NanoBlogger 3.4.1 released! Download the tarball here.

This release addresses a minor incompatibility issue with Bash 4.

NanoBlogger 3.4 released! Download the tarball here.

This release mainly focuses on improving stability and performance.

To the NanoBlogger community, I send my regards. Your support, your encouragement and feedback remains an invaluable contribution to this project. Thank you!

Changes (since 3.3):

• Adds support for new "shortcode" style plugins. e.g. "[youtube]..."
• Adds new commands for creating and importing articles.
• Adds support for user defined break points via the entry excerpt plugin.
• Improved language support allows displaying early error messages in desired language.
• Includes several optimizations which translates to noticeable gains in overall speed.
• Adds additional control over amount and type of archives generated.
• Improves management of flat-file databases.
• Includes numerous bug fixes.

NanoBlogger 3.4 RC2 released! Download the tarball here.

This release brings a notable improvement over the previous command line interface and incorporates many of the recent suggestions found on the mailing list.

Special thanks goes to Denis Bernard and Mark Toppy.

Changes (since 3.4 RC1):

• Notable improvement over previous command line interface.
• New commands for creating and adding articles.
• Three new modernly designed style sheets!
• Improved error handling for Markdown plugin.
• New presets and examples for default configuration.
• Latest French translations.
• Updated documentation.

NanoBlogger 3.4 RC1 released! Download the tarball here.

This release sees a significant overhaul in the code base, user contributed patches, improved language support, and lots of bug fixes, including many from the SF.net project page.

Thanks goes to everyone who encouraged me and in some cases even contributed their own time and efforts to make this release possible.

Changes (since 3.3):

• New action based command line interface.
• Updated documentation for new command line interface.
• Improved support for creating and storing various metadata variables.
• Updated default configuration with sensible defaults.
• Improves Articles plugin support for multiple directories.
• Enhanced support and important fixes for Atom and RSS syndication, including support for enclosures and better compliance with standards.
• Improved plugins facility allows disabling or replacing specific global plugins per weblog and ability to load plugins individually instead of a group.
• Configurable levels of archiving (e.g. disable month and day archives).
• Much improved tracking and updating of relative weblog archives.
• Reverts default layout provided by CSS and templates to simple and clean design and removes several previously included CSS styles.
• New functionality adds more reliable management of flat-file databases.
• Usable Bash Completion examples.
• Several other bug fixes and minor improvements.

NanoBlogger 3.3 has finally been released! Download the tarball here.

This release contains many feature enhancements, user contributed patches, and bug fixes from the SF.net project pageand bugs.debian.org.

Thanks to everyone who helped make this release possible!

Changes (since last major release):

• Friendlier (title based) links
• Support for user plugins
• Upgrade instructions (see README)
• Support for both normal and reverse chronological order
• New and improved style sheets and templates
• Fine tuned code for speed and efficiency (where possible)
• Enhanced plugin framework
• Atom 1.0 feeds
• Category based feeds
• Archive by year, month, and day
• Modularized script of main weblog engine
• Text formatting plugins
• Draft support
• Navigational links (previous and next)
• Manipulate date of entry
• Support for multiple languages
• Standardized metadata format for import/export
• New and interchangeable command line options

Changes (since 3.3 RC5):

• New --query option combines with others to manipulate entries by date
• Implemented friendly (title based) links
• Archives by day
• Improved support for user plugins
• Too many logical bug fixes to list
• Separate package (nanoblogger-extra) for additional language definitions, plugins, and various other add-ons

NanoBlogger 3.3 RC5 Released! Download the tarball here.

This release introduces support for user plugins that can integrate seamlessly with main plugins and includes many bug fixes from SF.net project pageand bugs.debian.org.

Changes:

• Support for user plugins
• Upgrade instructions
• Fix: command line parsing prevented mixing order of arguments
• Fix: some fonts displayed poorly on other platforms
• Fix: edited entries updated regardless of modification
• Patch (#351596 at bugs.debian.org) calendar output
• Modularized extra language support and docs as separate downloads
• Support for changing chronological order

NanoBlogger 3.3 RC4 Released! You can download the tarball here.

Changes:

• Complete rewrite of CSS code
• Implemented CSS hacks for standards incompliant web browsers
• Fine tuned code for speed and efficiency
• New plugin framework for post-weblog tasks
• German translation
• Various other minor bug fixes, updates, and enhancements

NanoBlogger 3.3 RC3 Released! You can download the tarball here.

Changes:

• Atom 1.0 feeds (including category feeds)
• Replaced master archive index with yearly archive indexes
• Fixed broken cache routines
• Both manual and automatic cache management

NanoBlogger 3.3 RC2 Released! You can download the tarball here.

This release fixes a serious bug that could cause problems when reading or writing data for certain users. It is highly recommended for all users of version 3.3 RC1 to upgrade to the latest version. Thanks.

Changes:

• Fixed bug that could cause read/write data problems for certain users

NanoBlogger 3.3 RC1 Released! You can download the tarball here.

This release was made possible in part thanks to the various contributions made by others (you know who you are). Thanks and enjoy!

Changes:

• Splits main script into smaller files
• Introduces text formatting plugins
• Drafting support
• Next and previous links in archives
• Manipulate date of entries
• Preliminary support for different languages
• Optional interactive mode (classic behavior)
• Standard metafile structure for import and export
• New command line options
• Better interchangeability of command line options
• Numerous bug fixes