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blojsom 2.19 is now available.

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For those of you just joining us, blojsom is blog software. It is written in Java. It is multi-blog and mutli-user meaning you can run multiple blogs on it and have different people contributing to each blog. It has got a plugin API and over 40 plugins which means if it doesn't already do what you want it to do, you can add to the functionality quite easily. It has even got an event and listener API for you to write components that respond to events from other blojsom components. It allows you to edit your blog remotely via XML-RPC or the Atom API. It is the software behind Apple's Mac OS X Tiger Server Weblog Server. It is free.

I'd like to highlight some contributions to this release:

- Thanks to the kind folks over at Asual for the new theme. This is also the new default theme when you download and install blojsom. You can see what it looks like over on my blog. It's swell. I believe they're also going to be doing a version of that theme using red instead of blue.

- Thanks to Chris Phillipson who contributed the CPHI theme and the Date Tool, Iterator Tool, Math Tool, and Render Tool plugins.

Codename: Zygo

Core

• Added ability to enable or disable XML-RPC on a per-blog basis.
• Added getDateAsFormat(String format) methods to BlogComment and Trackback classes.

Extensions

• XML-RPC handlers no longer print out password to the log.
• MetaWeblog API handler will now check for the <categories> structure in the struct passed to newPost. If available, the handler will use the first category in the list as the category in which to post to instead of the blog ID.

Plugins

• Updates to User Administration plugin:
  • If an error occurred in adding a blog, you would be returned to the main administration page. You are now returned to the page for adding a blog.
  • Added status message when deleting a blog.
  • Create and delete resources directory when adding or deleting a blog.
• Added Theme Switcher plugin which allows you to select a new theme for your blog by selecting from an available list of installed themes.
• Changed default poll time for Moblog plugin to 10 minutes from 5 minutes.
• After deleting comments or trackbacks from an entry, you are returned to the page for editing the entry.
• Added Date Tool plugin, a wrapper for the Velocity Date Tool where an object is added to the context so that you can work with Date and Calendar objects.
• Added Iterator Tool plugin, a wrapper for the Velocity Iterator Tool where an object is added to the context so that you can operate more efficiently with #foreach loops.
• Added Math Tool plugin, a wrapper for the Velocity Math Tool where an object is added to the context so that you can perform certain mathematical calculations.
• Added Render Tool plugin, a wrapper for the Velocity Render Tool where an object is added to the context to evaluate the given strings as VTL (Velocity Template Language) using the given context.

Themes

• Added Asual theme.
• Added CPHI theme.
• Modified all themes to work with Theme Switcher plugin.