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Serendipity 1.3.1 released

Submitted by Bryan on April 22, 2008 - 4:34pm

S9Y.org: Serendipity 1.3.1 has been released. This is a bugfix and security related release, basically adressing a potential XSS issue within the Top Referrers plugin as well as hypothetical XSS issues with the installer.

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Serendipity 1.3 Released

Submitted by Bryan on March 20, 2008 - 6:16am

Serendipty 1.3 has been released. This new version of the blogging applications introduces 41 changes. Not only are enhancements and additional features introduced, but also changes to address a nasty cross site scripting issue (security exploit).

Some of the more significant features and enhancements for Serenditpity 1.3 include:

  • The karma rating plugin has been upgraded to support nice, CSS-based rating graphics (see this post) and an overall rehaul on the its coding.
  • Make the Spartacus plugin be able to use FTP upload, a workaround for SafeMode PHP restrictions. Also add a remote backend for plugin update checks.
  • Import scripts for phpNuke and lifetype.
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Serendipity 1.2.1 released

Submitted by Bryan on December 11, 2007 - 1:05am

"Serendipity 1.2 has been well received by the community, there were only very few minor bugreports. Those have been addressed in the Serendipity 1.2.1 maintenance release, available now."

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Serendipity 1.2 Released

Submitted by Bryan on September 4, 2007 - 5:59am

"The Serendipity Team is proud to present the final release and immediate availability of Serendipity 1.2.

This release is a feature consolidation release and focuses on small usability improvements, a shiny new template (bulletproof) as well as backend templating and backend login mechanisms as well as some tighter security restrictions."

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Serendipity: Your help in sorting serendipity plugins

Submitted by Bryan on August 16, 2007 - 3:31pm
"Like announced earlier on the serendipity blog, fellow usability expert Joachim Harloff is currently trying to improve the listing of Serendipity Plugins so that they are more accessible to users."

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Serendipity 1.2 on the horizon

Submitted by Bryan on June 6, 2007 - 5:33am
A new version of the blogging application Serendipity is now at the beta stage, Serendipity 1.2 Beta 1.  The most significant changes in this new version of Serendipity is the authentication and session scheme for easier plug-in interaction.  Also support for theming/template authoring has been improved using Smartyfield.

The following is a list of some of the new enhancements according to the Serendipity 1.2-beta1 announcement since Serendipity 1.1:

  • Templates for Backend (Entry Editor, Master Template) via Smarty
  • New session/login system
  • Improved database support for SQLite3 and PDO::Postgresql
  • IPv6 support
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Serendipity: Backend Templating

Submitted by Bryan on June 1, 2007 - 11:44pm
"For Serendipity, only the frontend (what the visitors see) could be subject to Smarty-Templating. One reason for not utilizing these features in the backend was to maintain stability, ease of change for core developers and reduce migration woes so that the Admin Backend would always be accessible.

What we have now added to the Serendipity 1.2 snapshots (that will soon become public beta and a final release in late Summer) is functionality that allows you to template the backend layout as well as the 'New/Edit Entry' screen."

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S9Y.org: Serendipity 1.1.2

Submitted by Bryan on March 16, 2007 - 9:05pm
Apparently,  I had saved this story a couple weeks ago, but failed to publish it in a timely manner.  My apologies to Serendipity fans!

"Even though we consider this issue to be fairly low-impact, Serendipity 1.1.2 has been released because of this, mainly to assure the public that we have addressed the issue. It is not critical that you upgrade to that release. If you do, it is sufficient to update the include/functions_entries.inc.php file. The only change made to that function is documented here."

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Serendipity: User Survey

Submitted by Bryan on March 6, 2007 - 6:00am
"Ellen and Prabath from the OpenUsability.org project are conducting a User survey on how our users are working with Serendipity. The results of this survey will have a huge impact on Prabhath's student work as a Usability Engineer - he will try to make suggestions to enhance the user experience of the Serendipity Entry-editing interface, and maybe more.

Please participate, everyone. You will benefit by making Serendipity more user-friendly to fulfill your very own needs!"

Original Post , Forum Post, Serendipity Survey


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Serendipity 1.1.1 and sneek peek at Serendipity 1.2

Submitted by Bryan on February 23, 2007 - 7:07am
Serendipity 1.1.1 was released to fix a few bugs.  This is the first update to Serendipity 1.1 since it was first released at the end of 2006.  The 1.1.1 update does not include any security fixes so you may not even need to update unless you've experienced one of these bugs:
  • Windows IIS server cookie/session authentication problem when not running via HTTPS
  • Change execution order of trackbacks to properly send them when a failure occurs
  • Display proper plugin permissionship restrictions when the admin user is not part of the group that is restricted
  • Fixed a bug that some plugins were not able to properly execute in the entry detail view
In a blog post at the Serendipity site, Garvin also commented on the feature improvements that can be expected for Serendipity 1.2.  Users of the weblog application can expect the following in Serendipity 1.2 once it is released : 
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