blojsom 2.23 (Codename: Pravda) - Released January 31, 2005

Core

• Minor improvements.

Extensions

• Improved speed of XML-RPC handlers.
• Fixed a bug in the newPost() XML-RPC handlers to ensure the entries BlogCategory was properly getting populated before an event was fired.
• URLs for editing your blog via XML-RPC and the Atom API now require a trailing slash after the blog ID. For example:

  http://your.host.com/blojsom/xmlrpc/default/
  http://your.host.com/blojsom/atomapi/default/

• Added support for Pingbacks with the new Pingback handler.

Plugins

• New Plugins
• The Basic Authentication Plugin supports a BASIC authentication check so that only authorized users can read your blog.
• The Category Template Plugin allows you to define category meta-data so that you can load a particular template for a given category.
• The Cross Post Plugin allows you to automatically cross post entries added to any category to another service/blog that supports the Blogger or MetaWeblog APIs.
• The Enhanced Emoticons Plugin allows you to configure the available emoticons as well as their corresponding patterns to produce and emoticon images.
• The Gravatar Plugin attaches a Gravatar ID to each blog entry comment, which can then be used to display Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatar) image available from gravatar.com.
• The NoFollow Plugin adds support for searching through hyperlinks in comments and trackbacks and adding rel="nofollow" for hyperlinks without this attribute. This removes any search engine ranking that comment/trackback spammers might hope to get from leaving comment/trackback spam on your blog.
• The Weather Plugin allows you to display your current weather forecast in your blog.

• New Administration Plugins
• The Permissions Administration Plugin allows to add and delete fine-grained permissions for users of your blog.
  • List of permissions for various blojsom components.

• Existing Plugin Updates
• Updated the Templates Administration Plugin to:
  • Add new templates
  • Delete existing templates
  • Add new template directories
  • Delete existing template directories
  • Sort the list of templates and to return you back to editing the template after making an update. Previously, after updating a template, you would have to select and edit the template again to make an update.
• Authorization information is now sorted by the Authorization Administration Plugin before being displayed.
• Flavor information is now sorted by the Flavors Administration Plugin before being displayed.

Events

• Added a new CommentAddedEvent that will fire when new comments are added to an entry. This is also supported via the Comment API Servlet.
  • Comment events can be found in org.blojsom.plugin.comment.event package.
• Added a new TrackbackAddedEvent that will fire when new trackbacks are added to an entry.
  • Trackback events can be found in org.blojsom.plugin.trackback.event package.

Templates

• Added <category></category> element to RSS 2.0 templates.
• Added rel="nofollow" attribute to comment and trackback links in all themes.
• Added the following template macros:
  • #DisplayWeatherForecast($weatherInfo)
  • #MonthlyArchive($startingMonth $startingYear)
  • #PingbacksAllowed($entry)
  • #XMLRPCLink($entry $xmlrpcurl)

Libraries

• Upgraded OSCache library to version 2.1

Bugs Fixed

• JIRA