Flexion.Org Blog » Projects http://blog.flexion.org Bad grammar and typos for total strangers Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:01:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 R3-born 0.1.1 is released! http://blog.flexion.org/2007/03/09/r3born_011_is_released/ http://blog.flexion.org/2007/03/09/r3born_011_is_released/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2007 20:59:45 +0000 Martin http://www.flexion.org/blog/?p=66

R3-born 0.1.1 is released :-)

R3-born Core Change Log

Here are the main changes for this release.

v0.1.1 : 9th March 2007

  • Added Akismet anti-spam API
  • Added a version checker for the Core and also for Blocks and Modules.
  • Added search bot (Google, MSN, Yahoo!, etc) detection.
  • Added logging (in Combined Log Format) to the R3-born Intrusion Prevention System.
  • Enhanced the Module API so it now supports safe updating and custom CSS for blocks and modules.
  • Enhanced the Layout Manager
  • Enhanced the Registration and Profile pages by separating them.
  • Enhanced the Template engine by back porting some features from phpBB 3.0.x
  • Optimised and fixed the Search API
  • Optimised and simplified Coloured Groups.
  • Improved the Groups Management ACP
  • Improved the Styles Management ACP
  • Fixed various bugs in the core.
  • Significant feature enhancements, bug fixes and optimisations added to the Menu and Who Is Online blocks.
  • Significant feature enhancements, bug fixes and optimisations added to the Comments, Downloads, Forum, Pages,
  • Private Messages, Weblogs and View Online modules.
  • New modules : bot_list, cookie, error, google, referers and sql_backup
  • New blocks : recent_blogs, recent_comments, recent_pages, recent_topics, search, socmarks and visit_counter.

See the R3-born website to get the Downloads more information, change logs and discussion.

This will be my last entry on this blog. R3-born 0.1.1 has fulfilled its first major objective, which is to be functional enough to use to run my own website :-) Therefore I will soon migrate this site to R3-born, update the articles and start blogging more regularly.

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Finally, even in the face of adversity, R3-born 0.1.0 is released.

R3-born is a content management system for modest websites which I hope will be ideal for individuals running their own sites or small community websites. See the R3-born Development Community for the downloads and more details.

Due to my accident I have not been able to address all of the bugs which have been reported recently and the downloads are only available as bzip2 tar archives right now.

Please report any bugs you might encounter as 0.1.0 has really only been tested on Debian Sarge (stable) running PHP4 and MSQL 4. So feedback from other configurations will be useful and all reported bugs will be investigated.

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I suppose it is a bit silly to announce this just before I go on holiday but what the heck ;-)

R3-born is intended to be a simple and modular content management system for modest websites. My hope is that it will be ideal for individuals running their own sites or for small community websites.

R3-born is coded in PHP (4.2.0 or better required) and requires an SQL database, currently MySQL 3.x, 4.x and 5.x, Postgres 7.x or better and MS-SQL 7.x or better are supported.

Current Status

Right now, R3-born is considered pre-alpha and not suitable for a production website but is ready for testers to start feeding back on bugs, feature requests and in the near future code changes.

Development has been fairly rapid so far. I started the project in April 2006 and I hope to release a beta version of R3-born later in 2006.

Find out more

I have set up a R3-born Development Community and you can find the project over at Sourceforge, SVN is the only way to snag the source currently.

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Despite a generous offer from a Minerva enthusiast a year or so ago to freely host the Project Minerva sites, all the Project Minerva hosting is coming back to where it started and rightly belongs. Yes, right here with me :-)

It just goes to show you really don’t get anything for free. The developers have had several outages with the server which was provided by SpiderTech Hosting, so we are bringing it back here where we can look after our interests directly.

Minerva users might be wondering if the fact I am fully hosting Project Minerva again means I am going to be developing for the project again. Well, we will just have to see but I did inform Chris of a little project I kicked off last week which may (or may not) lead to something ;-)

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