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Scott just announced dasBlog 1.8 RC1! He has put in a heroic effort with this release . There are tons and tons of bug fixes in this release. Our goal is to improve the stability of the product with each new release, and provide features that make hosting a blog less annoying. In this vein my fav features are below. This release really would not have happened w/o lots of prodding and work on Scott’s part. I was just slammed the last few months.

The full list of new features is here.

Also to be clear. You do not need to run the upgrader on your content files. If you want to delete all your referrals though feel free to.

• XCOPY deployment for hosters that provide ASP.NET Impersonation.
  • This means that if your hoster sets up your account to run under your machine account, dasBlog doesn’t need any special permissions from ASPNET or NETWORKSERVICE to write to /content, /logs, and /SiteConfig. This should save folks a lot of time and energy.
  • My hosting provider, Server Intellect, supports this out of the box.
• Anti-Spam Features
  • You can now delete referrals and trackbacks.
  • Incoming Trackbacks are validated to ensure a site is actually linking to you.
• Admin Features
  • Captcha disabled if you are logged in as admin
  • Login issues fixed
  • Color highlighting on the Event Log page
  • Can pre/post date entries
  • Referrals are no longer logged with individual entries by default. If you have a high traffic site, this was killing performance. Referrals will always be logged in the event log file. The DasBlogUpgrader can optionally trim your dayFeedback files of all the existing referrals (I just did this)
  • Deleting Comments, Referrals, Posts occurs w/o a postback to the server and an interstitial confirmation page (we now use JavaScript)
  • Themes are easy to install, remove, and copy.

You blog spammers can now pound salt.

This will likely be the last release of dasBlog that supports .NET Framework 1.1. The focus for the next release will be moving to Whidbey, refactoring, and trimming a bunch of code to make dasBlog a lot leaner (and faster). We’ll also be looking to take full advantage of the 2.0 features.