Serendipity 1.2-beta1 released
Posted by Garvin Hicking in Announcements, Development
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After a long time of development and testing, Serendipity 1.2 is now out in its first release candidate.
There have been quite a lot of changes to the new version. Most important of them all, the authentication and session scheme has been altered to allow easier plugin interaction. Also the backend (master template and template for the entry editor) has finally ben Smartyfied so that they can be changed by template authors.
We would kindly ask all Serendipity users to test this new version to squash any possible showstoppers before the final release.
Please check especially if the login to your admin backend still works flawlessly (especially if you are using https) and if your 'Edit Entry' backend section works just like before. Please report bugs and issues on our Serendipity Forum Board.
Here's a list of other new cool enhancements since Serendipity 1.1:
- Templates for Backend (Entry Editor, Master Template) via Smarty
- New session/login system
- SQLite3, PDO::Postgresql Support
- better IPv6 support
- better HTTP headers to support Caching
- allow to define if a parent category should show entries of child categories on the frontend, or only entries of that exact category
- Bugfix: RSS fullfeed for "let user decide" now properly works
- Bugfix: Saving/sending trackbacks and tracking exit-links works in circumstances involving cached entries
- Bugfix: Place possible dangerous user preference options to group management to prevent unwanted configuration changes
A full list of changes is contained in the docs/NEWS file inside the file archive. Many changes are small bugfixes and user interaction enhancements that all speed up your Serendipity experience.
You can download the latest version on www.s9y.org. And most of all: Have fun!
One thing that would be on my wish list however, would be the option to upgrade from within SPARTACUS (either beta's/snapshots or final releases!
That would really rock!
Cheers!
The problem with updating via Spartacus are conceptual ones. It would need write privilege to ALL serendipity files, which would impose a larger security leak. Then it would require download checksum management so that people cannot simply redirect your DNS to install a fake s9y version for you, when you update. Then also the traffic is a problem - s9y has many files and transfering all of them without an error via HTTP will most likely not work in a PHP spawned proces. Using a ZIP would not work because most server don't have the zip extension and using the PEAR ZIP class would use too much memory for deflating.
I redirect my entry to id/%id%. It is run in 1.1.2, but not run in 1.2-beta.
It might also be a browser issue that might clean out cookies. Which browser are you using, are you running any cookie-filtering software or proxies that might be related?
I use MSIE 7 but the issue started immediately after installing 1.2 and I had made no changes to my browser or hosting account (which is GoDaddy in case that matters).
Usually logout problems like yours are cookie or server related, they might also happen when your cookies are mangled. Maybe if you purge your cookies from the browser and restart the browser, the 1.2 trouble might go away.
Please come to the forums (board.s9y.org) for a further discussion!
