What’s new in 1.0

Pertinent to users

1. We ditched blosxom_custom_flavours—you can remove it from your config.py file.

2. We added static rendering—see the howto in the PyBlosxom manual.

3. Rewrote comments to use the new handler system. You should replace the comments, pingbacks, trackbacks, and other comments-oriented plugins with the new versions from contrib/plugins/comments/.

4. pingbacks plugin is now xmlrpc_pingbacks.py .

5. Adjusted the default templates for HTML and RSS. Removed all other default templates. Look at the flavour_examples directory for flavour examples.

6. Added an ignore_properties property to config.py which allows you to specify which directories in your datadir should be ignored. For example:

   py["ignore_directories"] = ["CVS", ".svn"]
   

7. Added a template variable pyblosxom_version which points to pyblosxom/Pyblosxom/pyblosxom.VERSION_DATE .

8. Fixed some code in pyarchives so it worked with Python 2.1. Thanks to Wilhelm.

9. Fixed template retrieving code so that you can specify templates to use for a given category or parent categories. Thanks to Nathan for fixing this.

10. We added a logdir property to config. PyBlosxom (and plugins) will create logs in this directory so the directory has to have write access for whatever user the webserver uses to run the script.

Pertinent to developers and plugin developers

1. Rewrote the startup for PyBlosxom request handling—we ditched the common_start function and picked up a common initialize function.
2. Unhardcoded where contrib and web files go when doing a multi-user installation using python setup.py install.
3. Adjusted the comments plugin so that if a given entry has a nocomments property, then it won’t get comments.
4. Moved the Request object into pyblosxom/Pyblosxom/pyblosxom.py.
5. Fixed variable parsing so that if the variable value is a function that takes arguments, we pass the request in as the first argument.
6. Added VERSION, VERSION_DATE, and VERSION_SPLIT. This allows you to verify that your plugin works with the version of PyBlosxom the user is using.