Hotaru CMS 1.1 Released

[Nick]

We are now officially out of beta with the release of Hotaru CMS 1.1. Hooray!

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If you're new here and wondering what exactly Hotaru CMS is, think of it as "Wordpress without blogging". If Wordpress didn't do blogging by itself, you'd need plugins to do it for you. And if you had to make plugins, you wouldn't be limited to just blogging. You could make plugins for any kind of site, whether a blog, a social network, an online shop, etc. That's Hotaru CMS, a framework for making websites customized to your needs. As an example, check out the demo. It showcases a Digg clone made with Hotaru plugins.
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Hotaru v.1.1 contains numerous bug fixes and new features since version 1.0.5 RC1.

Download Hotaru CMS 1.1 here

For existing users:

1. Grab the .zip, or update to the latest version from the SVN trunk
2. BACKUP YOUR DATABASE!
3. Turn off all plugins
4. Run the upgrade script: /install/upgrade.php
5. Delete your install folder
6. Turn on all plugins

Here are some of the bugs fixed since Hotaru 1.0.5 RC1:

- [FIXED] Comment form closing when non-admins edit posts
- [FIXED] Broken edit link when the comment form is closed
- [FIXED] Character problems when editing posts
- [FIXED] HTML getting stripped when editing posts
- [FIXED] Plugin order getting reset when upgrading a plugin
- [FIXED] Unable to delete comments from Comment Manager
- [FIXED] Related Posts SQL warning on posts with no tags
- [FIXED] Unexpected CSRF error on submit step 1
- [FIXED] Permissions not being updated when changing a user's role
- [FIXED] Memory problems when paginating entire database result sets
- [FIXED] Categories, tags and users don't have their own HTML meta tags

Plus numerous other fixes and added features.

Outstanding issues are listed on Assembla here (most just need confirmation that they are fixed):
http://www.assembla.com/spaces/HotaruCMS/tickets?batch=false&tickets_report_id=1

Thank you to everyone who has reported bugs. Please continue to do so in the How-To and Troubleshooting forum.

[Nick]

For those of you that have customized plugin templates, css, JavaScript or language files. Here's a list of what you need to compare your files against.

Plugins that need upgrading:

Users 1.1 -> 1.2 Meta tags generated from user details and profile
Categories 1.2 -> 1.3 Meta description and keywords taken from Category Manager
Tags 1.4 -> 1.5 Meta description and keywords added for browsing tag pages
Comments 1.3 -> 1.4 Option to hide comments after X down votes, plus pagination code changes
Comments Widget 0.1 -> 0.2 Restricted SQL query to non-archived comments
SB Base 0.1 -> 0.2 Code changes for pagination
User Manager 0.6 -> 0.8 Fixes for changing user permissions and pagination
Activity 0.4 -> 0.5 Code changes for pagination
Related Posts 0.2 -> 0.3 Fix for SQL warning when no tags present
Comment Manager 0.4 -> 0.5 Fix for deleting comments and code changes for pagination
Post Manager 0.5 -> 0.6 Code changes for pagination
Search 0.8 -> 0.9 Code changes for pagination
Vote 1.2 -> 1.3 Option to automatically increase vote count when clicking a post link
Submit 1.9 -> 2.1 Fix for character issues, and removed CSRF check from submission step 1
Text Widget 0.4 -> 0.5 Minor widget ids fix for W3C compatibility
Submit Light 0.1 -> 0.2 Bug fix for missing moderation language item
Gravatar 0.7 -> 0.8 Added ability to test if a user has a Gravatar
Recent Visitors 0.3 -> 0.4 Added ability to filter out users who don't have an avatar
Comment Voting 0.1 -> 0.2 Added options to hide and bury comments

Updated plugin templates:

Comments: all_comments.php, show_comments.php
SB Base: sb_list.php
Vote: vote_button.php
Submit: submit1.php
Activity: activity.php, activity_profile.php

Updated plugin CSS/JS files:

Comments: comments.css
Vote: vote.css, vote.js

Updated language files:

Comments: comments_language.php
Vote: vote_language.php
Recent Visitors: recent_visitors_language.php
SB Base: sb_base_language.php
Tags: tags_language.php
Users: users_language.php

Also:

content/main_language.php

To find out exactly what has changed in those files, you can browse the Trac on Assembla and use the "last/previous change" link for each file.

[baadier]

Thanks a lot I can't wait to upgrade later!

[nothingman]

We are now officially out of beta with the release of Hotaru CMS 1.1. Hooray!

Wohoo, Wohoo, Wohoo! Can't wait to test it out!

Just wondering if we would be have an archive comments in this release?

[Nick]

Just wondering if we would be have an archive comments in this release?

I think you will see an improvement with Hotaru 1.1.

[williamd]

Really sweet. Thanks, Nick! YOur tireless work is an inspiration Upgrade from 1.0.5 to 1.1 worked flawlessly.

[Nick]

A couple of minor bugs found in categories (change here) and users (change here). I've updated the individual zips and plugin pack with the fixes. If you downloaded the plugin pack before this post, please get the new files from the plugin downloads forum or just make the fixes yourself. I didn't want to wait until the next version of those plugins to make those fixes. No need to upgrade, just overwrite those two files.