New Features of Note

• Anti-Spam Features
  • Automatic Referral and Trackback blacklist update
  • CAPTCHA for non-admin users (Font warping has also been increased in this version)
  • Logging and display of Comment IP addresses and resolved Hostnames for Admins
  • DasBlogUpgrader can strip spam from existing content folders
  • Support for rel="nofollow"
  • Ability to delete referrals and trackbacks directly from the Admin UI
• Security Features
  • HttpOnly cookies
  • Admin access auditing
  • SMTP Authentication for outgoing mail
• Syndication Features
  • Improved RSS Comments support for SharpReader and RSS Bandit
  • Upgraded Atom support from 0.3 to Valid Atom 1.0. ATOM Syndication permalink changes but 301 is issued.
  • RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 validates via FeedValidator.
  • Ability to mark entries as "syndicated" or not. Entries can appear on the site but not in RSS/Atom.
  • New between RC1 and Gold: Plugable, configurable pinging of Blog Search engines like pubsub and technorati.
• Performance Features
  • Search Highlighting is optional now
  • Referrals are logged but not stored in XML by default. Configurable.
    (This has huge performance benefits for high traffic sites.)
  • DasBlog Upgrader can optionally remove all referrals.
    (Again with high traffic sites some folks had 5meg XML files full of referrals)
  • Theme templates are now cached in memory.
• Installation Features
  • New VBS for IIS permissions and VDir creation
  • Support for running under ASP.NET 2.0
  • Support for running on Win2k 2003 without changing permissions when impersonation is enabled
• Content Features
  • Ability to pre- and post-date entries
  • Permalinks based on Title and Date optional: 2005/06/06/title.aspx
  • Latest build of Free Text Box including ability to upgrade FTB without upgrading DasBlog.
  • Text Editor (FTB) supports IE7
  • Text Editor (FTB) supports FireFox
  • Blog Statistics macro
  • Mail-To-Weblog continues to improves. Works with Thunderbird.
• Extensibility Features
  • Custom Macro Plugin model without recompiling DasBlog (see the source for the example custom macro)
• Theme Features
  • DasBlog now ships with 16 themes and a Theme Combo to change between them.
  • New theme.manifest file makes themes and image assets more portable.