Ghost

Ghost is a new, unique and ground-breaking blogging system that provides a solid alternative to 3rd-party or self-hosted solutions like WordPress, Blogger or Tumblr.

Created to work mainly on top of JavaScript, Ghost utilizes the power of Node.js to deal with server-side operations, taking full advantage of the recent community-driven improvements to the realm of server-side JavaScript.

Just like any reputable blogging engine, Ghost comes with an easy to follow installer and administration panel, along with more high-end support for SSL-based connections, mobile devices right out of the box, and localization.

It also comes with support for content tagging, static pages, multi-user accounts, Markdown syntax, WYSIWYG editing, and many other more.

Both free and commercial themes and plugins are available on the market, Ghost gaining quite a following thanks to the famous developers that have founded and contributed to the project.

What is new in this release:

• New:
• Admin interface design
• Admin search for posts & users
• On-boarding flow (for new blogs)
• Improved:
• jQuery not included in {{ghost_foot}}
• Tags respect the order they are added to a post
• {{foreach}} helper upgraded
• Fixed:
• {{tags}} & {{author}} not working in next/prev post helpers
• Various RSS url issues
• Upgrade path for very old blogs

What is new in version 0.7.9:

• New:
• Admin interface design
• Admin search for posts & users
• On-boarding flow (for new blogs)
• Improved:
• jQuery not included in {{ghost_foot}}
• Tags respect the order they are added to a post
• {{foreach}} helper upgraded
• Fixed:
• {{tags}} & {{author}} not working in next/prev post helpers
• Various RSS url issues
• Upgrade path for very old blogs

What is new in version 0.7.8:

• New:
• Admin interface design
• Admin search for posts & users
• On-boarding flow (for new blogs)
• Improved:
• jQuery not included in {{ghost_foot}}
• Tags respect the order they are added to a post
• {{foreach}} helper upgraded
• Fixed:
• {{tags}} & {{author}} not working in next/prev post helpers
• Various RSS url issues
• Upgrade path for very old blogs

What is new in version 0.7.5:

• New:
• Admin interface design
• Admin search for posts & users
• On-boarding flow (for new blogs)
• Improved:
• jQuery not included in {{ghost_foot}}
• Tags respect the order they are added to a post
• {{foreach}} helper upgraded
• Fixed:
• {{tags}} & {{author}} not working in next/prev post helpers
• Various RSS url issues
• Upgrade path for very old blogs

What is new in version 0.7.0:

• New:
• Admin interface design
• Admin search for posts & users
• On-boarding flow (for new blogs)
• Improved:
• jQuery not included in {{ghost_foot}}
• Tags respect the order they are added to a post
• {{foreach}} helper upgraded
• Fixed:
• {{tags}} & {{author}} not working in next/prev post helpers
• Various RSS url issues
• Upgrade path for very old blogs

What is new in version 0.6.4:

• Added:
• Post previews
• Password protected blogs
• Fixed:
• Caching issues with previews
• Password protection not redirecting to blog
• Multiple owners after import
• Ghost logo linking to wrong URL
• Invite email missing contact email address

What is new in version 0.6.2:

• Fixed:
• Next and previous post helpers gone missing
• Casper: text styling issues

What is new in version 0.5.8:

• New:
• Tag Management UI
• Labs options for WIP features
• Importer handles images and markdown files
• Socket permissions can be set from config
• Fixed:
• Custom favicons not working correctly
• New posts added to bottom of list in admin
• Has helper tag matching bug
• Email sending issue when blog title has a comma
• Issues with fetching a Gravatar
• Various admin UI issues

What is new in version 0.5.7:

• New:
• Login via editor modal if session expires
• View post link in notification when publishing/updating a post
• Fixed:
• Clearer user deletion warning
• Change password form allows for updating password of other user
• Sitemap handling of draft posts and images
• Invite user token verification failing

What is new in version 0.5.6:

• New:
• Sitemaps
• Footnotes & Highlight
• Labs page
• Fixed:
• Posts failing to save after an error
• Password reset and invitation links not working with mailgun
• Image helper not working correctly with subdirectories
• RSS feed warning in Chrome

What is new in version 0.5.5:

• Ghost 0.5.5 is a minor update to 0.5.4 which resolves an issue with character encoding for MySQL databases.

What is new in version 0.5.3:

• New:
• Post Auto Save
• Structured data (open graph, twitter cards)
• GMail-style shortcuts
• Fixed:
• Themes not working correctly with symlinks
• User screen limited to 20 users
• Next & prev meta links don't get HTTPS

What is new in version 0.5.2:

• New:
• Admin design refresh
• About Ghost page in settings area
• Post settings menu with meta data & post cover image settings
• Privacy config flags
• Direct mail sends mail without config
• {{is}} helper for themes
• Improved:
• Error handling when starting Ghost
• Fixed:
• Request entity too large error
• 'Post NOT saved' dialog keeps appearing on Safari
• Author dropdown only shows 15 authors
• Switching between blog and admin can cause blog to lose styling

What is new in version 0.5.1:

• Fixed:
• Casper not working in IE
• Cannot delete users on MySQL
• Lost work if logged out while editing
• Possible to downgrade Owner user
• If author changes post author they lose access to post
• Weird status code when authorising
• Errors when uppercase used in /ghost/ URL
• UUID validation error when importing
• No notification for errors when sending mail

What is new in version 0.5.0:

• Multi-User Support
• Public JSON API
• Completely New Ember.js Admin
• New Install Screen
• HTML Emails
• Auto-GZip
• OAuth Support
• Theme API Improvements
• Mobile Improvements
• Improved Keyboard Shortcuts

What is new in version 0.4.2:

• New:
• Support for editing on touch screen devices.
• Tag archive support.
• Bower now manages front end dependencies.
• Custom page template support.
• Default robots.txt which can be overridden by themes.
• RPC ping when new posts are published.
• Themes can now have a package.json.
• Ghost is now an NPM module.

Requirements:

• Node.js 0.10.0 or higher