Hi all! Here comes a new Dotclear version. This one has been made necessary by ... well, nothing, really. Just a couple under the hood enhancements, small bugfixes here and there and a new option to hide the shortcuts menu should you wish to do so. As usual, it can be downloaded there : http://download.dotclear.org/latest... or by launching the automatic update from you admin.
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2012 Feb 11
Dotclear 2.4.2
By xave on Saturday 11 February 2012, 17:45
Hi all!
Here comes a new Dotclear version. This one has been made necessary because four XSS vulnerabilities have been found this week[1]. No time to lose: we corrected them and here comes Dotclear 2.4.2.
As usual, it can be found there: http://download.dotclear.org/latest.zip
As always, have fun.
Note
[1] By the High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab.
2011 Dec 24
I'm dreaming of a white Dotclear
By xave on Saturday 24 December 2011, 20:11
Here is our Christmas surprise: Dotclear 2.4.1.2... We did not skip a version, we just decided to numerate this one specially for Christmas (for the more Americans among you, "24/12" means the 24th day of the 12th month, you date-order-challenged! :)
You won't find many new features in this one, but some small tweaks here and there and the patching of a an SQL injection vulnerability that hid itself so well no one found it until now, except for our forum member Adjaya.
That's all. Enjoy yourself, happy Holidays, have fun!
2011 Nov 13
Dotclear 2.4
By xave on Sunday 13 November 2011, 16:13
You can now download our new version:Dotclear 2.4.
In this version, you'll find an new iconset, specilly designed for us by Thomas Daveluy. This allow us to go back to a full GPL distribution, as the version for the icons introduced in Dotclear 2.3 was limited.
You'll also find a new theme, named Ductile, designed to be both easy to adpat to your needs and to fit wathever screen size your readers may use. Along with this theme comes a new plugin, named SimpleMenu, whose purpose is -you guessed it- to allow you to manage a menu of links in a simple way.
This version includes, as is now usual, incremental ergonomic and accessibility modifications. It can be found, as always, at the following URL: http://download.dotclear.org/latest.zip
You may have noticed that two files are attached to this post. once unzipped in the /admin/images/iconset/ folder of your blog[1], they'll allow you to find a new setting in your user preferences, where you will now be able to chose your iconset. Don't let the new icons prevent you from installing the 2.4 if you just loved the 2.3 ones, you can install them if you want.
EDIT: Please note the if you did not apply the changes needed for Dotclear 2.3.1, you will now see a warning in the admin interface.
Notes
[1] That folder has to be created, and each file has to be uncompressed in a specific sub-folder of it. We plan to create a GUI for that feature.
2011 Sep 13
Dotclear 2.4 beta
By xave on Tuesday 13 September 2011, 20:43
The new version promised a month ago is not yet ready (holidays in the team spread from june to this week, I switched jobs and one of us is even getting maried!) but the curious and the bolds can as of now try the new Dotclear 2.4 beta. It includes new icons, a new theme, and other tweaks and functionnalities that will be detailed once we'll get out of beta.
2011 Jun 14
Dotclear 2.3.1
By xave on Tuesday 14 June 2011, 22:22
Here comes another maintenance release for Dotclear. in this one, you'll find:
- Some internal clean-up for development files that were preventing a clean upgrade under unusual circumstances.
- Localisation problems have been corrected for our new dashboard system.
- Cleaning and refining for some CSS & JS files.
- There were a problem with the user preferences in the import/export module. This has been corrected.
- You can now configure the email address used to send password reminders.
- A potential security flaw has been fixed + some others security tightening.
About the last two points:
Starting with this version, the email address for reminders is set up in the config file. On new installations, a default one will be defined. For security reasons, it will not be the case with upgrades. Please add the following line to your inc.config.php file:
define('DC_ADMIN_MAILFROM','dotclear@theaddressyouwant.com');
If you don't do so, Dotclear will work as usual. You'll just raise the password reminders mails' score in antispam system.
About the security fix and tightening: you don't have to worry about the tightening, we just enhanced the security for the software's future life. There is a true security flaw, though, that could have been used under certain rare circumstances to gain access to a administrator account. You are still encouraged to update, better safe than sorry.
Those security enhancements were indicated by Jérémie Boutoille, while he was participating in Pirate-Moi, a monthly hacking contest that chose Dotclear for its last edition.
Dotclear was not hacked during this contest. :)
2011 May 16
Dotclear 2.3
By xave on Monday 16 May 2011, 21:21
Bonjour everybody !
Here comes the brand new Dotclear 2.3. Whereas our last version was targeted towards internal changes that were not obvious to the user, you will notice changes at once with this one, as it includes the first results of the ergonomics and accessibility study we launched several months ago (and that is just a first step, as it is a work in progress.)
Please allow me to introduce:
- An admin backend refresh, harmonization and new icons;
- More accessible forms;
- A new handling of user preferences;
- A new safe mode, for those cases where a plugin locks you out;
- A new configurable side menu.
While we were working, we squashed quite a log of bugs, not all though, to be sure we'll release other versions in the future. New versions where we will also implements ergonomics and accessibility enhancements.
This new version was well received by our beta testers, I do hope you will like it! Have fun!
2011 Apr 1
Dotclear 2.2.3
By xave on Friday 1 April 2011, 21:45
We publish tonight a fresh new Dotclear version. Nothing fancy in this one but two changes in the Media Manager: a bugfix for the manual thumbnail regeneration and a security fix.
As usual, the auto-update procedure should notify you of this new version in the next few hours. If you dont want to wait:
2011 Jan 17
Release early, release often: Dotclear 2.2.2
By xave on Monday 17 January 2011, 20:56
Twenty four hours after Dotclear 2.2.1, here comes Dotclear 2.2.2. This quick update has been made necessary because of a bug blocking new installations. We also corrected a small bunch of smaller bugs and more importantly, we made changes to the autoupdate procedure: it should now have a better handling of problems created by a bad FTP client configuration.
You can now go back to your blogs.
2011 Jan 16
Dotclear 2.2.1
By xave on Sunday 16 January 2011, 20:17
You can now download Dotclear 2.2.1. This maintenance release includes several fixes for bugs discovered since the 2.2 release. Upgrading is recommended as it also includes a security fix.
I would like to thank the Team for the work here, as I have mostly been just a conductor on this version, and it is only a small part of the work there are doing in the shadow for the next couple of big features.
So, please find:
2010 Aug 13
The age of reason
By Philippe on Friday 13 August 2010, 00:01
We celebrate today Dotclear's seventh anniversary, and Dotclear Organization's first accounting year .
Dotclear only makes blogs, and it does it well
This sentence by Dotclear's father, Olivier Meunier, pronounced during delivery of the first version, has been since slightly modified and became Dotclear almost only makes blogs, and it does it well. It is true, Dotclear powers a large number of blogs, really large, and also more and more commercial or non-profit web sites, where its easy and fast tweaking is appreciated. Slowly but surely Dotclear becomes more known everyday, and we can bet it will be surprising us again.
For our favorite blog software, the age of reason has now come, and we wish to thank you all for your participation:
- users, you are everyday more numerous to join us, and show everywhere your proudly Dotclear-powered blogs to share your ideas and knowledge
- members of the support forum, you help patiently newcomers and share your tips
- documentation builders, you work everyday to explain Dotclear's code, track misunderstandings and spelling mistakes
- translators, you allow Dotclear to reach the whole world, and even soon the galaxy with a future klingon version
- themes and plugins developers, you add everyday new functions and beautiful layouts to our libraries
- donators, you helped us to keep our independance, and offer new services and better work
You all, please take a seat at our table, to share with us this birthday cake
Dotclear's birthday is also the Organization's
Today we close this first year's accounts, and here a is a short version of the balance that will be presented to the next general assembly:
- members have contributed to more than 3.000 €
- generous donators have on their side contributed to more than 2.000 €
These funds were only used to pay for our servers, no money was spend on cigars and champagne, therefore we still have a bit of cash left for the future
And now ?
Dotclear goes now to big school, and you must be impatient to know what this year will bring as new features. But it is too serious a subject for today, so please relax, have a drink, and sing with us :
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you, Dotclear
Happy birthday toooooo yoooooo !
2010 Jul 1
Dotclear 2.2
By xave on Thursday 1 July 2010, 12:00
And there it is: the new Dotclear 2.2 release!
Included here is a new installation wizard, a better handling of the tags in the administration interface, and more generally an administration interface that has been tweaked here or there to remove a bunch of small bugs. That's about it as long as we are talking about user-related changes, but more is to come, as most changes of this version were made under the hood, with new behaviours, some template tags refining, an updated JQuery, an exception handler mechanism, a better internal settings system, all things that will open the door to better plugins and themes.
On the administration side, this new release offers a smaller footprint on server resources, is more resilient to non standard PostgreSQL installations, is more tweakable and last but not least, is now fully PHP 5.3 compliant. As such it can now be installed on up-to-date Linux servers.
So there you are, go grab this new release and have fun. Most plugins have been updated to run smoothly on it and have new versions that can be installed in a click thanks to DAInstaller[1] and the newly reopened DotAddict. Our French Blog will be updated with some posts detailing this release's changes and we plan to write a comprehensive digest of those posts here sometimes next week.
Notes
[1] It has to be manually updated before it sees the 2.2 compatible plugins.
2010 Jun 24
Dotclear 2.2-RC
By xave on Thursday 24 June 2010, 07:45
We released yesterday the 2.2-RC build. If no last minute problem is detected, that's almost the 2.2 release we got there.
There is no big change between this and the last beta, just small fixes and tweaking and ... a big refining of the template engine. Although fast and tidy, the one found in the beta version proved to put too big a burden on the PCRE stack of old (and Windows) machines. The new one, while not as quick and small, is still lighter than its 2.1 counterpart, runs without a glitch on smaller computers, and provides new internal structures that will soon allow the plugins to redefine tags on the go.
And while we talk about plugins, note that most old plugins work as well as ever on a 2.2. We even have reopen our sister site Dotaddict.org (still only in French for the time being, sorry) to contributors last week-end and since then, it's more than fifty plugins that wait there for a nice home, most of them wishing to find a 2.2.
You can download the 2.2 RC here. The final relase's date will depend of how that version works, but it should not be long, of course.
2010 Jun 3
Dotclear 2.2-beta
By xave on Thursday 3 June 2010, 10:10
Let's go!
We're taking our next step in Dotclear 2.2 development: we are officialy in beta.
Should you be bold enough, you can install it, and share with us any peculiarity you could find. This version is stable enough for several people to use it in production, but you have to know what you do, as there may be side effects with the occasional plugin. If you prefer to stay on the safe side, please be patient: we plan to release the final version in a few weeks.
DSLS, one of our more prolific team member, created a plugin to update your installation by uploading an archive, you can find it here.
2010 May 24
Dotclear 2.1.7
By xave on Monday 24 May 2010, 23:59
You may have noticed it on your dashboard: Dotclear 2.1.7 is available. To make a long story short: if you plan to use the auto-update procedure, go for it. If for any reason you plan to update manually, forget it.
There is nothing new in the 2.1.7 but an update to the auto-update procedure (sic.) It was necessary because the upcoming 2.2 release has changes that cannot be handled by the auto-update procedure as we knew it. You won't be able to auto-update directly from 2.1.6 to 2.2!
Once again, if you plan to manually install the 2.2, you don't have to bother about the 2.1.7.
See you soon.
Update: It appears that because they were not expecting this maintenance release, some plugins may cause problems because they make the wrong assertion that this is the 2.2 already. Please consult the forum dedicated thread before upgrading..
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