GeeklogThe Ultimate Weblog SystemGeeklog News Roundup- June 22, 2008 In the unlikely event that you missed it (and since the announcement is about to drop from the home page): We finally released Geeklog 1.5.0 last week.Since then, the demo site has also been upgraded to 1.5.0 and Ironmax and others are busy updating the themes. Great work. Thanks a lot, guys!Also, we hope you've noticed a slight performance improvement on www.geeklog.net. This is not due to 1.5.0, though, but our friendly hosting service and sponsor, pair Networks, who upgraded and switched our.http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/news-roundup glFusion v1.0.0 Released- June 18, 2008 The gl Labs Community is pleased to announce that glFusion v1.0.0 is now available for download. glFusion is built on the foundation of Geeklog v1.5.0, and brings additional style and functionality to your new or existing Geeklog-based site by including pre-installed plugins and the Nouveau theme. Plugins include: CAPTCHA, Bad Behavior2, Media Gallery, Forum, and FileMgmt. glFusion doesn't stop at just packaging things together, there are several enhancements under the hood that bring...http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/glfusion New Theme: Colors 1.5.0 Released!- June 18, 2008 Colors 1.5.0 is now available for download!Green is the first color, blue, red, orange and a black and white version will be available soon.This theme was developed by ::Ben from french portal www.geeklog.fr. Theme previewhttp://www.geeklog.net/article.php/20080618103847325 glMenu 3.1 Available - Certified for Geeklog version 1.5- June 18, 2008 The glMenu v3.1 plugin is now certified for Geeklog 1.5 and available in the Downloads area at portalparts.com . This version has been tested with the final Geeklog release of version 1.5. The main issue that had to be addressed was support for the updated links plugin in Geeklog 1.5 Benefits of glMenu for your site include: Online admin of your header and block menu Easily create a multi-level menus that can contain any number of menu items Treemenu admin interface - cleanly shows..http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/glmenu_3.1 Geeklog 1.5.0- June 15, 2008 After almost 18 months in the making, Geeklog 1.5.0 is now officially out and available for download.To recap: This version incorporates the results of the 2007 Google Summer of Code, namely:New user-friendly install script by Matt WestNew Configuration GUI (replacing config.php) by Aaron BlanksteinNew Webservices API based on the Atom Publishing Protocol by Ramnath R. IyerA big round of applause please for Aaron, Matt, and Ramnath for adding these great new features to Geeklog. And a big...http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/geeklog-1.5.0 Geeklog vulnerable to CSRF- June 15, 2008 While tracking the security issues that have plagued other web applications, we have become aware that Geeklog is vulnerable from so-called Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. In a nutshell, the idea is for an attacker to perform operations on a site with someone else's privileges. There are multiple possible attack vectors, including tricking you to click on a link or embedding what looks like an image but what is really a script.Unfortunately, fixing these issues required a lot of...http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/csrf Security issues in kses- June 15, 2008 Lukasz Pilorz has found 3 security issues in kses, the HTML filter we're using in Geeklog. We have examined these issues and to the best of our knowledge, 2 of the 3 issues are not exploitable in the Geeklog context, due to additional filtering done by Geeklog. The third issue is exploitable, though, but won't affect standard installs.The exploitable issue affects the HTML style attribute. In a standard install of Geeklog, the style attribute is not allowed, i.e. filtered out when someone...http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/kses Downtime for server maintenance- June 14, 2008 There will be a short (we hope) downtime for maintenance on both Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th at 11am EDT (15:00 UTC). This will affect both this site as well as the project site (including the bugtracker and CVS).The wiki and the demo site will not be affected from these downtimes, but the demo site will have a separate outage on Wednesday 18th, from 1am to 6am EDT.http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/server-maintenance glMenu 3.0 - Online Menu Editor - Public Release- June 13, 2008 The glMenu plugin has been available for several years as a premium plugin from portalparts.com but as of now is an un-restricted public download. This plugin has been used on 100's of sites over the past few years and is now even better. This plugin lets you take control of your site header and block menu. You can create multi-level menu's online and setup the color scheme or style all using the online menu editor. Multiple menu styles are available and version 3.0 has been re-engineered to...http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/glmenu_3 Summer of Code, Week 2- June 8, 2008 So while we're busy wrapping up the development of Geeklog 1.5.0, the coding period for this year's Summer of Code has already started.The Summer of Code timeline was set up with the schedules of universities in the US in mind. However, since several of our students are from other countries, some are still in the process of wrapping up their semester.So we're off to a slow start for now, but things will soon be picking up speed. In the meantime, Bill is asking for your input on his project,...http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/summer-of-code-2008-week-2 |