Beta-test Serendipity 1.2

As you might have read in the Serendipity 1.1.1 release announcement, we have a fundamental code change in Serendipity 1.2 concerning the authentication theme.

Those changes were discussed in this forum thread

It basically evolves around those things:

  1. Introduce a new, first event hook that can be fired to authenticate external users.

  2. This new event hook requires to execute a plugin before the whole language system is initialized, and thus language preferences have been fetched. To accomodate this, a new cookie has been introduced that defines the language your used has chosen.

  3. A new HTTP / HTTPS session sharing system is now in effect, which allows you to login via HTTPS and be able to work using the HTTP connection and be recognized as logged-in.

Those changes might introduce new glitches, especially in environments where HTTPS is used, and/or the multilingual plugin features.

Everyone using such an environment, please download a recent Serendipity 1.2 snapshot and try it out on a test-system. You can easily clone an existing installation of yours by copying all files to a second directory, copying the database tables to a different table (or with a different table prefix) and then uploading the Serendpity 1.2 Snapshot to that dummy directory. After your login to that new installation, change the path locations in your Serendipity Configuration and you can test the new install with the data of your production blog.

Your help is much required to ensure the stability of Serendipity. Any problems you face that did not previously show up in older Serendipity versions should please be reported on our forums!

Many thanks go to rrichards_ from the original thread, who implemented the new functionality that will hopefully ultimately lead to OpenID integration into Serendipity. :-)

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