Saturday 07 October 2006 by
The final/official release is scheduled for the first half of next week – unless unexpected problems/errors are detected. We would like to get feedback on clean installations and updates (and any problems you encountered). We will use the next days to get the history.txt and the release notes ready – if you can spot things that we forgot to mention in History.txt, feel free to help us fill in those blanks. :)
Known Problems:
- The Opera+funny character problem on “content > comments” will be fixed for final in some way (also see my last comment in the previous thread).
- The version number in this rc still shows 4.0.3 – this is intentional.
If you are hesitant about updating a live site, that’s fine, wait a few more days for the official release. ;)
Download:
textpattern-4.0.4rc1.zip
textpattern-4.0.4rc1.tar.gz
Thank you guys! I was one of those people itching for a new release. Do the txp templates need to be updated to support 4.0.4? Maybe a new competition could get planned after the final release is out. Cheers!
08 Oct 06
stav
Is it really too much to ask for a link to the list of changes? I have just posted an article on performancing.com about the coming update but I can’t find a public history.txt or something like that.
08 Oct 06
Markus Merz
here’s for markus:
Changes since 4.0.3:
* RSS 2.0 support
* RSS and Atom feed fixes and improvements
* Many improvements to admin interface XHTML markup and CSS
* Many subtle improvements to the admin UI
* Better indexing for faster article list queries
* New translations: Indonesian, Hebrew, Hungarian, Romanian
* Improved handling of comma-separated values in tag attributes
* article, article_custom tags: new ‘sort’ attribute
* author, category, category1, category2 tags: can link to any section by name
* Improved xhtml attributes on many tags (class, rel)
* time and date tags: new attributes for overriding language, GMT
* css, feed_link tags: easier generation of xhtml ‘link’ tags
* New link tags: link_category, link_date, link_name, link_url
* Navigation tag improvements (new attributes, improved xhtml output)
* Warn if article or comment tags are used in the wrong context
* Improved error checking and reporting
* Stricter 404 checking (missing category, author, messy article ID)
* Simplify and improve comment preview and input form tags
* Improved article load/parse logic on individual article pages
* Fix some IIS clean URL issues
* Improved multi-edit support on admin pages
* Deprecate old-style PHP tags
* Don’t lose your place in admin lists when returning from an edit
* Extra diagnostic info and pre-flight tests
* Better time zone handling
* Remember and automatically reuse thumbnail size settings
* Textile: fix inline class/style/lang
* Warn when article and comment tags are used in the wrong place
* New “if_plugin” conditional checks for an active plugin, with optional version number
* Fix an occasional time zone bug
* Fix 404 errors on clean category URLs
* Add backtrace list to error messages in Debug mode
* Add limit attribute to search_result_excerpt tag
* Add escape and default attributes to custom_field tag
* fix image-upload for outdated gdlib-installations (wet)
* fix label attribute breadcrumb function (richard)
* add if_author, if_article_author (with attribute ‘name’) (mary)
* allow multiple sections for if_article_section (like for if_section, if_category) (mary)
* display link category’s title, rather than name, in the links page. (mary)
* extend article_image tag to optionally display the article image thumbnail. (mary)
* Many minor bugfixes
09 Oct 06
funtoosh
Wow. Amazing list that fixes every single problem I had!
10 Oct 06
Noah
In general no, there is one small change that may be in necessary in rare circumstances. It’s covered in the FAQ: http://textpattern.com/faq/?c=Releases-404
Please read my announcement. We are in the process of writing exactly that currently. They will be ready with the release, for deciding whether to help us test a release candidate it shouldn’t make a difference. (The list posted is included in the download for those people that are testing it).
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Given the feedback we’ve received it’ll probably a few more days, before we get around to the release. So it won’t happen “first half of this week” as I guessed.
10 Oct 06
Sencer
Great news! Wow, this update adds a lot of features I was looking for. Thanks for the hard work everyone.
10 Oct 06
Tim Germer
I realize this is a feature request, and not a bug, but could there be a way in txp:category_list to output the categories in tree form? A ul list, but with child categories in a nested ul. Maybe there’s a plugin for this somewhere…
11 Oct 06
Jon
I am very happy about that list :-)
Looking forward to final …
@Sencer + funtoosh: Thanks for helping!
I understand! But to actively promote the coming 4.0.4 a list of changes for willing bloggers (like I am) is pretty useful. ‘Marketing’, you know?
Check out: Textpattern 4.0.4 is on its way
11 Oct 06
Markus Merz