Today we are releasing BlogEngine 3.0 with host of new features and improvements. Here is the short list:
- Auto Update
- Multiple Gallery Feeds
- Multiple Post Editors
- File Manager
- Custom Front Page
Along with new features, there are changes, improvements and bug fixes to make project better. Here
couple of
big ones.
Web Application instead of Website
BlogEngine started as website project back in the days when it was defalt option. For variaty of
reasons we
moved BE to more modern, stable and generally accepted Web Application model. Main difference is
instead of
deploying .cs files to web server and letting ASP.NET create assemblies on the fly, build happens
before
deployment. So instead of many .cs files we build and deploy single BlogEngine.dll.
New Gallery
Changing application model now requires extensions to be compiled rather than installed as .cs files.
We took this
as opportunity to change gallery site from 3rd party we've been using to standard gallery server with
simple package
upload form. We converted most items to run
under 3.0 and keep working on moving the rest. More to come.