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Release notes - Movable Type 3.3 (Beta-20060626)
Below are the release notes for the first final release candidate for Movable Type 3.3 (Beta-20060626) detailing all changes to the program since Movable Type 3.3 (Beta-3).
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24348: Addition of actions to Activity feed items
ACTIVITY FEEDS: Activity Feeds are now fully operational and include action links for all entry, comment and TrackBack items.
30629: Write errors to tempdir should be logged
ACTIVITY LOG: If the configured TempDir path is not writable, the scheduled task framework will log this error to the system activity log.
31070: mt-db2sql.cgi needs to be updated for v3.3
DATABASE: Updated mt-db2sql.cgi (BerkeleyDB to SQL database utility) to handle new Movable Type 3.3 schema
30994: Search & replace enabled for system templates
ADMIN UI: System templates can now be selected for search and replace operations. Deletion of system templates is still not allowed.
25109: Normalize the blog settings file extension
ADMIN UI: When entering the archive filename extension in the blog's Publishing settings, any leading '.' characters are now stripped.
29450: MT::Plugin object_classes and upgrade_functions methods.
DEVELOPER: MT::Plugin elements such as upgrade_functions and object_classes are now referenced using method calls.
31017: WidgetManager needs dropdown monthly archive list widget
WIDGETMANAGER: Added a Javascript-powered monthly archive list dropdown widget to the list of default widgets for WidgetManager.
31119: Post changed the scheduled can't have authored on changed when editor fields are set to custom w/o editable authored on date
BUG FIX: Fixed the display of the date field for scheduled entries when compose screen is not displaying an editable authored on date (the date becomes editable when selecting to schedule the post).
30578: "edit" link in activity feed items does not use absolute url
BUG FIX: Fixed a bug in Beta-2 which output relative URLs for the Activity Feed 'Edit' links, causing breakage in some newsreaders who don't use the base of the feed URL as the base HREF.
30246: is_valid_url converts non-http urls to wrong urls.
BUG FIX: Fixed a bug that tests for valid URLs for comments so that it allows (and preserves) https://... URLs.
31155: On Windows IE 6 the formatting buttons for the textareas behave properly
BUG FIX: Fixed an issue for IE 6 under Beta-2 in which the text formatting buttons would cause the browser window to jump back up to the top of the page.
30340: bug 29895: description of timezone above system activity log ignores timeoffset
BUG FIX: Fixed display of time zone offset for the system activity log. (Thanks Tweezerman!)
30582: "edit" link not present in comment and trackback activity feed items
BUG FIX: Fixed a bug in Beta-2 that prevented the Edit links from appearing in comment/TrackBack activity feed items under some circmustances. (Thanks tweezerman!)
31074: Preview / re-edit of existing entry causes change in primary category to be lost
BUG FIX: Fixed a bug in Beta-2 where, when editing an entry and changing it's primary category, previewing and reediting the entry would revert to the originally selected category.
31072: Comment with url auto link does not work properly
BUG FIX: Fixed an issue in which text formmatting applied to a comment with a bare URL on a line by itself surrounded by lines with other text would break the link if auto-link URLs was enabled.
30718: XML::SAX in extlib is busted.
BUG FIX: Fixed a case for Beta-2 where warnings were being issued regarding a missing ParserDetails.ini file.
31135: Creating new WidgetManager with same name overwrites original
BUG FIX: Fixed an issue with WidgetManager in Beta-2 where renaming a WidgetManager to the same name as another would overwrite the original.
31125: User with no email address is treated like an unknown author in password recovery
BUG FIX: Fixed a bug in Beta-2 which caused users with no email address specified in the user profile to be treated like non-existent authors for the purposes of password recovery.
31129: Blog activity log reset resets log for entire system
BUG FIX: Fixed an issue in Beta-2 where a reset of a blog-level Activity Log would actually reset the entire activity log.
31071: mt-wizard.cgi causes file::spec warnings to be emitted on display of every wizard page
BUG FIX: Fixed an issue in Beta-2 where mt-wizard would throw File::Spec warnings into the webserver error log.
31045: mt-wizard.cgi grammar infraction
BUG FIX: Fixed a truncated success message on the mt-wizard mail server configuration screen in Beta-2.
31046: MT installation wizard puts in SendMailPath even if user doesn't choose MailTransfer option
BUG FIX: Fixed an issue in Beta-2 where under some circumstance, MT-wizard would ignore your chosen mail settings preference.
31063: mt-wizard does not erase the param hash when user first entered wrong setting and then erased in the input
BUG FIX: Fixed an issue in mt-wizard from Beta-2 where form paramters would persist incorrectly when navigating backwards and forwards in the flow of the application.
31101: Category created with entry doesn't show up in activity log.
BUG FIX: Categories created through "Add new category" option on entry compose screen are now logged to the system activity log whereas in Beta-2 only those created through the category listing screen were logged.
31158: MTFeedInclude does not produce 6A standard module output
BUG FIX: Updated the feed widget created by Feeds.app lite to the standard HTML/style structure for sidebar modules. (Thanks Tima!)
