Features 1.7.5016.2 - Released

Breaking Changes

Title List

1.     The TitleList must be called like TitleList(). The parens weren't required before.

Features

General

1.     Archives.aspx is much happier

2.     all Referral links contain rel=nofollow

Smarter Titles (Compressed Titles)

1.     New Config options to turn on Titles as PermalInks rather than guids. There is another option to use '+' rather than spaces. By default a title will contain no white space and the words will be in PascalCase – Scott Hanselman & Omar Shahine.

a.  you should note that turning this feature on/off and or changing settings will cause most RSS aggregators to think that all the items have changes because the guids are now different. So make up your mind about this and stick to one setting .

b.  you should also note that if you have any posts with identical titles, this will not work properly (both posts will have the same permalink). There is no workaround at this time.

Admin Pages

1.     The return of Upload Image and Upload Attachment: Back by popular demand. – Scott Hanselman

2.     The ability to define an admin homeTemplate.blogtemplate file. See the dasBlog and slate theme folders for how to create your own. I mainly did this so I could get rid of the "side" bar in those themes so I could see more stats using the full width of the window, as well as more easily edit blog posts – Omar Shahine

Macros

1.     TitleList: Now includes an optional MaxLength parameter as in TitleList(20) that will truncate the Titles and add ... at the end. -  Scott Hanselman

APIs

1.     Category support for Blogjet: When retrieving a post via the Blogger/MetaWebLog API using BlogJet the categories for a post weren't returned. They are now. - Scott Hanselman

Resolved Bugs

BugID	Description
1107787	"Draft" posts show up in RSS
1109606	Where is the "Upload Attachment" Dialog gone ?
1106142	Image path is hard coded in Image Gallery Script
1113955	PNG displaying intermittently.
1114520	Archives render with hardcoded image references
1104940	Editing Blogroll child nodes does not work
1105759	Add Entry form shows right col in firefox
1110424	URL mapped format pages throw error
1112557	OutOfMemory Error on ImageGalleryButton of FreeTextBox
1118351	DasBlogUpgrader fails on content
1105804	Date Filter in activity pages raises script error
1108043	Comments Page doesnt show up right...
1104282	"Category Filter for Main Page" not working?
1105265	Asterisk encoding problem
1107619	Firefox doesn't decrypt the email address
1106604	Blog names must be properly escaped
1109459	Where is the "Upload Image" Dialog gone ?
1109421	URL rewrite does not work
1106203	error when pinging bo.gs
1106331	Clear the HTTP Cache on application run
1113736	Current build error on referrers.aspx
1108381	Email notify on comment/trackback not working
1114607	Problems rendering the editentry editorbox with custom theme
1106148	More... for ReferralListFiltered does not work in Comment
1110471	Date choice on stats pages does not match displayed data
1105267	Remove Enclosure/Attachment doesnt work ?
1109274	The CompressTitle Feature isn't complete
1108736	Archive.aspx doesn't respect URL Remapping.
1109609	Archive doesn't show entries that have no category
1108904	Upgrader does not correctly upgrade large timezone offset
1105006	Editing a CrossPost causes dupes
1112486	& or + in Categories
1119057	XSS Vulnerability

Features

Anti-Spam

1.     CAPTCHA for comments (will help prevent comment spamming) - Scott Hanselman

2.     Referral Blacklist. See IPBlacklist. - Scott Hanselman

3.     Support for the Movable Type Blacklist -- Omar Shahine

Admin Pages

1.     All the statistics pages now allow you to view previous dates - Omar Shahine

2.     Referrers page now shows all Internet Search hits on your blog - Omar Shahine

3.     Event pages show post title for Referrals etc rather than "local item" - Omar Shahine

4.     Fixed the access denied problem when using any web dialogs on the AddEntry.aspx page. (Code was trying to load the SiteSecurity.config file from the wrong location) -

5.     Comments can now be "closed" for a given Entry - Omar Shahine

6.     Entries can be set to IsPublic. If they are not, they only appear to the "admin" role. Think of this as drafts - Omar Shahine

7.     Removed default nocache.aspx. If you are using StartPageCaching, and you are viewing the default.aspx page you can get to the admin page by clicking the SignIn link that now replaces the Login box. Additionally you can set your page to default.aspx?page=admin or click any of the permalinks. Finally you can also just go to login.aspx and it will automatically redirect you.

8.     No more Signin box output by the Macro. You need to go to login.aspx to login.

9.     For the EditEntry view, the Side Bar in the dasBlog macro is now hidden. If you have a div tag named side it will be removed on that page to allow you more room to edit your post.

Web Pages

1.     Fixes to the Comment Cookie not persisting - Omar Shahine

2.     Fixes for the start page caching. - Omar Shahine

3.     Fixes to the Login page (there are still some issues to be worked out) -- Omar Shahine

4.     New Archives.aspx page for a list of all your posts grouped by category

5.     New MonthView.aspx page for a large calendar view with posts

6.     New Blogroll.aspx for rendering your blogroll.opml file.

7.     Added an HttpHandler that can accept Title Urls for posts such as http://www.dasblog.net/TheTitleOfThePost.aspx. - Omar Shahine

Macros

1.     RelatedPostList Macro

2.     PermalinkUrl Macro for just the raw permalink URI - Omar Shahine

3.     Added "Author" to syndicated content, the value is taken from SiteConfig.Contact, which is typically an email address (as recommended in the RSS2.0 spec) – Luke latimer (Q: Actually, does anyone have a problem with this? Maybe I should make it configurable to prevent peoples email addresses being opened up for spam) - A: I think it's good that way. I truly believe that people should at least provide a Hotmail, GMail, or Yahoo! address – Michael Earls

4.     ReferralListFiltered(int maxReferrals, bool excludeOnlineAggregators, bool excludeSearchEngines)

a.  you can specify the number of referrals that will be visible, the remainder will be exposed via a More... that will use javascript to show the remainder

b.  excludeOnlineAggregators will hide referrals from bloglines and newsgator

c.   excludeSearchEngines will hide referrals from search engines

Runtime

1.     Upgraded all the *.dayextra files to a new filename (.dayfeedback) in order to do a one time upgrade fixing the mismatch that occurs between UTC and LocalTime - Omar Shahine

a.  Due to a discrepancy between DayExtra and DayEntry they are written to disk with different times. DayExtra is written using the server LocalTime and DayEntry is written using UniversalTime. As such, when trackbacks and pingbacks come in it's possible that a search for an entry by date will fail and the trackback will not be written to DayExtra. This should fix this.

b.  You MUST run the DasBlogUpgrader to upgrade your content folder to version 1.7.

2.     Major Major Performance improvements - Scott Hanselman

a.  http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=d2a4cb18-c924-48a8-a81c-9916b5bcea9b

b.  RSS/ATOM Caching improvements - Scott Hanselman

3.     Removal of need for entryCache.xml, categoryCache.xml and blogdata.xml - Scott Hanselman

4.     Fixed problem where files could get written using non Gregorian Calendars

Syndication

1.     Fixes to improve RSS bandwidth consumption - Omar Shahine

2.     Added Channel Image feature – Michael Earls

Trackbacks/Pingbacks

1.     TrackBack Autodiscovery is attempted before PingBack Autodiscovery. - Omar Shahine

2.     Pingbacks from one dasBlog to another dasBlog work - Omar Shahine

3.     The Permalink page now contains the TrackBack Autodiscovery xml fragment - Omar Shahine

4.     If the target post does not have the X-Pingback http header, we look for the <link rel="pingback" href="pingback server"> - Omar Shahine

5.     fixed some error messages that occur during Pingbacks (now I catch XmlRpcFaultException) - Omar Shahine

External Components

1.     Updated to FreeTextBox 3.0 - Omar Shahine

2.     Update Blowery HttpCompress library to 6.0 - Omar Shahine

3.     Updated CookComputingXmlRpc Library - Omar Shahine

4.     New Captcha Control

Resolved Bugs

BugID	Description
000096	AllComments.xml is never regenerated if you delete it
000093	Comments may disappear when moving content across GMT timezone boundary
000090	IE 100% Cpu Usage on Search
000086	Trackbacks from .Text aren't working
000079	WebCalendar highlights wrong date for TODAY
000062	CrossPosting failures cause entire post to be lost
000000	Title

 

 

Features 1.6.4121.2

This release adds a new Macro (PermalinkUrl) which will return a raw text string of the url for a post. This is necessary to make the NewsGator Rating feature work as well as Technorati integration.

To install this patch simply drop the newtelligence.DasBlog.Web.Core dll into your bin folder.

1.6.4121.1

Features

Fixed a problem with some new Caching code that could corrupt your cache (not your entries).

1.6.4121.0

Features

1.     Better Permission failure - handling r/w permission errors now redirect to a friendly error page describing how to fix the problem. This should help new users with configuration problems

2.     Easier CrossPosting configuration - when creating a new cross post site, you can autofill the blog info by entering your blog URL and selecting the blog software the server is running. Info is then autofilled easing configuration.

a.  There is also a "Load Blogs" button, that loads all blogs using the given server info, and allows you to select the one you want to crosspost to.

3.     DisclaimerMacro - new macro for items disclaimer and new macro for homePageTemplate disclaimerLink which renders and links to your disclaimer in /SiteConfig/disclaimer.format.html.

4.     All the statisics pages can now be queried using a date such as Referrers.aspx?date=2003-11-01 - (note now that we are compressing the log files this won't work just yet).

5.     Using FormatPage to render a page just as My Title.format.html now sets My Title to the Title.

6.     The MailTo Macro now obfuscates the e-mail address if your SiteConfig.ObfuscateEmail is true.

a.  There is a new function, Util.GetObfuscatedString that takes a string and generates a string using a mix of Hex and Character entity encoding as well as some salt characters.

7.     SearchView.aspx now displays the query .

8.     SignIn.ascx now use an client JavaScript (md5.js) to super challenging the password with MD5 message digest algorithm , as defined in RFC 1321. the SiteSecurity.Login (core) is now overloaded for this with an extra parameter to compare the hashed pwd with the server stored pwd. other clients should work further with an plain pwd and also with a one way md5 hashed pwd.

9.     Added the DasBlogBlogXContentImporter tool, which imports posts and comments from an existing BlogX content directory, and produces content suitable for use in dasBlog. -- CraigAndera

10. Added newtelligence.drawArchiveMonths() macro for homePageTemplate and underlying support for monthly archive pages. newtelligence.drawArchiveMonths() renders a list of month links for any month which has posts. Clicking one of the month links will display only the posts from that month.

11. Added some ASP.NET uptime statistics to the EventLog

12. Added support for persisting the author of a entry in the Entry class and exposed via the itemAuthor macro

13. Log files are archived daily to .zip files.

14. Added new FormattedWhenBare(string) macro that does not append the timezone name

15. Added some caching of xml data files for a performance improvment.

Resolved Bugs

BugID	Description
000018	Blogger API -- new lines not converted to <BR> tags?
000030	Image and linking problems when dasBlog not at root of website
000034	DasBlog generates invalid <guid> elements in commentRss feed
000039	Whitespace removed from comments in RSS feeds for comments
000044	dasBlog theme breaks code blocks
000045	Version incorrect on Web setup MSI file
000046	URL validator in Configuration page breaks alternate TCP port
000047	NewsGator plugin doesn't work on Windows 2000
000048	Category Feed url needs to be URL encoded
000049	Friendly error message for System.UnauthorizedAccessException
000050	SearchBox doesn't support more than one word query
000052	Logout Macro renders on default.aspx (output caching)
000053	Posting via Zempt is broken
000055	FTB: htmleditmode.css isn't being used to render html
000056	Posting using the EditService doesn't update the LastModifiedDate in BlogData
000057	URLs in Trackbacklist and EventLogs are too long and caues bad rendering
000058	themed images don't render in mac browsers
000060	change itemDate macro to <%formattedWhen(g)%>
000061	Comments via CommentAPI causes exception in release 1.5.3337.0
000064	CategoryView breaks for subcategory feeds when using URL rewriting
000065	Calendar Current Day based on server local time, not dasblog configured time
000067	Editor text incorrectly inherits default text color
000069	ASPNETAdminControl in macros.cs has wrong conditional
000070	Remove Refferals from TrackBaclist Macro and add ReferralList Macro
000071	MailToWeblog - Emails with content type of "text/html" don't appear
000072	commentRss feeds have a non standard <pubDate> (not GMT)
000074	Image upload extension filter is case-sensitive
000076	System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException when navigating to Permalink.aspx page w/o a guid
000078	Update ATOM support to .03
000082	blowery http compression httpmodule requires trust level=full
000088	If URL Rewriting is enabled, activity pages don't render entry title
000089	Performance Boost, Feature Tweaks, Minor Fixes

 

 

Pingback is a method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents. Typically, web publishing software will automatically inform the relevant parties on behalf of the user, allowing for the possibility of automatically creating links to referring documents.

 

http://www.hixie.ch/specs/pingback/pingback

 

TrackBack was designed to provide a method of notification between websites: it is a method of person A saying to person B, "This is something you may be interested in."

To do that, person A sends a TrackBack ping to person B.

 

http://www.movabletype.org/docs/mttrackback.html