Textpattern CMS

Even if Textpatter is at its best as a blogging platform, online magazine or news center, it can be used for plain websites as well.

Features:

• WYSIWYG editing
• Admin panel
• Easy installer
• Easy file uploading
• Protect articles with a password
• Adjust article dates
• Custom page layouts
• XML-like templating tag language
• Standards compliant
• Anti-spam protection
• Commenting system system
• Multi-user environment
• SEO-friendly URLs
• Organize content in categories
• Import content from other sources
• Real-time visitor logs
• Documentation
• Available in over 40+ languages
• Plugins
• Content syndication

What is new in this release:

• Bugs in set_pref() were causing headaches for plugin authors in particular.
• Articles can now be assigned to sections with names longer than 64 characters.
• Comment emails of any valid length are now saved properly.
• Visitor logs support IPv6.
• Setup script is more robust, and compatible with MySQL 5.6.
• Warnings when writing image thumbnails have been eradicated.
• Files no longer trash author names under certain conditions.
• Empty files can no longer be created.
• Percent encoding of spaces in site URLs now works reliably.

What is new in version 4.5.2:

• Textpattern CMS 4.5.2 fixes non-critical bugs.

What is new in version 4.5.1:

• Fixes a few non-critical bugs.

What is new in version 4.5.0:

• PHP system requirements have changed for this release to v5.2 minimum.
• Textpattern 4.5.0 fixes three XSS security vulnerabilities which would allow maleficent attackers to gain administrative access to the site the by tricking a legitimate publisher into clicking on a carefully crafted link.
• Theme changes.

What is new in version 4.5.0 Beta:

• Textpattern 4.5.0 renders your sites in modern HTML5.
• Upgraded the bundled jQuery to version 1.7.2.
• Beautiful new default template.

What is new in version 4.4.1:

• This release fixes several further security vulnerabilities that have recently been unearthed.

What is new in version 4.4.0:

• A few places that still used deprecated attributes, mostly in the tag builder.
• Some Textile security fixes.
• A bug in 'txp:variable' when dealing with empty values.
• Search engines shouldn't index ‘Nice try' messages any more.
• Messy mode context and get_pref() bugs squashed.

What is new in version 4.3.0:

• Improved i18n support
• More robust processing with regards apostrophes and quotes
• Automatically-updated note lists (Wikipedia style reference lists)
• Definition lists
• Class/ID/Style markers on individual and nested list items
• Improved table functionality (thead, tfoot, tbody, caption, summary, colgroups, and empty cell support)
• New glyphs for fractions, degrees and plusminus
• Simpler self links
• Comments
• Performance enhancements

What is new in version 4.3.0 RC1:

• Happy retirement to The Carver: new logo courtesy of Philipp Schilling (aka belipe)
• Optional image constant ihu for serving static images
• Textpacks for distributing localised strings
• Improved search ability with search modes "any" or "all"
• New image tags: <txp:image_list>, <txp:image_info />, <txp:image_url />, <txp:image_date />, <txp:if_thumbnail />, <txp:image_author />
• New tags: <txp:link_author />, <txp:file_download_author />
• <txp:if_custom_field /> pimped to allow any/all/regex matches
• <txp:image /> and <txp:article_image /> now accept width/height attributes
• File titles
• Content type upgrade: URL-style /category and /author lists now possible for all of TXPs native types. Corresponding conditional tags upgraded too
• New callbacks on the Images tab and more consistent API for shielding plugin authors from DB changes: article_format_info() and link_format_info()
• New optional Start tab for dashboard plugins
• No more ‘friendly' Stylesheet editor. Stylesheets no longer BASE64-encoded in the database
• Textile 2.2: support for notelists, definition lists, thead, tbody, table summary/caption, colgroups, new glyphs for fractions, plusminus and degrees symbol, plus performance improvements and bug fixes
• Seemingly over-the-top semantic admin-side markup changes. Will be thinned in due course; please consult the forthcoming guidelines for maximising plugin and theme compatibility in future TXP versions
• Inconsistent tag attributes renamed to conform
• Author/meta tags can display real name or login name
• Transparent pixels preserved in PNG/GIF thumbnails
• Faster logins

Requirements:

• PHP 5.2+, in mod_php or fastcgi mode
• MySQL 4.1.7+
• PHP extensions:
• mbstring
• XML
• Zlib
• Apache 1.3+ or 2.0+ with mod_rewrite
• A Unix server OS with locale support