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SixApart have made available a release candidate of Movable Type 5
RC1's release announcement includes plenty of detail on which bugs have been fixed, which ones haven't and how to let them know about problems.
It also comes with a new theme
Full details here
RC1's release announcement includes plenty of detail on which bugs have been fixed, which ones haven't and how to let them know about problems.
It also comes with a new theme
Full details here
Sixapart announced the release of MovableType 4.3 last night.
The new release brings improvements in a number of areas, with emphasis on performance and functionality.
Full details of the new release are here, while more details may be found here
The new release brings improvements in a number of areas, with emphasis on performance and functionality.
Full details of the new release are here, while more details may be found here
SixApart have released MovableType 4.24.
This release, while minor, is aimed at addressing a security issue which SixApart informed its partners about earlier during the week. They released a patch at the time, though have not provided any details as to what the actual security problem was.
The new version of MovableType does, however, bring one new feature - an improved password recovery method:
This release, while minor, is aimed at addressing a security issue which SixApart informed its partners about earlier during the week. They released a patch at the time, though have not provided any details as to what the actual security problem was.
The new version of MovableType does, however, bring one new feature - an improved password recovery method:
Rolled into the MTE 4.24, MT Pro 4.24, and MTOS 4.24 release, however, is an improved Password Recovery mechanism. Now only an email address is required for MT to trigger the recovery email, making the Password Hint obsolete.This is a welcome improvement!
Beta 2 of MT Motion has been released.
I've been trying to get my hands on a changelog, but haven't had any success yet :(
I've been trying to get my hands on a changelog, but haven't had any success yet :(
Byrne has released another plugin for MovableType that allows users to easily customise their header image:
The Custom Header Plugin for Movable Type makes it easy for users to upload and customize the header for their blog. It uses javascript and Ajax to make the customization process as seamless, intuitive and painless as possible. No knowledge of HTML or CSS is required, but the theme you are using must explicitly support this pluginFurther information and download on his site
Anil Dash has a post over on the MT site about their latest "cool toy" - Motion for Movable Type
Anil's post goes into quite a bit of detail about how 6Apart expect Motion to be developed and used.
It's currently beta software in the true sense ie. it can and probably will break stuff, so don't try "upgrading" an existing install of MT to use it - seriously! MT's product manager Chris Hall explained in an email last night:
The install is similar to the normal MT install process, so nothing new there.
Action Streams are fully incorporated and, while some services could be improved on, work pretty much "out of the tin". On a related note - if you're trying to setup Flickr in MT you may find this site useful.
For the first time since they introduced it I've been able to get my profile picture to work properly - small victories can be so rewarding!
The post edit screen now includes some really nice and easy links to help you post multimedia content:
Adding an image isn't that hard in the current interface, for example, but the new functions really come into their own when you want to incorporate multimedia - such as YouTube.
Of course the real fun stuff with Motion is the ability to combine profiles and actions from other existing services both in your published content and also in terms of allowing users to authenticate easily against your install.
Admittedly I haven't had a chance to really put Motion through its paces, but it will be very interesting to see how it develops over the coming weeks and months
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Anil's post goes into quite a bit of detail about how 6Apart expect Motion to be developed and used.
It's currently beta software in the true sense ie. it can and probably will break stuff, so don't try "upgrading" an existing install of MT to use it - seriously! MT's product manager Chris Hall explained in an email last night:
... is a beta version of the next version of MT Pro,4.25*, which will include Motion. The Motion plugin required changes to core, so it is not compatible with 4.23 or earlier versions of MT. We are also not advising upgrades from prior versions to Motion at this time, as we've not tested those scenarios. (Of course, if you are really curious, you are welcome to try, but as always when upgrading, BACK UP YOUR DATABASE FIRST.)He added in a further email:
This release bundles the new Facebook Connect Commenters plugin,which we are releasing separately for MT 4.23 tomorrow. This plugin allows users to sign in with their Facebook account to comment on MT blogs, and also gives them the option of publishing their comment to their Facebook news feed, which can help give your blog visibility to the Facebook community, if that's something you desire. The Motion releases also adds many additional OpenID commenting options to MT, including AOL, Yahoo!, Google and WordPress.com.I've setup a test install here (likely to be broken and reinstalled quite a bit)
The install is similar to the normal MT install process, so nothing new there.
Action Streams are fully incorporated and, while some services could be improved on, work pretty much "out of the tin". On a related note - if you're trying to setup Flickr in MT you may find this site useful.
For the first time since they introduced it I've been able to get my profile picture to work properly - small victories can be so rewarding!
The post edit screen now includes some really nice and easy links to help you post multimedia content:
Adding an image isn't that hard in the current interface, for example, but the new functions really come into their own when you want to incorporate multimedia - such as YouTube.Of course the real fun stuff with Motion is the ability to combine profiles and actions from other existing services both in your published content and also in terms of allowing users to authenticate easily against your install.
Admittedly I haven't had a chance to really put Motion through its paces, but it will be very interesting to see how it develops over the coming weeks and months
Seemingly October is THE month that SixApart use to launch products and services.
This October Movable Type celebrates 7 years of existence, Typepad has its fifth birthday and Vox is two.
You can read stories submitted by users of all three platforms on the respective pages (linked to above)
I have to admit that the birthday balloons for Movable Type are a bit cheesy, but I still like them!
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This October Movable Type celebrates 7 years of existence, Typepad has its fifth birthday and Vox is two.
You can read stories submitted by users of all three platforms on the respective pages (linked to above)
I have to admit that the birthday balloons for Movable Type are a bit cheesy, but I still like them!
I mentioned that 6Apart had released a patch yesterday.
Earlier this morning (or late last night - depending on your timezone) the company made available a point release of their flagship product, Movable Type Pro 4.21
Movable Type product manager, Byrne Reese, writing about the release states that it fixes two bugs:
Earlier this morning (or late last night - depending on your timezone) the company made available a point release of their flagship product, Movable Type Pro 4.21
Movable Type product manager, Byrne Reese, writing about the release states that it fixes two bugs:
Custom fields data. If you are upgrading from Movable Type Commercial or Enterprise 4.1 to Movable Type Pro or Enterprise 4.2 and you are using custom fields on any object in Movable Type and there are more than 100 rows in the table for that object, some of your custom field data could be lost in the migration.
Archive mappings. If you create a new blog on your Movable Type 4.2 installation and you delete an archive mapping from one of the archive templates, this action will remove the rest of your blog archive mappings inadvertently.
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If you have the iPhone (iMT) plugin installed make sure you either remove it completely or upgrade it to the latest version before attempting an upgrade to MovableType 4.2.
If, like me, you have a penchant towards installing plugins and then forgetting about them completely, you can end up in "navigation hell" post-upgrade. (I don't even own an iPhone!)
With the old version of the iPhone plugin still installed your upgrade will appear to have completed successfully, but you won't be able to access most of the navigation menus inside your new MT 4.2 Pro install.
The simplest fix is to remove the iMT directories inside both your plugins directory and your mt-static/plugins directory.
Once you've done this you can then actually make use of MT again!
Thanks to Beau for helping resolve this for me on a Sunday afternoon (even though he's currently in Japan and was on his way to bed!)
More on this on the MT forums
If, like me, you have a penchant towards installing plugins and then forgetting about them completely, you can end up in "navigation hell" post-upgrade. (I don't even own an iPhone!)
With the old version of the iPhone plugin still installed your upgrade will appear to have completed successfully, but you won't be able to access most of the navigation menus inside your new MT 4.2 Pro install.
The simplest fix is to remove the iMT directories inside both your plugins directory and your mt-static/plugins directory.
Once you've done this you can then actually make use of MT again!
Thanks to Beau for helping resolve this for me on a Sunday afternoon (even though he's currently in Japan and was on his way to bed!)
More on this on the MT forums
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The upgrade process isn't that painful, though the DB upgrades do take quite a bit of time to complete ie. a good 5 minutes
There is documentation on upgrading on the MT site, as well as a supplemental document which covers some of the "gotchas" for users of various plugins / extensions.
The main "issue" would appear to be related to template differences and conflicts, but these should be easy enough to solve.
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