MovableType.org - Home for the MT Community tag:www.movabletype.org,2007-05-25://2 2010-03-12T00:25:05Z Professional Publishing Platform for Bloggers Movable Type Pro 4.25 This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use. Open Sourcing GeoType, PostOffice, CAS, BuildTracer tag:www.movabletype.org,2010://2.20123 2010-03-12T01:16:24Z 2010-03-12T00:25:05Z Hi all, We’ve open sourced a few more plugins, and they’re all available in the Six Apart Github repository! GeoType allows you to associate GoogleMap data with an entry. Each map extends the MT Asset framework, so it’s managed similar... Natalie Podrazik Hi all,

We’ve open sourced a few more plugins, and they’re all available in the Six Apart Github repository!

  • GeoType allows you to associate GoogleMap data with an entry. Each map extends the MT Asset framework, so it’s managed similar to uploaded images or documents, and associated to an entry in the exact same way.

  • PostOffice enables blog posting via email. You may have been following along in MTOS earlier this week about this one, Brad Choate made a lot of handy fixes.

  • CentralAuthenticationService allows you to configure MT to delegate user authentication to a CAS server in place of the built-in native authentication scheme.

  • BuildTracer benchmarks statically-published templates and provides a visual display of how long it takes each tag to publish. It’s originally by Akira and available on his site, but we’ve been updating it in Github to match the latest builds of MT.

Since we’re releasing these plugins as open-source and they’re not officially supported by Six Apart, we invite the community to improve upon them. Anyone and everyone is welcome to follow and contribute to the projects’ Github repositories.

Enjoy!

]]> Movable Type 4.34 tag:www.movabletype.org,2010://2.19701 2010-02-17T20:48:56Z 2010-02-19T23:22:02Z Today Six Apart is releasing Movable Type 4.34. This release primarily contains bug fixes and minor security fixes to address issues in 4.33. But it is highly recommended for all users of prior versions of 4.3x as well as earlier... Dave Aiello Today Six Apart is releasing Movable Type 4.34. This release primarily contains bug fixes and minor security fixes to address issues in 4.33. But it is highly recommended for all users of prior versions of 4.3x as well as earlier releases.

MT4.x Development

Many customers will be on MT4 until they have a need to upgrade to MT5. So, Six Apart will continue to update the MT4.x product with security fixes and other updates as necessary. Any new updates to 4.x will be created from the following branches:

Found a Bug?

  1. To avoid duplication of efforts, search existing bugs (from the feedback page) before submitting a new bug.
  2. Submit a bug for the Braden (MT 4.34) Release

Have a Question?

Ask questions about this release or Movable Type 4 in general in one of these places:

]]> Considering an MT 4 Upgrade? Review the Movable Type 4.33 Changelog tag:www.movabletype.org,2010://2.19286 2010-01-19T23:07:31Z 2010-01-20T02:19:26Z About two weeks ago, Six Apart release Movable Type 4.33, a release that was coordinated with the worldwide release of Movable Type 5.01 and Movable Type 4.27-ja for Movable Type 4 users in Japan. I urge any customers planning to... Dave Aiello About two weeks ago, Six Apart release Movable Type 4.33, a release that was coordinated with the worldwide release of Movable Type 5.01 and Movable Type 4.27-ja for Movable Type 4 users in Japan.

I urge any customers planning to stay on Movable Type 4 for the near future to take another look at the Movable Type 4.33 Release Notes and to pay close attention to the following improvements:

Security Fixes

There are two significant security fixes that were included in Movable Type 4.33. The first is the closing of a series of vulnerabilities in the Content Management System (the Movable Type administrative user interface) where user privileges weren’t properly checked. Until Movable Type 4.33, unprivileged users could access several functions of the CMS by typing their URLs directly.

We also enhanced the Asset Manager, XML-RPC Server, and Atom Server to make them check the content of image files that are being uploaded. If image files contain JavaScript or HTML unexpectedly, they can be used to attempt to exploit flaws in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 that could lead to security issues on the visitor’s PC or on servers to which that visitor has access.

New Configuration Directive

Related to the Asset Manager changes discussed above, Six Apart implemented a new configuration directive: AssetFileExtensions concurrently in Movable Type 4 and 5. This is a feature that has been requested by many Movable Type system administrators, and we want you to start getting the benefits of it immediately.

Oracle Database Fixes

There are fixes for three long-standing bugs affecting Movable Type Enterprise’s Oracle database implementation that users of that database should adopt as soon as possible. Some customers have been offered some or all of these fixes as patches to previous versions of Movable Type 4. But Oracle users should definitely consider adopting the entire set of improvements that’s contained in Movable Type 4.33. (See FogBugz Cases 103405, 103406, and 103418.)

Asset Manager Fixes

In addition to the Asset Manager security fix mentioned previously, Movable Type 4.33 fixes a logic error in the Asset Manager which occurs in some cases when an entry doesn’t have any assets associated with it.

Template Linked to File Fixes

For Movable Type users who have their templates linked to files in the file system, Movable Type 4.33 fixes a long-standing problem that caused the first change to a template to be lost. If you use templates that are saved as files, we strongly recommend that you upgrade your installation.

Movable Type 4.33 Release Notes Are Constantly Being Updated

Six Apart is making changes to the Movable Type 4.33 Release Notes that are intended to allow you to understand the significance of the fixes we’ve implemented in 4.33. This includes publication of a substantial portion of each FogBugz case that resulted in significant changes to Movable Type 4.

Known Issues in Movable Type 4.33

In addition, we are providing unprecedented access to known issues in Movable Type 4.33. These issues are provided by our Support team and broken down into three categories:

We hope that providing this information will allow us to iterate Movable Type Open Source faster, will allow you to participate in the problem solving process, and will make everybody more productive with Movable Type.

]]> Movable Type 5 tag:www.movabletype.org,2010://2.18636 2010-01-05T08:55:03Z 2010-03-03T02:38:43Z Crack the champagne! Movable Type 5 is ready for you to download and give it a roll. Download Movable Type 5.01 (available in English, Japanese, German, Spanish, Dutch and French.) Movable Type 5.01 - commercial license Movable Type Open Source... Beau Smith http://beausmith.com Crack the champagne!

Movable Type 5 is ready for you to download and give it a roll.

Download

Movable Type 5.01 (available in English, Japanese, German, Spanish, Dutch and French.)

mt5-objects.png

This is a great milestone in the 8 years of Movable Type history.

Some long-awaited features are now available:

  • Websites for grouping blogs together.
  • Themes with full support for custom fields, static files, templates, categories, folders, etc for blogs and websites.
  • Revision History for entries, pages, and templates.
  • Custom Fields for all objects.
  • User Dashboard for quick access to the most used blogs and websites.

…and much more.

We’re excited that all of these features derived from real-world use cases requested by enthusiastic customers using Movable Type. A big thanks to the customers building beautiful things with Movable Type.

And huge thanks goes out to everyone on the Movable Type team to design, build and test this release.

In the coming weeks we’ll be posting articles and adding to the documentation to help you take advantage of the new features in Movable Type.

Documentation

We’ve got a lot of new docs that are being reviewed and will be published as they become available. We’ll do a regular wrap up of new post on this blog as well. Until then keep an eye on these pages:

MT5.x Development

The MT SVN trunk is where all future development of MT5 will occur.

MT5 Trunk SVN TRAC

MT 5.01 release (codename G2) SVN TRAC mt5.01 SVN Tag

Found a Bug?

  1. To avoid duplication of efforts, search existing bugs (from the feedback page) before submitting a new bug.
  2. Submit a bug in the Greyhound (MT5) Beta

Have a Question?

Ask questions about this release or Movable Type 5 in general in one of these places:

Movable Type 4.33 Security Update

Part of the reason for the delay of the 5.01 launch was that a minor security issue was reported that affected both MT4.x and MT5.x. This is an optional update. Read more in the release notes.

MT4.x Development

As many customers will be on MT4 until they have a need to upgrade to MT5, Six Apart will continue to update the MT4.x product with security fixes and other updates as necessary. Any new updates to 4.x will be created from the following branches:

]]> Movable Type 5 Release Postponed to Jan 5th, 2010 tag:www.movabletype.org,2009://2.18706 2009-12-10T21:09:29Z 2009-12-10T21:35:48Z We’ve determined that there are a few issues we need to resolve in Movable Type 5 before the official worldwide launch. In order to resolve these issues and due to the holiday season, the release of Movable Type 5 has... Beau Smith http://beausmith.com We’ve determined that there are a few issues we need to resolve in Movable Type 5 before the official worldwide launch.

In order to resolve these issues and due to the holiday season, the release of Movable Type 5 has been postponed untill January 5th, 2010.

The latest release candidate builds of Movable Type 5 are available:

Warning! - This beta software is not recommended for any production environment.

Between now and Jan 5th we’ll be producing new documentation and updating existing documentation. We’ll be highlighting new documentation on this blog, you can find the latest updates on the following pages:

If you have questions about Movable Type:

]]> Movable Type 5 Release Postponed to Dec 16th tag:www.movabletype.org,2009://2.18620 2009-12-05T23:13:52Z 2009-12-05T23:45:17Z In order to launch Movable Type 5 with more developer documentation, we’ve decided to delay the release of MT5 until December 16th. In the meantime we’ve made the latest release candidate builds of Movable Type 5 available: Movable Type 5.0... Beau Smith http://beausmith.com In order to launch Movable Type 5 with more developer documentation, we’ve decided to delay the release of MT5 until December 16th.

In the meantime we’ve made the latest release candidate builds of Movable Type 5 available:

Warning! - This beta software is not recommended for any production environment.

If you have questions about this release candidate or Movable Type 5:

If your question doesn’t fit into one of the above places add a comment to this post and we’ll get back to you.

]]> MT5 Q & A Conference Call tag:www.movabletype.org,2009://2.18574 2009-12-03T18:19:35Z 2009-12-04T21:38:38Z You have questions about MT5, we have answers... Six Apart will host two half-hour calls this Friday to answer all your questions about MT5. Update: Fri, Dec 4 1:30pm Listen to the recorded conference call.... Answers to these questions and... Beau Smith http://beausmith.com You have questions about MT5, we have answers...

Six Apart will host two half-hour calls this Friday to answer all your questions about MT5.

Update: Fri, Dec 4 1:30pm

Listen to the recorded conference call....

Answers to these questions and more will be placed into an official FAQ released with MT5.

]]> Rewritten Install & Upgrade Documentation for Movable Type tag:www.movabletype.org,2009://2.18576 2009-12-03T04:21:14Z 2009-12-04T14:55:11Z George Drapeau recently wrote about his experience Installing and running Movable Type on OpenSolaris. Though George seems to be technially savvy, installation of MT is not always easy because each server environment in which it is installed is different. A... Beau Smith http://beausmith.com George Drapeau recently wrote about his experience Installing and running Movable Type on OpenSolaris. Though George seems to be technially savvy, installation of MT is not always easy because each server environment in which it is installed is different.

A few months ago (with the help of a few Perl hackers at Six Apart), I wrote a step-by-step guide to Install Movbale Type on a Mac which required the installation of a foundation of software commonly pre-installed by most web hosting companies. This included Xcode Tools (specific to MacOS), MySQL, PHP5, Perl modules, Image Magick and common image libraries.

While I can install Movable Type without assistance, I needed guidance to install the system software which is commonly installed by most web hosting providers. When a web host meets the system requirements for Movable Type, installation is as easy as installing any of today’s self-hosted CMS products.

I’ve rewritten the install and upgrade guides with a progressive disclosure of detail such that those already comfortable with performing such installations have access to simple guides.

These guides will work for both MT4 and MT5.

Quick Install Guides

For those who may be installing for the first time or need more details:

Because ungrading is esentially installation + backup, the new upgrade guide is similar to the detailed installation guide, but adds backup steps and tips for general administration of Movable Type:

To support these installation and upgrade guides, the following reference guides were created:

These guides have been inspired by many previous Movable Type installation guides, messages on the mailing lists, comments in the Movable Type Documentation, and installation guides from other sites and software products.

So check out the new Installation Guides and provide any feedback you have such these documents can be a resource for the whole community. Some documents are still in a draft state. Please leave any comments on the individual docs if you have questions or comments.

A few other documentation-related notes:

  • An index template aggregating MT5 documentation will continue to list new docs as they become available. Documentation will continue to be produced through the release date.
  • The Recently Updated Documentation page lists the last 300 documentation pages that have been updated.

Enjoy!

]]> Movable Type 5 Status tag:www.movabletype.org,2009://2.18514 2009-11-29T07:10:08Z 2009-11-29T07:12:47Z Movable Type 5 will be available December 8th in the US and European markets. It’s been moved one week to provide more time for coordination of the release and associated documentation. MT5 was released in Japan on Nov 26th. Hold... Beau Smith http://beausmith.com Movable Type 5 will be available December 8th in the US and European markets. It’s been moved one week to provide more time for coordination of the release and associated documentation.

MT5 was released in Japan on Nov 26th.

Hold tight and you’ll have Movable Type 5 shortly.

Thanks.

Movable Type 5.0 RC3 was available from Nov 19th to 25th. Because MT5 was released in Japan, we have taken down the betas until MT5 is officially released in the US.

Fixes in Movable Type 5 Release Candidate 3

Resolved Issues

  • FogBugz 103151: Yahoo! (and possibly Yahoo! Japan) may have to be removed from the list of commenter auth (Fixed : 103151)
  • FogBugz 103149: funny URL on blog create screen. (Fixed : 103149)

Additional known issues on RC3

  • FogBugz 103142: “Statement has no result columns to bind” error occurs in with old MySQL client. Please update DBI and DBD::mysql. ( 103142)
]]> Movable Type 5.0 Release Candidate 2 tag:www.movabletype.org,2009://2.18384 2009-11-19T02:50:59Z 2009-11-19T03:00:49Z Movable Type 5.0 Release Candidate 2 is now available. Here’s the highlights… A lot of work to get the dynamic publishing in sync with the static publishing. Updates to the Professional blog templates Unbundling of Motion and Action Streams The... Beau Smith http://beausmith.com Movable Type 5.0 Release Candidate 2 is now available.

Here’s the highlights…

  • A lot of work to get the dynamic publishing in sync with the static publishing.
  • Updates to the Professional blog templates
  • Unbundling of Motion and Action Streams
  • The Entry/Page “previous” and “next” container tags now account for entries/pages with the same date-time, rather than skipping them.

And many more bug fixes.

Release Notes for MT5 RC2

Download

Warning! - This software is not recommended for any production environment.

Check out the Pre-Release Software License Agreement for more details about using the software.

Please report bugs and submit feature requests you find.

Plugin Support

Many MT4 plugins will work with MT5 (or only need minor updates) as much of the core functionality in MT5 hasn’t changed dramatically.

Plugins which do not work correctly in MT5 due to the following reasons:

The most common reasons for plugins not working in MT5:

  • Plugin relies on a transformers (code which searches for other code to replace) may be broken because of changes the application templates.
  • YAML may be improperly formatted. YAML::Tiny has been replaced by the more strict YAML::Syck perl module.
  • Characters may be more garbled if text is not encoded using UTF-8. MT5 is more strictly using UTF-8.
  • Bundled CPAN modules have been updated. If plugin relies upon any bundled versions of these modules, plugin should be updated to be compatible with the bundled version.
  • The method of adding links into the UI hasn’t changed, but the UI has changed. Links placed into the UI by the plugin will have to be updated.
  • PHP4 has been deprecated in exchange for PHP5. All PHP code must be compatible with PHP5 or plugin functionality may not work when publishing dynamically.
  • Database accessor has changed to use Active Record from EZSQL, thus PHP database queries must be compatible with Active Record or must use the MT API.
  • Though plugins written in older “.pl” style (instead of YAML style) are supported in MT5, their “age” may generally be a source of issues.

One of the developers in Japan tested many of the most popular plugins for MT5 compatibility. See his results here:

New Template Tags in MT5

The Japanese documentation site has all tags marked “New in MT5”. We’ll be updating the English template tag docs to include these new tags.

MT5 Release Schedule

The release schedule has been updated, here’s the current plan:

  • MT5.0 RC2 - released today.
  • MT5.0 RC3 - to be released this Friday, November 20. Will include a few remaining bugs and localization of European language versions.
  • MT5.0 - first week of December (November 26th in Japan) should all go according to plan.

Found a Bug?

  1. To avoid duplication of efforts, search existing bugs (from the feedback page) before submitting a new bug.
  2. Submit a bug in the Greyhound (MT5) Beta

Have a Question?

Ask questions about this release or Movable Type 5 in general in one of these places:

]]> Movable Type 5.0 Release Candidate 1 tag:www.movabletype.org,2009://2.18158 2009-11-06T20:36:11Z 2009-11-06T21:45:51Z Movable Type 5.0 RC1 is available today. Here are the highlights… New Theme Pico, a clean and simple theme (also available on TypePad and designed by Jim Ramsey) is now bundled with MT5. Styles can also be bundled with a... Beau Smith http://beausmith.com Movable Type 5.0 RC1 is available today. Here are the highlights…

New Theme

Pico, a clean and simple theme (also available on TypePad and designed by Jim Ramsey) is now bundled with MT5.

pico.png

Styles can also be bundled with a theme to easily offer different flavors of a theme. (Styles are a combination of a stylesheet and images to bundle with a theme.)

pico-blue.png

pico-grey.png

pico-tan.png

Documentation

MT5 documentation is beginning to appear online. We’re releasing them as they are available:

Some documents are still in a draft state. Please leave any comments on the individual docs if you have questions or comments.

Issues Triaged

Download

Warning! - This is beta software and is not recommended in any production environment.

Check out the Pre-Release Software License Agreement for more details about using the software.

Please report bugs and submit feature requests you find.

Release Schedule

The release schedule has been updated, here’s the current plan:

  • MT5.0 RC2 - scheduled for November 18th.
  • MT5.0 - first week of December (November 26th in Japan) should all go according to plan.

Resolved Issues in MT5 RC1

Major Changes

  • Add a new theme “Pico”. (102886)
  • Bundle style repository with a theme. (102834)
  • Config directive SQLSetNames should be specified as SQLSetNames 0 in mt-config.cgi when upgrading from older versions with MySQL 5.x and UTF-8
  • Tip: When including templates inside a loop which is using multi-blog to aggregate content, blog_id should be specified with include tag to ensure proper template is included unless the template to include exists in each blog/site being aggregated.

Configuration Directive

Cases from Beta 4

  • FastCGI: Save change of profile displays Internal Server Error (102752)
  • FastCGI: Internal server error when uploading a userpic (102728)

Backup & Restore

  • When Backup/Restore all or website, manifest file cannot start restore. (102960)
  • JavaScript error when uploading a manifest file from the Restore screen (102981)
  • Backup/Restore drop the Following/Follower data (102956)
  • CF: Backup/Restore customfields of Image object (102946)
  • Backup/Restore: Association of assets CF of Category is wrong (102942)
  • CF: Backup/Restore customfields of Blog/Website object (102938)
  • Assets named in Japanese have garbage file name when backup (102920)
  • [Restore] Website custom field is not restorable (102817)
  • Restoring set wrong userpic (103000)
  • manifest file : cannot upload (102982)
  • [restore] folder/category custom field is not restored (102964)
  • Website: Restored Facebook Commentes setting (102955)
  • Restored data can get wrong Multiblog settings (102939)

Upgrade

  • Index templates are not published after upgrade from MT 3.21 (102861)
  • Upgrade remove all system templates of the blog whose template set is not Classic Blog (102818)
  • Problems after upgrading a blog whose site/archive URL is ‘foo.com’ (102969)
  • Error when publishing templates after upgrading from 3.21 (102814)

Theme and Template

  • Professional Website template doesn’t display Comment and Trackbacks (102829)
  • Unable to display Professional Website template with Dynamic Publishing (102820)
  • Warning messages are always shown when applying a theme that contains a custom fields (102934)
  • No warning messages show up when theme cannot add a custom fields (102865)
  • Item customfield tag is escaped in community template (102811)
  • mt:WebsiteIfCommentsOpen doesn’t work in dynamic publishing (102987)
  • mt:Websites with exclude_websites doesn’t work (static/dynamic) (102986)
  • Template refresh doesn’t respect blog language. (102912)
  • View Published Template link doesn’t work when Output file include directory (102870)
  • IE: Comment Pagination doesn’t work (102911)
  • Comment Pagination doesn’t work on Community Blog template (102897)
  • Pagination of Main Index (102858)
  • Dynamic: Publish mt.js by dynamic generate error (102895)
  • Fixing issue on Ajax pagination. (102924)
  • mt:Include doesn’t work in some situations (102910)
  • mt:Blogs doesn’t work in dynamic publishing (102836)
  • Professional blog doesn’t work on dynamic (102831)
  • Professional Website: Comment form is blank on Comment Preview (102824)

Other

  • Unable to upload an asset to some kinds of servers (102881)
  • Permission link of Edit Profile goes to Permissions screen for sign-ined user (102931)
  • Create personal blog for user feature generate wrong Publishing Paths (102878)
  • IE8: Copy & Paste issues in the template editor (102871)
  • Javascript dies on System > Settings> General (102822)
  • Garbage Comments on Blog Stats (102959)
  • Website: Automatic Deletion of spam doesn’t work for website (102918)
  • Some database driver does not search ” (double quotation mark) in public mt-search (102868)
  • [import] When the text form is Markdown and Markdown + SmartyPants, the error is displayed (102851)
  • Unable to import file encoding by EUC (102850)
  • Import is slowly (102781)
  • Unable to create a blog in German (102846)
  • Comment Order setting on CMS is ignored expect Community Forum template (102816)
  • Blog name on user dasubhaord is double encorded (102801)
  • Thumbnail URL is a relative path (102780)

Known Issues in MT5.0

These will not be fixed on MT 5.0, under consideration for fixing in a future version. (If one of these is crucial to you, please add a note in the case.)

  • Pagination doesn’t work on original archive template (102859)
  • DefaultEntryPrefs config directive doesn’t work (102900)
  • Known issues of Template Editor (codemirror) (102988)
    • Internet Explorer: copy and pasted code will be placed at the end of the line if code is pasted before the syntax highlight.
    • Firefox: sometimes cursor remains on current line when pressing enter key.

“Won’t Fix” in MT5

  • IE6: Security alerts is displayed when modal dialog opens under SSL URL (102654)
  • Feeds.App Lite is garbled (102189)
  • FastCGI: Unable to Backup/Restore customfields and assets (102971)
  • FastCGI: Infinite loop? in mt-upgrade.cgi (102893)

Found a Bug?

  1. To avoid duplication of efforts, search existing bugs (from the feedback page) before submitting a new bug.
  2. Submit a bug in the Greyhound (MT5) Beta
]]> Movable Type 5 Documentation tag:www.movabletype.org,2009://2.18120 2009-11-04T01:30:40Z 2009-11-05T02:12:29Z Thanks for everyone’s input and suggestions to improve the documentation for MT5. Here’s a list of places to find updated and brand-new documentation: MT5 Documentation Index - an index listing all pages which are tagged Updated for MT5, New in... Beau Smith http://beausmith.com Thanks for everyone’s input and suggestions to improve the documentation for MT5. Here’s a list of places to find updated and brand-new documentation:

One highlight…. Creating themes for MT5 - this was requested by lots of people in the community and should get you started. Our goal is to create a few sample themes, and place them in a GitHub repository.

The documentation for MT5 is being initially created by the Japanese Movable Type team as they are leading development of MT5. We’re working with a translator to convert to English and then going through each document to clean it up, reformat it, test it, and add more examples. We’ve been notifying the Japanese team whenever we have significantly changed the document so that they can translate it back to Japanese.

Next up is the process of converting the documentation site itself to a more topic-based structure, rather than the current organization (by user-type).

We’re converting pages that list tags in Movable Type to index templates with loops to output pages: by folder, tag, etc. This will ensure that listings are always up-to-date.

As we make improvements and adjustments to the templates, pages and styles, please let us know if you have any requests or suggestions.

Next topic to tackle: Installation Guides

]]> Movable Type 5 Beta 4 tag:www.movabletype.org,2009://2.17910 2009-10-21T22:38:02Z 2009-10-22T18:36:30Z Movable Type 5.0 Beta 4 has been released! Included is the first website theme for the “Professional Website Theme” and many other bug fixes. This beta is scheduled be the last beta before there are two release candidates. At this... Beau Smith http://beausmith.com Movable Type 5.0 Beta 4 has been released!

Included is the first website theme for the “Professional Website Theme” and many other bug fixes.

This beta is scheduled be the last beta before there are two release candidates. At this point we’re targeting for a late November launch of MT5. A more specific date will be available as MT5 code stabilizes.

Please report bugs found during your testing.

Download

Warning! - This is beta software and is not recommended in any production environment.

Check out the Pre-Release Software License Agreement for more details about the software.

Resolved Issues in Beta 4

Major changes

  • “Professional Website Theme” is added as a new theme.(102154)
  • WebsiteLabel has changed to WebsiteName (102727)
  • Remove the definition of active users from app (102776)
  • Keep a compatibility of plugins (102731)
  • Create “MultiBlog Trigger” for “All blogs in this website” (102593)
  • MultiBlog Trigger also for “Pages” not only for “Entries” (102627)
  • UI: “Created, Published, Edited” date and time of the entry (102385)
  • DOC: FastCGI: Unable to access with XML-RPC (102513)

Note: Because default template sets and global templates have been updated, all template sets (including global templates) must be refreshed to get updates to core template sets.

Multi-byte

  • Garbage alert when recovering password (102658)
  • Garbage System Info (102649)
  • Item name is garbled when file name is multibyte (102733)
  • Setting Punctuation Replacement makes garbage entry for the first publish (102705)
  • [dynamic] Thumbnail isn’t created when file name is multibyte (102683)
  • A CustomFields values was garbled (102634)

FastCGI

  • FastCGI: Unable to complete import (102688)
  • Settings are cached in FastCGI (102662, 102516, 102446, 102271)
  • FogBugz 102318: FastCGI: Infinite redirect after installation (102318)

Other

  • Cannot save pages and entries sometimes on 5.0b1 (102281)
  • Unable to insert asset on Page/Entry body on FF3.0x (101829)
  • Category/Folder label is double encoded on Compose screen (102721)
  • Folder label is doble encorded on Manage Folders screen (102718)
  • Category label should be escaped but it should not be remove_html-ed on Manage Categories screen (102641)
  • Site root and archive root that start with ‘/’ are not shown properly (102615)
  • Archive URL is not restored when restoring a blog backup (102740, 102739)
  • [Restore] Multibyte file name thumbnail isn’t displayed (102734)
  • [Restore] Item URL looks odd (102725)
  • IE8: JavaScript error when updating an existing entry on Edit Entry screen (102713)
  • Perlis.dll doesn’t install MT 5 Beta 4 (102714)
  • Facebook Commenter setting generate error (102709)
  • Publishing a comment posted via Facebook authentication results in an error (102433)
  • Batch edit entries disappeared (102661)
  • to set Dynamic Publishing Options (FogBugz 102670)
  • Display file extension when creating / editing page (102581)
  • FB: Canceling on dialogue makes confuse entry body editor (102414)
  • Upload of first userpic in system via mt-cp.cgi causes error. (102337)
  • Error when creating a multiblog trigger (102795)
  • mt:Blogs tag doesn’t work in Search Result template (86204)

Known Issues in Beta 4

  • Unable to restore backup (FogBugz 102594)
  • FastCGI: Internal server error when uploading a userpic (102728)
  • FastCGI: Save change of profile displays Internal Server Error (102752)

Found a Bug?

  1. To avoid duplication of efforts, search existing bugs (from the feedback page) before submitting a new bug.
  2. Submit a bug in the Greyhound (MT5) Beta
]]> Movable Type 5 Beta 3 tag:www.movabletype.org,2009://2.17662 2009-10-07T02:41:07Z 2009-10-09T05:01:48Z Movable Type 5.0 Beta 3 is ready! Beta 3 includes many improvements based on user feedback. While similar to the previous betas… Beta 3 feels very fresh and new due to the tightening of various user interface elements. Beta 4... Beau Smith http://beausmith.com Movable Type 5.0 Beta 3 is ready! Beta 3 includes many improvements based on user feedback. While similar to the previous betas… Beta 3 feels very fresh and new due to the tightening of various user interface elements.

Beta 4 will be the last beta before there are two release candidates. At this point we’re targeting for a late November launch of MT5. A more specific date will be available as MT5 code stabilizes.

Please report bugs found during your testing.

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Warning! - This is beta software and is not recommended in any production environment.

Check out the Pre-Release Software License Agreement for more details about the software.

Major Improvements in Beta 3

  • Automatic website provisioning based upon blog domain names during upgrade from MT4.x and MT3.x 102466.
  • Allow sub-domain blogs under one single website 102466.
  • Selected tab is saved on “Websites and Blogs” widget on the user dashboard, so once the user clicks the “blogs” tab, this tab will be selected upon subsequent visits.(101689)
  • [Create New] shortcut button on Website/Blog dashboard.(102333)
  • Cleaner and simpler User Dashboard.(102338, 102331, 102429, 102339)
  • Improved menu and button placement on [Edit Entry/Page] screens.(102391)
  • Download a zipped theme file when user [Exports Theme].(102423)
  • Display “SSI” enable/disable status icon on template listing screens. (102416)
  • Display links to published pages when user searches templates.(102495)
  • Do not create any sample pages when user create a new website or blog. (102269)
  • Motion and Action Stream template-sets are unbundled from Pro pack. These should be re-arranged to themes or addons.(101938, 101939)

Theme and template related cases

  • Unable to rebuild Index Template(s) on Listing Templates screen. (102505)
  • Error when opening Revision History dialog from Edit Template screen (102496)
  • FB:MTEntryImageAsset doesn’t work (102448)
  • mt:AuthorUserpicURL doesn’t work in dynamic publishing (102405)
  • ‘Cached’ icon is always shown on Template Listing screen even if module caching option is disabled (102535)
  • No warning messages when exporting a theme with the same name as an existing theme (102546)
  • Can not publish an archive templates. (102474)
  • Run Callback when applying the theme for blog/website (101307)
  • When having included template of other blogs, “create” link is displayed in the sidebar (83134)

Custom Fields related cases

  • Custom Fields default values are not displayed on dynamically published start-topic.html of Community Forum (102402)
  • Better Categories listing on Edit Custom Fields screen (102403)
  • [Customfields] Display option setting is not saved (102451)
  • Required custom field isn’t displayed (102434)
  • Custom field is not displayed on Edit Entry screen if it’s associated to category (102407)
  • Unable to save required asset customfields (102325)
  • CF: Base name shouldn’t be saved in Japanese or symbols (102556, 102555)
  • CF: Unable to be set “display” not required cf by default (102431)

Automatic website arrangement during upgrade

  • Create websites automatically during upgrade from MT4.x and MT3.x (102473, 102519, 102201)
  • Allow to specify a full site path in blog’s site root (102544)
  • Webpage trackback is broken in website (102590)

Search and Replace related cases

  • User search doesn’t work on the “Select a entry/page author” dialog (102566)
  • Unable to see the system-wide search & replace screen (102563)
  • User who has system-level manage template permission cannot search blogs from Search & Replace screen (102327)
  • Remove ‘Blog’ column from the blog-level Search & Replace screen for entry (102558)
  • Invalid request error when searching entries on the custom fields listing screen (102489)
  • Unable to search blog’s assets on the website-wide Search & Replace screen (102488)
  • Search doesn’t work with regex match option on Search & Replace screen (102455)

User, Permissions, Comments

  • Wrong user list on “Select a page author” dialog (102514)
  • ‘Continue’ button doesn’t work on the dialog of the second page (102450)
  • Default Tag Delimiter setting is always set to ‘Comma’ on system user settings screen (102512)
  • Userpic is not displayed on the header. (102428)
  • Comments from trusted commenters are not immediately approved (102502)
  • Publishing a comment posted via Facebook authentication results in an error (102433)

Other Cases

  • Blog Dashboard sometimes generate error (102432)
  • Cannot send notification mail. (102477)
  • Website list: What should display on System Overview (102460)
  • FB: Text gets garbled in dynamic publishing with latin1 database (102480)
  • Dashboard error after abort restoring blogs. (101948)
  • Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 8 related fixes (102526, 102418, 102603, 102578, 102575, 102562, 102561, 102528, 102507, 102472, 102410)
  • FastCGI: After Create Blog, most of sidebar navigation menus are gone (102521)
  • FastCGI: Need to restart Apache to refresh System Theme Settings (102554)

Known Issues in Beta 3

To be fixed in beta 4.

  • Unable to restore backup (102594)
  • Site root and archive root that start with ‘/’ are not shown properly (102615)
  • Create “MultiBlog Trigger” for “All blogs in this website” (102593)
  • Cannot save pages and entries sometimes on 5.0b1 (102281)
  • [Design] Comment Pagination is only for Classic Template on slapshot (102223)
  • Cannot insert asset on Page/Entry body on FF3.0x (101829)

Found a Bug?

  1. To avoid duplication of efforts, search existing bugs (from the feedback page) before submitting a new bug.
  2. Submit a bug in the Greyhound (MT5) Beta
]]> Movable Type 4.32 Bug-fix Release + Zemanta plugin tag:www.movabletype.org,2009://2.17498 2009-09-29T21:22:28Z 2009-09-30T19:05:34Z Many of you are looking forward to using MT5 exclusively, but truthfully you may be content with MT4 or maybe you’re unable to upgrade because a plugin you rely upon may not yet be ported to MT5. So until MT5... Beau Smith http://beausmith.com Many of you are looking forward to using MT5 exclusively, but truthfully you may be content with MT4 or maybe you’re unable to upgrade because a plugin you rely upon may not yet be ported to MT5.

So until MT5 is solid and there is little demand for MT4, Six Apart will continue to release new versions of MT4.x as necessary to provide fixes for various security issues and bugs which are major pain points. Small features may be potentially included as well.

MT4.32 fixes a handful of minor bugs which are detailed in the Movable Type 4.32 release notes.

One of the commits in MT4.32 was to bundle the Zemanta plugin. Zemanta has committed to supporting the development of Movable Type; what better partnership than that of a content management system and a service to recommend quality related-content?

While it may not be useful for every blogger, it can be very helpful in the case where you need an image, links to related articles, help with tags for an entry, etc to have a more compelling blog entry. Check out the Zemanta FAQ for more info on how Zemanta’s services may be useful for you or your bloggers. All support or technical questions regarding Zemanta or the Zemanta Plug-in for MovableType should be forwarded to support@zemanta.com.

Zemanta not for you? There are many ways to disable the Zemanta plugin additionally anyone with file-system access can remove the Zemanta plugin from the plugins directory within the MT install.

Also, you don’t need MT4.32 to use the Zemanta plugin, you can also download Zemanta from the plugin directory.

Hope the fixes in MT4.32 are useful. If there is a bug or patch that you want committed in a future version of MT4.x, please let us know.

MT5 Beta 3 should be available tomorrow.

Update: Sorry, Beta 3 release has been moved to October 7th.

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