We are happy to announce the release of this version. With it come a great many new features as well as improvements upon older ones. The updates are as follow:
- Overhaul of Blog Settings layout
- Consolidation of Themes
- Color Picker for adjustment of background, links, titles, text, and subtitle.
- Overhaul of blog Page management.
- Ability to add in FeedBurner RSS link for all blogs.
- Ability to add in Google Analytics for all blogs.
- Ability to add in Google Webmaster Tools, Yahoo Site Explorer, and/or Bing Webmaster Center for all blogs to allow better indexing of individual blogs.
- Ability to display up to 10 latest comments on blog in right hand column.
- Ability to edit blog Section Webname for hosted blogs.
- Ability to turn Open Translations on or off for all blogs
- Ability to turn Comment Approval on or off for all blogs
- Ability to turn the Toolbar on or off for hosted blogs
- Ability to turn off comments for an entire blog; available for all blogs.
- Introduction of extensible graphics for interaction
- Update to admin section header layouts
- Ability to add an article Summary for display on the main lists as opposed to entire article.
- Removed Platform Version on all individual blogs.
- Standardization of Load indicator through all admin.
- Streamlining of Join page to be simpler.
- Translate to: now displays for hosted blogs.
- Return path for non-logged in function access switched to /login/
- Update to browscap.ini functions which weren't running. Now deflecting Firefox < 2, Explore < 6, Chrome < 3, Safari < 5, and all Netscape.
- Primary Language default was not functioning.
- Password maximum length standardization at 24 characters.
- Re-indexing of Featured Articles to increase speed.
- Fix of infinite loop when attempting to load deleted Section in hosted blogs.
We've been in Beta for some time now as we work to develop the Maneno platform towards a number of goals such as more powerful domain hosting, an open template architecture, and most importantly, an Open Source release for anyone to download, use and contribute to. The only problem with Beta is that it's been overused a great deal in the web community and it really doesn't tell you anything except that a piece of software isn't a finished product and that's not really very exciting.
With that in mind, a few days ago, we removed the Beta from all our pages. No, we're definitely not in a full release yet, but we wanted something better than having that tag there until Version 1.00 comes along. Instead, we're using a numeric version system that you'll now see at the bottom of the pages. That number is the current production version of Maneno that you're using, which is starting at 0.50. We're looking to give more insight to our development upgrades and include people in on the news as we'll post the Release Notes here in the Siteblog every time we have a release.
Shortly, we'll be releasing Version 0.51 "Alloco". This will be a very exciting release as it is a complete overhaul to our admin section to allow easy management of members' blogs as well as include a large slew of helpful widgets and functions. There will also be some new blog design functions that will allow anyone from a new internet user to a seasoned web developer take any of our basic templates and add a degree of their own spice and personality to them. This release is looking to be a lot of fun.
