Trying to stick to our seasonal release schedule, we have put out bitweaver2.7_RC1.zip. To see what's new, see the ReleaseTwoChangeLog. Please download the zip, or use this site, it's up to date, and let us know of any issues. Please post comments to this article as it is linked to the Development - Announcements forum.

To jump on the bandwagon bitweaver now has nascent support for configuring installs using YAML files. The new package YamlConfig provides two new features to administrators: The ability to dump configuration settings to YAML, and the ability to change configuration settings using YAML. This greatly simplifies porting settings between multiple installs, whether you are running multiple sites or have development sandboxes and live sites.

This package also has a promising future in that it can grow to enable easy bulk uploading of content by admins and editors or regular users.

YamlConfig is av…

A Critical Security Flaw was discovered in RSS Package. Under the right conditions the security flaw can expose one's server to arbitrary creation and overwrite of server files and folders. This flaw effects all versions of bitweaver prior to 2.6.0. Details here …

You are strongly urged to apply the patch or upgrade to 2.6.1 or later

There is only one file to replace in the rss package: rss_inc.php. To replace it manually, […

Trying to stick to our seasonal release schedule, we have put out NEW 09-APR-2009 bitweaver2.6_RC2.zip. To see what's new, see the ReleaseTwoChangeLog. Please download the zip, or at least beat on the test server and let us know of any issues.

We have created bitweaver2.5 in the builds directory. This will go into sf.net release later today, unless I hear someone scream.

Please test now. Either download a copy for yourself, or register at http://testing.bitweaver.org and push all the bells and whistles you can. That site will be nuked shortly.

We need help running administrivia for the release. Please volunteer.

Along with this new release, we have changed our approach to releasing. For 5 years now (fear), we have been very conservative releasing rock solid releases that have locked schemas intermi…

Here is a cool animated Code_Swarm graphcreated by /nickpalmer from our CVS source commits.