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Chapter H: Changelog

1.3 (2001.12.11)

  • Fixed bug where days="N" would override category="Foo" in <MTEntries> tag. (cwodtke)
  • Added DBM file locking (shared lock when reading, exclusive when writing).
  • Export process now exports excerpts, and import now imports them.
  • When you upload a file, if a file by that name (at that location) already exists, you now get a confirmation screen to overwrite the file, or not. (Requires that File::Temp is installed.)
  • Added search and replace functionality.
  • You can now upload files into specific directories beneath the Local Site Path and Local Archive Path.
  • When reading from DB files, MT::ObjectDriver::DBM will now open the DBM files in read-only mode, rather than read-write mode.
  • Fixed bug where <$MTInclude$> of a template module would not propagate conditions down to the template module contents; this meant that conditional statements like <MTIfEntryIfExtended> would not work in a template module. Now they do.
  • Added Javascript ``Remember me'' to default templates (Individual Archive Template and Comment Listing).
  • Added <$MTBlogHost$> tag, which prints out the host part of the Site URL config setting. For comment cookies.
  • After uploading a file, in addition to being able to create a new entry with a link to the file/embedded image, you can now just view the HTML that would have been used in that new entry. This is useful when uploading multiple files per entry.
  • Fixed logout page so username and Logout link are no longer displayed in the navigation bar.
  • Converting paragraph and line breaks is now set separately for entries and comments. (If you are upgrading, make sure to turn this on for all blogs that you want it on for, because it is a separate setting.)
  • Added Archive File Templates, which allows you to specify the output file for a particular archive type, using regular MT template tags, allowing better organization of archive directories.
  • Changed XML RSS default template so that title and excerpt are now HTML-encoded to prevent XML errors.
  • Introduced four new global tag attributes: encode_html, dirify, lower_case, and upper_case.
  • In new comment notification email, added a link to the comments on the entry.
  • Added debug MailTransfer setting, which just writes out the mail message to STDERR.
  • When emailing comments in mt-comments.cgi, if the user leaving the comment enters an email address, use that for the From: address in the email message.
  • Reorganized default config file to provide descriptions of config settings, more instructional text, etc.
  • Added NoTempFiles config file option to turn off use of temp files when writing output files.
  • Added link to Edit this entry after posting an entry via the bookmarklet.
  • Noted IE bug (Content-Type override) that can cause export problems.
  • Added the convert_breaks attribute to the <$MTEntryExcerpt$> tag.
  • Excerpt is now created on the fly when sending a notification, if you haven't entered an excerpt for an entry.
  • Fixed List & Edit Entries so that unprivileged authors are not allowed to delete entries.
  • Added XML-RPC server implementation of the Blogger API.
  • Added <$MTCommentOrderNumber$> tag.
  • In mt-check.cgi, added checks for File::Spec, DB_File, LWP::UserAgent, and SOAP::Lite (the last two are optional installs). Also added instructions on installing each of these modules.
  • Automatically-generated img tags (after uploading images) now contain alt attributes.
  • Category pulldown in bookmarklet is now sorted alphabetically.
  • After an entry is deleted, prompt the user to rebuild.
  • Remove whitespace at the ends of the meta (AUTHOR, TITLE, etc.) lines in the import file when importing.
  • Improved application code that determines paths to reduce reliance on SCRIPT_NAME environment variable. (Aaron Straup Cope)
  • Added DBUmask, HTMLUmask, DirUmask, and UploadUmask settings for the mt.cfg file. These are to be used to adjust permissions set on files and directories created by MT. Removed manual chmod calls. (Aaron Straup Cope)
  • In mt-comments.cgi, check whether an author has an email address saved in his/her profile; if not, don't try to email new comments (this was causing an error No Recipients Found).
  • Changed default templates so that the popup comments links do not have href="#" onclick=... but are not just href="javascript:...".
  • In mt-comments.cgi, when redirecting back to the comments popup window after adding a comment, automatically append a slash at the end of CGIPath if no slash is present.
  • Fixed <$MTCommentAuthor$> and <$MTCommentAuthorLink$> so that they return the empty string (not an error) if no author name is given in the comment, and thus will no longer cause rebuild errors.
  • Fixed context for <MTEntryNext> and <MTEntryPrevious> containers so that conditional tags (<MTEntryIfExtended>, for example) can be used.

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