Geeklog 1.5.0 Released
After 18 months of development, Geeklog 1.5.0 has been released. As I mentioned last month, changes found in Geeklog 1.5.0 incorporates the following projects implemented during the 2007 Google Summer of Code:
- New user-friendly install script
- New Configuration Graphical User Interface
- New Webservices API based on the Atom Publishing Protocol
Additional new features and enhancements included in this release:
- OpenID support.
- New LDAP remote authentication module.
- Updated FCKeditor to version 2.6.
- Rewrite of the underlying story code which addresses issues with special characters and HTML entities.
- Comments can now be closed, i.e. existing comments will still be displayed but no new comment can be posted.
- The Polls plugin now allows for multiple questions per poll.
- The Static Pages plugin now supports comments.
- The database backup admin panel now lets you delete and download backups.
- Theming improvements including the support of XHTML.
Geeklog 1.5 can be downloaded at Geeklog.net.
About the Author
Bryan Ruby is owner and editor for CMS Report. He founded CMSReport.com in 2006 on the belief that information technologists, website owners, and web developers desired visiting sites where they could learn more about content management systems without the sales pitch. Although Bryan has been active in the content management community for a number of years, please do not call him a CMS expert. Bryan's preference is to be labeled a CMS enthusiast.
Outside of his late night blogging hours, he is the Information Technology Officer for a field office in the federal government. Away from the computer he enjoys his family, bicycling, camping, and the outdoors.
