Twenty years ago today, on the 24th February 2004, the first public gamma of Textpattern was released. And everything was going to be alright.

The next – and possibly final – release in the Textpattern 4.8 series is coming soon. Can you help us by testing the pre-release version?

Before submitting a perceived security vulnerability or XSS exploit through our security email address, please review the items in this article that we do not consider to be weaknesses in Textpattern.

The old website design served us well for more than a few years, but it’s time for a whole new lick of (black, white and yellow) paint to be applied to Textpattern’s home. Here I’ll explain some of the techniques used and choices made during the process.

Sending passwords via email in cleartext hasn’t been cool since about 1971, so Textpattern CMS 4.6.0 (finally!) changes that.

What’s that coming over the hill; is it a r… r… r… roadmap? When I made the speculative forum post about meeting up face-to-face with Textpattern CMS users and developers earlier this year, I had no idea how it would turn out.

Roll up roll up, it’s time for a meeting of Textpattern faces, both in person or virtually via the magic of the Internet. Be there or be… vaguely rectangular.

Once upon a time, in a Twitter conversation far, far away, Robert Wetzlmayr (Textpattern’s lead developer) asked me what my exit plan was for when time came to depart as editor-in-chief of TXP Magazine. I think he picked up on some Twitter ranting, or something…

Textpattern CMS 4.6 is coming. It’s time for us to focus on language support and ensure translations are as accurate and comprehensive as possible.

We will switch from Subversion to Git as our SCM, and move Textpattern’s official repository to GitHub at the same time.

We are very happy to introduce the newest member of our core team: Phil Wareham.

The first release candidate of Textpattern CMS 4.4.1 is ready for testing. Please download a copy, put it through its paces and report any issues you encounter.