Installing Geeklog got a lot easier over time, thanks in no small parts to Matt's work on the new installation script (as of Geeklog 1.5). Making the installation easier still, though, requires some help from the hosting provider. Which is possible now by providing Softaculous to their customers.

Softaculous is a free auto installer for cPanel and DirectAdmin. It allows one-click installation of many popular open source web applications. And unlike other auto installers, it does actually install Geeklog in a secure way.

FrOSCon is an Open Source Conference taking place on August 22. + 23. in Sankt Augustin (near Bonn) in Germany. Geeklog will have booth there again this year.

FrOSCon offers a full program of presentations about various topics related to Open Source usage and development. Many other Open Source projects will also have booths, giving you a chance to chat with the developers and representatives from the communities.

At the Geeklog booth, we will be showing off the current version of Geeklog and also give you a sneak preview of upcoming new features, such as the results from this year's Google Summer of Code. So If you have a chance, drop by and say Hi!

Geeklog 1.6.0sr1 and 1.5.2sr5 address the following security issues:

1. Gerendi Sandor Attila reported an XSS in the forms to email a user and to email a story to a friend.
2. The "Mail Story to a Friend" function didn't check story permissions, so that it was possible to email a story even if you didn't have the permissions to view it on the site.

For Geeklog 1.6.0, we also fixed two bugs (an SQL error when the story submission queue was off and a call to a nonexistent function).

The following files are available:

• a complete tarball of Geeklog 1.6.0sr1
• an upgrade archive from Geeklog 1.6.0
• an upgrade archive from Geeklog 1.5.2sr4
• a combo update from any previous 1.5.2 version