Announcements

A first Beta release of Geeklog 1.4.1 is now available for download. After the various security issues we had this year, we concentrated on code reviews and bugfixes for this release, but there are also some new features, namely

• Support for Microsoft SQL Server. Yes, for the first time in its history, Geeklog will now also run on a database other than MySQL. The MS SQL support was developed by Randy Kolenko who posted more about it here.
• Calendar plugin. Moving the events and the calendar to their own plugin concludes our work on making Geeklog more modular. Don't need a calendar on your site? Now you can simply uninstall the plugin.
• Multi-language support. It's now possible to build multilingual Geeklog sites where not only the navigation but also the content changes when you switch languages.
• Various other changes, e.g. better spam protection, an option to mass-delete users, redesigned account information, and more.

We're labelling this as a beta mainly for three reasons: The new MS SQL support, the mass-delete user option, and the various changes we made in the Professional theme, all of which will probably need some tweaking. So while you're invited to install 1.4.1b1 and try it out, you may not want to run your site off of it just yet.

Last week's security release introduced display problems in the comment preview that we're fixing with the following versions:

• Geeklog 1.4.0sr5-1 is available as a complete tarball, as an upgrade from 1.4.0sr5, and as a combo update from any previous 1.4.0 release.
• Geeklog 1.3.11sr7-1 is available as an upgrade from 1.3.11sr7 and as a combo update from any previous 1.3.11 release.

Please note that when using the 1.4.0 "combo" update, you will also have to remove some files to fix the security issue with FCKeditor's file manager, as explained in the included README file.

Geeklog 1.4.0 is one of the biggest updates in Geeklog's history and introduces the following new features and changes:

• Geeklog now officially works with register_globals = off.
• Ships with FCKeditor (WYSIWYG editor).
• Supports Trackback, Pingback, and pinging weblog directories.
• Remote authentication lets registered users of remote services such as Blogger.com and LiveJournal log into your Geeklog site without having to register.
• New syndication framework that can both read and write feeds in RSS (0.9x and 2.0), RDF, and Atom (0.3 and 1.0) formats.
• The links and polls sections are now plugins and can be disabled, removed, or replaced easily when you don't need them.
• Revamped Admin sections to provide a consistent look and sortable lists.
• New search only returns a specified amount of results per page, thus avoiding the embarrassing timeouts on large databases.
• ... and more.