habari

spread the news

ha·bar·i - noun
Definition — Swahili greeting: What's the news?


Partnering with PHPWomen

The Habari Community is proud to announce our partnership with PHPWomen in their efforts to help bring more people into the larger community of Open Source Software. We have always said "Community is more important than code." The Habari Community makes a concentrated effort to ensure our community is open and inclusive for all developers and users. We believe we were chosen to be an inaugural partner in this program because we have already put ...

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Habari 0.6.4 Released

We're excited today to release Habari 0.6.4! This is an update to our 0.6.3 release. The primary changes enhance security and work around changes made to PHP.

Full release notes are available on our wiki here: Release 0.6.4

All users are encouraged to back up their database and upgrade to this latest release. It can be downloaded from here.

Sincere thanks to everyone who has contributed time and energy into continuing to make ...

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Topic of the Month: Ownership

This will, hopefully, be the first in a series of monthly topics to address within the Habari Community. The goal of each monthly topic is to encourage community involvement, stir discussion and help us grow.

Ownership is a tough subject in the Habari Community. The ethos that all contributors are valuable, often leads to the belief that full consensus must be reached before action is taken. However, this can frequently lead to things stalling out ...

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Potential Security Issue With The AutoSave Plugin

A potential security issue has been discovered with the AutoSave plugin in the habari-extras repository. If exploited, the cracker could potentially add new posts to your blog with out being an authenticated user. The updated plugin, version 0.1.2, adds a check to make sure the user is authenticated. The development version of the plugin, "trunk", for the upcoming Habari 0.7 has been rendered inoperable since it does not account for the new ACL ...

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Habari 0.6.3 Released

We're excited today to release Habari 0.6.3! This is an update to our 0.6.2 release, and enables users of particular (newly popular) versions of PHP to install and use Habari. Also included are some permission-related security fixes.

All users are encouraged to back up their database and upgrade to this latest release. It can be downloaded from here.

Sincere thanks to everyone who has contributed time and energy into continuing to make Habari ...

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