Bluetrait Weblog

Hi All,

Just thought I should post a quick update here as it has been a while. The last year has been very busy and therefore not much work on Bluetrait has been done, but no worries, there is an update in the works.

The next version will have an improved password hash system, to me this is a very important feature, so there will be no other features added for the next version (in an attempt to get this out soonish).

The update will be a couple of weeks off at least.

Bluetrait 2.1 Beta 2 is out.

This version includes the following new features:

• You can now change the default front page from blog to cms
• You can now delete categories
• You can now send email using SMTP
• Fixes from Bluetrait 2.0.1

Please note that if you upgrade from Bluetrait 2.0.x any events in the event log will be deleted.

This is a beta build so there might be bugs. [Download]

Bluetrait 2.0.1 is now out.

This version fixes some bugs when running it with E_STRICT enabled in PHP.

[Download]

Bluetrait 2.1 Beta 1 is out.

This version includes the following new features:

• User Registration
• Able to upload events from Bluetrait Client to Bluetrait Server via SOAP
• New event logging system

Please note that if you upgrade to Bluetrait 2.1 Beta 1 any events in the event log will be deleted.

Please note that this is a beta build so there might be bugs.

[Download]

After 6 development releases Bluetrait 2.0 has now been released.

Bluetrait 2 has the following features over Bluetrait 1

• Categories for Posts
• Group and Task based Permissions
• Custom Permalinks
• Themes
• Improved Plugin System
• Pseudo Cron System
• MySQL and SQlite Support
• Limited SSL/HTTPs Support
• PHP5+ Only

You can get it here:

[Download] ~ 1.5MB

Changes since Beta 2 include:

• Minor bug fixes
• Fixes and improvements to Bluetrait 1 importer (Can now import Content, Link Categories and Links)
• Fixes and improvements when using sqlite
• Added trackback link to classic theme and post template tags

A new version of Bluetrait 2 has been released, Beta 2.

Changes include:

• A database maintenance page
• Links management (Add/Edit/Delete/Order)
• Now able to send trackbacks

[Download] - 1.5MB

We are getting close to a final release of Bluetrait 2, so there is currently no plans to add any new functionality to 2.0.

A new version of Bluetrait 2 has been released, Beta 1.

Changes include:

• Akismet spam checking on contact form
• Fixes to the way themes work, now similar to plugins
• Able to update your password from the personal settings page
• Now able to edit categories
• changes to the htaccess file to fix some issues when not using a blog as the home page
• plus some more smaller fixes/changes

[Download] - 1.5MB

I've updated the FCKeditor plugin for Bluetrait 2, it now contains FCKeditor 2.6.2.

Download

Bluetrait 2 Alpha 4 is now out and can be downloaded from here.

The following are the major changes since Alpha 3:

• Shows new version number and download link when a plugin is out of date.
• Able to delete comments through the delete comment link
• Spam settings page finished.
• More options in general settings page
• Javascript popup window when deleting things
• Basic incoming trackback support
• Paging support on your comments
• More work on user admin
• Contact Form now uses user details
• fixed "SQLSTATE[23000]: Integrity constraint violation: 1062 Duplicate entry for key 'PRIMARY'" error

So to install:

• Download
• Unzip
• Modify .htaccess if required (i.e not installing in /bluetrait-2.0/)
• Visit bt-install/ in your web browser to install
• Once installed delete the bt-install/ folder

Bluetrait 2 Alpha 3 is now out and can be downloaded from here.

The following are the major changes since Alpha 2:

1. Comment Editing Support
2. Plugin Update Notifier

The install process is the same as alpha 2.

Unfortunately I haven't had much time to work on Bluetrait 2, so Alpha 3 doesn't have a huge number of changes.

The current plugins don't have an update url so they won't pull down the latest version information. I will update them either tonight or over the weekend.