Serendipity 0.8.1 released
Posted by Garvin Hicking in Announcements, Security
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The Serendipity Team is happy to announce the immediate availability of the 0.8.1 maintenance release.
This new release mostly addresses some bugs and security issues discovered in Serendipity 0.8.
Serendipity users who are running their blog with multiple and maybe not trustworthy authors are urged to upgrade to this new Release because of authors being able to upload special files without privileges.
The other important fix addresses possible XSS injections for the templatedropdown and shoutbox plugins.
Other non-critical fixes include:
- Fix pagination of entries by author
- Fix RSS 1.0 feed validation
- Deactivated GZIP encoding in certain environments
- Fix some missing allowed BBCode special characters
- Some IIS/Windows server compatibility fixes
No new features of our 0.9 development release have been ported into this release. If you are eager to try our new features like viewing/selecting multiple categories to read, new plugin hooks for the media selector, uploading X images in one go and others - feel free to try our nightlies available on www.s9y.org
On top to that new release, the following new plugins have been published since the release of Serendipity 0.8:
- serendipity_event_aggregator: A "Planet"-like plugin that turns a Serendipity installation into a RSS Aggregator
- serendipity_event_customarchive: A user-sortable view on your archived entries
- serendipity_event_cachesimple: A full-page caching plugin
- serendipity_event_todolist: A todolist sidebar plugin with maintanable project/todo states
- serendipity_event_userprofiles: Display and maintain personal user profiles
The upgrade from a previous release is as easy as ever: Download the new version, unpack the files into your existing directory, open your Blog's admin interface and you will see the automatic upgrader. No SQL updates or function calls need to be made for this maintenance release, so the upgrade will only update your serendipity_config_local.inc.php file to set your new version string to 0.8.1.
Have fun with the new release, The Serendipity Team.
On another issue...
I think the URL "blog.com/categories" should have a default page with categories and their descriptions, just like "blog.com/archive" does show something.
I made something like this in the past for an older version of s9y, but I stopped making this time consuming mods since I upgrade very often...
I know now this should be piece of cake now using the "externalphp plugin", but still it would be a nice default feature for s9y.
About the categories, yes actually this would be best done with a plugin-mod. It really isn't that hard, but already the categories sidebar describes a list of all categories? You may also want to look at the customarchive plugin, it may be interesting for you.
Have the png's been tested with IE? All the PNG seem to causing trouble.
They appear for a very short period of time and are then replaced by the blank.gif.
Terribly annoying.
It looks OK in Firefox though... it just occurred to me that readers might not have Firefox.
* you have JavaScript activated
* the serendipity_event_browsercompatibility plugin is loaded
* your serendipityHTTPPath and baseURL path settings contain the same values like you use to view your Blog with (else the IE complains about security issues)
You may occasionally once need to refresh your page and make sure that CSS/JavaScript contains no errors.
I agree it's really annoying and am looking forward when PNG transparency finally gets implemented into Internet Explorer, which other browsers have succeeded with about 4 years ago.
I'm really sorry for that inconvenience. :-(
Regards,
Garvin
for some reason, the browser compatibility plugin was loaded 3 times after the upgrade (??!).
I deleted 2 of them and at first sight, everything seems back to normal.
Thanks !
Been using Serendipity since the 0.6 versions - I have no regrets about that choice today.
Onward to 0.9 :)
Uploaden der Dateien und eine Minute für den Update und schon läuft Serendipity 0.8.1 (also ein Versionssprung von 0.0.1). Das Update brachte ein paar kleine Bugfixes und Sicherheitsupdates.Allein die Archivsuche funktioniert leider noch nicht ganz richti
Tracked: May 17, 22:41
The upgrade to 0.8.1 of my Blogging software didn't really work out as expected. There might be a (tiny) bug in the upgrade process which I hope to reproduce. But some of the entries look really weird. And some of the pictures look weird in IE (i.e. t
Tracked: May 18, 15:11
Man merkt fast gar nicht, welches mein Lieblingsblog ist . Der Shopblogger setzt auch auf Serendipity und hatte mit seinem letzten Provider Probleme wegen hohen Serverloads. Der Wechsel zu Domainfactory hat wohl keine Besserung des Serverloads gebracht, d
Tracked: May 18, 16:23
Man merkt fast gar nicht, welches mein Lieblingsblog ist . Der Shopblogger setzt auch auf Serendipity und hatte mit seinem letzten Provider Probleme wegen hohen Serverloads. Der Wechsel zu Domainfactory hat wohl keine Besserung des Serverloads gebracht, d
Tracked: May 18, 16:24
Serendipity 0.8.1 erschienen. Kurzer Auszug aus dem offiziellen Serendipity Blog: Serendipity users who are running their blog with multiple and maybe not trustworthy authors are urged to upgrade to this new Release because of authors being able t
Tracked: May 18, 16:51
I updated all my Serendipity weblogs to version 0.8.1. The update was smooth and didn't give me any trouble at all. The release announcement of Serendipity you will find on the S9Y Official Blog
Tracked: May 24, 10:00
Seit heute läuft dieses Blog mit Serendipity 0.8.1. Ich hoffe, das Update ist glatt gegangen. Sieht aber bislang gut aus
Tracked: Jun 19, 18:12