BlogEngine.NET now at version 1.6

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Feb 1

After few delays new version of BlogEngine.Net has been released. Although this release is mostly incremental with minimum breaking changes, there are quite a few improvements, enhancements and bug fixes to make it worthwhile for those stuck on previous versions to upgrade. Upgrade instructions can be found here, and you can download new version from the project site on CodePlex.

Centralized Comment Management
Automated Comment Spam Filtering with ability to plug-in custom Filtering modules
Multiple Widget Zones (details)
Referrers data and Blogroll items now stored in Database when using the DB blog provider.
Unsubscribe Link in Comment Notification Emails
Referrer Data can be Stored for more than 7 days.
Blogroll items can now be Ordered.
Newsletter Widget more Intelligent - Emails sent when a post is going from an Unpublished to Published state.
Twitter Widget - New options and improvements
Page Slugs now saved in Database.
New Logging system to Track events and errors.
Unhandled Exception Handling
Fixes to Comment Notification Emails not being sent out correctly in some cases.
Outgoing Email improvements
Many other improvements and fixes.

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Comments

2/3/2010 8:19:06 AM #

So how does the new comment functionality work with your Commentor extension? Can we continue to use it or is it not needed any more?

Jim | Reply

2/3/2010 9:28:09 AM #

It is part of the core functionality now, you don't need and can safely uninstall/disable Commentor. Setting comment moderation to "auto" and enabling Akismet filter in 1.6 gives you same result - and more.

rtur.net | Reply

2/4/2010 7:09:54 AM #

Thanks!

Everything looks great.

Jim | Reply

2/4/2010 3:42:09 PM #

Hi Ruslan,

great work, but I have three question

on my installation, comment manager don't work properly (I suppose ).

1) Add to white list, don't work (with 1 comment to be approved). Why ?
2) Add to black list, don't work (with 1 comment to be rejected). Why ?
3) Where is the configuration panel of StopForumSpam and how it works ?

Cristiano | Reply

2/4/2010 9:17:14 PM #

Adding to the list do not add to the filter (it probably should and likely will change). The way it works, if user has published n comments, his comments will be approved without passing to Akismet and similar with black list. You would have to have comment marked as spam to be rejected by that rule. StopForumSpam is a custom filter, I'll blog about custom filters, hopefully this weekend.

rtur.net | Reply

2/5/2010 5:47:32 AM #

Another question: every checkbox to activate the custom filter is disabled. It's normal ? In this way, how I can deactivate StopForumSpam ?

Cristiano | Reply

2/5/2010 8:49:46 PM #

Yes, it is ok. You can enable/disable filter only if it is implemented as extension. I'm working on Wiki doc to clear these things up for everybody, let me know if you got suggestions how to make it better - I suck in documenting:
http://blogengine.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=CommentManagement

rtur.net | Reply

2/4/2010 3:44:10 PM #

... I'm sorry, I was wrong to write the e-mail address

Cristiano | Reply

2/5/2010 3:15:30 PM #

wow works Linux & mono

idanka | Reply

2/26/2010 4:53:58 PM #

BE 1.6 is great- especially the comment system- my terrible spam problem is over now.
HOWEVER! BE 1.6 did break the theme I was using (the original "arthemia" - other new themes work), and I am unable to get it to display summary text for my blog posts- now I only get "[More]". Any ideas on getting arthemia to work again with 1.6?
Thanks!

Erle Ellis | Reply

2/27/2010 11:33:56 AM #

Search your theme for this line of code:
PostViewBase postView = (BlogEngine.Core.Web.Controls.PostViewBase)LoadControl(path);

It should be in 3 places. Immediately after add this:
postView.DescriptionCharacters = BlogSettings.Instance.DescriptionCharacters;

It should fix it for you.

rtur.net | Reply

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