NanoBlogger

pros:

• intuitive commandline interface
• highly configurable and script-able :)
• easy drafting, editing, and management of entries
• archiving by category, year, month, day, and entry
• pagination
• permanent and navigational links
• templates and CSS style sheets for full control over layout
• placeholders for easy template manipulation
• support for multiple weblogs
• support for multiple categories
• support for relative and absolute links
• support for date manipulation of entries
• Atom syndication (comes with 1.0 format)
• RSS syndication (comes with RSS 1.0 and 2.0 formats)
• plugins for calendar, recent entries, weblog status, etc.
• plugins for text formatting (e.g. line breaks translate to HTML)
• global (nb.conf) and per-weblog (blog.conf) configuration
• intelligent build system - only updates relative files
• simple cache system for improved effeciency
• independent of java-script and server-side scripting (e.g. PHP)
• independent of external database (stores data in flat-files)
• multi-language support
• multi-platform portability (just bash and the required commands)

cons:

• slow (written in bash)
• no comments (only available as add-on)
• not easily upgradable

What is new in this release:

• Merges language files to base and does away with nanoblogger-extra package.
• Bug Fix: Description was not being loaded from entry's metadata.
• Bug Fix: Archive template was subsequently being overwritten due to invalid file reference.
• Bug Fix: Title for year archives was not set.
• Bug Fix: Failed to update category database upon entry timestamp modification.
• Bug Fix: Attempts to fix Markdown freeze bug (possibly due to inconsistent behavior found in various implemenations).