b2evolution 5.0.4
29 June 2013
b2evolution version 5.0.4 is now available (major release).
Upgrading to b2evolution 5.0.4
b2evolution 5.0.4 can be upgraded to (or installed) using any of Installatron's products. Use Installatron's optional Automatic Update feature to automatically apply b2evolution updates as new versions are released, or use Installatron's Clone feature to duplicate an existing b2evolution install to test the 5.0.4 upgrade prior to applying it live. Get started managing your b2evolution installations with Installatron
What's New in b2evolution 5.0.4
- Default blog skins were optimized for CSS 3, greatly reducing the number of files that need to be loaded. This results in better load times of your blog and also easier customization of the default skins.
- Email notifications: b2evolution can now send full text notifications for new posts.
- Email notifications: Viewing sent emails now also shows the HTML version in HTML form
- Email notifications: For users subscribed to notifications on many posts, the list of posts in the notifications management screen now links to the original posts, so users can easily see if they are still interested in that topic.
- Email notifications: Users with a custom sender address or name will be highlighted in the backoffice
- Antispam: Enhanced IP Ranges handling
- Antispam: Removed "xxx" from the blacklist at install – too many false positives.
- Antispam: If requesting the lostpassword screen when already logged in, we are redirected to the home page.
- Antispam: If the blog owner has defined a nickname, it will be displayed in the contact form (when contacting through link in footer of blogs for example).
- Comments: When voting is enabled for comments in a specific blog, it’s possible to specify a question. (Max 10,000 chars)
- Comments: Expired comments can be easily seen in the backoffice, under their parent post.
- Comments: It is possible to prevent some user groups (e-g: spammers) from posting comments even if anonymous users are allowed to post anonymous comments! Spammers go over their target sites so fast, that this added complexity is sometimes effective in stopping them in their tracks. However, this can create some counter intuitive permission management. These situation are now highlighted with an warning in the back office.
- Plugins: Star renderer plugin allows to insert star ratings anywhere in the text of a post/comment.
- Plugins: Twitter Plugin made compatible with Twitter API v1.1
- Plugins: When creating posts from pictures, we use the long title of the pictures (if available) to name the posts.
- Plugins: Allow some special chars in autolink definitions (especially useful for filenames)
- Plugins: A few presentation changes in the back office.
- Tools: Find and delete orphan File objects (with no matching file on disk)
- Tools: Sample posts creation tool now displays progress dots…
- Fixed issues in the upgrade procedure
- Fixed issues with entering multiple slugs per post
- Fixed detection of IE 10 (removed message saying version was too old)
- Fixed Goal Stats screen (headers & footers)
- Fixed handling of [img:] tags after <–more–>
- Fixed wrong display of "?" in the evobar for users with little permissions
- Various other bug fixes.