As TXP 4.3.0 draws nearer to a release it’s time to look forward a little to TXP 5. This weblog entry holds important information — especially for plugin authors and admin themers — to help gear up now for the proposed changes in TXP 5.

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With the recent release of Textpattern v4.2.0 a number of significant enhancements have been made. Since we love to share, we thought we’d give a rundown of the main features and what they mean for you and your sites.

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We’ve added new features like admin-side themes, timezone support with automatic DST adjustment on capable servers, and core support for unlimited custom fields, readied Textpattern for compatibility with PHP 5.3, and fixed a number of small bugs. Upgrades from previous 4.x versions are expected to work seamless under usual reserve of plugin compatibility.

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The first release candidate of Textpattern CMS 4.2.0 is ready for testing. Please grab yourself a copy, try to find the last remaining bugs or errors and help us build a high-quality final release.

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We intend to distribute one user-contributed admin-side theme with the next release, and are now on the lookout for the most attractive candidate.

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We are happy to announce the release of Textpattern CMS 4.0.8.

Textpattern 4.0.8 is a maintenance release fixing some bugs and ironing out a few glitches which sneaked in during the introduction of new features in our previous release.

Changes in this release include:

• Fixed: Current section/category is overwritten in <txp:section_list> and <txp:category_list> (container or form mode)
• Fixed: Registration and notification mails are not sent in PHP safe mode.
• Fixed: Error message upon article save from MySQL 5 in ‘strict’ mode.
• Fixed: Timeout during “clean URL test” causes WSOD in diagnostics tab.
• Partly fixed: Search result excerpt breaks HTML entities.
• Changed tag: <txp:if_section> without a name attribute is now TRUE on a section page (old behaviour is preserved on upgrades).
• Changed tag: <txp:if_category name=""> is now FALSE on a category page (old behaviour is preserved on upgrades).
• Changed tag: <txp:link_url /> escapes its output.
• Changed tag: <txp:file_download_list /> uses “wraptag”, “break”, and “label” attributes consistently like other tags.
• Speed: faster plugin loading from the database.
• Diagnostics tab: ignore line endings when checking for modified files and show full paths.
• Pages tab: allow ‘default’ page to be deleted if not used by a section.
• Developer: Fall back to standard page/permlink behaviour if custom_url_func() returns FALSE.
• Developer: set_pref() accepts an optional “position” parameter.

…plus a few enhancements and refinements.

Updating from preceding versions should work smoothly and frictionless in all cases by adhering to the detailed update instructions as outlined in the README.txt file.

Get your own copy on the download page, and join the discussion at the forum.

Many thanks to all who helped building this release or expressed their appreciation of this project by donating!

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The final, official 4.0.8 release is scheduled for mid-January 2009, unless unexpected problems or errors arise.

We’re looking for people who like to help us make sure that we didn’t miss any regressions or introduce new bugs. We would like to get feedback on clean installations and updates from older versions.

Make sure that if you use this release candidate, you also update to the final 4.0.8 version when it is released.

Download

• textpattern-4.0.8-rc2.tar.gz
• textpattern-4.0.8-rc2.zip

Discuss

Post your feedback in this forum thread.

Notes

The included HISTORY.txt file already lists most of the important changes since 4.0.7. If we missed something, let us know.

The download advertises itself as 4.0.7 (r3074) in diagnostics, because we haven’t yet bumped the version number.

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We are happy to announce that Textpattern 4.0.7 is finally ready for public consumption.

During long and – sometimes – laborious months since the last release in February, we added new features and enhanced existing capabilities, but nev…

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The final, official 4.0.7 release is scheduled for next week, unless unexpected problems or errors arise.

We’re looking for people who like to help us make sure that we didn’t miss any regressions or introduce new bugs. We would like to get feedback on clean installations and updates from older versions.

Make sure that if you use this release candidate, you also update to the final 4.0.7 version when it is released.

Download

• textpattern-4.0.7-rc1.tar.gz
• textpattern-4.0.7-rc1.zip

Discuss

Post your feedback in this forum thread.

Notes

The included HISTORY.txt file already lists most of the important changes since 4.0.6. If we missed something, let us know.

The download advertises itself as 4.0.6 (r29xx) in diagnostics, because we haven’t yet bumped the version number.

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As almost nothing is made to last forever, articles may carry an expiry date/time in the upcoming Textpattern 4.0.7 release.

Various hacks and plugins have catered for this requirement in the past, with each of those having their own issues: They’d either hide articles in webfeeds up to the expiry date or on the contrary publish expired articles through feeds even past the expiry date, or mangle the article’s data itself.

With Textpattern 4.0.7, an additional timestamp designates an article’s expected shelf life:

Related tags

A few new template tags will complement this feature:

• <txp:expires /> mimicks the behaviour and attribute set of <txp:posted />
• <txp:if_expires>...<txp:else />...</txp:if_expires>: Checks for the mere presence of an expiry date.
• <txp:if_expired>...<txp:else />...</txp:if_expired>: Checks if the current article is past its expiry date.

Preferences

One additional preference setting dubbed “Publish expired articles” changes the way how Textpattern handles expired articles.

If set to “Yes”, articles will stay visible to the public even after their expiry time has elapsed. At first glance, this might look a bit nonsensical, but this is where <txp:if_expired> has its chance to chime in and render a slice of conditional markup for past gigs, training courses, announcements, whatever – without ripping out precious pages from the search engines’ indexes.

Setting “Publish expired articles” to “No” results in a snippy ‘410 Gone’ response when an expired article is requested. As for all of Textpattern’s 4xx responses, you can craft a page template named ‘error_410’ to customize the looks of that response page.

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