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Chapter H: Changelog

1.2 (2001.11.04)

  • Fixed bug when system's crypt implementation uses MD5 passwords (MT was not picking up the proper salt). (Monica Reyes)
  • Added form-validity checking to mt-comments.cgi for checking email address and URL. (Aaron Straup Cope)
  • Set $CGI::POST_MAX to 1MB, which means that uploads must be 1MB or less, to prevent denial of service attacks. (Aaron Straup Cope)
  • Added mt-export.cgi, which will export all of your MT entries into a format that can be suitably re-imported through the import mechanism. It is also useful for keeping backups of your entries. Functionality is linked from Import & Export Entries.
  • Fix bug in mt-comments.cgi where redirect after posting to popup comments would break styles (because redirect was using CGI::url(-base => 1), which is a newer feature in CGI.pm).
  • Added link to manual (HELP) in topnav.
  • When images are uploaded, and Popup Image is chosen to create a new entry, an HTML file will be created automatically to enclose the uploaded image, if you have defined an Uploaded Image Popup Template. New template tags <$MTImageURL$>, <$MTImageWidth$>, and <$MTImageHeight$> added for use in the new template. Added a default Uploaded Image Popup Template.
  • Added template linking functionality; allows users to manage their templates externally from the MT application, and have them automatically sync-ed into the MT database. Thanks to Ron Pacheco for patches and ideas.
  • Can now import comments from Greymatter.
  • Can now import to a particular category, either through the CATEGORY key (eg from a system that supports categorization, like NewsPro), or by selecting a default category for all new entries.
  • Fixed bug where import would create a new author with the same name as an existing author; if an author already exists, now, entries are assigned to the existing author.
  • Can now import extended entries from Greymatter and keep the extended portion separate from the main blog entry.
  • Import now handles indentation and leading spaces more robustly.
  • Fix bug where MTEntryDate inside MTEntryPrevious and MTEntryNext do not refer to the correct entry. (sunpig)
  • Added movabletype.org recently updated ping functionality for donors.
  • Added ``Syndicate this site'' link to default index template.
  • When deleting objects, check to see if we can load the object successfully before trying to call remove on it.
  • HTML-encode titles of entries on list & edit entries, so that if an entry title contains HTML (eg. an anchor tag), it doesn't break the display.
  • Added <$MTArchiveCount$> tag: number of entries in a specific archive grouping.
  • Use timegm_nocheck so that we don't get fatal errors when a date is out of range.
  • Changed use base to manual setting of @ISA in all libraries to improve compatibility with older perls, where base.pm is not a core install.
  • Improved error message when Local Site Path or Local Archive Path is unset when doing a rebuild.
  • Auto-check or -uncheck ``allow comments'' in bookmarklet when selecting a blog, based on the configuration for that blog.
  • Added <$MTEntryAuthorEmail$>, <$MTEntryAuthorURL$>, and <$MTEntryAuthorLink$> tags.
  • Added file attribute to the <MTInclude> tag, for pulling in an external file.
  • Fix JS bug in bookmarklet category selector. (nasty)
  • Fixed bugs in MTEntries category=``'' and MTInclude module=``'' where, if you have different categories/modules named the same thing across two different blogs, only the first would ever be loaded. (Brad Choate)
  • Added support for weblogs.com XML-RPC ping. Added blog config option to turn off the ping (it is on by default).
  • In List & Edit Entries, if an entry does not have a title display the first 22 characters of the entry body, followed by an ellipsis, rather than just displaying [No title].

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