Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome on stage: Textpattern 4.0.7!
We are happy to announce that Textpattern 4.0.7 is finally ready for public consumption.
During long and – sometimes – laborious months since the last release in February, we added new features and enhanced existing capabilities, but nevertheless we expect upgrades from any previous version to be seamless and smooth. As usual, the download package contains a README.txt file which outlines the simple upgrade procedure.
Changes are numerous, so let’s focus on a few highlights here:
Enhancements
- Unlimited nested template tags, and tags as attributes to other tags have made it into the Textpattern core as part of the new tag parser.
- Many of the list-producing tags like
<txp:section_list>,<txp:article>, or<txp:recent_comments>accept a form or use any contained markup as a stencil for their output. - More consistent layout across many admin side pages.
- As some plugins depend on the sequence of their execution with respect to all other plugins, plugin authors and site administrators can assign a load order to determine which plugins run first.
New features
- WYSIWYG preview for all articles, even those in “draft” or “hidden” state.
- Textpattern 4.0.7 comes with an XML-RPC server out of the box, which replaces the separate download needed previously. There’s a bunch of desktop blogging client software which use this as a socket to tap into the Textpattern backend.
- Articles can be tagged with an optional expiry timestamp, so they’d either vanish from the public site completely, or transform their appearance once a future date has passed by.
- The communication channel from Textpattern to the database server can employ optional SSL encryption.
Oh, and there were some bug fixes, too.
The commit log keeps all the details if you are inclined to read some PHP gibberish. A bulleted list in HISTORY.txt has the definite record of all noteworthy changes, so we refrain from repeating every single item here…
Head over to the download page to grasp your own copy, and join the discussion at the forum. Many thanks to all who contributed one way or the other!
Posted 28 November 2008, 22:20 by Robert Wetzlmayr ·
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Wonderful work everyone! I am excited to see what more is to come with 4.0.8, and 4.1.
— Patrick Gage Kelley · Nov 28, 10:30 PM · #
Many thanks to all the wonderful people working behind this project, both the official devs, and the plugin developers, and of course, the people that is always willing to help at forum!
— Maniquí · Nov 28, 10:55 PM · #
Congratulations for the titanic effort and many, many thanks to our awesome dev team! :)
— Neko · Nov 28, 10:56 PM · #
Splendid work everyone! It was a pleasure to see a lot of improvements take shape (specially “expire”) in the svn and now the release is here. Have to follow all those things carefully.
Thanks a lot for all your effort and care!
— Michael Schlierbach · Nov 28, 11:01 PM · #
Thanks so much for your work! It is clear why this system is so close to the hearts of many.
— Ralitza · Nov 28, 11:09 PM · #
Nice. Thanks for the hard work!
— Geoff · Nov 28, 11:20 PM · #
I’d been researching csm software for a while and had decided to try txp. ‘Wait till the next release’ I read. Having done so, I look forward to learning txp from not only from the devs, but the community here as well. Well done sirs.
— lincolnrick · Nov 28, 11:20 PM · #
Nice work team :)
— wdm · Nov 29, 12:27 AM · #
Thank you
— Gavnosis · Nov 29, 01:11 AM · #
I am so pleased – great work!
— Pete · Nov 29, 01:15 AM · #
Thanks for this great tool!
— JanDW · Nov 29, 02:19 AM · #
Well done guys, thank you!
— Zander Martineau · Nov 29, 02:24 AM · #
I’ve been waiting to change my website over to Textpattern, from the other CMS I hated having to hack it and the consent updates every other month. The forum is the best to understand Textpattern everybody is every helpful. Keep up the good work.
— wdray3 · Nov 29, 03:40 AM · #
Congratulations for TXP Developer… Wish you all the best…
— Viking KARWUR · Nov 29, 06:13 AM · #
Better than Christmas!
— Joe Hastings · Nov 29, 07:32 AM · #
A very good news : before the official WP 2.7 launch!
Thanks lot for all your very good work.
— Patrick · Nov 29, 10:20 AM · #
Wonderful! Thanks a lot away for download
— dee · Nov 29, 10:52 AM · #
Thank you!
Was waiting for it!
— MD · Nov 29, 12:19 PM · #
Apart from an improved product, I love txp releases because they don’t occur frequently :)
— Lawrence · Nov 29, 02:48 PM · #
Great, as usual. Thanks to all who worked on it!
— Ralf G. · Nov 29, 05:22 PM · #
Thanks!! :)
— linx · Nov 29, 07:17 PM · #
Many many thanks to the devs, the new parser makes me sing and shout. Please keep the machinery going, txp is fabulous!
— Oleg · Nov 29, 09:25 PM · #
Long live yo the devs… You are my heroes…
Emphasing a little bit here but I can truly say two simple things:
Bravo & Thank you very much.
— Guillaume Stricher · Nov 29, 11:53 PM · #
Great! Thank you for the lovely work!
— Joey · Nov 30, 11:16 AM · #
Thanks, once again.
Will
— Will · Nov 30, 12:26 PM · #
Thanks for your commitment!
— Jonathan Hedrén · Nov 30, 12:47 PM · #
So excited about this good news! Thanks for your hard work!
— Christopher Jack · Nov 30, 04:02 PM · #
Chuffed.
— Pieman · Nov 30, 10:01 PM · #
wow! great works!
I wait it for lang time,Happying!!!
— the1design.cn · Dec 1, 02:53 AM · #
Amazing! The commitment shown by the dev team and plugin authors just blows me away!
— Vasanth · Dec 1, 07:52 AM · #
Great work guys – I’ll be grinding 4.0.7 towards another McFarlane Prize contender or two for 2009!
— Damien Buckley · Dec 1, 10:34 AM · #
Wow! Great job devs!
— Jelle · Dec 1, 05:07 PM · #
Very cool! Thanks for all the hard work!
— Jeremy Wood · Dec 2, 12:06 AM · #
cool~
— sluke · Dec 2, 04:52 AM · #
one small problem.
wonder why, on my host,
lynx can not download the file. it’s always result in bad downloads.
— dennyhalim · Dec 2, 06:13 AM · #
Great!
— Mikke · Dec 2, 11:18 AM · #
Great work devs! Always impressed by how much has been improved in what appears on the surface to be only a minor upgrade. The new tag parser is a fantastic improvement to the core.
— Kevin · Dec 2, 01:56 PM · #
i can just say thank you!
— kemie · Dec 2, 10:59 PM · #
Rockstars!
— zeus · Dec 3, 06:11 AM · #
Really really really thanks!!!
— peppeg · Dec 3, 11:41 AM · #
Lovely, splendid. Like an early Christmas present for many fans of this CMS.
— Petri · Dec 3, 12:16 PM · #
Awesome release! I love the parser enhancements.
— Noel Hurtley · Dec 4, 03:01 AM · #
Kudos guys!
— Mike Dennis · Dec 4, 07:55 PM · #
i wanna know is there a changelog?
— 光宇推广人 · Dec 5, 12:36 PM · #
Way to go guys… I’m really surprised you didn’t call it TP 5.0 with all these changes. I am starting to see the future of T/P even better than before.
— Lawrence Salberg · Dec 6, 04:34 AM · #
Very awesome.
Update for the repository homepage:
Latest stable release:
svn checkout http://textpattern.googlecode.com/svn/releases/ 4.0.7 /source stable
Thank you again for all your work!
— John Stephens · Dec 6, 08:19 PM · #
Fabulous!
— Jonathan · Dec 7, 01:04 AM · #
Let me add my congratulations. Nice one guys and well done to everyone involved with this large release.
— Kibitzer · Dec 8, 05:49 AM · #
Bravo… et merci !
— Staminic · Dec 8, 08:14 PM · #
Awesome job, guys! Loving the new tag parser.
— Sven · Dec 9, 02:17 AM · #
Congratulations to all. By miles the best CMS out there. Kudos!
— Gary Horsman · Dec 9, 09:45 PM · #
Very nice work!!! Good luck for all!
— MegafonTurbo · Dec 10, 04:31 PM · #
Thank you so much. I’ve been using Textpattern since its earliest days, and appreciate your work on keeping it evolving.
— Anton Zuiker · Dec 11, 07:08 AM · #
Thanks lot for all your very good work.
— Abimanyu Yusuf · Dec 11, 09:59 PM · #
Very excited to see this release out. Looking forward to giving it a run. There’s not been a project I’ve done in the last few years that Textpattern hasn’t delivered for. Congrats on 4.0.7.
— Stephen · Dec 17, 08:10 AM · #
Thanks for the work!
— Vadim · Dec 18, 03:01 AM · #
Awesome work, thanks!
— Brendan · Dec 23, 06:38 PM · #
感谢TXP的开发人员的辛苦为我们提供这样一款简洁易用的Blog产品。谢谢！
— 柒米 · Dec 27, 07:58 PM · #
Very very great work! I will use the concept in one of my next customer projects!
— Hahnefeld · Jan 6, 11:18 PM · #