Release of BlogEngine.NET 1.2

We are proud to present the newest version of BlogEngine.NET with many new exciting features. If you don’t care about the new features and just want to start using it then download it here. For the rest of you, here is a list of the most important new features introduced in BlogEngine.NET 1.2.

BlogML import/export
Extension model
Code syntax highlighting
ASP.NET SiteMap provider for static pages
Support for a static page to be the front page
Full comment RSS/ATOM feed
Intelligent error 404 page
E-mail notifications for future comments
Role provider
Extended in-site search capabilities
SLUG – the URL doesn’t change with the title
User control injection
Attachments on the contact page
Comment moderation
Much better Mono support

You can also check out the complete feature list.

Languages

26 languages are supported out of the box. A bunch of people from all corners of the world have been busy translating this version and we owe them a part of our soul for their effort.

Albanian by Besnik Belegu
Arabic by Talal Asubaie
Brazilian Portuguese by Luciano Evaristo Guerche
Bulgarian by Todor Ivanov
Chinese by AlphaWu
Czech by Pavel
Danish by Mads Kristensen
Dutch by Jochem Bokkers
English by Mads Kristensen
Finish by Petri Roponen
Flemish by oVan
French by Jacques Philip
German by Andreas Kraus
Greek by George Chatzimanolis
Icelandic by Sturla Þorvaldsson + Anna Rosenberg
Italian by Stefano Malcangi
Norwegian by Håkon
Persian by Mahdi Taghizadeh
Russian by Aleksey Samuleenkov
Slovak by fruzicka
Slovenian by Ales Vozelj
Spanish by Claudio M. E. Bastos Iorio
Swedish by Mattias Lindahl
Thai by m3rLinEz
Turkish by Gokhan Demir
Vietnamese by Tinhoc

Finally we would like to thank the community for being so active in the forum discussions and for providing tons of feedback that all led to a better product in the end. You really made the difference. Thank you.

Mohamed Tanna
9/30/2007 11:10:24 PM |

Congratulation !!
thanks for every one

Mattias Lindahl
9/30/2007 11:33:39 PM |

Thanks for all the hard work every developer has spent making this project to what it is today!

Looking forward to this and future releases!

James Skemp
10/1/2007 12:36:11 AM |

Great work all!

Jochem
10/1/2007 9:26:13 AM |

Congrats Mads and your team!

Talal Alsubaie
10/1/2007 11:57:58 AM |

Congratulation !!

Good Luck...

Jesper Lund Stocholm
10/1/2007 12:21:58 PM |

Thank you - I cannot wait to start using it. I am glad you decided not to wait until the last languages were available.

/Jesper Lund Stocholm

devtomb
10/1/2007 3:47:06 PM |

Hi

This is a greate works.

Thanks

Moosa
10/1/2007 5:03:37 PM |

Thanks guys..
Fantastic product.

Keep up the good work

Bill
10/1/2007 6:23:39 PM |

Good job. It looks like a lot of good features were added. Now... for those of us who use the SQL provider, is there any way to do an "upgrade" for our existing sites?

Mads Kristensen
10/1/2007 6:26:47 PM |

@Bill, yes there is. There is a SQL script in the "setup" folder in the webproject. You can use that to update your database.

Jesper Lund Stocholm
10/2/2007 11:15:51 AM |

Is the information regarding updating in the Wiki (in my case from 1.0 and 1.1 to 1.2) still valid?

Mads Kristensen
10/2/2007 5:51:18 PM |

@Jesper. Yes it is. The only difference is that you have to look in the robots.txt and follow the guide in there.

TimDigital
10/2/2007 10:28:14 PM |

Excellent Work - u da man Mads !

Bill
10/3/2007 12:27:46 AM |

Thanks for the info Mads. Again I say, great work. Wordpress has nothing on blogengine.

So I was looking at the way the database script is setup for v1.2 and I have a v1.1 database. I am guessing there is no easy diff report on the changes? I guess should have stuck with the XML provider.

If anyone has done an upgrade using the SQL Server version, I'd appreciate any pointers.

Thanks

Jesper Lund Stocholm
10/4/2007 8:23:51 AM |

Mads,

Ahem ... robots.txt? The contents of the robots.txt in the "web files" download contains nothing but

#Remove the '#' character below and replace example.com with your own website address.
#sitemap: http://example.com/sitemap.axd

... how can that help me upgrade my current v 1.0 blog to 1.2 ?

:o)

Mads Kristensen
10/4/2007 8:34:55 AM |

@Jesper, take a look at Al's upgrade guide www.nyveldt.com/.../...ngineNET-from-11-to-12.aspx

Jesper Lund Stocholm
10/5/2007 10:03:48 AM |

Hi Mads,

Thanks for the link. However it doesn't help me with upgrading from version 1.0 to 1.2. I will see if I can document the process myself and put the documentation on my blog.

Vishal Sharma
10/6/2007 2:22:39 PM |

A LOT OF CONGRATULATIONS !!!! TO MADS AND HIS TEAM....

REALLY EXCITING....

Claudio M. E. Bastos Iorio
10/8/2007 12:48:52 PM |

Ey Mads, could you add the link to http://www.13bit.com.ar in my spanish transalation? TIA!

jason
10/9/2007 7:40:47 AM |

Studying this is !@

edddy
10/9/2007 1:09:23 PM |

Will have to check it out

Felipe Ferreira
10/14/2007 3:00:22 PM |

the brazillian resource file is missing in this new release. i've downloaded the new version and the labels.pt-BR.resx only have the english strings.
is this an error or the translator have not translated this version?

Claudio M. E. Bastos Iorio
10/18/2007 2:53:52 AM |

Hi Mads! Sorry to bother you again. But the spanish version of the resource file is missing in the source code version. Regards.

Young Park
10/21/2007 9:11:17 AM |

Hello! I've already sent you the translated Localization file (.resx) twice, but have not received any email from BlogEngine .NET.

I'm currenty using translated version in my Korean Blog (http://koreanblog.webstorymaker.com).

If you haven't received my mail and the localization file (translated in Korean), leave me a message through my blog.

(http://blog.webstorymaker.com)

Mike Mueller
11/9/2007 1:31:23 AM |

Updated the blog yesterday from 1.1, which was installed less than 2 months ago. Found the actual instructions just now here, I used the old wiki version and well... It all turned out good

Got bvrave and am attempting to deploy on my developement site- which is hosted on a longhorn system. All I get is the 500 error with no clues to lead me. Will try running the admin code thingy to convert the system.web to system.webServer

Mike Mueller
11/14/2007 10:04:29 PM |

Update to my last post

The Vista/IIS-7 instructions on the Installation Wiki regarding AppCmd to migrate was part 1 of my problem. I then moved to another 500 series error- this was eliminated by commenting out the <globalization> portion of web.config.

Now I am up and running just fine. I love the whole thing and once I actually learn how to blog I should be very happy

kcornwell
11/28/2007 10:00:32 PM |

What is the deal with syntax highlighting?  I can't find any documentation on it.  I search the entire project and only found the follow in the style sheets.

.code
{
  font-size: 12px;
  color: black;
  font-family: Consolas, "Courier New", Courier, Monospace;
  background-color: #F1F1F1;
  line-height: normal;
}

.code p{
  padding: 5px;
}

.code .rem { color: #008000; }

.code .kwrd { color: #0000ff; }

.code .str { color: #006080; }

.code .op { color: #0000c0; }

.code .preproc { color: #0000ff; }

.code .asp { background-color: #ffff00; }

.code .html { color: #800000; }

.code .attr { color: #ff0000; }

.code .alt {  background-color: #f4f4f4; }

.code .lnum { color: #606060;}