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Two new releases have been issued today. 2.1.4 is a security fix release which addresses these issues:

• Security: Fix XSS for pagination, when multi-category selection is used. Thanks to Brian Carpenter (geeknik) and Hanno Boeck!
• Minor code fixes (proper PHP escaping for 'orderkey' SQL statement)
• Skeleton, Timeline and Clean Blog templates: Add theme option to disable google webfonts
• Link to https s9y.org pages

The 2.2.1-alpha1 release addresses a few larger changes in Serendipity. These are the key points of the release:

• PHP 7.2 support (including a new autologin token system and bcrypt password hashing)
• Add function to add multiple images to an enty at once, creating a gallery
• Added a maintenance mode option
• Upgrade Smarty to 3.1.32
• Bootstrap4 adaptations
• Fixes for plugin drag'n'drop
• Improvements to the p-mode of nl2br plugin
• Ability to create responsive image thumbnails
• Improvements to local caching
• Rework of moving media items (work in progress)

We would love to get feedback from our users. Be sure to try out the new release only on test/development blogs yet. If you absolutely want to test it on production blogs, make sure to have a backup available.

Both releases can be downloaded from our GitHub release page.

This release addresses several security issues that have been reported to us by Hanno Boeck, Brian Carpenter, oreamnos and Julio Cesar. Many thanks for this!

More specifically:

• Ensure URL parameter casting for RSS and blog entry limits to prevent possible SQL injection inside the LIMIT statement part Prevent XSS in the "Edit entries" panel
• Prevent sending comment notifications to more than one email address
• Disable exit.php-Tracking for open URL redirection, unless the trackexits plugin is specifically configured to do so

The release also addresses a new feature for a "legal" plugin property bag attribute (usable for GDPR/DSGVO plugin information) and by default disables subToMe service to prevent GDPR issues.

Simply download the release and update your blog.

We are happy to announce the availability of the final release for Serendipity 2.1.1.

Serendipity 2.1.1 focusses on:

• Rewrites in some older legacy parts of the core (URL routing, template fallback chain, experimental internal caching) as well as PHP 7 compatibility.
• New bundled responsive themes "Timeline" and "Clean-Blog"
• Improved usability of plugin upgrades by combining sidebar and event plugins and upgrading multiple plugins at once
• Permission checks for the dashboard output and comments
• Usability improvements to the media library, bulk moving support
• New API wrapper for URL downloads that plugins can use (serendipity_request_url)
• New Theme "Skeleton" (responsive, mobile first)
• Improved preview iframe handling
• Changes (simplifications) in template file routing for backend/frontend views, new smarty {getFile} function for theme authors
• (new for rc1) Ability to set a default posting category for an author
• (new for rc1) Improved security checks against CSRF attacks (comment moderation, comment toggling
• (new for rc1) Improved security for referrer redirection
• (new for rc1) Improved security for local file hotlinking
• (new for rc1) Fixed sorting media database by filename
• (new for final release) Addressed some more PHP 7.1 issues, fixed bugs with missing token for installing plugins and deleting comments. We mainly tested PHP 7.0 compatibility, but PHP 7.1 should work too.
• (2.1.1) Fixed displaying the proper plugin configuration value when set to false/empty.

Many thanks at this point (in no specific order) for Lee Sheldon Victor, cdxy, Edric Teo and Xu Yue for helping a lot in improving on security aspects of Serendipity.

The next version of Serendipity will focus on supporting UTF8MB4 (for full emoji compatibiliy), responsive image insertion, consolidating our plugins. Our github issue tracker now also holds a new label "easyfix" which could be a great way of interested developers to get started with Serendipity and help us with development.

You can download the release file and unzip it to your installation as usual.

We are happy to announce the availability of the first (and hopefully last) Release Candidate for Serendipity 2.1.

We feel comfortable with suggesting you to try out this release in productive environments (of course always make a backup of your database and files first).

Serendipity 2.1 focusses on:

• Rewrites in some older legacy parts of the core (URL routing, template fallback chain, experimental internal caching) as well as PHP7 compatibility.
• New bundled responsive themes "Timeline" and "Clean-Blog"
• Improved usability of plugin upgrades by combining sidebar and event plugins and upgrading multiple plugins at once
• Permission checks for the dashboard output and comments
• Usability improvements to the media library, bulk moving support
• New API wrapper for URL downloads that plugins can use (serendipity_request_url)
• New Theme "Skeleton" (responsive, mobile first)
• Improved preview iframe handling
• Changes (simplifications) in template file routing for backend/frontend views, new smarty {getFile} function for theme authors
• (new for rc1) Ability to set a default posting category for an author
• (new for rc1) Improved security checks against CSRF attacks (comment moderation, comment toggling
• (new for rc1) Improved security for referrer redirection
• (new for rc1) Improved security for local file hotlinking
• (new for rc1) Fixed sorting media database by filename

Many thanks at this point (in no specific order) to Lee Sheldon Victor, cdxy, Edric Teo and Xu Yue for helping a lot in improving on security aspects of Serendipity.

You can download the release file and unzip it to your installation as usual on our Github release tracker.

The Serendipity Team is proud to announce the availability 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.