We're getting there: The first Release Candidate for Geeklog 1.6.0 is now available for download.

There were only a few changes over beta 3, mostly in the install script. As the name "release candidate" suggests, we don't expect any more significant changes now, so if you haven't had a chance to try out one of the betas, now would be a good time to give 1.6.0 a test drive before it becomes final.

My efforts to create a simple newsletter plugin have paid off. Built upon the staticpages plugin, Newsletter is gl 1.5.x and 1.6 compatible.

Read the full article here and try it out here.

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Geeklog 1.6.0 brings quite a few obvious improvements (new search, comment improvements, migration support, plugin uploads, XMLSitemap plugin), but also some minor useful changes.

With this article, I'd like to point out two such new features: Support for canonical URLs and output compression.