Announcements

The first beta version of Geeklog 1.6.1 is now available for download.

This releases fixes quite a few bugs (especially with the comment handling) and rough edges in Geeklog 1.6.0. We've also thrown in some new features, e.g.

• support for meta tags (keywords and description) for articles, topics, static pages, polls, and the index page
• better timezone support
• you can now have one featured story per topic
• ... and a few more

Please note that this is a beta release, so you may not want to run it on a "live" site just yet. But please try it out and send us your feedback (or bug reports, if necessary).

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.

The Geeklog Team is pleased to announce that Geeklog 1.6.0 is now available for download.

This release incorporates the results of our successful 2008 Google Summer of Code students, namely site migration and improved plugin installation (by Matt West), improved search (by Sami Barakat), and improved comments functionality (by Jared Wenerd). It also includes a new plugin to automatically generate sitemap.xml files (by mystral-kk) and a few other improvements. See below for details.