The primary objective of the Movable Type 4.15 release is to dramatically improve the performance of Movable Type under a variety of conditions and for the largest number of users possible. This release will be guided by the following principals:
- To the greatest extend possible minimize the number of changes that will be required to make to existing blog templates.
- To minimize the amount of additional software needed in order to take advantage of performance benefits introduced.
Most importantly, we are committed to approaching this problem empirically and systematically, with a desire to make decisions based upon real quantitative data and not conjecture.
Documentation
- What's New in Movable Type 4.15.
- Frequently Asked Questions. Before you ask, check here.
New Features
- Performance Logging and Monitoring. A framework that outputs detailed information about the performance characteristics of your Movable Type installation.
- Module Caching. Speed up publishing by caching the output from commonly used template modules.
- Server Side Includes. Increase the freshness of content across your site and speed up publishing by writing template modules to the file system and including them elsewhere.
- Publishing Profiles and Strategies
- Comment Threading. Created threaded conversations on your blog.
How to Help
For those wanting to assist in improving Movable Type's performance, consider one of the following:
- We need developers to help track down issues and submit patches to MTOS.
- We need users and administrators to provide us with data about their system's performance (see Performance Logging and Monitoring below).
- We need help in measuring the improvements we introduce.
- We need people to report any and all performance issues they find with Movable Type.
Resources
- How to send us your performance information.
- Performance Improvements To Date. This page catalogs those issues we have identified and fixed.
