What’s new in 1.4.3

Pertinent to users

1. Adjusted the code that parses blog.ini values so that it can take values like:

   foo = 'a'                 # string
   foo = "a"                 # string
   foo = 23                  # integer
   foo = [ "a", 23, "b" ]    # list of strings and integers
   

   as well as:

   foo = a                   # string
   

   Note: if you want the string “23”, then you MUST enclose it in quotes, otherwise it will be parsed as an integer.

   blog.ini is used when you set up PyBlosxom using Paste.

2. Fixed PyBlosxomWSGIApp so that it’s WSGI compliant as an application. Thanks Michael!

3. Template variables can be parenthesized. Examples:

   $foo                      - variable is "foo"
   $(foo)                    - variable is "foo"
   $(url)index.atom          - variable is "url"

   This reduces ambiguity which was causing problems with recognition of variables.

Pertinent to developers

1. Fixed tools.importname—it now logs errors to the logger.
2. Fixed PyBlosxomWSGIApp so that it’s WSGI compliant as an application. Thanks Michael!
3. Added more unit tests and corrected more behavior. Details on running unit tests are in the REDAME.

What’s new in 1.4.2

Pertinent to users

1. Fixed another bug with the WSGI application creation code. (Thanks Christine!)
2. Added instructions for installing PyBlosxom with mod_wsgi to install_wsgi.txt. This includes a basic wsgi script for PyBlosxom. (Thanks Christine!)
3. Fixed up the Python Paste installation document. (Thanks Liz!)
4. Fixed the month2num code in tools so that PyBlosxom runs on Windows (Windows doesn’t have nl_langinfo in the locale module). (Thanks Liz!)

What’s new in 1.4.1

Pertinent to users

1. Fixed a problem where running PyBlosxom under Paste won’t pick up the config.py file. Be sure to add a configpydir property to your blog.ini file which points to the directory your config.py file is in.
2. Fixed a problem where running PyBlosxom in Python 2.5 won’t pick up the config.py file.
3. Merged Ryan’s optimization to Walk (removes an os.listdir call).
4. Updated documentation.

What’s new in 1.4

Pertinent to users

1. Added a pyblcmd command line program for PyBlosxom command line things. This now handles static rendering, rendering a single url to stdout, testing your blog setup, ...
2. The Atom story template now has a $default_flavour bit in the link. Bug 1667937. (Thanks Michael!)
3. PyBlosxom is now locale aware in respects to dates, months, days of the week and such. Users should set the locale config property to a valid locale if they don’t want English.
4. Added a blog_icbm config variable for use in the ICBM meta tag. See config_variables.txt for more information.
5. Changed the num_entries property in config.py from 40 to a much more conservative 5. Also changed the default value from 0 to 5 if you happened not to set num_entries at all. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=373658 (Thanks Jon!)
6. Changed the self link in the atom feed to be of type application/atom+xml. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403008 (Thanks Brian!)
7. Added DOCUMENT_ROOT to the python path per Martin’s suggestion. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367127 (Thanks Martin!)
8. Translated all documentation from Docbook to reST. reST documentation is easier to read in “source-form” and a lot easier to convert to HTML and other formats using the Python docutils tools. (Thanks John!)
9. Added support for Paste and brought the WSGI support into the codebase. (Thanks Steven and Yury!)

Pertinent to developers

1. Lots of code clean-up, documentation, test-code, and some refactoring.

2. cb_filestat will only do an os.stat if no plugin handles the filestat. Previously, cb_filestat did an os.stat and ran through all the plugins allowing them to over-ride it.

3. Added some testing framework pieces. This requires nose. To run the tests, do:

   nosetests --verbose --include unit
   nosetests --verbose --include functional