MT 4.2 Beta 5 Change Log
By Byrne Reese and posted in 4.2 on May 7, 2008.
Beta 5B contained a fix for a bug affected people upgrading from a 4.1 to MT 4.2's narrow table-based meta data storage backend. Set zero for some inconsistent comment/ping count just in case. Revision: 2043 Bug(s): 79433 chromeless needs styling for textareas Revision: 2044 Bug(s): 79444 Add Create Widget Set link when list is in zero-state Revision: 2045 Bug(s): 79454 hide backup message when backup option is de-selected Revision: 2046 Bug(s): 64661 Search templates in templates listing and widgets listing. Thanks Jay Allen for the patch. Revision: 2047 Bug(s): 79449 Fixed typo in translation. Revision: 2048 Bug(s): 79437 "cache_enable" valuable is removed from the page and cleaned up back-end codes. Revision: 2049 Bug(s): 79445 Translate the whole phrase including URL. Revision: 2050 Fixed to create required files for dynamic publishing when an individual template is set to publish dynamically. Revision: 2051 Bug(s): 79337 Integrated Widget Manager to the core. Now a widgetset is another type of template. The widgets contained in a widgetset is stored in a meta field. Revision: 2052 Bug(s): 68750 cloning message mentions pages Revision: 2053 Bug(s): 69582 Allow user to save and publish new templates too. Revision: 2054 Display auth'd commenter name for comment author tag...
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MT 4.2 RC1 Change Log
By Byrne Reese and posted in 4.2 on June 11, 2008.
header title tag consistency Revision: 2312 Bug(s): 79734 Adding reply checkbox to comment preview screen Revision: 2313 Bug(s): 79309 Weaken category parent/children references cached in a category object. Revision: 2314 Bug(s): 79687 Use DBI driver (non-caching) for TheSchwartz itself. Optimized daemon loop so it clears caches only when work was done. Revision: 2315 styling widths of fields on edit author Revision: 2316 Bug(s): 79731 In Italian the date always come before the month. Thanks for the patch mirco! Revision: 2317 Bug(s): 79728 Improved the error message returned when the request was throttled. , Revision: 2318 Bug(s): 50084 66624 Applied L10N patch to mt-check.cgi to enable other languages. Thanks mirco for reporting the issue. Revision: 2319 Bug(s): 79727 Japanese L10N for the branch. , Revision: 2320 Bug(s): 79626 79703 Skip upgrading of metadata if we are installing, not upgrading. Revision: 2321 Bug(s): 79742 Fixed to be able to sign out with 4.1 templates. Revision: 2322 Bug(s): 79718 Return to edit screen after "Save & Publish" for archive templates. Revision: 2323 Bug(s): 79729 Set Installing flag on when installing. Revision: 2324 Added 'return false' to work sign out link for IE. Revision: 2325 Bug(s): 79747 Fixed * Not join to mtpermission *...
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MT 4.2 RC2 Change Log
By Byrne Reese and posted in 4.2 on June 11, 2008.
Unset variable ignore the operation and set the value to it. Revision: 2448 Bug(s): 79876 Fixed test data. Revision: 2449 Bug(s): 79876 Fixed * Changed to use MTCommentLink * Added support for filtering of no class to fetch_entries Revision: 2450 Bug(s): 79904 Added RCO test. Changed comment created date and modified expected results from tests accordingly. Revision: 2451 Added default language to default configuration for tests. Revision: 2452 Changed the way to generate unique hash key for an object. Revision: 2453 Bug(s): 79927 Calculate and set offset value correctly when the number of items appearing on a page is changed. Revision: 2454 Bug(s): 79897 Remove duplicate line in Search template Revision: 2455 Bug(s): 79937 Merged the checkin to release-38 to the current dev branch. svn merge -r2424:2447 http://code.sixapart.com/svn/movabletype/branches/release-38 . Revision: 2456 Updated a test case a bit to be flexible to configuration setting. Revision: 2457 0 is a valid value for cacheexpiretype. Revision: 2458 Bug(s): 79935 Adding support for a maxgroupby method. Revision: 2459 Bug(s): 79914 Better escaping for entry title. Revision: 2460 Bug(s): 79827 Checkin of TypePad AntiSpam plugin; MT version bump. Revision: 2461 Test index generation and introspection Revision: 2462 Updates to optimize recentlycommentedon, category and tag attributes...
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Quick Fixes for Common Itches
By Anil Dash and posted in Tips & Tricks on May 22, 2009.
Every once in a while, if you use Movable Type long enough, you can run into little glitches or things that are confusing. We thought we’d round up a couple of random ones that have seemed common lately, with the hopes that it makes things a little more fun and a little less frustrating. Filtering entries by category name gets weird if my category name has spaces! This one cropped up in Movable Type 4.25 (the release where Motion was introduced). If you have a category name like “Diamonds & Pearls” and you set <mt:entries category="Diamonds & Pearls">, you get an error instead of your entries! No good. So, we made a quick little patch (link outdated) to fix it. Just follow the outlined steps there and you should be set. Sometimes I can’t click into the text editor when writing an entry or page! Oooh, tricky. What’s probably happened here is your mt-config.cgi file lists the full path for your site’s MT install, something like StaticWebPath http://www.example.com/mt/mt-static/ but you’ve visited your MT install at http://example.com/mt/, without the “www” part. Because of the web browser security works, MT can’t load the editor part of the Create Entry screen, and that makes...
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Features of 4.3: Entry Pagination
By Matt Jacobs and posted in News on July 24, 2009.
Up until the general release of MT 4.3 (beta info here), we are publishing details on the features of 4.3. Today we're looking at entry pagination. 1,000 Entries One of the categories on my blog is now up to nearly 1,000 entries and it has become difficult to display them. Movable Type offers the ability to split up the category content by date (e.g., Category-Monthly archives), but that would still require me to publish all of the content statically. I could use dynamic publishing, but then I would lose the speed of a statically published page on the front-end. Situations like these, and a long-standing pubilc request, is why we're now introducing a dynamic way to paginate your index and archive templates using MT-Search. With this solution, you're able to publish the first 10 or 20 (or whatever you'd like) entries statically and paginate through the remainder dynamically. What's even better is that it only requires a few changes to your index or archive template to generate the content for MT-Search. Getting Pagination on Your Blog We've put together a guide to paginating with static templates that provides details on the new querystring parameters and sample template code. It's based...
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Movable Type 5 Beta
By Beau Smith and posted in MT5 on September 2, 2009.
Are you ready for this? We’re really stoked. Today begins a 2-month period of beta releases and official quality assurance testing. Though we still have loose ends to tie up, we wanted to get the code so that people could begin to use it and provide feedback. We plan to release a new beta version every two weeks until the app is stable. Once stable, we’ll be creating release candidates. And we’re hoping to offer a stable build in mid November. For those who are dying to download it now… Download Warning! - This is beta software and is not recommended in any production environment. Movable Type 5.0 Pro Betas (available in English and Japanese) We also have a Pre-Release Software License Agreement if you’re interested. Quick links: Bug? | Feature? | Beta Forum | Source Code | Release Notes | Known Issues About Movable Type 5.0 For those who aren’t distracted with downloading and installing… here’s a little history: Development of MT4.3 and 4.31 were led by the Services team in the US and was primarily focused on app performance, resolving pain points common on large installations, making some of their most popular plugins part of the core product,...
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Movable Type 5.0 Release Candidate 2
By Beau Smith and posted in MT5 on November 18, 2009.
Movable Type 5.0 Release Candidate 2 is now available. Here’s the highlights… A lot of work to get the dynamic publishing in sync with the static publishing. Updates to the Professional blog templates Unbundling of Motion and Action Streams The Entry/Page “previous” and “next” container tags now account for entries/pages with the same date-time, rather than skipping them. And many more bug fixes. Release Notes for MT5 RC2 Movable Type 5.0 RC2 Release Notes Resolved Issues in MT5 RC2 Known Issues in MT5.0 “Won’t Fix” in MT5 Download Warning! - This software is not recommended for any production environment. Movable Type 5.0 Pro Betas (available in English, Japanese, German, Spanish, Dutch and French.) Check out the Pre-Release Software License Agreement for more details about using the software. Please report bugs and submit feature requests you find. Plugin Support Many MT4 plugins will work with MT5 (or only need minor updates) as much of the core functionality in MT5 hasn’t changed dramatically. Plugins which do not work correctly in MT5 due to the following reasons: The most common reasons for plugins not working in MT5: Plugin relies on a transformers (code which searches for other code to replace) may be broken...
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Movable Type development moving to GitHub
By Jun Kaneko and posted in MT5 on January 5, 2011.
New Year's Greetings from Movable Type team, and we would like to announce a new step of the Movable Type development. We are moving Movable Type core development over to Git. Movable Type has used a public subversion repository for version control, but from January 2011, our new home is on github.com. GitHub is the most popular Git hosting, and it also provides social networking functions such as feeds, followers and the network graph to display how the team works on the repository. We believe that this transition will help our community a lot. The development process will be more transparent, easier to try the bleeding edge version of the code, and of course, you can fork your own projects ! movabletype/movabletype - GitHub GitHub, how to join There are numbers of great online tutorials. Help.GitHub - Welcome After configuring Git environment in your local machine, all you have to do is to clone the project. % git clone http://github.com/movabletype/movabletype.git % cd movabletype % make me How about FogBugz ? We will continue using Fogbugz for the issue tracking system. You can report bugs or request features in the same way. We are looking forward to seeing you on...
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Bug Tracker maintenance completed
By Jun Kaneko and posted on June 27, 2011.
We have successfully migrated our Movable Type issue tracking system to the new location. The new URL is here. https://movabletype.fogbugz.com/ I hope that you will enjoy the newest FogBugz features ! The Movable Type issue tracking system ( Fogbugz ) is currently under maintenance. We are moving this installation to the Fog Creeks' on-demand service, and it will be back next week. Please use Movable Type Forums to report bugs during this period. Sorry for your inconvenience !...
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A Leading Japanese Developer's Perspective on Movable Type
By Takeshi Nick Osanai and posted on May 31, 2012.
Hi, my name is Takeshi "Nick" Osanai of Six Apart, Ltd. Today, I'm going to post a translated blog article which was originally written by a Japanese Movable Type developer Sumio Noda. He is also known as his nickname "Junnama". Sumio is a famous Movable Type developer in Japan. He is the co-founder and CEO of Alfasado Inc., one of the largest third-party developer in the worldwide Movable Type Community. Alfasado develops and distributes Enterprise plug-in packages that extend MT called "PowerCMS". Alfasado also introduces a lot of plugins on Github. Take a look at Alfasdo's account on Github, at https://github.com/alfasado to get an idea of what they have produced and made available to the MT community. So, let me introduce his blog entry "Reasons why I keep using Movable Type, not WordPress, because it's fun!"...
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