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Blosxom 2.1.0 released
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In 2005 Kevin Scaldeferri took over the Blosxom development from Rael
Dornfest and opened a SourceForge project[1] for it. The final 2.0
release and two maintainance releases followed. The user mailing
list[2] haas been moved from Yahoo! to SourceForge, a developer
mailing list[2] has been opened and an IRC channel[3] has been
established.

 [1] http://sf.net/projects/blosxom
 [2] http://sf.net/mail/?group_id=148044
 [3] irc://irc.freenode.net/#blosxom

Kevin also managed to establish a solid developer base and the Blosxom
Development Team[4] grew to currently nine members from all over the
world.

 [4] http://sf.net/project/memberlist.php?group_id=148044

Although there were no release in the last two years, the increase in
developers led to a nearly permanent development and also to a closer
contact with e.g. the maintainers of the blosxom package[5] in Debian.

 [5] http://packages.debian.org/blosxom

So the Blosxom CVS repository[6] nowadays does not only contain the
CGI script itself, but also plugin-sets and a test suite for easier
noticing of regressions. Kudos for the test suite go to Gavin Carr.

 [6] http://blosxom.cvs.sourceforge.net/blosxom/

While the first few releases after Kevin took over Blosxom were close
to Rael's code, the code has evolved a lot over the last two years and
it's time for a new release with new features.

And here is it: Blosxom 2.1.0 has been released and features among
others the following improvements.

New features:

 * Support for external config files and multi-instance
   installations via environment variables. (Inspired and loosely
   based on the Debian patches for Blosxom 2.0.2.)

 * Support for multiple plugin directories using $plugin_path and
   @INC.

 * Support for configuring the plugins to use in a config file.

 * The default feed templates are now in RSS 2.0 format and prevent
   duplicated stories in feed readers or aggregators if posts are
   changed after publishing using a GUID element in each feed item.

 * There's now an encoding setting which controls what charset your
   blog and feeds should be marked as.

Bugfixes:

 * Works together with a broader range of CGI.pm versions.

 * The number of false positives when trying to parse dates out of
   the path have been reduces.

 * Some RSS escaping issues have been fixed.

 * The default HTML templates now conform to HTML 4.01

 * Many small bugfixes and improvements.

Helpers for Developers:

 * Testsuite

 * Some code refactoring (including a .perltidyrc)

 * Easier building of tar balls for distribution

You can download Blosxom 2.1.0 at

 http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=148044

(Please note: The Blosxom Yahoo! Group as well as the blosxom.com
 website are deprecated and are no more resp. not supported by us.)

                     Axel Beckert, for the Blosxom Development Team