing. (Norch)
-
Fixed recently_commented_on, which was broken because it was resorting the
entries into the wrong order.
-
Fix warning when select
all entries for limit pulldown on list & edit
entries.
-
Added bookmarklet config option to include
Convert Line Breaks checkbox on
bookmarklet window.
-
Fixed bug where
Convert Line Breaks would not get set when posting from
bookmarklet. (RoyalTS)
-
Fixed bug with German date/time display. (RoyalTS)
-
Fixed typo in mtchanges.html. (morbus)
2.0b1 (2002.02.18)
-
Lots of changes to the UI: leftnav, topnav, edit-entry screen, new-entry
screen, etc.
-
Blog Editing Menu has now changed greatly to provide space for a welcome
message (editable in blog config), blog stats, and links to 5 most recent
posts and comments.
-
Added the ability to do NFS-safe database locking using .lock files and
link(). This is not something most people should worry about; if it
affects you, it's likely that you will know it. :) Thanks to Kelsey Cummings
for ideas and code.
-
Hold and Release are now Draft and Publish.
-
<MTEntries lastn="1"> within calendar should display the most
recent post from that day, not the earliest. Fixed.
-
In old versions, search and replace would not work unless you had the
permission to edit all entries. Now it does--if you don't have permission to
edit a particular entry, it is just not searched/replaced.
-
Added notes on Win32 installation, cgiwrap install, cgi-bin install, etc.
Added example pictures of set permissions window in FTP program.
-
When posting a comment, if comment text is not provided the system will give
an error.
-
Split up manual into sections, one HTML page per section.
-
encode_js no longer encodes / characters, because there is no reason
to do so.
-
Added thumbnail creation interface (requires Image::Magick) for creating
thumbnails of images uploaded through the system.
-
Added the ability to select a language other than English for date formatting
and display.
-
Added a script for ``mail this entry''
-
Added boolean AND/OR logic to the
<MTEntries> category attribute.
-
Added power-editing interface.
-
Status of imported entries will now be set to the default status assigned in
blog configuration (rather than always Release, as was the case before).
-
Changed
class="container" to id="container" in default templates.
(Thanks to Brad Lauster)
-
Added graphical editing shortcuts to bookmarklet window.
-
Use HTML::Entities for HTML-entity encoding if it's available; if not, use
the standard routines we've been using.
-
Added
<$MTBlogEntryCount$> and <$MTBlogCommentCount$>.
-
Added RSS 1.0 template to the default templates. Thanks to Rael Dornfest for
sending it.
-
Added
<$MTBlogTimezone$> tag, which displays the timezone as an
offset from UTC in +|-hh:mm format.
-
Added the
<$MTArchiveDateEnd$> tag, which represents the end date of
a date-based archive (Daily, Weekly, or Monthly) and thus can only be
used in a date-based context. It is a standard date tag, in that it accepts a
format attribute like any other date tag.
-
Made
archive_type attribute to <MTArchivePrevious> and Next
work.
-
Fixed graphical editing shortcuts so that if nothing is selected, nothing
happens--this will prevent the issue where empty tags are added at the top of
the page when nothing is selected.
-
Added comment IP banning.
-
Split configuration screen into 4 screens: core setup, preferences, archive
setup, IP banning.
-
Added the ability to assign multiple archive templates to a single archive
type; added an interface for associating archive templates with archive types,
added
MT::TemplateMap object, etc.
-
Improved error message when an error occurs reading mt.cfg, or when the
file cannot be found.
-
Fixed bug where
<MTEntries lastn="N"> on a Category Archive would
grab the wrong set of entries (not in the correct order).
-
Changed notification message sending so that only one will be sent to the
author of the entry, rather than
N / 20, where N is the number of
notification addresses on the list.
-
Added more sort and display options to
<MTEntries>:
recently_commented_on attribute, and sort and sort_by options.
-
Fixed parsing response from weblogs.com ping, which changed formats slightly
and broke the regular expression.
-
Added ability to truly delete categories.
-
Now use a better hack to get non-UTF8 data in mt-xmlrpc.cgi: we run the
data through
$foo = pack 'C0A*', $foo, which strips the UTF8 encoding and
flag. So at least we can now use XML::Parser, if it's there.
-
Added
lastn attribute to <MTComments>.
-
Added
<$MTCommentEntryID$>.
-
Added
offset attribute to <MTEntries>.
-
A category archive page will no longer be generated for non-categorized
entries (in 1.x an empty archive page with the name cat_.html would be
generated).
-
Added MT::App::print and MT::App::send_http_header, both of which do
the Right Thing under either CGI or mod_perl.
-
Fixed script name detection in MT::App::script, particularly under
mod_perl.
-
Eliminated mt-export.cgi and mt-import.cgi by moving import and export
into the MT::App::CMS class (with some modifications to enable them to
still run with unbuffered output).
-
Added
ImportPath directive to mt.cfg; defaults to ./import, and
allows setting the path to the import directory.
-
When a new entry is posted, the activity log will now be updated with the
author and entry ID.
-
Added IP address logging for comments, along with new tags
<$MTCommentIP$> and <$MTCommentPreviewIP$>.
-
Moved all comment code from mt-comments.cgi to MT::App::Comments, a new
app subclass of MT::App.
-
Changed calendar in default templates to add
<span class="calendar">
into every cell.
-
Split up individual entry rebuild into segments of N entries at a time so as
not to kill servers. (40 entries at a time is the default.)
-
Force rebuild window to focus when it loads.
-
Fixed bug where an apostrophe (
') in an author name would cause a JS error
on List & Edit Entries.
-
Added
<$MTBlogArchiveURL$>, the blog Archive URL.
-
Added
<MTCategories> and <$MTCategory*$> tags to list
all categories.
-
<MTArchiveList archive_type="Category"> is now the same thing as
<MTCategories>. Also, categories are listed in alphabetical order.
-
Added
<MTEntryCategories> to list all categories to which an entry
belongs.
-
<$MTEntryCategory$> now displays the entry's primary category.
-
Added the
category attribute to <MTCalendar> to only display
entries from a certain category in the calendar.
-
In
<MTEntries>, if a list of entries is already in context (for
example, in a date-based archive template), category and author can now
be used to filter that list.
-
Added
lastn attribute to <MTArchiveList>.
-
All file-management operations are now abstracted out to the MT::FileMgr
class.
-
Added
public_key field for author.
-
Made the rebuilding entry failed error message more verbose--now it contains
the name of the entry on which the rebuild failed. Useful when tracking down
problems with entries. (David Gagne)
-
Fixed a bug in the XML-RPC code where HTML entities would not be decoded;
thought the XML parser was doing this. But it wasn't.
-
In the List Notifications screen, the notification records will now be sorted
by email address.
-
Added
spam_protect attribute to all tags which can show the user's email
address to protect from spambots.
-
Added
<$MTVersion$> tag.
-
Added single-quoting where warnings were popping up in Perl 5.004_04.
-
Added docs about
%Z (timezone) date tag format.
-
Added an index on entry
modified_on column.
1.4 (2002.01.07)
-
New default templates no longer use <label> tag in the
Remember info?
checkbox for the ``remember me'' JS, because it was breaking XHTML validation.
-
Fixed Linked File Templates so that, when linking a template to a new file
that doesn't yet exist, the permissions will be set correctly (based on umask
settings in mt.cfg).
-
Added new default templates and made them customizable by stylesheets.
-
Added the
Comment Error Template to specify the layout of the page a user
receives when there is an error with his/her comment submission (eg. an
invalid or missing email address).
-
Usage of
<$MTCommentPreviewState$> in the Comment Preview
Template is now deprecated; handling of this tag will not be removed from
MT, because existing users are certainly still using it. But it is no longer
recommended as the best method for comment previewing (instead see the new
default templates for editable comment previews).
-
Changed the <title> tags of the default templates so that they are more
descriptive by default of the content in the page (and no longer just
MOVABLE TYPE : TEMPLATE).
-
Added
<MTGetVar> and <MTSetVar> for use in passing
around values to template modules, etc. (Yaacov Akiba Slama)
-
Added troubleshooting docs on fixing ``Moved hosts, can't login'' DB problems.
-
Added an editable comment preview form to the Comment Preview default template,
using
encode_html="1" and convert_breaks="0".
-
Added
<MTArchiveNext> and <MTArchivePrevious> containers
for displaying links to the next and previous date-based archives,
respectively.
-
Added
encode_js filter. (Yaacov Akiba Slama)
-
Added
zero_pad and space_pad filters.
-
Fixed bug where, when posting via bookmarklet,
allow comments on a new entry
would be turned off even if the default is set to true, in the situation
where the allow comments checkbox is not included on the bookmarklet.
(Volker Weber)
-
Fixed a bug in mt-check.cgi where the module description (and reason for
inclusion) would not be displayed.
-
Changed
%l to %I in the default date/time format string, because
%l is unsupported in some strftime implementations.
-
Removed
<a name="comments"> from the default Comment Listing
template, as this was causing problems with the form of the same name.
-
Added a
convert_breaks attribute to the <$MTEntryBody$>,
<$MTEntryMore$>, and <$MTCommentBody$> tags. This allows
you to override the Convert line and paragraph breaks on a case-by-case
basis, if desired.
-
Added
<MTCalendar> and associated tags for a monthly calendar
display of entries.
-
Now, if default-templates.pl cannot be found by mt-load.cgi, the actual
error message will be given, which can be useful for determining path errors.
-
Fixed bug where using
<MTArchiveList> and <MTEntries>
within an Individual archive template would overwrite the entry object in
the stash.
-
Added
trim_to global tag attribute. (morbus)
-
You can now use
lastn="N" in an <MTEntries> tag within an
<MTArchiveList> container to only display the last N entries within
a certain archive grouping; for example, to display the last N entries in each
category.
-
Index templates and template modules are now sorted alphabetically in
List
Templates. (morbus)
-
Added
remove_html global tag attribute. (morbus)
-
dirify now strips HTML tags (eg. <br>) and entities (eg.
&). (morbus)
-
In import dates, AM/PM is now optional; if not present the hour will be
treated as on a 24-hour clock.
-
Fixed bug where setting
words in excerpt to 0 would not work properly
(ie. excerpt would still be generated using 20 words).
-
Made upload popup link
onclick attribute return false.
-
Added index on comments for created_on column.
-
Added <$MTCommentID$> tag.
-
Fixed small comment bugs: if URL or email address was completely undefined
(not blank, but undefined), this would cause a
Build error; and the
PreviewURL, PreviewAuthor, and PreviewEmail tags were not using the correct
Comment context.
-
Fixed error message (
importing => exporting) in mt-export.cgi.
-
Fixed error message when opening up index template file fails (error message
included
tempfile).
-
Now require at least version
0.8 of File::Spec, because of the use of
splitpath (below). Changed mt-check.cgi to reflect this.
-
Use
File::Spec->splitpath to split up path into directories and
filename; this should fix a bug on Windows when rebuilding files.
1.31 (2001.12.13)
-
Fixed nasty bug that occurred when using ``Link this file to a template''
feature, and manifested when rebuilding indexes, causing the rebuild process
to hang.
-
Fixed discepancies in
Creating a new blog section in manual.
-
Fixed typo in search and replace link to export feature.
-
Fixed bug that occurs when two
entry_id input fields are present (because
of list vs. scalar context--now force scalar context).
-
Fixed bug where, after uploading a file without an extra path, its URL would
contain an extra forward slash (
/) (same with popup HTML URL).
1.3 (2001.12.11)
-
Fixed bug where
days="N" would override category="Foo" in
<MTEntries> tag. (cwodtke)
-
Added DBM file locking (shared lock when reading, exclusive when writing).
-
Export process now exports excerpts, and import now imports them.
-
When you upload a file, if a file by that name (at that location) already
exists, you now get a confirmation screen to overwrite the file, or not.
(Requires that File::Temp is installed.)
-
Added search and replace functionality.
-
You can now upload files into specific directories beneath the Local Site
Path and Local Archive Path.
-
When reading from DB files,
MT::ObjectDriver::DBM will now open the DBM
files in read-only mode, rather than read-write mode.
-
Fixed bug where
<$MTInclude$> of a template module would not
propagate conditions down to the template module contents; this meant that
conditional statements like <MTIfEntryIfExtended> would not work in
a template module. Now they do.
-
Added Javascript ``Remember me'' to default templates (Individual Archive
Template and Comment Listing).
-
Added
<$MTBlogHost$> tag, which prints out the host part of the
Site URL config setting. For comment cookies.
-
After uploading a file, in addition to being able to create a new entry with
a link to the file/embedded image, you can now just view the HTML that would
have been used in that new entry. This is useful when uploading multiple files
per entry.
-
Fixed logout page so username and
Logout link are no longer displayed in
the navigation bar.
-
Converting paragraph and line breaks is now set separately for entries and
comments. (If you are upgrading, make sure to turn this on for all blogs
that you want it on for, because it is a separate setting.)
-
Added Archive File Templates, which allows you to specify the output file for
a particular archive type, using regular MT template tags, allowing better
organization of archive directories.
-
Changed XML RSS default template so that title and excerpt are now HTML-encoded
to prevent XML errors.
-
Introduced four new global tag attributes:
encode_html, dirify,
lower_case, and upper_case.
-
In new comment notification email, added a link to the comments on the entry.
-
Added
debug MailTransfer setting, which just writes out the mail message
to STDERR.
-
When emailing comments in mt-comments.cgi, if the user leaving the comment
enters an email address, use that for the From: address in the email message.
-
Reorganized default config file to provide descriptions of config settings,
more instructional text, etc.
-
Added
NoTempFiles config file option to turn off use of temp files when
writing output files.
-
Added link to
Edit this entry after posting an entry via the bookmarklet.
-
Noted IE bug (
Content-Type override) that can cause export problems.
-
Added the
convert_breaks attribute to the <$MTEntryExcerpt$> tag.
-
Excerpt is now created on the fly when sending a notification, if you haven't
entered an excerpt for an entry.
-
Fixed List & Edit Entries so that unprivileged authors are not allowed to
delete entries.
-
Added XML-RPC server implementation of the Blogger API.
-
Added
<$MTCommentOrderNumber$> tag.
-
In mt-check.cgi, added checks for File::Spec, DB_File,
LWP::UserAgent, and SOAP::Lite (the last two are optional installs).
Also added instructions on installing each of these modules.
-
Automatically-generated
img tags (after uploading images) now contain
alt attributes.
-
Category pulldown in bookmarklet is now sorted alphabetically.
-
After an entry is deleted, prompt the user to rebuild.
-
Remove whitespace at the ends of the meta (
AUTHOR, TITLE, etc.) lines
in the import file when importing.
-
Improved application code that determines paths to reduce reliance on
SCRIPT_NAME environment variable. (Aaron Straup Cope)
-
Added
DBUmask, HTMLUmask, DirUmask, and UploadUmask settings for
the mt.cfg file. These are to be used to adjust permissions set on files
and directories created by MT. Removed manual chmod calls. (Aaron Straup
Cope)
-
In mt-comments.cgi, check whether an author has an email address saved in
his/her profile; if not, don't try to email new comments (this was causing
an error
No Recipients Found).
-
Changed default templates so that the popup comments links do not have
href="#" onclick=... but are not just href="javascript:...".
-
In mt-comments.cgi, when redirecting back to the comments popup window
after adding a comment, automatically append a slash at the end of
CGIPath
if no slash is present.
-
Fixed
<$MTCommentAuthor$> and <$MTCommentAuthorLink$>
so that they return the empty string (not an error) if no author name is
given in the comment, and thus will no longer cause rebuild errors.
-
Fixed context for
<MTEntryNext> and <MTEntryPrevious>
containers so that conditional tags (<MTEntryIfExtended>, for
example) can be used.
1.2 (2001.11.04)
-
Fixed bug when system's crypt implementation uses MD5 passwords (MT was not
picking up the proper salt). (Monica Reyes)
-
Added form-validity checking to mt-comments.cgi for checking email address
and URL. (Aaron Straup Cope)
-
Set
$CGI::POST_MAX to 1MB, which means that uploads must be 1MB or less,
to prevent denial of service attacks. (Aaron Straup Cope)
-
Added mt-export.cgi, which will export all of your MT entries into a format
that can be suitably re-imported through the import mechanism. It is also
useful for keeping backups of your entries. Functionality is linked from
Import & Export Entries.
-
Fix bug in mt-comments.cgi where redirect after posting to popup comments
would break styles (because redirect was using CGI::url(-base => 1), which
is a newer feature in CGI.pm).
-
Added link to manual (
HELP) in topnav.
-
When images are uploaded, and
Popup Image is chosen to create a new entry,
an HTML file will be created automatically to enclose the uploaded image,
if you have defined an Uploaded Image Popup Template. New template tags
<$MTImageURL$>, <$MTImageWidth$>, and
<$MTImageHeight$> added for use in the new template. Added a default
Uploaded Image Popup Template.
-
Added template linking functionality; allows users to manage their templates
externally from the MT application, and have them automatically sync-ed into
the MT database. Thanks to Ron Pacheco for patches and ideas.
-
Can now import comments from Greymatter.
-
Can now import to a particular category, either through the CATEGORY key (eg
from a system that supports categorization, like NewsPro), or by selecting a
default category for all new entries.
-
Fixed bug where import would create a new author with the same name as an
existing author; if an author already exists, now, entries are assigned to the
existing author.
-
Can now import extended entries from Greymatter and keep the extended portion
separate from the main blog entry.
-
Import now handles indentation and leading spaces more robustly.
-
Fix bug where MTEntryDate inside MTEntryPrevious and MTEntryNext do not
refer to the correct entry. (sunpig)
-
Added movabletype.org recently updated ping functionality for donors.
-
Added ``Syndicate this site'' link to default index template.
-
When deleting objects, check to see if we can load the object successfully
before trying to call
remove on it.
-
HTML-encode titles of entries on list & edit entries, so that if an
entry title contains HTML (eg. an anchor tag), it doesn't break the display.
-
Added <$MTArchiveCount$> tag: number of entries in a specific archive
grouping.
-
Use timegm_nocheck so that we don't get fatal errors when a date is out of
range.
-
Changed
use base to manual setting of @ISA in all libraries to improve
compatibility with older perls, where base.pm is not a core install.
-
Improved error message when Local Site Path or Local Archive Path is unset
when doing a rebuild.
-
Auto-check or -uncheck ``allow comments'' in bookmarklet when selecting a blog,
based on the configuration for that blog.
-
Added
<$MTEntryAuthorEmail$>, <$MTEntryAuthorURL$>, and
<$MTEntryAuthorLink$> tags.
-
Added
file attribute to the <MTInclude> tag, for pulling in an
external file.
-
Fix JS bug in bookmarklet category selector. (nasty)
-
Fixed bugs in MTEntries category=``'' and MTInclude module=``'' where, if you have
different categories/modules named the same thing across two different blogs,
only the first would ever be loaded. (Brad Choate)
-
Added support for weblogs.com XML-RPC ping. Added blog config option to turn
off the ping (it is on by default).
-
In List & Edit Entries, if an entry does not have a title display the
first 22 characters of the entry body, followed by an ellipsis, rather than
just displaying [No title].
1.1 (2001.10.22)
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Made <$MTDate$> work as a ``system date'', or the current date/time at
which the page is being rebuilt.
-
Added Pragma: no-cache header to keep Opera from caching pages. (Jay)
-
Changed default templates to use iso-8859-1 (Latin 1) encoding instead of
utf-8.
-
Added Blog Configuration option for the number of words in an auto-generated
excerpt.
-
Added comment previewing, using the new Comment Preview template. Default
templates now ship with comment previewing enabled, and the comments links
on the main index automatically link to the popup comments; the individual
entry template contains a static version of the comments.
-
Deleting an entry will now delete all of the comments associated with that
entry.
-
Made bookmarklet windows customizable by selecting whether users want to
include category, excerpt, etc.
-
Ran all scripts with taint mode on (-T), and fixed all warnings and errors.
Thanks to dchase for the patches.
-
Added Nickname field to author record, along with new MTEntryAuthorNickname
tag to display it. This allows having a different name for display than for
login.
-
Fixed file corruption bug when uploading files on Win32 machines; needed to
use binmode. (sunpig)
-
Support for custom, user-created template modules, which can be included using
the new
MTInclude tag. (Christina Wodtke and many others)
-
Modified CGI scripts to get their full path from $0, and use that plus lib
and extlib and the @INC directories, along with specifying the full path to
mt.cfg. This should improve out-of-box compatibility with IIS.
-
Fixed bug where MTArchiveList above MTEntries on an archive template would
cause the MTEntries to display just the most recent list of entries.
(notfully)
-
When logging out, we set a cookie with an expiration date in the past;
increased the amount of time in ``the past'' from 1 day to 1 year. (Laura)
-
Added MTDateFooter container tag. (silvercube)
-
Fixed bug with MTDateHeader not being output when posts from the same day
but different months were one after the other (eg. a post from November 11,
then a post from October 11). (hellgren)
-
Moved default templates into lib/MT/default-templates.pl, so that they can
be loaded by multiple scripts/libraries. Changed mt-load.cgi to read templates
from here, and also changed blog creation to install default templates in
every new blog.
-
Added support for sending mail through SMTP, using Mail::Sendmail; broke out
mail-sending stuff into MT::Mail. (Bill Turner)
-
Fixed bookmarklet bug where trying to bookmarklet a page with ampersands ('&')
in the URL would chop off everything after the ampersand. (nasty)
-
Fixed MT::App::redirect so that it redirects to a full URL (including the
host name and protocol), which fixes a problem on IIS. Also fixed redirects
in mt-comments.cgi. (Matt Haughey)
-
Added 'title' attributes to all icons in left mininav, and now set
window.status with appropriate tips for each icon.
-
Fix bug with stashed entries staying around after building archive lists.
The symptom is that the
lastn="N" attribute was not working properly.
(Philip Winn)
-
Documentation fixes (typos, etc.). (Cory Preus)
-
Fixed Edit Categories screen when category labels have quotes in them; this
was causing the labels to show up blank; they needed to be HTML-encoded.
(Jenn Redwolf)
-
Fixed ``attempt to use unitialized value as ARRAY reference'' error when
sending a notification without setting up any notification addresses.
(Christina Wodtke)
-
Clarified that you must remove indentation from Blogger/Greymatter/NewsPro
export templates when pasting.
-
Added appropriate context for MTArchiveDate tag outside of MTEntries context,
on Date-Based Archive Template; added context for MTArchiveCategory tag outside
of MTEntries context, on Category Archive Template. (Christina Wodtke)
-
Fixed TMPL_INCLUDEs on WinNT by giving HTML::Template the path to the
tmpl/cms directory. (Bill Turner, Axel Kollmorgen)
1.00 (2001.10.08)
-
First public release.
-
Improved diagnostics for some default-template-related, rebuild-related
error messages. (Christina Wodtke)
-
Added ``Creating a new blog'' instructions to manual, and link to this section
of the manual when creating a new blog. (Christina Wodtke)
-
Added MTEntryPrevious and MTEntryNext containers to refer to the previous and
next entries, respectively. These tags should work in any entry context.
(Christina Wodtke)
-
Tried to make install doc a little clearer by moving some Unix-specific
stuff down into ADDITIONAL NOTES.
-
Added (?) help prompts that point to relevant sections of the manual; added
some blog configuration option docs to the manual.
-
Improved layout of notification messages.
0.10 (2001.10.06)
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Added the <$MTCGIPath> tag and the CGIPath config file setting for easy
linking to your MT CGI scripts.
-
Added a config setting for setting the default value of the ``Status'' field
on the create an entry page; so you can set it to Release if you always want
it set to Release by default. (Christina Wodtke)
-
Added an ``allow anonymous comments?'' config option; if set, no checking is
done to determine if the visitor making the comment has provided an email
address and author name. If unset, both author name and email address are
required. (Christina Wodtke)
-
In the edit entry screen, if a comment author has not provided a name, there
was no way to get to the editing screen for that comment; so now, [No author]
is displayed if there is no author name.
-
Added an
archive_type attribute to the MTEntryLink tag; this allows you
to create a link to an entry's archive page other than the preferred archive
type. The default behavior is still to link to the archive page for the
preferred archive type. (Christina Wodtke)
-
Transform carriage returns into <br> tags when
Convert Paragraph
and Line Breaks is on. (Adam Wood)
0.09 (2001.10.06)
-
Improved look and functionality of default templates; also added default
templates for all archive types.
-
Set more default options when creating a new blog or editing 'First Blog'.
-
Added instructions for exporting NewsPro entries into the correct format;
thanks to Jeremy W for sending along the instructions, which are now in the
manual.
-
Added author attribute to MTEntries tag, so you can grab all of the posts by
a particular author (can also be combined with category and lastn).
(Jeremy W)
-
In comment notifications, the text between the brackets is now the name of the
blog, not
Movable Type.
-
Added alt tags to the images in the mininav. (Matt Haughey)
-
Fixed a bug in mt-comments.cgi that made it select the wrong comments listing
template (ie. one from a different blog).
-
Added a Status pulldown to the bookmarklet popup so that authors can post
HOLD items (rather than having everything RELEASE), if they wish.
-
Fixed a bug in tag argument parsing with a string like foo=``bar's baz''; the
single quote would end the double quote, which would lead to
foo having a
value of bar (and not bar's baz like it should).
-
Fixed allow_comments_default setting of allow comments box on new entries.
(Christina Wodtke)
-
Alphabetize category list in edit categories, and in pulldown menu on edit
entry/create new entry screen. (Adam Gerstein)
-
Sort comments in edit-editing screen by created on date, in descending order.
-
Fixed a bug in mt-load.cgi. Also, added IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS to
mt-load.cgi to delete it after running it the first time. Failure to delete
it is a security risk, because someone else could then run it (conceivably).
-
Added index.html to the distribution, which is just a simple 404 page,
which prevents people from doing the directory listing.
-
Added error checking to mt-add-notify.cgi.
0.08 (2001.10.03)
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Added mininav to left side of all system pages (once you have selected a
blog to edit, that is). Items in nav are dependent upon permissions, of course.
(Josh Buchanan)
-
Added activity log; currently it records logins, logouts, unsuccessful
authentications/password recoveries, etc. because that seems most useful from
a system maintenance perspective.
-
Added ability to rebuild just a single set of pages from a particular archive
type, eg. all Weekly archives. Also, split up ``Rebuild all files'' so that it
rebuilds in steps: Individual => Daily => Weekly, etc. This should lessen the
load of any one rebuild.
-
Fixed bug with weekday names (%A date format template) not displaying
properly on some systems. (Jeremy W)
-
Fixed bug with MTArchiveList when a Preferred Archive Type has not been set.
(Jeremy W)
-
Fixed MTEntries so that you can specify both lastn and category, and it will
display the last N entries in that category. (Daniel Talsky, Jeremy W)
-
Some changes to widths of textareas in bookmarklet and edit/create entry
screens, and to width of pulldown menu for category.
-
Changed look of ``Your existing blogs'' items: upper-case blog name, add bullet.
(Matt Haughey)
0.07 (2001.10.02)
-
Added uniqueness validation on author name; you can no longer create two
authors with the same name, nor change your author name in your profile to
the name of another author.
-
Rebuild popup now lets you rebuild just your indexes (index templates), if
desired.
-
Added a View Site link to the ``rebuilt'' page, so you can view the site right
after rebuilding.
-
Made all REBUILD links in status messages a link to the rebuild popup window,
but only if the user has rebuild permissions.
-
mt-comments.cgi now rebuilds all entry archives after adding a new comment,
even when using popup window comments.
-
Changed format of weekly archive page names so as not to clash with daily
archive pages; weekly archive pages are now called week_YYYY_MM_DD.html
(they used to be just YYYY_MM_DD.html).
-
Changed format of category archive page names so as not to just use category
IDs; new format is lower-case munged version of category name (remove all
non-alphanumeric characters, change spaces to underscores, and consecutive
underscores to one single underscore). For example:
Fun & Games gets
translated to fun_games.html.
-
Improved error messages when using a template tag out of context; for example,
using a MTEntryTitle tag outside of an MTEntries container on an
index/date-based/category template (it is legal on an individual entry
template, because the entire template is in entry context). (Sara Flemming)
-
Added a
No archives option to the Preferred Archive Type pulldown on the
Edit blog configuration screen; the lack of such an option, combined with
the Javascript validation, made it effectively possible to disable archiving
for a blog.
0.06 (2001.10.01)
-
Fixed the built-in RSS template so that it validates with RSS version 0.91.
-
Fixed bug with previewing entry introduced by convert paragraph breaks
option and code. (Adam Gerstein, Sara Flemming, Matt Haughey, Jeremy W)
-
Check that version of installed HTML::Template is greater than 2, because
we need certain features that were only added later on. (TW Walsh)
-
Actually include mt-import.cgi in the distribution this time. (Caroline van
Oosten de Boer)
-
Fixed a bug where the conditional settings for MTEntryIfAllowComments and
MTEntryIfExtended tags would not be picked up properly on Individual Archive
Templates.
-
Need to HTML-encode all ampersands before displaying in editing boxes; this
prevents the browser from turning in a textarea into an actual
non-breaking space, for example.
-
In the
Blog editing menu, fixed the Edit blog configuration icon link;
it was different than the text link, and it was incorrect, and caused an
error saying ``No permissions''. (Adam Gerstein)
0.05 (2001.09.30)
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Added mt-import.cgi, which imports blog entries from either Blogger or
Greymatter (or, for that matter, any system that can get the entries into
the right format) into Movable Type. Also added an import interface through
the main Movable Type interface, and docs for importing to the manual.
-
Fixed bug with MTDateHeader contents actually appearing before the start
of the <MTEntries> contents, each time through the loop. (Daniel Talsky)
-
Added a ``Convert paragraph breaks'' option to specify whether paragraphs
should be enclosed within <p> and </p> tags. (Matt Haughey)
-
Added some Troubleshooting docs to the manual, as well as information about
setting up the db directory outside of the webroot.
-
After saving a template, users will ``rebuild files'' permissions will now be
able to rebuild files from the ``template saved'' message. (Matt Haughey)
0.04 (2001.09.27)
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Changed internal timestamp format so that timezone offsets are not
recalculated on every rebuild. Changed from epoch time (seconds since 1970)
to
YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.
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Added uneditable name of template to top of editing page for non-index
templates; this limits possible confusion over which template you are
actually editing. (Steven Jarvis)
-
Made
MTCommentAuthorLink web links open in new window. (Steven Jarvis)
-
Bookmarklet Javascript now works in IE 5.5 (needed to use document.selection
in that browser). (Caroline van Oosten de Boer)
-
Added
created_by column to author object, in preparation for allowing
author deletion, but only of authors that you have created.
0.03 (2001.09.26)
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Added Bookmarklet posting functionality, with a link to setup on the main
project administration menu.
-
In List Entries, if a post does not have a title display [No title] instead
as a link.
-
Changed login cookie path from / to /path/to/mt/. For example, if you
installed MT at /my/mt/mt.cgi, the path for the cookie would now be
/my/mt/.
-
MT::Util::send_mt_mail now checks for more default locations of sendmail,
instead of giving up, until it finds one that works. It now checks
/usr/lib/sendmail, /usr/sbin/sendmail, and /usr/ucblib/sendmail
(list taken from Mail::Mailer). (Steven Jarvis)
-
Added Javascript form validation for the edit blog configuration/create new
blog form.
-
Added MTCommentAuthorLink tag, which links the comment author name using a
succession of rules: looks first for URL, then for email address, then just
displays the name without a link. (Steven Jarvis)
-
Deprecated MTCommentName in favor of MTCommentAuthor; removed the former from
the documentation, although it still works (and likely always will).
-
Made uploading files compatible with versions of CGI.pm without CGI::upload
method (versions prior to 2.47). Run CGI::upload in an eval, check for errors,
and use CGI::param if we get errors. (Steven Jarvis)
-
Added a password recovery feature, linked from the login page. Also added a
birthplace setting to the ``edit profile'' page; this must be filled out in
order for an author to recover his/her password.
-
Added a config setting StaticWebPath to the mt.cfg config file. This allows
you to host the MT images and stylesheets in a directory different than where
you host your MT installation (CGI scripts, etc.). This is necessary on some
servers, where you have to install MT into your cgi-bin, which doesn't accept
non-CGI scripts in that directory. (Taegan D. Goddard)
-
Fixed display bug in blog editing menu where VIEW SITE would have space up
above it, when a user does not have full permissions.
-
Don't include ``Send a notification'' section when editing an entry if the user
does not have notification-sending permissions.
0.02 (2001.09.25)
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Added FTP URLs to installation instructions. (Daniel Talsky)
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Fix some warnings. (Caroline van Oosten de Boer)
-
Fix bug with spaces at the ends of lines in mt.cfg file. (Caroline van
Oosten de Boer)
-
Fix bug with saving new entry--author was not being set for the new post.
(Matt Haughey)
-
Fix bug with profile link in header linking to the wrong profile on the
entry-editing page for an entry by another author.
-
Fix bug where creating a new author would switch your login credentials to
those of the new author (ie. you would then be logged in as the new author,
no longer as yourself). (Matt Haughey)
-
Added <$MTArchiveTitle$> tag.
-
Fix bug where uploading a file with backslashes in the path (eg. from
Windows) would not get the path cut off properly. (Caroline van Oosten de
Boer)
-
Changed Image-Size installation method, because the old method was not
resulting in a working installation, due to the module using AutoLoader to
split up the routines. (Caroline van Oosten de Boer)
-
Updated installation doc to reflect new Image-Size installation method, along
with incorporating instructions for performing some steps in a Unix shell,
among other things. (Matt Haughey, Steven Jarvis)
-
Fixed mt-comments.cgi so that it supports adding comments when the comment
system is using inline/static comments (as opposed to comment popup windows).
The archive pages for the entry, along with the index pages, are now rebuilt
after a comment is added, and the user is redirected back to the individual
entry archive page. (Caroline var Oosten de Boer)
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Added <$MTEntryCommentCount$> tag: number of comments on a particular entry.
-
On Edit Blog Configuration screen, moved File Extension for archive files
down into ``Archive Configuration'' section. (Steven Jarvis)
-
In the Movable Type admin UI, the Movable Type logo now returns you to the
Project Administration area, rather than the movabletype.org site.
-
In List Entries, when author does not have ``edit all posts'' privilege, but
selects to view posts by another author, entry title is no longer a link.
0.01 (2001.09.23)
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