Upcoming Changes

Upcoming Changes

BSC 4.0.1.0: October 1, 2009

• ToS Feature Improvements
• Merge the blogs.sun.com source with Roller 4.0.1
• Update XML-RPC auto-discovery to use HTTPS over HTTP
• Update the Xinha editor to the latest stable release. (6826973)
• Allow the use of script tags when using the Xinha editor (6826982)
• Deployment Script attempts to chown incorrect directory (6815072)

Most Recent Changes

BSC 4.0.0.16: August 20, 2009

• Addition of an "Atom Syndication" export option. This will export your blog to an Atom XML file which includes comments.

BSC 4.0.0.15: July 6, 2009

• Added basic weblog export functionality to enable easy local backups as well as migration to other blogging platforms.

BSC 4.0.0.14: February 18, 2009

• # of bloggers on front page shows # of employees who have logged in. Should should show # of employees who have at least one blog post
• Login error page for non Sun employees attempting to login: "Login access to blog on this site is limited to Sun Employees."
• Increasing the number of entries the site-wide feed offers from 30 to 50
• Images are stacked in 1st blog post for IE6 visitors on sun pacifico themed blogs
• Inline help tip on the upload page directing users to Mediacast for files that are >5MB

BSC 4.0.0.13: August 19, 2008

• Integration with Sun's Online Account system (AKA CWP Identity): Enables employees to login with their common LDAP ID/PW
• Adding #showTwitterPostIcon($entry) macro to the list of existing w2.0 Roller macros
• Omniture update

BSC 4.0.0.12: May 29, 2008

• Xhina rich text editor upgrade (6696564)
• Copy & paste of images in Xinha breaks image URLs (6706043)
• Some blogs not showing up on front page (6682298)
• Proper XML escaping in all fields (6681180)
• Title improvement (6680360)
• Fix for not being able to remove a BSC subscription via the UI of a non-BSC blog if it contains a special character in the title. (6684469)
• Roller 4.0 upgrade (6681183). The major user-impacting changes have already been present on blogs.sun.com for a while.
• Refined SunPacifo theme (CSS change): improved layout of blogs with many categories, css change to prevent (6636162)
• CSS improvement for Adept, Rain forest, Metro, and Propaganda themes: Fix for undesirable image resizing (6697741).

NOTE: Bloggers using custom stylesheets with  a shared version of the Adept, Metro, SunPacifico & Propoganda themes may need to reapply the stylesheet if they notice formatting issues on their blog.

To restore CSS: Login  -> Design tab -> Stylesheet subtab -> Click "Restore stylesheet" button at bottom of page.

BSC 4.0.0.11: March 18, 2008

• Small update to the UI to make the total size of uploads allowed more apparent
• Double escaped titles
• Special characters in categories lead to a 404 category feed
• Fix for brokeness in the archive calendar which had problems when updateTime was the only time considered when fetching entries
• Site admin SPAM mgt bug fix: selected "Spam" checkboxes are cleared when checking new boxes
• Rendering improvement for large icon images on IE6: Adept, Metro & Propaganda themes. Users may need to restore their CSS if they have customization conflicts that trigger rendering issues. To restore CSS: Login --> Design -tab ---> Stylesheet subtab -> Click "Restore stylesheet" button at bottom of page.

BSC 4.0.0.10: December 13, 2007

• Updated SunPacifico theme that uses the "Icon" and "About this blog" fields on the "Setting" page. NOTE: If you are using the SunPacifio shared theme and your blog doesn't render well, you will need to reapply the style sheet: Weblog Settings -> Design -> Stylesheet and click on "Restore Stylesheet"
• Improved trackback error messages
• Fix for the OMPL.jsp
• Deleted Entries are still visible on the Weblog to non - authenticated users (not logged in state)

BSC 4.0.0.9: November 29, 2007

• Front page isn't advancing its update date when it picks up new posts. Caused the Glassfish planet to not update.
• Make the following more obvious: HTML Syntax: NOT allowed
• "About your blog" field RFEs
• DB would need to be changed to increase the character limit. Dave will address in a later release, but other requirements included in this CR will be included. Expanded 255 char limit will be addressed in 4.1 -- Linda to see Greg about enabling the new themes to dynamically expand as needed.
  • Will use About this weblog instead of About me (for usefulness with group blogs)
  • Will nix the 6th CR since it may not add value
• Spam clean up improvements
• Sotto theme default.css file bug: it sets the list-style-type to none for all lists
• Sotto bug: XHTML & CSS links are invalid
• Filtering draft entries using dates produces no results
• Entries are published if user hits enter while cursor is in title or tag field
• Delete bookmarks and move bookmarks don't work