b2evolution 1.8.5 review

b2evolution is a classy news/weblog tool (aka logware), i-e software allowing you to run newsfeeds and weblogs. It does basically

License: Freeware File size: 0K Developer: Fran?ois Planque

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b2evolution is a classy news/weblog tool (aka logware), i-e software allowing you to run newsfeeds and weblogs.

It does basically the same thing blogger.com and typepad.com do, but with two main differences:

b2evolution is free as free can be! (GNU General Public License). It runs on your own domain/website. That means you need a host which can run web applications written in PHP.

Here are some key features of "b2evolution":
Advanced browsing (paged, calendar, categories, search.
Extended & multipaged posts;
Image/file upload;
Multiple and sub-categories;
Draft and quick publishing;
Spell checker;
RSS & Atom feeds;
Bookmarklet and sidebar blogging;
Blog with a desktop client (w.bloggar, etc...);
Automatic pinging of blog directories;
Simple installation;
Skin switching;
Localized in many languages;
Multilingual blogging;
Timezone handling;
Multiple blogs;
Web standards compliance with integrated XHTML checker;
Clean and search engine friendly permalinks;
User rights management;
Private/protected posts;
Open/closed/disabled comments;
Trackback & feedback;
Integrated hitlogs and stats;
Anti-blogspam (referrer & comments);
Plug-in architecture;
Advanced rendering plug-ins (Textile, Auto-P, BBcode.

What's New in 0.9.1 Release:
Scalability and speed improvements.
Browsing capabilities are extended.
Trackbacks and pingbacks are shown on the "last comments" page.
A Wacko markup plugin and WikiLinks? plugin are added.
Referer spam is detected early, and triggers a 403 error.
Public statistics are removed to avoid attracting spam.
Trying to access public statistics triggers a 410 error.
The entire comment text is searched for blacklisted keywords.
HTML entities may be used in blacklisted keywords.
URL input into feedback is restricted to defeat comment spam. rel="nofollow" is used for feedback author URLs.
The antispam blacklist is not displayed by default.

What's New in 1.8.5 Release:
Fixed file upload restriction on allowed filetypes (blueyed)
ldap_plugin: Fixed fatal error when setting group for new user (blueyed)
Fixed fatal error in next_posts_link() if used on a non-item page, e.g. msgform (blueyed)
Do not override $db_config['connection_charset'], if set (blueyed)
Fixed possible fatal error during install (while collecting col_info for CREATE and DROP queries) (blueyed)
Fixed Javascript in blog permission editing tab (blueyed)
Fixed Movable Type import tool (blueyed)
Fixed upgrade from b2/cafelog (blueyed)
Plugin API: Added "app_min" dependency; Deprecated "api_min" dependency (blueyed)
Many more minor fixes (blueyed)