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Go get BlogEngine.NET 1.2

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By Al Nyveldt
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blogengine.net • release

belogo The BlogEngine team made good on the promise of a September release.  (Yes, we just barely made it.)  The latest release has a ton of goodness for people to check out.

A few features worth noting:

  • Extensions - We've had extension in the code since late July, but this is the first release to include them.  This is very cool and very powerful.  Using the events in BlogEngine.NET, you can make extensions to do all sorts of neat stuff.  The BlogEngine site will have a listing of these as people make them available.
  • Full Comment RSS - This is something I've always wanted but had never seen until now.  An RSS feed with all the comments from a blog.  (Here is mine.) No more receiving notification via email for me.  Now, I'll read my comments in my feed reader.  (Ok.  The volume of comments wasn't huge for me, but it just seems like the feed reader is the place for these.)
  • Updated Search features - Now the BlogEngine.NET search functions just as I'd expect it to.
  • Better Page support - BlogEngine.NET now treats pages like a first class citizen.  Pages can now have a hierarchy and be used as the front page of your site if you'd like.
  • Better Comments - Users can request email notification of additional comments after their won.  There is now comment moderation too.  Monster IDs are now part of the release and configuration options for gravatar, Monster Ids, combining them, or using neither.  Also, did I mention the Full Comment RSS yet?
  • BlogML support - I know there have been a bunch of people interested in transferring over.  Now they can.

There are a bunch more features included, which you can read about on the main site, but these are the items that really jump out at me.

Some cool BlogEngine.NET links regarding the release: