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For those who haven't seen this information, they are recommending people upgrade their MySQL to V 3.23.54.

The finalized version of Geeklog 1.3.7 is available for download now.

The only changes since the release of 1.3.7rc1 were some more bug fixes and the addition of some new (Spanish, Hellenic/Greek) and updated (Japanese, Italian, Polish) translations.

As has been said before, Geeklog 1.3.7 is a maintenance release, focussing on bug fixes and minor improvements. New features include the ability to receive notification email when stories, links, or events have been submitted, a separate listing of only the new stories, resizing of user photos and more. Please refer to the short and complete list of changes for details.

bye, Dirk

Update: The original 1.3.7 tarball was missing three empty folders (see this story). It has now been replaced with a tarball named geeklog-1.3.7-1.tar.gz which includes these three folders. This is the only difference between the two tarballs. Just follow the above link to download the correct file.

Tom Willett and I have been collaborating on a Developers Guide for Geeklog Plugins. We have included an introduction and walk thru of the Geeklog API's and the Geeklog way of doing things for developers new to Geeklog.

We have added our lessons learned and best practices for developing Geeklog Plugins. Additionally there is good background in the first few sections for Block Developers. There are plenty of example code and a universal plugin installer program that makes it very easy to create a install / uninstall program and functions for your plugin .

There are quite a few APIs and many plugins only use a subset. The Plugin API's are very powerfull and we have included a section outlining the benefits of why a developer would/should choose to use this approach.