After having tested it for a couple of months on small and medium-sized blogs (eg autoblog.it, Jerome's blog, my blog), we feel that the 1.2 branch is stable enough to be released as a beta. The major features in this release are compatibility with the 1.2 packages from our themes site, Spanish translations for all of our templates (thanks bolonki!), and some performance tweaks.
This release should be very similar to the first 1.2 stable, with the exception of a few improvements to the admin console and WP integration that we will add in the next few weeks. Read the rest of this entry for a summary of changes from 1.2.0 alpha2.
Notable changes from 1.2.0 alpha2:
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initial spanish translation from bolonki
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new tag management screen & functions
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add plugins from Jerome's Bag-O-Tricks (tm), including the new CategoryTemplate plugin
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new PermanentPost, HighlightPost, HighlightImage, SecondPage plugins
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theme switcher plugin from themes.lightpress.org
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fix garbage collection for the cache engine
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fix return by reference warnings raised by some versions of the PHP interpreter
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fix problems with mail() in MailHelper when PHP is in safe mode
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fix tickets #32 and #44
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add approx_sql_tstamp option to control how long MySQL should cache queries
Download: from our downloads page
Upgrading from 1.2.0-a2: Simply extract the downloaded release into your LightPress installation folder and overwrite the existing files. Your existing config.php will not be overwritten. Note that if you are using a custom theme you should
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move it to the new themes folder, which has changed from
templatesto
themes -
rename the language-specific folders inside your theme as they now use only the abbreviated language name without localization, eg
en.UTF-8instead of
en_US.UTF-8
Ah yes, the bag-o-tricks. :)
Also note that if you're upgrading from 1.1.1 and using the PostChronological plugin, it won't work with this release. It should be available in the next 1.2 release.
Brilliant - I couldn't get the tagging to work with the beta release, but everything seems to work perfectly now
Really, really excellent :)
Anxiously awaiting the final 1.2 release. The tagging alone will be a wonderful feature for me. for now, sticking to 1.1.1
Neither of us consider this to be a "beta" release in the traditional sense (i.e. buggy). But we'll hurry up and get 1.2 released soon. :)
As Jerome says, 1.2 is stable enough to power a network of blogs doing 3mil page views a month. Changes from the beta to the stable release will be mostly in the admin console, which will be much more user friendly.