December 7, 2010
Movable Type 5.04 and 4.35 Security Update
By Jun Kaneko and posted in MT5.
Movable Type 5.04 and Movable Type 4.35 were released today. These are mandatory security updates for all users. These updates resolve multiple vulnerabilities discovered in Movable Type 5.x and Movable Type 4.x. Impact A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code in a logged-in users’ web browser. A remote attacker could read or modify the contents in the system under certain circumstances. Versions Affected Movable Type Open Source 4.x Movable Type Open Source 5.x Movable Type 4.x ( with Professional Pack, Community Pack ) Movable Type 5.x ( with Professional Pack, Community Pack ) Movable Type Enterprise 4.x Solution Please upgrade to the latest versions of Movable Type 4 or Movable Type 5. Movable Type Open Source 4.35 Movable Type Open Source 5.04 Movable Type 4.35( with Professional Pack, Community Pack) Movable Type 5.04( with Professional Pack, Community Pack) Movable Type Enterprise 4.35 Download Download Movable Type Open Source Download Movable Type Pro (What is the difference?) Installation/upgrade instructions Installation guide Upgrade guide…
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October 5, 2010
Movable Type 5.031
By Jun Kaneko and posted in MT5.
Movable Type 5.031 was released today. This is a bugfix release without new features. It does not contain a security fix. Movable Type 5.031 fixed an issue in 5.03. 104608 : "Script Error" occurs when opening the “rebuild_confirm” screen in some hosting environments. Download Download Movable Type Open Source Download Movable Type Pro (What is the difference?) Installation/upgrade instructions Installation guide Upgrade guide Note: if you purchased a Movable Type license you can also purchase our installation or upgrade service and have all the work done by our excellent support team. Found a bug? Need a feature? To avoid duplication of efforts, search existing bugs or feature requests (from the feedback page) before submitting a new bug. Head over to the bug report/feature request form and let us know!…
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September 22, 2010
Movable Type will Continue Evolving!
By Jun Kaneko and posted in News.
After the recent announcement about Six Apart, some of you might have been wondering about the future of Movable Type. We can be very clear about that: of course we will continue development and support of this platform that now has a decade of history behind it. Movable Type 4 remains rock-solid blogging software for all uses. Movable Type 5 is a new step up for managing multiple sites. Melody is driven by the most enthusiastic community of bleeding-edge developers. All this software shares the same root: Movable Type, the publishing platform. Movable Type 5.1 is in the final development phase, we are anticipating a Beta release this winter. We are also planning another 4.x release to keep this mature branch up to date. All these developments are open to the public. You can check our daily activities on FogBugz and in our code repositories. And just like every open source project, we appreciate your help to make Movable Type (even) Better !…
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September 22, 2010
Introducing SAY Media: Good news for advertisers and publishers
By Chris Ernest Hall.
Those of you who’ve followed us over the years have seen us through a number of changes as Six Apart, and the industry we helped to create, has evolved. What started with a simple goal to make creating and publishing content for the web easy, became a social publishing platform that today powers some of the biggest brands on the web, as well as passionate individuals—those of us who simply want to express ourselves, share our expertise or insights, and reach an audience of like-minded others. Six Apart helped empower people and companies to publish. And they did. With amazing content they created valuable publishing properties with massive and engaged audiences—the influential audiences that advertisers want to reach. Over the past several years we have grown another side of our business, Six Apart Media, which has focused on helping publishers turn their passions into businesses and on helping marketers authentically engage these publishers and their audiences. Today Six Apart announced its intention to join forces with VideoEgg to form a modern media company called SAY Media. The new entity will combine the engagement platform and insights of VideoEgg with our social publishing platform, conversational marketing tools, and robust network of…
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September 8, 2010
Movable Type 5.03
By Jun Kaneko and posted in MT5.
Movable Type 5.03 was released today. This is a bugfix release without new features. It does not contain any security fix. Details about the issues that were fixed can be found in the release note. 5.03 Release Note Download Download Movable Type Open Source Download Movable Type Pro (What is the difference?) Installation/upgrade instructions Installation guide Upgrade guide Note: if you purchased a Movable Type license you can also purchase our installation or upgrade service and have all the work done by our excellent support team. Resolved Issues in Movable Type 5.03 103927 Old comment sessions are not deleted properly. (Fixed) 104102 Cannot publish archive templates when there are multiple archives with different publishing settings. (Fixed) 104161 Cannot search older assets in ‘Insert Image’ dialog. (Fixed) 104326 Cannot add custom fields after upgrading from MT4.x when the user have changed the sort order in MT4.x. (Fixed) 104337 Error when disabling a plugin that adds custom objects and its custom fields. (Fixed) 104338 Cannot publish archive templates by Publish Queue. (Fixed) 104374 Cannot sign-in with the TypePad account that has multi byte characters in its Nick Name (Fixed) 104375 Error with SQL Server when using include_blogs=”children” at the website that…
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July 25, 2010
Action Streams Plugin for Movable Type 5 and 4
By Jun Kaneko and posted in Plugins.
Did you notice that Action Streams and Community Action Streams plugins have been updated ? Now they work both with Movable Type 5 and Movable Type 4. Action Streams plugin collects your actions on third party web services into your Movable Type web sites. Using it, you can easily aggregate your contents from various services such as Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and also you can write your own recipe to pull the data from millions of websites. Please download the latest version from Six Apart’s GitHub repositry, Downloads for sixapart's mt-plugin-ActionStreams - GitHub Downloads for sixapart's mt-plugin-CommunityActionStreams - GitHub and follow the steps in the documentation. Action Streams Documentation Please enjoy !…
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June 20, 2010
How to make Movable Type (even) Better…
By Maarten Schenk and posted in Community.
Movable Type has been Open Source since 2007. This means that if you want it to have some new functionality or if you feel some existing feature could be improved, in theory you could just write some perl code and get it done. At least if you are a programmer.But what if you are not? No luck?On the contrary! The Movable Type engineering team at Six Apart is constantly looking for feedback and feature ideas. Many of Movable Type’s current features came about as a result of user feedback, and there is no reason why that should ever change.So how do you contact these guys? The easiest way is to use the Movable Type issue tracking system, which you can use to report bugs or request features. This system is used directly by the development team to collect, prioritize and track the various changes and improvements that go into each version of Movable Type.Besides being able to submit bugs and feature requests you can also opt to get e-mail notifications when something happens to them, and you can even react to comments made by the development team if (for example) they need clarification on something.Sounds complicated? Not at all: there…
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June 14, 2010
Movable Type Theme Contest
By Jun Kaneko and posted in MT5.
We invite you to enter the Movable Type Theme Contest 2010. Movable Type 5 allows you to create and share your innovative web designs by creating a single theme file. There are thousands of beautiful websites built upon Movable Type 5 already, and now it’s time to show off and share your achievements ! Prizes The winners of the contest will be determined by the contest judges. The winners will receive: 1st place : Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium 2nd place : iPad Wi-Fi (16GB) Rules In order to participate, please observe the following rules: Convert your original, beautiful web design to a Movable Type 5 Theme, Read this tutorial and the technical details, Make sure that the theme can be installed and applied correctly on the latest version of Movable Type 5, Make sure that the design looks good in modern browsers (Internet Explorer 7+, Firefox 3.6+, Safari 4+, etc.), Make a theme file available for downloading in the .zip format, Demonstrate your design at the online demo site, Select a distribution license of your theme, Note any plugins that are required to utilize your theme. Deadline and Schedule We will accept your application until the September…
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May 25, 2010
A Movable Type Hackathon in Europe?
By Maarten Schenk and posted in Events.
In the past there have been get-togethers for Movable Type enthusiasts in New York, San Francisco, Tokyo… but none in Europe yet! There has recently been some discussion about this on various mailing lists and several people indicated they would be interested in coming to or helping out at such an event.In the hopes of making it easier to make this a reality, I have set up a wiki page on the Movable Type wiki where all European Movable Type enthusiasts can indicate their interest and/or offer to help. Suggestions for topics and activities are welcome too (and of course non-European Movable Type users as well)….
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May 21, 2010
Movable Type 5.02 patch to fix the Publish Queue
By Jun Kaneko and posted in MT5.
Thanks to the report, we found and fixed an issue in Movable Type 5.02. Movable Type 5.02 has an error in Publish Queue for archive templates. This error occurs when you publish your archive templates via Publish Queue. Run-periodic-tasks doesn’t publish archive templates properly. Only index templates are published. Please download the patched code from the release notes, and follow the instructions to put it in place. Movable Type 5.02 patch release notes…
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May 14, 2010
Trying Out Movable Type 5.02
By Maarten Schenk and posted in Community.
If you want to try out the newly released Movable Type 5.02 but you don’t have time or a place to install it right now, head to www.movabletypedemo.org today. Movable Type community member and frequent forum contributor Mihai Bocsaru has kindly set up a test server where you can try out many versions of Movable Type absolutely for free. Thanks Mihai!…
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May 11, 2010
Movable Type 5.02
By Maarten Schenk and posted in MT5.
Movable Type 5.02 was released by Six Apart today. This is strictly a bugfix release without new features. It contains fixes for a number of issues including one security vulnerability. It is highly recommended that all users of Movable Type 5.x upgrade their installations, especially the ones with multiple users. Details about the issues that were fixed can be found in the release notes. You may note that the release notes are unusually long this time: the focus of this release was on fixing as many bugs and issues as possible before working on new features for the coming releases (we will tell you more about these soon). We would like to thank everybody in the Movable Type community who submitted bug reports, feature requests and other feedback. Your efforts have made this release possible! Downloads Download Movable Type (Open Source) Download Movable Type Pro (What is the difference?) Installation/upgrade instructions Installation guide Upgrade guide Note: if you purchased a Movable Type license you can also purchase our installation or upgrade service and have all the work done by our excellent support team. Found a bug? Need a feature? To avoid duplication of efforts, search existing bugs or feature requests…
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March 11, 2010
Open Sourcing GeoType, PostOffice, CAS, BuildTracer
By Natalie Podrazik.
Hi all, We’ve open sourced a few more plugins, and they’re all available in the Six Apart Github repository! GeoType allows you to associate GoogleMap data with an entry. Each map extends the MT Asset framework, so it’s managed similar to uploaded images or documents, and associated to an entry in the exact same way. PostOffice enables blog posting via email. You may have been following along in MTOS earlier this week about this one, Brad Choate made a lot of handy fixes. CentralAuthenticationService allows you to configure MT to delegate user authentication to a CAS server in place of the built-in native authentication scheme. BuildTracer benchmarks statically-published templates and provides a visual display of how long it takes each tag to publish. It’s originally by Akira and available on his site, but we’ve been updating it in Github to match the latest builds of MT. Since we’re releasing these plugins as open-source and they’re not officially supported by Six Apart, we invite the community to improve upon them. Anyone and everyone is welcome to follow and contribute to the projects’ Github repositories. Enjoy!…
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February 17, 2010
Movable Type 4.34
By Dave Aiello.
Today Six Apart is releasing Movable Type 4.34. This release primarily contains bug fixes and minor security fixes to address issues in 4.33. But it is highly recommended for all users of prior versions of 4.3x as well as earlier releases. Download MTOS-4.34-en.zip Open Source License, or MT-4.34-en.zip Commercial License. Packages for all languages. Release Notes…
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January 19, 2010
Considering an MT 4 Upgrade? Review the Movable Type 4.33 Changelog
By Dave Aiello.
About two weeks ago, Six Apart release Movable Type 4.33, a release that was coordinated with the worldwide release of Movable Type 5.01 and Movable Type 4.27-ja for Movable Type 4 users in Japan. I urge any customers planning to stay on Movable Type 4 for the near future to take another look at the Movable Type 4.33 Release Notes and to pay close attention to the following improvements: Security Fixes There are two significant security fixes that were included in Movable Type 4.33. The first is the closing of a series of vulnerabilities in the Content Management System (the Movable Type administrative user interface) where user privileges weren’t properly checked. Until Movable Type 4.33, unprivileged users could access several functions of the CMS by typing their URLs directly. We also enhanced the Asset Manager, XML-RPC Server, and Atom Server to make them check the content of image files that are being uploaded. If image files contain JavaScript or HTML unexpectedly, they can be used to attempt to exploit flaws in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 that could lead to security issues on the visitor’s PC or on servers to which that visitor has access. New Configuration Directive Related…
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January 5, 2010
Movable Type 5
By Beau Smith and posted in MT5.
Crack the champagne! Movable Type 5 is ready for you to download and give it a roll. Download Movable Type 5.01 (available in English, Japanese, German, Spanish, Dutch and French.) Movable Type 5.01 - commercial license Movable Type Open Source 5.01 - open source license This is a great milestone in the 8 years of Movable Type history. Some long-awaited features are now available: Websites for grouping blogs together. Themes with full support for custom fields, static files, templates, categories, folders, etc for blogs and websites. Revision History for entries, pages, and templates. Custom Fields for all objects. User Dashboard for quick access to the most used blogs and websites. …and much more. We’re excited that all of these features derived from real-world use cases requested by enthusiastic customers using Movable Type. A big thanks to the customers building beautiful things with Movable Type. And huge thanks goes out to everyone on the Movable Type team to design, build and test this release. In the coming weeks we’ll be posting articles and adding to the documentation to help you take advantage of the new features in Movable Type. Documentation We’ve got a lot of new docs that are being reviewed…
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