BlogEngine.NET 1.4.5 is now available

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.