Pivot 1.40 beta
We’ve released Pivot 1.40 beta. Please note that this is a beta release, so it might contain smaller or larger bugs. If you’re not comfortable using beta software, please wait a short while until we can release 1.40 final as a stable release.
This version contains a few new features:
- Comment Moderation (If you turn this on, new comments will not show up on your weblog, until you’ve approved them. You can enable this from Administration>Configuration)
- Greatly improved Metaweblog API support (so you can post to your Pivot log from other applications)
- A new ‘Registered Visitors’ administration screen, so you can disable, verify and delete them.
- The pages for Visitor Registration, Pivot errors and ‘self registration’ are now themeable.
- There are other smaller fixes, the details of which can be found in the changelog.
If you're new to Pivot, you should get the full version below, and read here on how to get started.
There are two upgraders. One for if you're upgrading any version from 1.0 to 1.30 RC, and one for upgrading 1.30 final installations. If you're upgrading, follow these steps:
- Get the updater that's appropriate for what you're running currently
- Extract the files on your computer
- Make a backup of your website. really.
- Upload all the files, overwriting the ones already present.
- Download the upgradechecks tool, unzip it, and upload to your pivot folder.
- Open pivot/upgradechecks.php in your browser, and see if you have to make any changes.
- After that, log in to your pivot.
- Rebuild the index, and rebuild all files, and you're done!
The Files are here, on our Sourceforge page:
Tip: We've heard about people (mainly on OSX) who've had their FTP programs wipe the folders clean before uploading. Make sure that doesn't happen to you. And if it does, you'll be glad you made that backup like I told you to.