Update: for a full blosxom description see below or blosxom home page at SF.net (per duelafn request).
Announced on blosxom-users list:
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Blosxom 2.1.0 released
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In 2005 Kevin Scaldeferri took over the Blosxom development from Rael
Dornfest and opened a SourceForge project[1] for it. The final 2.0
release and two maintainance releases followed. The user mailing
list[2] haas been moved from Yahoo! to SourceForge, a developer
mailing list[2] has been opened and an IRC channel[3] has been
established.
[1] http://sf.net/projects/blosxom
[2] http://sf.net/mail/?group_id=148044
[3] irc://irc.freenode.net/#blosxom
Kevin also managed to establish a solid developer base and the Blosxom
Development Team[4] grew to currently nine members from all over the
world.
[4] http://sf.net/project/memberlist.php?group_id=148044
Although there were no release in the last two years, the increase in
developers led to a nearly permanent development and also to a closer
contact with e.g. the maintainers of the blosxom package[5] in Debian.
[5] http://packages.debian.org/blosxom
So the Blosxom CVS repository[6] nowadays does not only contain the
CGI script itself, but also plugin-sets and a test suite for easier
noticing of regressions. Kudos for the test suite go to Gavin Carr.
[6] http://blosxom.cvs.sourceforge.net/blosxom/
While the first few releases after Kevin took over Blosxom were close
to Rael's code, the code has evolved a lot over the last two years and
it's time for a new release with new features.
And here is it: Blosxom 2.1.0 has been released and features among
others the following improvements.
New features:
* Support for external config files and multi-instance
installations via environment variables. (Inspired and loosely
based on the Debian patches for Blosxom 2.0.2.)
* Support for multiple plugin directories using $plugin_path and
@INC.
* Support for configuring the plugins to use in a config file.
* The default feed templates are now in RSS 2.0 format and prevent
duplicated stories in feed readers or aggregators if posts are
changed after publishing using a GUID element in each feed item.
* There's now an encoding setting which controls what charset your
blog and feeds should be marked as.
Bugfixes:
* Works together with a broader range of CGI.pm versions.
* The number of false positives when trying to parse dates out of
the path have been reduces.
* Some RSS escaping issues have been fixed.
* The default HTML templates now conform to HTML 4.01
* Many small bugfixes and improvements.
Helpers for Developers:
* Testsuite
* Some code refactoring (including a .perltidyrc)
* Easier building of tar balls for distribution
You can download Blosxom 2.1.0 at
http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=148044
(Please note: The Blosxom Yahoo! Group as well as the blosxom.com
website are deprecated and are no more resp. not supported by us.)
Axel Beckert, for the Blosxom Development Team
About Blosxom (the zen of blogging)
Blosxom (pronounced "blossom") is a lightweight yet feature-packed weblog application designed from the ground up with simplicity, usability, and interoperability in mind.
Simplicity
Blogging--and, indeed, any online publishing-- should be as simple as typing away in your favourite text editor and hitting Save. Fundamental is Blosxom's reliance upon the file system, folders and files as its content database. Entries are plain text files like any other.
Usability
Create, edit, rename, and delete entries on the command-line, via FTP, WebDAV, or anything else you might use to manipulate your files. There's no import or export; entries are nothing more complex than title on the first line, body being everything thereafter.
Interoperability
Despite its tiny footprint, Blosxom doesn't skimp on features, sporting the lion's share of features one would find in any other Weblog application or full-blown content management and publishing system. Blosxom's plug-in architecture allows the core of Blosxom to remain small and sleek while providing room for extension and integration into different environments and uses. In fact, this entire site is powered by Blosxom; read all about it in the colophon.
Blosxom is simple, straightforward, minimalist Perl affording even the dabbler an opportunity for experimentation and customization.
And last, but not least, Blosxom is Open Source and free for the taking and altering.
