Features 1.6.4121.2

This release adds a new Macro (PermalinkUrl) which will return a raw text string of the url for a post. This is necessary to make the NewsGator Rating feature work as well as Technorati integration.

To install this patch simply drop the newtelligence.DasBlog.Web.Core dll into your bin folder.

Features

Fixed a problem with some new Caching code that could corrupt your cache (not your entries).

Features

1.     Better Permission failure - handling r/w permission errors now redirect to a friendly error page describing how to fix the problem. This should help new users with configuration problems

2.     Easier CrossPosting configuration - when creating a new cross post site, you can autofill the blog info by entering your blog URL and selecting the blog software the server is running. Info is then autofilled easing configuration.

a.  There is also a "Load Blogs" button, that loads all blogs using the given server info, and allows you to select the one you want to crosspost to.

3.     DisclaimerMacro - new macro for items disclaimer and new macro for homePageTemplate disclaimerLink which renders and links to your disclaimer in /SiteConfig/disclaimer.format.html.

4.     All the statisics pages can now be queried using a date such as Referrers.aspx?date=2003-11-01 - (note now that we are compressing the log files this won't work just yet).

5.     Using FormatPage to render a page just as My Title.format.html now sets My Title to the Title.

6.     The MailTo Macro now obfuscates the e-mail address if your SiteConfig.ObfuscateEmail is true.

a.  There is a new function, Util.GetObfuscatedString that takes a string and generates a string using a mix of Hex and Character entity encoding as well as some salt characters.

7.     SearchView.aspx now displays the query.

8.     SignIn.ascx now use an client JavaScript (md5.js) to super challenging the password with MD5 message digest algorithm, as defined in RFC 1321. the SiteSecurity.Login (core) is now overloaded for this with an extra parameter to compare the hashed pwd with the server stored pwd. other clients should work further with an plain pwd and also with a one way md5 hashed pwd.

9.     Added the DasBlogBlogXContentImporter tool, which imports posts and comments from an existing BlogX content directory, and produces content suitable for use in dasBlog. -- CraigAndera

10. Added newtelligence.drawArchiveMonths() macro for homePageTemplate and underlying support for monthly archive pages. newtelligence.drawArchiveMonths() renders a list of month links for any month which has posts. Clicking one of the month links will display only the posts from that month.

11. Added some ASP.NET uptime statistics to the EventLog

12. Added support for persisting the author of a entry in the Entry class and exposed via the itemAuthor macro

13. Log files are archived daily to .zip files.

14. Added new FormattedWhenBare(string) macro that does not append the timezone name

15. Added some caching of xml data files for a performance improvment.

Resolved Bugs