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# Tuesday, January 18, 2005

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dasBlog 1.7 released

Well, I'm a bit late to the party... but as Scott announced, dasBlog 1.7 is finished. There are numerous and substantial improvements in this version. Some of them were done months ago, and the most substantial came in the last 2 months as Scott and I feverishly whipped dasBlog into a fast asp.net app. We hope we've also given folks the tools to help combat referral and comment spam.

Anyhoo, here is the 411:

  • dasBlog is no longer hosted on GotDotNet, and has new home at SourceForge.net. Using CVS as source control actually makes it a joy to check in code to dasBlog.
  • New Features
  • Release Notes
  • YOU MUST UPGRADE your content folder. This is *not* and XCOPY deployment. There were two major bugs fixed in the dasBlog runtime that require that the dasBlog files be rebuilt. Unfortunately there was no avoiding this. Read the instructions in the DasBlogUpgrader download. update: the instructions in the download aren't as clear as those I recently updated in the Release Notes
  • For most other details see the wiki

Anyway, I learned a lot about asp.net, programming and dasBlog working on this release. It was really fun and I look forward to working on 1.8 :-).

Some of my favorite 1.7 features

  • All the search bot referrals to your site are "pretty printed" in your logs
  • CAPTCHA for entering comments
  • MovableType Blacklist and Content based Blacklist for visitors to the site
  • <%ReferralListFiltered()%>Macro that will shrink the number of referrals displayed in the Permalink and expose the rest using javascript and css.
  • Performance
  • Lots of smart Caching
  • Trackbacks/Pingbacks work reliably.

update: if you happen to use dasBlog to do any CrossPosting (post to another blog from dasBlog) DO NOT CrossPost in 1.7. I just found a bug that causes dupes. If you want a fix and can't wait for .2 (which will of course fix these types of things) leave a comment and I will send you an updated patch (one dll).

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Posted Wednesday, January 19, 2005    Permalink    Comments [10]  View blog reactions

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Wednesday, January 19, 2005 12:20:00 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Hey Omar:

I just got done upgrading to DasBlog 1.7 and I must say, the difference in perf is really remakable. Hats off to Scott, yourself and the rest of the team for the incredible work on fixing threading issues and introducing smarter caching solutions! You guys rock! :-)

-Nikhil

PS: Could you email me the patch that fixed the dupes Crossposting issue in 1.7? It would be much appreciated. Thanks.
Nikhil Manchanda
Wednesday, January 19, 2005 2:42:58 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Awesome work guys - I also gave it a try (http://blog.justbe.com/jb/2005/01/dasblog_17_rele.html) yesterday on my testing machine, and it's great to see all these new features (freetextbox 3 is there too - woohoo :) ), especially the performance increase!

Best regards / MfG,
--
Joerg Battermann
jb@justBE.com
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Joerg Battermann
Wednesday, January 19, 2005 4:29:40 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Any different instructions for those of us who were running the beta?

Also, just found about about Google's comment spam solution: (a rel="nofollow", documented at http://www.google.com/googleblog/). Any support for dasBlog coming.
Richard Tallent
Wednesday, January 19, 2005 11:48:25 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
How do you use the IP blacklist? Is it as simple as uncommenting that one line in the HTTP Modules section of the web.config? And what does the IP blacklist *do*?
Tommy Williams
Wednesday, January 19, 2005 1:22:27 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Omar,

fyi: i just posted somewhat more detailed setup instructions (in german) on my blog. maybe this is of some help to other german speaking users. :-)

WM_THX
thomas woelfer
thomas woelfer
Wednesday, January 19, 2005 9:34:14 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Hi Omar,
Please send me the crosspost fix too. Are all bug reports to be made to the SourceForge tracker from now?

Thanks,
Rohan
Rohan Deshpande
Wednesday, January 19, 2005 11:16:26 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
We would prefer people use the Tracker, yes.
Scott Hanselman
Thursday, January 20, 2005 9:04:06 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
The IP Blacklist will ban IPs from getting to your site. You just need to uncomment the section in Web.config and edit the list of IPs in the SiteConfig folder.
Omar Shahine
Saturday, January 22, 2005 3:24:52 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Nice job, fellas!

I just upgraded to 1.7 and it runs very smoothly.

I do Cross Post into my personal blog and was wondering if you could send the updated dll to me?

Thank you!
Serge Baranovsky
Saturday, January 22, 2005 3:43:15 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Omar,

I couldn't find info on how to setup HttpHandler for http://www.dasblog.net/TheTitleOfThePost.aspx URLs... Did I miss it?
Serge Baranovsky
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