MangoBlog 1.4 Released and Important notes

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I’m probably late on this one, but mangoBlog v1.4 has just been released. From the changelogs:

What’s new in version 1.4

• Revisions of posts and pages are now stored and user can “restore” an older version
• Added a permission for users to not to be able to access the administation (thanks to Seb Duggan)
• Added a replacement for Verity search to search in database
  directly (this search now includes comments). It is the default search
  now.
• Plugin settings are now stored in database, which should make it easier to migrate a blog
• TinyMCE editor upgraded
• Configuration file now has placeholders for base path so that directories do not need to be hardcoded in configuration file
• Ability to disable or enable threading
• Plugins made for ColdFusion 8 only can extend org.mangoblog.plugins.BasePlugin without including BasePlugin in their own folder
• Friendly URLs for author archives

Changes in theme tags:

• Added a descending order option for the comments tag
• Enhanced Posts tag to be able to show posts for a given author
• AuthorProperty tag can now output the name of the role of the author
• Added AuthenticatedAuthor tag that allows the theme to know if the current visitor is logged in

Administration:

• Post pagination and search
• Session will be maintained while user is writing a post or page
• Added permission to manage pods and to run blog updates
• Drafts now always “float” to the top of the list
• Ability to remove plugins
• Added “beforeAdminPageContentEnd” event to the bottom of the page
  edit screen and “beforeAdminPostContentEnd” to the bottom of the post
  edit screen
• Ability to manually set the post URL (thanks to Seb Duggan)
• Added more functionality to BasePlugin to make it easier to write plugins.
• Plugins can now run their own upgrade method when a new version is installed via the administration
• Paging for authors screen
• Cosmetic changes: Add ons renamed to Plugins, go directly to edit
  mode after adding a new post or page (thanks to Seb Duggan), changed
  Pod Manager icon

Updates to new installs:

• Added new plugin that allows keeping the old BlogCFC URLs functional
• Added sample data
• Include CFFormProtect (enabled by default instead of Captchas)
• New default theme called Cutline
• New installs on Railo will now have an error on main page (thanks to Andrea Campolonghi)

Plugins updated:

• formRememberer (included in update)
• CFFormProtect (not included in automatic update)

Bug fixes:

• Solved some compatibility issues with Railo
• Fixed XSS vulnerability (themes need to be updated to take advantage of this)
• Preview link was wrong in future posts
• Comments are now rejected if comments are closed for a post or page
• Error when entering an empty search string
• Error when not using friendly URLs
• and more…

Important:

Now, for those who are using Railo and are updating via admin interface. There is a bug with the mango updater and Railo, Laura (Mango blog’s developer) explains:
“This is a known issue with Railo (we should report it, since it is an incompatibility with CF). I thought 1.3.1 included the fix, but apparently not.
Open file components/Updater.cfc and change line 436 from

<cfhttp url="#arguments.zipAddress#" method="get" path="#tempdir#">

to:

<cfhttp url="#arguments.zipAddress#" method="get" path="#tempdir#" file="#filename#">

”
More info can be found here:
Mango 1.4 upgrade bug / Railo 3.1 / Centos 5