PyBlosxom shows an error page if it crashes rather than forcing you to go figure out what happened by finding the web server logs. This should make configuring and debugging much easier.
Bunch of fixes to the documentation. If you see errors or things that are unclear, let us know.
The documentation for the comments plugin still needs to be overhauled.
Bunch of other bug fixes.
Bunch of new plugins: magicword, pages, rst, check_nonhuman, and check_blacklist.
Bunch of fixes to the comments plugin, tags and pycalendar plugins.
Tags plugin gains tags cloud functionality.
Comments plugin gains comment_disable_after_x_days feature.
If you’re using them, update to the latest versions.
Renamed pyblcmd to pyblosxom-cmd.
PyBlosxom now requires Python 2.3. We’ve removed the _logging module that provided logging facilities to pre-Python 2.3 versions.
You can now install PyBlosxom on your system with pip or easy_install.
The pyblosxom.cgi file has changed significantly—if you’re using it you should grab the new one that comes with this distribution. We’ve gutted the pyblosxom.cgi script and turned it into a stub. This will reduce the need for you to update your pyblosxom.cgi in the future when you upgrade PyBlosxom.
pyblosxom-cmd now has an option to create the blog directory structure and skeleton files for you. This makes it much faster to get a new blog up and running. Syntax is this:
pyblosxom-cmd create <path>
Some examples:
pyblosxom-cmd create .
pyblosxom-cmd create /home/joe/blog
Template variable syntax $id_escaped and $id_urlencoded has been removed. Use $escape(id) and $urlencode(id) instead.
Switched to using Python’s optparse module instead of our home-brewed one. There are some changes in command line syntax. Do pyblosxom-cmd --help for command line help.
Changed around INSTALL, README and added UPGRADE.
Removed blog_title_with_path variable. If you were using this variable in your templates, replace it. i.e. instead of:
$blog_title_with_path
do:
$blog_title : $pi_bl
Re-worked PyBlosxom so that it uses the same encoding throughout. This means you need to use the same encoding for all your data files and that encoding has to match the blog_encoding property in config.py. This defaults to UTF-8.
Re-worked documentation to use Sphinx. The end result is that the “source” for the docs is in docs/source/, there’s an HTML version that’s built by Sphinx in docs/build/html/, and it’s a lot easier to read and use now. Thank you to the Sphinx team!
Reworked the command line for static rendering. It now works like this:
pyblosxom-cmd staticrender \
[--config <path/to/config/file>] \
[--incremenal]
If the config.py file is in your PYTHONPATH, then you can skip the --config <path/to/config/file> stuff.
Removed portalocker code. This will cause any plugins using the locking code to fail. The only one I saw like this was the logstats plugin which had a lot of other problems.
Added a --silent flag to pyblcmd so that it quells all stdout. This is useful for cron jobs.
Added truncate_date config variable. When set to True, it causes date-based archives to be truncated to num_entries entries. Defaults to False.
Example:
py["truncate_date"] = True
Added truncate_category config variable. When set to True, it causes category-based archives to be truncated to num_entries entries. Defaults to True.
Example:
py["truncate_category"] = True
Added truncate_frontpage config variable. When set to True, it causes the front page num_entries entries. Defaults to True.
Example:
py["truncate_frontpage"] = True
Plugins are included in the PyBlosxom source tarball again.
Templates in a flavourdir directory no longer require the flavour as the file extension. e.g. This will work fine:
blog/
|- flavourdir/
|- html.flav/
|- content_type
|- head
|- story
|- ...
We moved the main PyBlosxom site to http://pyblosxom.bluesock.org/ . There’s a “powered by pyblosxom” image at http://pyblosxom.bluesock.org/images/pb_pyblosxom.gif
You should adjust your templates accordingly.
The following plugins have been added to the pyblosxom release tarball:
If you have older versions of these plugins, better to switch to the new versions.
Pyblosxom.tools.VariableDict is no more.
If you have template variables that end in _urlencoded and _escaped, it’s better to instead call tools.escape_text(...) and tools.urlencode_text(...) or use filter functions $escape(var) and $urlencode(var).
The blosxom renderer has undergone a bunch of fixes. If you depended on functions that started with _, then you’ll probably need to rework your plugin. These functions were not intended for outside use.
Additionally, we fixed the bug where the renderer was adding the contents of the config and data dicts to each entry when it was rendered as a story. Now the items in the entrylist are untouched during rendering.
Added a lot of tests and rewrote everything to ditch the nose requirement. Tests can be run with:
python setup.py test
Added a lot of documentation.
Removed the portalocker code so PyBlosxom no longer provides a way to lock/unlock text files.
Changed a lot of camel-case function/method names to PEP-8 versions. Camel case names are deprecated and will be removed in a future version:
tools.py:
pyblosxom/Pyblosxom.py:
pyblosxom/renderers/base.py:
pyblosxom/renderers/blosxom.py:
Changed add_header in the Response class to take a key and value instead of a list of strings that it has to use * magic and then munge through.
command line.
Added a truncatelist callback allowing plugins to augment the truncate (num_entries) behavior.
Added a sortlist callback allowing plugins to augment entrylist sorting behavior.