Serendipity 0.9 released
Posted by Garvin Hicking in Announcements, Development
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The Serendipity Team is proud to announce the availibility of the final version of 0.9 with a largely improved featureset, offering not only one of the best Blog-Engines around, but also as an aid for many CMS-needs you might face. It's multi-user features have been drastically improved, making Serendipity an allround-killer-flexible Web-Application.
INTRODUCTION
Serendipity is a PHP-powered weblog application which gives the user an easy way to maintain an online diary, weblog or personal homepage.
The development of Serendipity is intended to offer a flexible, expandible and easy-to-use framework. We use a sophisticated Plugin architecture, affecting both the appearance of your blog and its core features. It ships with a variety of useful plugins to enhance your blog, and several more are available in an additional CVS repository. Serendipity's Frontend is based on Smarty Templating and can thus be easily modified and enhanced.
User of other blog systems like WordPress, Textpattern or MoveableType might favor Serendipity because of its
- functional and flexible plugin expandability without the hassle of editing the core application files
- standard compliant templating (smarty), embedding of s9y into other frontends
- multilanguage abilities
- BSD-style licensing
- dynamically created pages
- WYSIWYG editing
- Multiple DB support (SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MySQLi)
- Online Plugin Repository for easy plug-and-play installation
- Shared Installation for powering multiple blogs from just one sourcecode
- builtin media database
- cool plugins: Category-based Sub-Blogs, Planet/Aggregator, Static pages/blocks
- Easy upgrading from every version
- Native import of many blog applications (WP, TXP, MT, bblog, ...)
The highlights of this new version are UTF-8 support, flexible usergroups, custom permalinks and enhanced Online Repository (Spartacus) means. As well as a lot more:
NEW FEATURES / FIXES
Now here's a list of major new changes since Serendipity 0.8:
- Flexible usergroup management. Authors can now be grouped inside usergroups and can have certain privileges (edit entries, upload images, maintain plugins, ...). An author can be a member of more than one groups, inheriting all privileges of each group he is a member of. Read/Write support can be assigned per-category.
- Custom Permalink support. Allows to configure the URL path structure from all important permalinks to suit your needs - you can now use /oldEntries/2005/10/28/Garvins-Birthday.html as entry permalink format or any other structure you may like. Added per-author XML feeds.
- UTF-8 support for all languages and bundled/additional plugins. Be sure to read http://www.s9y.org/index.php?node=46 for migrating an non-UTF-8 blog to UTF-8
- Improved Spartacus Online Repository. Less memory usage, now also fetch templates over the web, plugin groups and better integration with the plugin backend, set creation permissions
- Better usability: Multiple fileupload at once, media manager remembers last used settings, when deleting entries/comments you return to the overview immediately, support other WYSIWYG editors via plugin (TinyMCE, Xinha, FCKEditor), one-click spamfiltering of author/urls in the comments panel
- Atom 1.0 Feed support
- Improved MoveableType import, recognizing comments and trackbacks
- Support of MySQL boolean fulltext search
- More smarty templating options: Added new CSS classes in the default template to support styling trackback/comment/commentform/search-results easier. Localized "Reply" string. Optimized performance of accessing constants. Smartified the "Categories" plugin for better customization.
- Support frontend viewing of multiple selected categories and allowing the entryproperties plugin to hide certain entries from the frontpage.
- Enhanced bundled plugins: Entryproperties plugin can toggle whether to hide an entry from your RSS feed and add any number of custom fields to an entry.
- Support Gregorian/Jalali calendar
- New translations: Swedish, Hungarian, European Portuguese
- Bugfix: Category selector will now act correctly in Konqueror and Opera
- Bugfix: Importers can now import from tables that are not inside the same database as Serendipity
- Bugfix: Some function variable return codes fixed so that they should comply with PHP 4.4
And those are only the highlights! See the docs/NEWS file in the release file for the full list of changes.
NEW RELEASE
Serendipity 0.9 has been in development for more than half a year, and alpha version nightlies/snapshot have been available ever since. Thus, many people already got a hang of the large feature improvements since Serendipity 0.8. Our beta-release cycle has taken about 4 weeks, where remaining issues have been fixed, so that this new release is considered pretty stable.
UPGRADING
Upgrading from any version (also beta/alphas from previous versions) to Serendipity 0.9 is easy and can be done as before: Just unpack the release files to your existing directory, go to your admin panel and confirm the upgrade process. Serendipity automatically upgrades your database and tells you of important changes. If you are upgrading from a version prior to Serendipity 0.8, be sure to read this upgrade pointer: http://www.s9y.org/index.php?node=63
DOWNLOAD
Now what are you waiting for? Download latest release!
On behalf of the s9y-Team, celebrating his birthday with this release,
Garvin
Thanks for the great and positive feedback, and of course for your best wishes :)
You keep us (..me...) going on!
I have a multi-editor user base for my Serendipity install which is about 1/2 and 1/2 PC vs. Mac. The upgrade (from 0.7) to 0.9 - although full of many improvements & fantastic on my PC Firefox/IE - actually broke things for Mac users.
It has always been the case that the Javascript buttons in the editor did not work on Mac Safari - my editors lived with it because they can write their own HTML and not use the buttons. But now in addition to that - the image upload no longer even appears on the "Add Media" page for them - which they can't work around.
Luckily we have discovered if they install Mac Firefox *everything* does work...so I have asked them to please just use that for the time being. And they are doing it (grudgingly - uppity Mac heads. :-) So I told them I would submit a bug. But it is a bit strange to not support the 90% penetration browser on a platform (even if that 90% is only 7% of the market. :-)))
PS: It doesn't work either for IE on Mac...but screw 'em. :-P
Thank you for 0.9...great additions...love the configurable editor permissions..love the multiple image upload. You guys rock!
I just found the 'rotate' image button in the "Media Library"...fantastic idea!!!!
However, it doesn't work (completely). In my testing (on XPsp2 + Firefox 1.0.7) it rotates the large image...but does not change the thumbnail at all. Thinking maybe that I needed to "Rebuild thumbnails" to make a new one. I hit that...nope...on the rebuild serendipity/ImageMagik sees that the dimensions of the thumbnail are wrong so changes those...but it doesn't rotate the image at the same time that it changes the dimensions...it is actually kinda funny to see the new corrupted thumbnail.
Again, love the concept...just wanted to report the bug.
Your bug with Safari has been resolved a few weeks ago and will be part of an upcoming 0.9.1 release, but can also already be fetched through our nightly downloads.
Regards,
Garvin
Thank you very much...I will be sure not to clutter this forum incorrectly again.
Can't wait to get my hands on 0.9.1.
And just to restate this...serendipity (especially 0.9) is fantastic - regardless of how long my misplaced bug reports look.
Thanks Garvin.
Als letzte Tat, bevor ich heute mein Geburtstags-Wochenende einleite, habe ich gerade Serendipity 0.9 released. Die hauptsächlich neuen Features sind eine flexible Benutzergruppenverwaltung mit Rechten, diversen Pluginverbesserungen, freie Permalinks,
Tracked: Oct 28, 15:23
Die beste Weblogsoftware - Serendipity - ist nun als Version 9.0 verfügbar. Downloaden, upgraden, zurieden sein. Mit diesem Release hat sich »Garvin Hicking« (s9y-Hauptentwickler) wohl auch ein kleines Geburtstagsgeschenk gemacht. Ich sage jedenfalls d
Tracked: Oct 28, 15:38
"The Serendipity Team is proud to announce the availibility of the final version of 0.9 with a largely improved featureset, offering not only one of the best Blog-Engines around, but also as an aid for many CMS-needs you might face. It's multi-user featur
Tracked: Oct 28, 15:47
Version 0.9 wurde heute freigegeben. Happy Birthday, Garvin.(Update wegen Zeitmangels vorerst verschoben. Hmpf.)
Tracked: Oct 28, 15:55
Jazeker, Serendipity heeft een nieuwe upgrade klaarstaan. Serendipity is de software waar Beulbek op draait. Het leuke nieuws is dat mijn naam daar ook in voorkomt, aangezien ik een sidebar_plugin had geschreven om de laatste inzendingen uit het gaste
Tracked: Oct 28, 16:54
Serendipity 0.9 was released today, so I went ahead and installed it. Please let me know if you notice any issues on my blog.
Tracked: Oct 28, 17:07
They did it again! Serendipity, die anerkannt beste Blogsoftware der Welt liegt in Version 0.9 vor. Viele neue Features, alles in Farbe und bunt! Das Update von 0.8 bzw. einer der 0.9-beta Versionen geht wie immer geschmeidig einfach und sicher - Blog und
Tracked: Oct 28, 17:12
The Serendipity Team is proud to announce the availibility of the final version of 0.9 with a largely improved featureset, offering not only one of the best Blog-Engines around, but also as an aid for many CMS-needs you might face. It\'s multi-user features have been drastically improved, making Serendipity an allround-killer-flexible Web-Application. INTRODUCTION Serendipity is a PHP-powered weblog application which gives the user an easy way to maintain an online diary, weblog or personal homepage. The development of Serendipity is intended to offer a flexible, expandible and easy-to-use framework. We use a sophisticated Plugin architecture, affecting both the appearance of your blog and its core features. It ships with a variety of useful plugins to enhance your blog, and several more are available in an additional CVS repository. Serendipity\'s Frontend is based on Smarty Templating and can thus be easily modified and enhanced. User of other blog systems like WordPress, Textpattern or MoveableType might favor Serendipity because of its functional and flexible plugin expandability without the hassle of editing the core application files standard compliant templating (smarty), embedding of s9y into other frontends multilanguage abilities BSD-style licensing dynamically created pages WYSIWYG editing Multiple DB support (SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MySQLi) Online Plugin Repository for easy plug-and-play installation Shared Installation for powering multiple blogs from just one sourcecode builtin media database cool plugins: Category-based Sub-Blogs, Planet/Aggregator, Static pages/blocks Easy upgrading from every version Native import of many blog applications (WP, TXP, MT, bblog, ...) The highlights of this new version are UTF-8 support, flexible usergroups, custom permalinks and enhanced Online Repository (Spartacus) means. As well as a lot more: NEW FEATURES / FIXES Now here\'s a list of major new changes since Serendipity 0.8: Flexible usergroup management. Authors can now be grouped inside usergroups and can have certain privileges (edit entries, upload images, maintain plugins, ...). An author can be a member of more than one groups, inheriting all privileges of each group he is a member of. Read/Write support can be assigned per-category. Custom Permalink support. Allows to configure the URL path structure from all important permalinks to suit your needs - you can now use /oldEntries/2005/10/28/Garvins-Birthday.html as entry permalink format or any other structure you may like. Added per-author XML feeds. UTF-8 support for all languages and bundled/additional plugins. Be sure to read http://www.s9y.org/index.php?node=46 for migrating an non-UTF-8 blog to UTF-8 Improved Spartacus Online Repository. Less memory usage, now also fetch templates over the web, plugin groups and better integration with the plugin backend, set creation permissions Better usability: Multiple fileupload at once, media manager remembers last used settings, when deleting entries/comments you return to the overview immediately, support other WYSIWYG editors via plugin (TinyMCE, Xinha, FCKEditor), one-click spamfiltering of author/urls in the comments panel Atom 1.0 Feed support Improved MoveableType import, recognizing comments and trackbacks Support of MySQL boolean fulltext search More smarty templating options: Added new CSS classes in the default template to support styling trackback/comment/commentform/search-results easier. Localized \"Reply\" string. Optimized performance of accessing constants. Smartified the \"Categories\" plugin for better customization. Support frontend viewing of multiple selected categories and allowing the entryproperties plugin to hide certain entries from the frontpage. Enhanced bundled plugins: Entryproperties plugin can toggle whether to hide an entry from your RSS feed and add any number of custom fields to an entry. Support Gregorian/Jalali calendar New translations: Swedish, Hungarian, European Portuguese Bugfix: Category selector will now act correctly in Konqueror and Opera Bugfix: Importers can now import from tables that are not inside the same database as Serendipity Bugfix: Some function variable return codes fixed so that they should comply with PHP 4.4 And those are only the highlights! See the docs/NEWS file in the release file for the full list of changes. NEW RELEASE Serendipity 0.9 has been in development for more than half a year, and alpha version nightlies/snapshot have been available ever since. Thus, many people already got a hang of the large feature improvements since Serendipity 0.8. Our beta-release cycle has taken about 4 weeks, where remaining issues have been fixed, so that this new release is considered pretty stable. UPGRADING Upgrading from any version (also beta/alphas from previous versions) to Serendipity 0.9 is easy and can be done as before: Just unpack the release files to your existing directory, go to your admin panel and confirm the upgrade process. Serendipity automatically upgrades your database and tells you of important changes. If you are upgrading from a version prior to Serendipity 0.8, be sure to read this upgrade pointer: http://www.s9y.org/index.php?node=63 DOWNLOAD Now what are you waiting for? Download latest release! On behalf of the s9y-Team, celebrating his birthday with this release, Garvin
Tracked: Oct 28, 17:22
Heue mittag ist die Version 0.9 von Serendipity erschienen. Garvin Hicking berichtet: Die hauptsächlich neuen Features sind eine flexible Benutzergruppenverwaltung mit Rechten, diversen Pluginverbesserungen, freie Permalinks, UTF-8 Unterstützung, besse
Tracked: Oct 28, 17:25
Serendipity 0.9 (dieses Blog wird damit betrieben) ist erschienen. Get it while it's hot!
Tracked: Oct 28, 18:12
Es ist endlich so weit: S9Y 0.9 ist heute Abend freigegeben worden. Die neue Version läuft hier ja schon seit ein paar Tagen zu meiner (fast) vollsten Zufriedenheit, und ich habe es sogar geschafft, ein paar PostgreSQL-bezogene Bugs zu finden und soga
Tracked: Oct 28, 19:03
Wir sind zwar bestimmt nur eines der ersten Blogs, welches auf Serendipity 0.9 geupdated hat, aber bestimmt das erste davon, welches eine SQLite Datenbank verwendet. Wenn ich zurückdenke, was ich schon alles für SQLite spezifische Probleme hatte, trage ic
Tracked: Oct 28, 19:47
Heute ist Serendipity 0.9 veröffentlicht worden. Natürlich habe ich mich sofort an die Arbeit gemacht, und meine Installation aktualisiert. Was ich praktisch finde, scheinbar scheint auch noch der Zugang per Wap zu funktionieren... Damit ging das Updat
Tracked: Oct 28, 19:52
Das beste Blog der Welt hat sich den Versionssprung auf die Version 0.9 erlaubt. Es ist mir fast schon unheimlich, dass das Update wieder völlig problemlos lief und das bei allen drei Blogs, die ich mittlerweile betreue (Silvias Blogbuch - sandhaut.de/
Tracked: Oct 28, 20:18
Heute hat nicht nur Bill Gates, sondern auch Harvin Hicking Geburtstag. Und weil er Garvin ist, kann man ihn nicht nur nach Herzenslust beschenken, sondern er schenkt der Welt ein neues S9Y-Release. Wer wissen will, wie das Beste Blog der Welt noch be
Tracked: Oct 28, 21:23
Das beste Blog der Welt mit einem Major Release. ich weiss nur noch nicht, ob ich updaten soll... Diesmal hab ich quasi überhaupt nicht mitgearbeitet, schlechtes Gewissen macht sich breit... Grad außerdem das Gartenhaus umgeräumt, nachdem ich das halb
Tracked: Oct 28, 21:35
Serendipity 0.9 has been released, meaning an upgrade to 0.9 from the current 0.8.4 is now to be planned for.
Tracked: Oct 28, 21:36
Die Entwickler von Serendipity aka S9Y haben heute Version 0.9 freigegeben, welche diverse Fixes und Änderungen beinhaltet. Selbstverständlich haben alle neuen Blog bei Blogstart.de ab sofort die 0.9 im Einsatz!
Tracked: Oct 28, 22:12
Today version 0.9 of Serendipity has been released as scheduled. Celebrating his birthday with this release is Garvin Hicking: Happy Birthday and all best wishes! Now I will be busy updating at this weekend, and as supergarv as Serendipity proved to be
Tracked: Oct 29, 00:01
Heute, bzw. gestern, wurde die neue 0.9er Version von Serendipity - dem besten Blog der Welt [tm] - released.Laut dem S9Y-Blog sind die hauptsächlichen Neuerungen eine felxiblere Benutzer(gruppen)verwaltungen mit einem besseren Rechtesystem, UTF-8 Suppor
Tracked: Oct 29, 02:05
The Serendipity Team is proud to announce the availibility of the final version of 0.9 with a largely improved featureset, offering not only one of the best Blog-Engines around, but also as an aid for many CMS-needs you might face. It's multi-user feature
Tracked: Oct 29, 02:24
It must be an upgrade week! The site's MySQL framework was recently upgraded to 5.0 as the new version became official release. Today, s9y was upgraded to version 0.9 officially. Obviously the site was updated accordingly. There have been some minor hiccu
Tracked: Oct 29, 03:27
Serendipity hva sier du? Det er programvaren som jeg bruker til å lage denne webloggen. Produktet er meget bra synes jeg. Nå er produktet klart i ny versjon! Jeg har vært med på alpatesting av produktet i noen måneder, og kan bekreftet at det er et s
Tracked: Oct 29, 07:25
Es ist soweit! Soeben habe ich auf die neue Version geupgradet! Ich werde wohl das Template an die neue Version anpassen müssen, da es hier neue Smarty-Features gibt. Update verlief fast problemlos: Ich musste nach dem Upgrade das Wetter-Plugin aus der
Tracked: Oct 29, 15:29
Das Update auf s9y 0.9 verlief Reibungslos. An dieser Stelle auch gleich: "Alles Gute zu Deinem Geburtstag, Garvin" Release Announce: http://blog.s9y.org/archives/78-Serendipity-0.9-released.html
Tracked: Oct 30, 08:17
As I've already predicted on Friday, this Blog runs Serendipity 0.9 now. The update went smoothly and with only minor adjustments necessary, most of which were due to my previous tampering with the internals. Installing nightly snapshots from the Subvers
Tracked: Oct 30, 08:38
Upgraded the blog software to Serendipity 0.9. Changes are not that noticable cosmetic wise, but functionality and internally there's quite a bit of changes. I evaluated between using tinyMCE and FCKeditor, and settled on FCKeditor, because it
Tracked: Oct 30, 09:00
Updated my blog software to the latest Serendipity version (0.9). The upgrade was still a painless process (basically, untarring a file and then clicking on a link off in the Admin section of your blog). Note: if you have made any customizations (i.e.
Tracked: Nov 15, 21:31
The Serendipity Team is proud to announce the first maintenance release for Serendipity, version 0.9.1. This release mainly addresses a few minor bugs of the 0.9 version. The most important fix is found in the Spartacus Plugin, which didn't allow up
Tracked: Nov 23, 13:04