Movable Type

Movable Type 5.1 Beta 3

2011-03-24T05:00:00Z

We would like to express our deepest sympathy to those who have suffered loss on account of the terrible earthquake in Japan. It is our sincere hope that the afflicted areas may recover at the earliest time. Movable Type team in Japan have been collaborating with several local communities for the past years. Tohoku area is where MTDDC Meetup, this local support project first took place. We will continue our efforts toward the realization of recovery, constantly thinking of the people of Tohoku and neighboring areas.

Here is the release notes for Movable Type 5.1 Beta. The list now includes implemented, fixed and active cases. Please note that minor cases are not listed here, please see FogBugz for all cases.

Movable Type 5.1 Release Notes ( Beta 3 )

To join the beta test:

For more details:

Reporting Bugs

Your feedback is important to get Movable Type 5.1 ready for the final release. Please don't hesitate to create a new case.

FogBugz: How to report your issue and feedback

Movable Type 5.1 Beta 1

2011-02-15T05:00:00Z

The Movable Type 5.1 Beta 1 is now available to download and test. Today begins a 3-month period of beta releases and official quality assurance testing. We plan to release a new beta version every two weeks until the application is stable. Once stable, we will be creating release candidates. And we are hoping to offer a stable build by mid May.

Downloading Movable Type 5.1 Beta

The beta builds and MTOS nightly builds are available to download from the beta page.

About Movable Type 5.1

Introducing Movable Type 5.1

View more presentations from Six Apart KK.

Movable Type 5.1 focused on four major feature areas:

Please refer to the following pages for more details.

Reporting Bugs

Your feedback is important to get Movable Type 5.1 ready for the final release. Without your feedback, it is almost impossible for developers to test the software in all of the various conditions that might occur. So please don't hesitate to create a new case.

FogBugz: How to report your issue and feedback

We look forward to hearing from you !

Movable Type 5.04 and 4.35 Security Update

2010-12-08T02:00:00Z

Movable Type 5.04 and Movable Type 4.35 were released today. These are mandatory security updates for all users. These updates resolve multiple vulnerabilities discovered in Movable Type 5.x and Movable Type 4.x.

Impact

A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code in a logged-in users' web browser. A remote attacker could read or modify the contents in the system under certain circumstances.

Versions Affected

Movable Type Open Source 4.x
Movable Type Open Source 5.x
Movable Type 4.x ( with Professional Pack, Community Pack )
Movable Type 5.x ( with Professional Pack, Community Pack )
Movable Type Enterprise 4.x

Solution

Please upgrade to the latest versions of Movable Type 4 or Movable Type 5.

Movable Type Open Source 4.35
Movable Type Open Source 5.04
Movable Type 4.35( with Professional Pack, Community Pack)
Movable Type 5.04( with Professional Pack, Community Pack)
Movable Type Enterprise 4.35

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Installation/upgrade instructions

Movable Type 5.031

2010-10-06T01:00:00Z

Movable Type 5.031 was released today. This is a bugfix release without new features. It does not contain a security fix. Movable Type 5.031 fixed an issue in 5.03.

104608 : "Script Error" occurs when opening the "rebuild_confirm" screen in some hosting environments.

Download

(What is the difference?)

Installation/upgrade instructions

Note: if you purchased a Movable Type license you can also purchase our installation or upgrade service and have all the work done by our excellent support team.

Found a bug? Need a feature?

To avoid duplication of efforts, search existing bugs or feature requests (from the feedback page) before submitting a new bug.
Head over to the bug report/feature request form and let us know!

Movable Type will Continue Evolving !

2010-09-26T11:09:59Z

After the recent announcement about Six Apart, some of you might have been wondering about the future of Movable Type. We can be very clear about that: of course we will continue development and support of this platform that now has a decade of history behind it.

Movable Type 4 remains rock-solid blogging software for all uses.
Movable Type 5 is a new step up for managing multiple sites.
Melody is driven by the most enthusiastic community of bleeding-edge developers.

All this software shares the same root: Movable Type, the publishing platform.

Movable Type 5.1 is in the final development phase, we are anticipating a Beta release early this winter. We are also planning another 4.x release to keep this mature branch up to date.

All these developments are open to the public. You can check our daily activities on FogBugz and in our code repositories. And just like every open source project, we appreciate your help to make Movable Type (even) Better !

Introducing SAY Media: Good news for advertisers and publishers

2010-09-22T12:39:04Z

Those of you who've followed us over the years have seen us through a number of changes as Six Apart, and the industry we helped to create, has evolved.

What started with a simple goal to make creating and publishing content for the web easy, became a social publishing platform that today powers some of the biggest brands on the web, as well as passionate individuals—those of us who simply want to express ourselves, share our expertise or insights, and reach an audience of like-minded others.

Six Apart helped empower people and companies to publish. And they did. With amazing content they created valuable publishing properties with massive and engaged audiences—the influential audiences that advertisers want to reach. Over the past several years we have grown another side of our business, Six Apart Media, which has focused on helping publishers turn their passions into businesses and on helping marketers authentically engage these publishers and their audiences.

Today Six Apart announced its intention to join forces with VideoEgg to form a modern media company called SAY Media. The new entity will combine the engagement platform and insights of VideoEgg with our social publishing platform, conversational marketing tools, and robust network of publishers.

SAY Media will be a force—powering more efficient, useful and social advertising programs that tie rich and engaging advertising experiences to online communities with meaningful and measurable results. Good for publishers. Good for advertisers.

We believe SAY Media will become one of the world's most significant modern media companies, while still embracing the same goals we've always had at Six Apart—to empower people to create great content and make money doing it. Soon we'll have the capabilities to do it that much better. When you know more, I think you'll be as excited as we are. Get a glimpse of our future at www.saymedia.com.

Chris Alden
Chairman & CEO
Six Apart

P.S. You can follow SAY Media on Twitter at @saymediainc or like us and join the conversation on Facebook.

Movable Type 5.03

2010-09-09T01:00:00Z

Movable Type 5.03 was released today. This is a bugfix release without new features. It does not contain any security fix. Details about the issues that were fixed can be found in the release note.

5.03 Release Note

Download

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Installation/upgrade instructions

Note: if you purchased a Movable Type license you can also purchase our installation or upgrade service and have all the work done by our excellent support team.

Found a bug? Need a feature?

To avoid duplication of efforts, search existing bugs or feature requests (from the feedback page) before submitting a new bug.
Head over to the bug report/feature request form and let us know!

Movable Type 5.02

2010-05-12T00:45:00Z

Movable Type 5.02 was released by Six Apart today. This is strictly a bugfix release without new features. It contains fixes for a number of issues including one security vulnerability. It is highly recommended that all users of Movable Type 5.x upgrade their installations, especially the ones with multiple users. Details about the issues that were fixed can be found in the [release notes](http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/appendices/release-notes/movable-type-502.html). You may note that the release notes are unusually long this time: the focus of this release was on fixing as many bugs and issues as possible before working on new features for the coming releases (we will tell you more about these soon). We would like to thank everybody in the Movable Type community who submitted bug reports, feature requests and other feedback. Your efforts have made this release possible! Downloads ------------- * [ Download Movable Type (Open Source)](http://www.movabletype.org/download.html) * [Download Movable Type Pro](http://www.movabletype.com/download/) *[(What is the difference?)](http://www.movabletype.com/download/compare-products.html)* Installation/upgrade instructions ----------------------------------------- * [Installation guide](http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/installation/install-movable-type.html) * [Upgrade guide](http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/installation/upgrade-movable-type.html) Note: if you purchased a Movable Type license you can also [purchase our installation or upgrade service](http://www.movabletype.com/download/purchase-movable-type-upgrade-or-installation-services.html) and have all the work done by our excellent support team. Found a bug? Need a feature? -------------------------------------- 1. To avoid duplication of efforts, [search existing bugs or feature requests (from the feedback page)](http://www.movabletype.org/feedback.html) before submitting a new bug. 2. Head over to [the bug report/feature request form](http://bugs.movabletype.org/default.asp?command=new&pg=pgEditBug) and let us know!

Six Apart Likes Facebook's Open Graph

2010-04-22T19:19:24Z

Facebook’s announcement on the Open Graph at the F8

conference caused quite a stir yesterday.

Mark Zuckerber described this as a technology that pulls together all the different social networks to create a web "that is smarter, more social, more personalized and more semantically aware"

Like Six Apart, Facebook realize the role of networks and connections in the discovery of new things. As more and more content pours onto the web our ability to efficiently navigate it becomes increasingly important. Facebook’s assertion is that you are going to be more interested in the things your friends, and others you are connected to, are interested in. We think they are bang on.

Blogging is a great networking tool that allows you to build a community around your passion, hobby or business, but why isolate that community and your content? We’ve been building features to help customers drive community and link it into social networks like Twitter and Facebook. Yesterday Facebook made this a whole lot easier. Six Apart's focus on community and social media resulted in Facebook selecting TypePad as an official launch partner for this announcement. Today we released Facebook “Like” to members of our beta team for testing and feedback. We have already seen some great integrations
as well as a ton of positive feedback on the Everything TypePad blog.

This move by Facebook brings endless possibilities. We'd love to get your thoughts on how you think it will impact blogging.

Introducing Movable Type 5

2010-01-05T12:57:10Z

We’re pleased to announce the availability of Movable Type 5 in the US and Europe today.

Movable Type 5 takes a new approach to social publishing by starting with a website and adding blogs. This is in response to an increasing number of customers who've added their Movable Type blogs to existing websites, or who've used the Page feature to assemble a full website with blogs to quickly and easily update their content.

Movable Type 5 is designed to make it easier than ever to build an integrated social presence on the web, complete with an all-in-one social website.

The goal of Movable Type 5 is to give businesses, organizations and individuals a single, unified software package with integrated website and blog capabilities. It's been enhanced for the easy creation, administration and management of websites and blogs - all from a single user dashboard.

Here are some of the new and improved features in MT5:

A new user dashboard for both the website and blogs. This makes it easy for authors, editors, designers and other publishers to easily navigate between the two.

A new theme mechanism that makes it easy to apply a new theme across a website and blogs with a single click that proliferates changes throughout the published site.

Enhanced content management features that include revision history and new custom fields. There are five new object types for custom fields: website, blog, comment, template and asset.

If you haven't had a look at Movable Type 5 yet, please give it a try and let us know what you think. If you have questions, you might want to check the Pricing and Licensing FAQ or the newly refreshed and enhanced user documentation.

A note to our Movable Type customers who use plugins: Because of UI changes in Movable Type 5, some existing Movable Type plugins may not yet be compatible with Movable Type 5. Documentation on how you can update your plugins for MT5 is coming soon to movabletype.org. In the meantime, we hope you’ll have a look at MT5 and let us know what you think.

A note to our Enterprise customers: We will put Movable Type 5 under extensive scalability and performance testing before we release it in the Enterprise version. This will take several months, so we anticipate its availability later in 2010. Please contact your Six Apart Services representative if you’d like more information.

Happy Holidays from Movable Type

2009-12-23T00:46:11Z

We wish our customers and community a happy holiday and a fabulous new year.

Announcing the TypePad Platform

2009-10-01T17:23:54Z

This morning we announced the public release of the TypePad Platform and APIs, which we hope will inspire a new generation of community tools such as TypePad Motion, a new open source microblogging application available today. You can try TypePad Motion out for yourself or go get the code and API access right now.

Since TypePad launched six years ago, Movable Type and TypePad have been sibling platforms that have developed in parallel. As of today, the opening of the TypePad Platform means that Movable Type users and developers will be able to more easily take advantage of the new features and infrastructure improvements we're making to Typepad all the time.

We're excited to see the kinds of apps the community will develop using the TypePad APIs, and we look forward to getting your feedback. Six Apart CEO Chris Alden posted about the significance of the TyepPad Platform on the Six Apart blog today. Please have a look at his post for for a sense of his vision for Six Apart and for more detail about the Platform, the Developer Program, and TypePad Motion.

Movable Type 4.32 Now Available - with Zemanta Built In

2009-09-29T20:50:57Z

Today we're announcing a partnership with Zemanta whereby the Zemanta editorial assistance tool will recommend content to you as you write your blog posts. The tool is built in to version 4.32 of MovableType, so if you are a prolific blogger who produces a lot of content on a regular basis, you'll find this feature very helpful.

Many of you have likely heard of Zemanta, and perhaps some of you already use it as a plug in to your Firefox browser or other online tools. Using Zemanta is sort of like having a content servant at your elbow suggesting ways to make what you're writing more interesting and compelling through photos, videos, related articles, and useful tags.

Need a photo to match a post you're writing? Zemanta to the rescue. Like to be reminded to tag your post so that it's search engine optimized? Zemanta will help you out. Zemanta has indexed more than a million top media sources and quality blogs, including Wikimedia Commons, Flickr and various stock photo providers to make it easier for you to create compelling posts.

You can see what else Zemanta can do for you if you go to this FAQ page on their site.

We hope you'll download 4.32 and give it a try. And then tell us what you think.

Social Media Seminar at Harvard with MC Hammer - don't miss it

2009-08-19T18:36:15Z

If you're going to be in the Boston area at the end of this month, plan to stop by the Harvard Faculty Club in Cambridge to attend the Gravity Summit Social Media Marketing for Business Conference, which will be held on August 31. Six Apart is a Media Sponsor, so we are offering a discount to the conference to members of our community. There are just a few seats left, so sign up soon.

Hip Hop entertainer and Twitter personality MC Hammer is the keynote speaker. See more details on our main Six Apart blog.

What, exactly, do men want?

2009-08-17T16:40:40Z

Well, judging by the success of Uncrate, "The Buyers Guide for Men", Larry Angell and his crew have nailed the answer to this age-old question. With a readership of over 600,000 visitors per month, 72% of whom are male, Uncrate serves up a living catalog every day of extremely cool things that men, well, want. The very social website, built entirely in Movable Type, provides visitors with a profile and a place - called Stuff - to save the items they like and want to follow up on. It also provides a place - called Answers - where visitors can exchange tips and advice with each other on such topics as grooming, style, and other important manly subjects.
Have a look at our case study to see how Uncrate has grown and prospered on Movable Type since its start in 2005. You may come closer to understanding yourself what it is that men want.