A new theme contribution has been made by Hendrik Scholz / Wormulon. The theme is called "Joshua" and has been added to our additional_themes repository here, where it will be available in the next 24 hours. Hendrik's site is running the theme, if you want to see it in action.
A user-contribution by Boris, Plugin Google Sitemap, allows to create the new Googlebot-compatible sitemap layout for most of all Serendipity links.
I think it may not run smoothly with Serendipity 0.9 and a customized permalink structure, but it should not be too hard to adapt the plugin there. Apart from that I think it's a really nice plugin, thanks to Boris!
As already foretold in this entry, I have committed a patch to our 0.9 SVN trunk which enables Serendipity to have multiple group permission privileges.
You can read more in my posting on the mailinglist.
The bottom line is: We now need some bug- and QA testers who need this functionality and are willing to testdrive it. Huge problems are not expected, but the more people testing it, the better.
On a related sidenote, I have added a "Current state of SVN" box in our blog on the right hand side. There you can easily spot in the future if the current nightlies are considered stable or unstable. Thanks a lot and have fun!
A new plugin called serendipity_event_assigncategories ("Category Assignment") has been added to CVS. It allows to easily change the category assignemnts of all articles. It can be very helpful if you decide to add a new category to your blog and would like to sort special entries to those new categories.
The plugin will be available in Spartacus soon and has already been committed to CVS.
Most of you have noticed the slight unavailibility of s9y.org between June 3rd and today. This was due to the fact that my old provider, the one where I registered s9y.org, stopped his business but at the same time did not stop being the admin-c of s9y.org. On June 3rd s9y.org expired, and the expiration-notice, warnings and reminders were sent into the great nowhere, as there was no provider responsible for s9y.org. All apologies to you guys, who couldn't download fresh s9y snapshots.
Thanks to a lot of Vitamin-B and efforts from the cool guys of InterNetX and De-Punkt, GPF and absynth, the domain s9y.org has been magically gone through an instant-recovery from it's PENDING DELETE state back to shiny availibility. Thanks, guys. As the domain is finally completely moved from the old provider everything should go much smoother now.
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The static page Plugin in version 2.1 has been upgraded to allow password protected, static pages. The password is not remembered in a cookie currently, so you have to enter it time and again.
I hope this new feature is useful for somebody. ;-)