Typo 2.5 released
We released the latest typo and its just oozing with amazing features.
Many of the additions were demanded by the recent influx of high traffic and high profile blogs.
Here are some choice additions:
- Static Caching, your typo blog will now serve thousands of pages per second with ease. All the active elements of the frontend were moved into JavaScript
- First official release with the new Azure theme
- Multiple theme support, please create your own!
- Newly designed admin interface
- Textile, Markdown and Smartypants support, all
bundled
- Enhanced spam protection
- Quick post functionality
- Support for multiple users posting to the same
blog
- Powerful sidebar management with drag and drop goodness
- Monthly archives
- Multiple syndication support built in for 43things, del.icio.us, Flickr, upcoming.org, tadalist, technorati, 43places and much more.
- Ajax’ed out the wazoo
- Edit/nuke comments while reading them in the frontend ( as admin )
- Converters for most major blog software including import from RSS feeds.
… and tons more new features and improvements. The svn repository number doubled since the last release.
In other news:
Please welcome our new dev team members Justin Palmer who is responsible for the typo visual identity and themes and Scott Laird who reinforces the typo hacking team. Scott did the majority of typo improvements in the last weeks. The theme system, the sidebar admin and countless other improvements were his work.
For more, read the stable page on the typo trac.