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Geeklog 1.5.1 is now available for download. This is mostly a bugfix release for Geeklog 1.5.0 but it also includes a few minor improvements. For users of 1.5.0, this is a recommended update, as it fixes quite a few bugs and rough edges in 1.5.0.

Geeklog 1.5.1 also addresses some security issues, as detailed in a separate article. For the list of changes, please refer to the documentation and the included changelog.

The glFusion Community is pleased to announce that glFusion v1.0.1 is now available for download. This new release squashes several bugs, makes some cosmetic improvements, and includes other enhancements by the glFusion team.

In addition to the standard full install tarball, we have included a zipped version, and incremental archives (available in both .tar.gz and .zip formats as well) that only contain new or changed files from glFusion v1.0.0. Grab the archive that's right for you at glfusion.org.  Visit the glFusion Wiki for full details on installing or upgrading.

Our intent is to make the upgrade as simple and pleasant as possible for the community, but we know we're not perfect. Should you find yourself needing a little help, feel free to visit our Known Issues wiki page, our Troubleshooting Tips, and post your questions in our active support forum.

glFusion v1.0.1 also marks the last release that will echo the Geeklog codebase. In just a short period of time, the enhancements made by the glFusion Community have proven that trying to keep the code in sync with the Geeklog base is not a realistic goal. We also want to ensure there is no confusion to the community regarding the Geeklog and glFusion projects. As a result, all future releases of glFusion will be developed independently from Geeklog v1.5.0+. We plan to continue in the spirit of collaboration with the Geeklog project, and leverage some of their ongoing code enhancements, and extend the invitation for them to do the same if they wish.

We have transitioned the gl Labs website to the glFusion web site to support this new direction. Mark and I are still happy to continue supporting any of the plugins or themes we've published thus far for Geeklog, but we do not plan on releasing any new updates to those plugins or themes for the Geeklog environment. If you are interested in picking up development of any of these legacy plugins or themes for Geeklog, please feel free to contact us.

While we are extremely pleased with this release, we are even more excited about our next milestone release v1.1.0! For a sneak peek of what's around the corner, visit our detailed glFusion Roadmap. If you would like to submit a feature request or suggestion, please feel free to do so in our Tracker. Our goal is to continue to make glFusion the best that it can be, and to do that we need your ideas, input, and collaboration! Even if you can't write a line of code, we can always use your talents! What are you waiting for, let's make something great together! Join the Dev Community today!

glFusion v1.0.1 implements Instance Caching for stories. What this does is that once a story is displayed, a cached copy is stored. This means that each time the story is displayed in the future, glFusion does not have to rebuild the contents, it will simply use the cached version. This should provide another nice performance improvement and also decrease the load on your server.

The online configuration system has seen a few improvements based on lessons learned and feedback from the community. You can now disable a feature if you accidentally enable it, for example, the multi-language support. URLs and paths are now checked to ensure they have the necessary trailing backslash (or don't have it in some cases) and that no stray spaces are picked up during the edit.

The Advanced Editor has been upgraded to FCKEditor v2.6.2 which brings some FireFox3 and Opera 9.50 fixes.

We have added a new plugin to the Advanced Editor to allow you to easily insert embedded videos in your story.

We have also added a new toolbar that is used for user contributed stories. This new toolbar gives the user a little more control over the look of their story. We did not include the ability to upload images in this toolbar.

The style sheet has been tweaked a little to better support dynamic sizing (changing the zoom or font size on the local browser). We've also improved the Comment Bar layout to make better use of the space.

You will also see some nice new transparent icons in the Command n' Control screen. These updated icons make things look just a little better and they work well with themes that have a dark background.

We updated the HTML filter to the latest production version (htmLawed v1.1) and also added some additional filtering to the Forum and Media Gallery search inputs.

We also fixed a bug that allowed a user with the story.edit permission to post stories to topics they did not have permission to write to. Now the user will only be presented with a list of available topics where they have both read and write permissions.

For details on all the changes, please see the glFusion Wiki - What's New section

The gl Labs Community is pleased to announce that glFusion v1.0.0 is now available for download. glFusion is built on the foundation of Geeklog v1.5.0, and brings additional style and functionality to your new or existing Geeklog-based site by including pre-installed plugins and the Nouveau theme. Plugins include: CAPTCHA, Bad Behavior2, Media Gallery, Forum, and FileMgmt. glFusion doesn't stop at just packaging things together, there are several enhancements under the hood that bring improved performance, scalability, and usability. We have also created a new online documentation wiki for glFusion for your reading pleasure.

The second release candidate for Geeklog 1.5.0 is now available for download. We expect this to be the last release candidate before the final release, so if you haven't had a chance, now would be a good time to try out the new features in 1.5.0 and help us track down any remaining bugs.

The changes over rc1: The bundled plugins will no longer read the old config.php files, setting the site's default language and theme in the Configuration now works, and inconsistencies in the layout of the admin screens have been fixed. There were also quite a few changes for internationalisation, which also required a few more theme changes.

Nextide is pleased to announce the release of version 1.1 of the nexPro Portal suite and immediate availability for un-restricted downloads.

You can now download the full Nexpro suite and the individual nexpro plugins. While nexPro has always been offered wihout a license fee, there was a requirement to purchase an annual support agreement and now, that requirement no longer exists. We are still offering our premium support and custom development services, sites that need a higher level of service should review our Service Offering.

The Nexpro suite is an integrated version of Geeklog with all of our plugins pre-installed as part of the single download making it a simple matter to just enable the plugins you want. Nexpro version 1.1 is still based on GL 1.4.1 but all of the plugins have been tested with GL 1.5. The nexpro suite and plugins provide unique business oriented features like:

• nexFlow: workflow engine with graphical workflow editor
• nexForm: online forms designer allows anyone to add simple to very complex forms with no programming
• nexContent: Feature rich CMS plugin used to manage all of the site content on our nextide site.
• nexProject: Integrated project management - Gnatt charts, delegated tasks, disussions and more
• nexFile: Document management with flexible permission controls and version management

The Geeklog Team would like to announce that the first beta release of Geeklog 1.5.0 is now available for download. This release incorporates the results of last year's Google Summer of Code, namely:

• New user-friendly install script by Matt West
• New Configuration GUI (replacing config.php) by Aaron Blankstein
• New Webservices API based on the Atom Publishing Protocol by Ramnath R. Iyer

Geeklog 1.5.0 also provides support for OpenID and LDAP, includes FCKeditor 2.6, and much more.

A word of warning, though: We are releasing this beta version in an attempt to keep the schedule we announced earlier, i.e. having a new release out by the time the coding starts for this year's Summer of Code. It is not finished yet.

The issues we know about are:

• MS SQL support is still not quite working.
• A few more theme changes will be required before the final release.

The issues we don't know about is why we are releasing this beta now: If you have chance to run it on a local server or a non-productive site, please download it and give it a try. And if you notice any problems, let us know.

As you can see, we haven't updated geeklog.net yet - we'll do that once we're moving to release candidates. If you want to see a site running on 1.5.0, try geeklog.info, but keep in mind that the most dramatic changes (install script, config GUI, etc.) are "under the hood" and not visible to normal users. You'll have to try it for yourself to see them :-)

I have created RPM packages for Geeklog 1.4.1, Forum 2.7, Filemgmt 1.5.2, Captcha 3.0.2 and Media Gallery 1.5.0. Packages do install all software within /etc/geeklog, /usr/share/geeklog, /var/lib/geeklog and /var/log/geeklog directories, trying to stick as much as possible with the FHS 2.3 (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard). Basically anyone with minimal skills (to know hoe to use mysqladmin, mysql and any text editor) and with a working Red Hat™ Enterprise Linux 5 based OS (CentOS 5, etc.) may install Geeklog, Forum, Filemgnt, Captcha and Media Gallery in less than three minutes.

Software repository for fresh and new Geeklog installations, with RPM and SRPM packages, courtesy of Alcance Libre, is located at: http://www.alcancelibre.org/al/webapps/.

Yum configuration:

Save the following lines as /etc/yum.repos.d/AL-Webapps.repo:

Installation from RPM package includes proper configuration, permissions and attributes for every Geeklog directory and file using the FHS 2.3 (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard), Apache configuration file and several patches to make painless the install procedure.

Any values from above may be changed editing the /etc/geeklog/config.php file before doing the procedures.

After that, installing packages and setting up database, the procedure reduces to modify configuration settings for database, username, password and Site URL in /etc/geeklog/config.php and access http://your_machine/geeklog/admin/install/install.php and complete the installation/configuration through the Web interface.

Forum, Filemgmt, Captcha and Media Gallery require to complete installation from the Admin menu, as any other plugin for Geeklog.

After installation and configuration procedures are completed, geeklog-install package (includes the install directory for Geeklog) may be removed from system, using:

Or just using:

Configuration files (never replaced if updating through yum or rpm commands) from these packages are located at /etc/httpd/conf.d/geeklog.conf, /etc/geeklog/config.php, /etc/geeklog/lib-custom.php and /etc/geeklog/plugins/{forum,filemgmt,captcha,mediagallery}/config.php. I also Added Burning Memory and Sepia Memory (default theme) themes to main package.

Any comments and suggestions are welcome. I have created these packages with security and paranoia in my mind, but I'm open to add any improvements to the spec files. I'll be periodically publishing RPM packages for more Geeklog plugins (quite easy). My mail address is joelbarrios at alcance-empresarial dot com, and my website is located at http://www.alcancelibre.org/.

The first result from our bounties hunt has now landed in CVS: OpenID support, provided by Choplair. And for those of you who are feeling adventurous and don't want to wait for the next Geeklog release, there is also a patch available for Geeklog 1.4.1.

So what is OpenID again? It provides an identity that you can use to log in to all sites that support OpenID. No need to create new accounts with every new site you want to participate in. But note that two problems that OpenID does not solve are trust and spam.

The above patch allows Geeklog to act as an OpenID consumer, i.e. allow users to log into a Geeklog site using their OpenID (much like the remote authentication introduced in Geeklog 1.4.0). It does not enable your Geeklog site to act as an OpenID server, i.e. you will still have to get your own OpenID from somewhere else. There are many places where you can get an OpenID for free (e.g. myOpenID) - or you may even have one already (e.g. if you're an AOL user), as many sites and services already provide OpenIDs for their users.

A word of warning: The OpenID support for Geeklog has not been fully tested yet. There are still some issues to be resolved (e.g. handling of duplicate email addresses). We're releasing this as a patch since it's a popular request and so that we can get more experience with the various OpenID services already out there and with the integration into Geeklog. So while we're looking for your feedback, you should be aware that this patch is not for everyone yet ...

The first release candidate for Geeklog 1.4.1 is now available for download. This release fixes the remaining issue with MS SQL, improves multi-language support, and fixes a couple of other bugs. There were no database or language file changes, but we did some final tweaks of the Professional theme.

We have also added new API functions for plugins to hook into submission forms (e.g. registration, comments, stories). The new version of Mark Evans' CAPTCHA plugin is the first to make use of those new functions and should be much easier to install now.

While this is not the final 1.4.1 yet, we would like to ask you to download it and try it out to help us track down any remaining issues. Please also keep in mind that once 1.4.1 is out, the support for Geeklog 1.3.11, and therefore for the entire 1.3.x line, will end. So now would be a good time to start planning for an upgrade of your site.

We would also like to send out a call to send in any translations (updated or new) that you may have made. Geeklog ships with language files for over 30 languages, but not all of them have been updated for this new release yet. If you need help with the translations, our geeklog-translations mailing list is the place to ask.

If all goes according to plan, the final 1.4.1 should be ready before the end of the year.

Last week's security release introduced display problems in the comment preview that we're fixing with the following versions:

• Geeklog 1.4.0sr5-1 is available as a complete tarball, as an upgrade from 1.4.0sr5, and as a combo update from any previous 1.4.0 release.
• Geeklog 1.3.11sr7-1 is available as an upgrade from 1.3.11sr7 and as a combo update from any previous 1.3.11 release.

Please note that when using the 1.4.0 "combo" update, you will also have to remove some files to fix the security issue with FCKeditor's file manager, as explained in the included README file.