Pivot 1.30 Beta 2..
We've just released Pivot 1.30 beta 2. Besides the usual fixes and smaller additions there are three major things we'd like to point out here.
- There are new built-in blockers for referer-, comment-, and trackback-spam. Not only do these block the spam as it comes in, they also help a great deal in preventing the spammers from overtaxing your webserver.
- We've decided to remove all built-in referer tracking from the Pivot package. If the default Pivot becomes useless to spam, in the long term the spammers will go elsewhere. This also means the 'statistics' screen is removed from the Pivot interface, since it has become obsolete.
- TinyMCE has been updated to the latest version. If you prefer using the wysiwyg editor you should really check it out. It has become much better and much faster.
If you value tracking referer, we can recommend using the (free) BBclone statistics tool. It does all the built-in referer tracking did and much more. See this page on the wiki for more information: Using BBclone in Pivot.
As usual, this version comes in two flavors: The Full Installer and the Updater (for existing versions 1.x of Pivot). You can get them from our sourceforge page:
Updating is as easy as always:
- Make sure you have a recent backup of your Pivot, just in case
- Download the updater, unzip it
- Upload the files to your webserver, overwriting the ones already present.
- chmod pivot/db/ignored_domains.txt.php to 777.
- Log in to your Pivot and rebuild the front-page.
Update: we're aware that there are some issues with the new wysiwyg in Internet Explorer. Expect an update to beta 2 shortly.