We (well Rick mostly) have been pretty busy getting Mephisto ready for 0.6. Our goal with 0.6 was to get basic asset management in and we've done that for the most part. There is much more to come in this area though.

Rick and I have talked about ways to integrate, rather, let you integrate, custom services such as Flickr, You Tube, etc, into the asset management area. These third party services wouldn't be going into the core, but we'd like to give you the opportunity to pimp your Mephisto with whatever bling you deem necessary if you so choose. I'll talk about this more later, but here is an overview of what we've managed to get done in preparation for the 0.6 release, probably due out early next week or so.

Asset Management

I've talked in detail about assets already. In addition to what's already been said, we've added tagging support. I've still got some house cleaning to do in this area, but it'll be complete before 0.6.

Article Tagging, Filtering, and Improvements

Articles got some basic tag love. You can now filter articles by section, tags, title, or body. We've also made some minor improvements to the paging links, printing out the page numbers instead of just 'Next Page' and 'Previous page'. You can also jump to an article on your site from the admin now.

Template Liberation

We didn't have this planned until 0.7, but Rick beefed up on milk and cookies and managed to get the templates completely moved to the file system instead of the half and half mix we have in 0.5. This is great because it means that you no longer have to upload every image file you use in your design/css. I'm probably gonna rework the UI here in the future because the sidebar has real potential to run away from you fairly quickly depending on how many assets you have.

Small fixes and improvements

In addition to some of the major upgrades I've listed, we've also fixed numerous bugs and made tiny improvements here and there.

• Liquid gets {{ ifchanged }}, {{article.excerpt}}, {{ unless }}, and {{ format_date: 'mdy' }} for month, day, and year.
• Filters have been improved
• Awesomeness increased by at least 30%.

Stay tuned for 0.6!