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blojsom 2.28 is now available.

• Changelog
• Upgrading instructions
• Download updates
• Download Quickstart
• Bugs fixed

The 3 "biggest" additions in terms of functionality are:

• Events are now published when blog categories are added, deleted, and updated. Any blojsom components taking advantage of the event and listener API can now listen for category-related events.
• The Permissions Check plugin gives you an object that allows you to check permissions for a given user of a blog within your templates. This would be useful for the web administration console where menu options could be added or removed dynamically according to permission (I'm not currently doing this yet). There are a number of existing permissions for the web administration functionality, but since blojsom allows you to define any other permissions per-blog that are appropriate, you could probably use this in some creative ways.
• WebMacro is another template language written in Java. If you'd like to use WebMacro to write templates for your blog instead of JSP, Velocity, FreeMarker, or Groovy, you can use the WebMacro dispatcher. There was absolutely no one asking to use WebMacro for templating in blojsom, but I figured since they just released WebMacro 2.0, I'd personally take a look at what's what with WebMacro.

That about does it.

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