This evening, the BlogEngine.NET team released version 1.6. You can head on over and download it now.
This release has a lot of important updates rolled into it including enhancements to the comment system and widget zones. This release has lots of little touches that improve many of the existing features. Be sure to check out the details on the main site for the highlights and release notes.
A huge thanks to the Ruslan, Ben, and Russell who put in a ton of effort to make this release happen. It was a great effort. You guys rock!
The BlogEngine.NET team is pleased to announce that the final version of BlogEngine.NET 1.5 is now available for download. We had a good test run with the release candidate released earlier and after making a few small updates and bug fixes, the final version is ready to go.
As I mentioned in my previous post, this release has some great features and lots of performance improvements and bug fixes that make 1.5 a great upgrade for the existing BlogEngine user and wonderful option for someone just starting out.
The main features are:
- Nested Comments can now be enabled.
- BlogEngine.NET runs on Mono 2.4 out of the box.
- Windows Live Writer support is superb and includes the new tagging feature that only BlogEngine.NET and WordPress support.
- TinyMCE was updated for the web based writer.
You can download it here and then watch the installation screencasts if you need any help getting started.
This evening, the BlogEngine team made the release candidate available for BlogEngine.NET 1.5. This release was a long time in process and we felt is was best to make a release candidate available first.
I’m personally very excited about 1.5. The highlights include:
- Improved Live Writer Support (including the new Tagging feature).
- TinyMCE update
- Ready for Mono 2.4.
- Nested Comments are now available.
- Better database support out of the box.
- and, of course, lots of bug fixes, performance improvements, and other updates to make your blog experience better.
Please download it and give it a spin.
Earlier today, the BlogEngine.NET team published the latest version of BlogEngine.NET, version 1.4.5. It is a minor release compared to our previous releases, but an important one.
BlogEngine.NET 1.4 came out only a month ago, but we have a few fixes we wanted to get out to the world as soon as we could to make BlogEngine life better for everyone. We have a few bugs that were hindering new people getting started as well as medium trust issues at certain hosting providers. In addition, there are a bunch of other bug fixes in this release along with a few goodies to entice you to upgrade even if you are happily working along in 1.4.0.
The latest version has put all the database support I’ve been making available here right in the download now, so you can quickly and easily get your instructions and scripts for SQL Server, MySQL, SQLite, and VistaDB. In the case of VistaDB and SQLite, we actually have initial database files to start with instead of installation scripts. All upgrade scripts are included in the setup folder as well.
We have added more features into our Metaweblog API support. We now support choosing the author by drop down if you are connected as an administrator. The Live Writer dropdown list will show you all available users you may post for. In addition, we have also made it easy to enforce SSL for your Metaweblog connection. If you have it, you may as well, take advantage of it.
There is some cool new APML features along with a few other things to make your blog experience better. Between the fixes, performance improvements, and new features, you can’t go wrong.
I’ll be working up an upgrade guide and should have it posted in the next 24 hours.
You can download the new version here.
BlogEngine.NET 1.4 is here. It might have seemed like a long time coming to some but we think it will be worth the wait. In reality, it has been 6 months since 1.3 was released at the end of December, so it hasn’t been all that long.
The latest version of BlogEngine has many very cool features as well as enhanced security and performance.
Here are the highlights:
- Widgets - Widgets are the new way to customize your blog. Mads first introduced them a few months ago and they have been improved since. You can quickly add a widget to your blog, drop and drag it to where you want it, edit/configure it right from your home page, and when you log out, it will stay right where you left it. It is brilliant. Your customized themes will need reworked to use it, but it will be worth the effort.
- Improved database support – While BlogEngine has support SQL Server since the beginning, we now have updated providers to allow you to use MySQL, VistaDB, and many others along with SQL Server. This will open up lots of options for storing your blog, membership, roles, and profile data.
- Improved Extensions – Extensions have been one of the best features BlogEngine has and it just got better. 1.4 allows for storing extension data (as well as widget and theme data) in the blog provider model. This makes it easier for the developers and users of extensions to create, manage, and use extensions.
- Check out the more complete feature list here.
You can download it here.