The release of Geeklog 1.5.0 Beta 1 by the Geeklog Team marked a new milestone for the open source blogging system. Although the software is still in development, Geeklog's developers hope to release the final version of Geeklog 1.5 on May 26th. The end of May marks the beginning of the coding phase for Google's Summer of Code 2008. To mark the occasion, Geeklog is highlighting the work done by students participating in last year's Summer of Code that is going into this new release. How cool is that!
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.