LnBlog 2.0.0 - No Need for Regularity

Wow, three and a half years since the last release.  That's kind of a long time.  But on the other hand, seeing how this was my very first PHP project (back in the PHP 4 days), and I've now been writing PHP professionally for over a decade, it's a small miracle that it still works at all.

Anyway, there have actually been quite a few changes since the last release, although many of them have been under the hood.  Basically, I've been using LnBlog as a test bed to practice refactoring legacy code.  So I've done a bunch of restructuring, adding unit tests, fixing bugs, and generally trying to simplify things.  Among the bigger updates were removing most of the wrapper pages and reworking the post publication process.  There's a lot still to do, but the code is gradually getting better.

Since this is a major version, there are some feature additions as well.  Here's the full list of items in the milestone, but the big ones are support for sending and receiving Webmentions (they show up as Pingbacks, which are essentially the same thing anyway) and support for listing and deleting files attached to blogs and entries.

Note that my justification for calling this version 2 is that I'm requiring a data upgrade for older blogs, like this one.  So if you have entries with the old "current.htm" data files, the blog needs to be upgraded.  (Note: I am probably the only person in the world to whom this applies.)  This release adds support to the "blog upgrade" process on the admin page to migrate those files to the newer XML format.  The next release will remove support for the old file formats.

So feel free to check it out.  As usual, you can get the zip archive from the download page.  If you're so inclined, you can also grab the source directly from Mercurial.  You should be able to just drop it on your server, run composer install, and point a browser to the URL.

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