2009/12/19 de Villamil Frédéric <frede...@de-villamil.com>: > Hello list, > > After 9 months of hard work, we're proud to announce the official release of > Typo 5.4 Willy Ronis, the most advanced and user friendly blogging platform > on Rails. Despite having a minor version number, Typo 5.4 is a major > release, coming with a lot of new features and some bugfixes as Willy Ronis > was a great photographer who died this year at the age of 99. Since Typo 5.4 > fixes some major security issues, you should really think about upgrading. > Typo 5.4 is avaliable at > http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=555&release_id=41989 or as a gem. > > Typo 5.4 is also a major release because we had many contributors from all > over the world sending new features and fixes along this year. After > contributing for a while, Matijs van Zuijlen (http://www.matijs.net/) > finally joined the core team in late February and did a great job on this > release. We would also like to thank, in alphabetical order: Diego Elio > 'Flameeyes' Pettenò, Edward Middleton, Erik Ostrom, Hans de Graaff, Jakob > Skov-Pedersen, Kurt Werle, Michael Reinsch, Mike Mondragon, Wei Jen Lu, Yuka > Ouka, jzellman, and mpagalan. > > So, what's new in Typo 5.4? A lot of things > > = A brand new theme > As we announced on our blog, Typo has now a default new theme. True Blue 3 > is a port of the theme used at http://t37.net. Typographic is a great theme, > but we needed something that would fit everyone's blog. Typographic is still > proposed as a standard theme in Typo, but it's not the default theme > anymore. > > = A brand new admin > Once again, we've deeply changed the admin. It now comes in the same blue > flavor we've been using on True Blue 3. Some things have moved, some others > have disappeared. > > = Performances improvement > Performances improvement has been a huge part of the work on Typo 5.4. We > followed 3 axes to give Typo better performances: > * Switching to Rails 2.3.4 divided the memory footprint by 2 since a major > bug was fixed in this release. > * Removing lots of dead, legacy code made Typo slightly faster. It may break > your theme though, but the changed are easy. > * Switching from Ruby Bluecloth to C Bluecloth 2 has surprising effects on > page generation speed. Generating a page with 4500 comments switched from > more than 2 minutes to about 2 seconds on our testing machines. > > = Autosave for all > Previsouly reserved to new posts only with the simple editor, autosave is > now avaliable when you create and edit posts, on both simple and visual > editor. > > = New visual editor > Speaking of the visual editor, we've upgraded to the new CKEditor, aka > FCKEditor 3. Lighter, producing better code, CKEditor is the new generation > of visual web editors. CKEditor is now plugged to Typo resources engine, > providing better backward compatibility with older blogs. Switch between > simple and visual editor without losing content has also been fixed. > > = Articles preview > A long awaited feature was the article preview during edition. It is now > avaliable, so you can be sure of what you're going to publish. > > = User creation simplified > Users creation from the front end has been simplified. You now just need to > provide a login and an email, and you're done! > > = Users public profiles > Users public pages are back, coming with an improved profile, allowing you > to display your msn, aim, or twitter id. You can also chose the name you'll > display on screen, chosing from your login, real name, or anything else. > Authors also have their RSS and Atom feed back. An author sidebar is now > also avaliable. > > = Chinese support > Simple Chinese joins the number of languages supported by Typo. Cool. > > = Better Wordpress converter > Wordpress converter has been greatly improved, fixing lots of points that > made the import incomplete: pages imported as article, spam comments > considered as ham, blog name and subtitle not imported... Switching to Typo > has never been easier. > > = Secondary layout for pages > Lost of users have been asking for the possibility to define a secondary > layout for pages. It's now done. Just add a pages.html.erb in your theme > layout directory, mix some HTML and Ruby and you're done! > > = Cache unification > Since we've fixed the static cache, we've decided to drop the cached model > support along with the memcache support for cache model. It results in a > lighter, simpler code, and less errors possible. > > We hope you'll enjoy using this release as much as we enjoyed building it. > > Merry Xmas, and happy new year > Your Typo team > -- > Frédéric de Villamil > "What's mine is mine. What's yours is still unsetteled" – Go player proverb > frede...@de-villamil.com tel: +33 (0)6 62 19 1337 > http://t37.net Typo : > http://typosphere.org > > _______________________________________________ > Typo-list mailing list > Typo-list@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list >
Nice work. The new admin panel looks great, and having just used the preview feature, I can tell you it is a very useful addition. Mike work: http://sas.quat.ch/ blog: http://plasti.cx/ twitter: http://twitter.com/monde github: http://github/monde _______________________________________________ Typo-list mailing list Typo-list@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list
