Thank you very much for the listing of release notes. Long document but a must read for mt user. I give movable talk a try to collect ideas, toughts and inspiration for german mt user with my beta test on my project.

Install smooth as usual - nice, thanks :) Questions: If if I wish to retain a few specifics I have on MT3.2 on mt-config.php, can I just add them on as new lines on the new smaller mt-congif.cgi in MT3.3? Specifically, I wanted to add:

EntriesPerRebuild 20 GlobalSanitizeSpec br /,p,b,i,strike,u,em,strong...

also unsure if LaunchBackgroundTasks defaults as 0

From the look of things the weblog search now inherits the blog template? Does that mean we don't need to use the line:

AltTemplate nameoftemplate.tmpl

anymore on mt-config.cgi? Thanks :)

You can always add other supported configuratuion directives to the mt-config.cgi, so yes, go ahead and add the ones you'd like to override defaults for.

LaunchBackgroundTasks does indeed default to 0.

You can find the new single-blog search in your blog's System template listing. The default.tmpl is still used for multiple blog search and hence it's inclusion is still important.

We'll be publishing full details about all of the new configuration directives soon. I'm glad to hear that the upgrade was smooth. :-)

Nevermind - yup just add the lines and it's done. Hoprfully someone else will find that info helpful.

Thanks Jay :) Hope you get some time to relax soon - you guys have obviously been working your butts off. Launch party in a few weeks huh? :)

I know this may sound picky, but any chance the AM/PM on entry timestamps can be changed to lowercase? Also would it be possible to add the basic English ordinal 2 character suffix for the numerical day of the month, like st, nd, rd or th? cheers :)

Do you mean on this blog?

err.. no. I mean on an installation. I know the AM/PM can be changed easily with a CSS {text-transform: lowercase} tag, but always wondered why the default was upper case. As for adding the suffix for the numerical date, I'm not sure how to do that in MT tags.. I know with php timestamps a 'S' after the 'j' will do it, but I recall asking about this, well, a few years ago, and there was a limited amount of format characters that we could use in the MT tag for the timestamp for some reason.. perhaps that's different now? hmm.. perhaps I should RTFM again heh..

hmm.. apparently still the same story.. http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/docs/3.2/cdateformats/

Is the rebuild popup window supposed to steal the focus when rebuilding? Makes it real hard to do something else in the browser when waiting for a rebuild to finish.

Also it would be real nice to get MTArchiveExtension so we don't have to go in and change archives.html to archives.php or whichever extension we're using for that particular file :)

It's not supposed to steal focus each time. Only the first. Thought we fixed that but apparently not. Thanks for the heads up. Also feel free to report these things through the bug submission form even if you're not sure whether they are bugs. That way, we can let you know when they are fixed through the bug tracking system. I filed a case in this case.

What do you mean when you say MTArchiveExtension? Are you saying you'd use that somehow in the Output file field of index templates? I agree that manually changing is a pain, but currently, that is not an interpolated field like the Archive Map field is.

I was thinking more of using the suggested tag in the templates itself aka $MTBlogURL$archives.php it would be MTBlogURLarchives.MTArchiveExtension

Looks complicated and would be nice if it somehow could be set like the archivemapping is set.

I'm suprised the release notes are so big but alot of those additions and fixes will definately be helpful and needed. I would love to see MT offer a built in password system. I know Movalog has a plugin but MT would be the perfect CMS if this was included....this is why I moved from WP.

I'm definately looking forward to the full release!