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Movable Type, Open Source Blog Software, Version 5 RC 1 Released

Nov 8, 2009 by Srikanth ADcloseAuthor: Srikanth AD Name: Srikanth AD
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Movable Type, an open source blog software, which we have reviewed here has recently released its new version 5 RC 1. Included in this release is a new theme ‘Pico’ and many other bug fixes. The launch of Movable Type version 5 is targeted for late November.

Major Changes in this release,

• Added a new theme “Pico”.
• Bundle style repository with a theme.

Styles can also be bundled with a theme to easily offer different flavors of a theme. Styles are nothing but a combination of a stylesheet and images to bundle with a theme.

• Config directive SQLSetNames should be specified as SQLSetNames 0 in mt-config.cgi when upgrading from older versions with MySQL 5.x and UTF-8
• Tip: When including templates inside a loop which is using multi-blog to aggregate content, blog_id should be specified with include tag to ensure proper template is included unless the template to include exists in each blog/site being aggregated.

Backup and Restore Issues Solved,

• When Backup/Restore all or website, manifest file cannot start restore.
• JavaScript error when uploading a manifest file from the Restore screen
• Backup/Restore drop the Following/Follower data
• CF: Backup/Restore customfields of Image object
• Backup/Restore: Association of assets CF of Category is wrong
• CF: Backup/Restore customfields of Blog/Website object
• Assets named in Japanese have garbage file name when backup
• [Restore] Website custom field is not restorable
• Restoring set wrong userpic
• manifest file : cannot upload
• [restore] folder/category custom field is not restored
• Website: Restored Facebook Commentes setting
• Restored data can get wrong Multiblog settings

Upgrade Issues Solved,

• Index templates are not published after upgrade from MT 3.21
• Upgrade remove all system templates of the blog whose template set is not Classic Blog
• Problems after upgrading a blog whose site/archive URL is ‘foo.com’
• Error when publishing templates after upgrading from 3.21

Theme and Template Issues Solved,

• Professional Website template doesn’t display Comment and Trackbacks
• Unable to display Professional Website template with Dynamic Publishing
• Warning messages are always shown when applying a theme that contains a custom fields
• No warning messages show up when theme cannot add a custom fields
• Item customfield tag is escaped in community template
• mt:WebsiteIfCommentsOpen doesn’t work in dynamic publishing
• mt:Websites with exclude_websites doesn’t work (static/dynamic)
• Template refresh doesn’t respect blog language.
• View Published Template link doesn’t work when Output file include directory
• IE: Comment Pagination doesn’t work
• Comment Pagination doesn’t work on Community Blog template
• Pagination of Main Index
• Dynamic: Publish mt.js by dynamic generate error
• Fixing issue on Ajax pagination.
• mt:Include doesn’t work in some situations
• mt:Blogs doesn’t work in dynamic publishing
• Professional blog doesn’t work on dynamic
• Professional Website: Comment form is blank on Comment Preview

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Tags: blog software, content management system, Movable Type, new version, open-source, release candidate

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