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


Habari Party 2009

We're three weeks away from the first official world-wide Habari gathering. It's a fantastic opportunity for far-flung members of the Habari Community to meet face to face. We've gone through several titles for it, but in the end settled on "Habari Party" because, in the end, the goal of this project is to have fun creating the best dang blogging engine out there.

Habari Party 2009 will be taking place in Columbus, OH on September 12,…Read More

Habari 0.6 released

Executive Summary: New release. Get.

And the longer version. We're really happy to announce our 0.6 release, which brings in the Access Control List (ACL)-based permissions system we've been working so hard on, along with oh, about 1100 bug fixes and other improvements. See the release notes for details.

With the addition of the extensible ACL system, Habari is now ideal for creating a variety of websites. Whether a single blog or a corporate publishing hub,…Read More

Habari on the Move

The Habari Community is on the move. In order to provide more stability for HabariProject.org, we're moving our site to new servers. This will not only increase our uptime, but also allow us to be more open with access to various aspects of the server. Openness is one of the core values of the Habari Community and having more involvement from the community with maintenance, features, and development on the servers will help the project …Read More

0.5.1 Released

A security issue was discovered in 0.5, and is now fixed in 0.5.1. This is a mandatory upgrade and you should upgrade to 0.5.1 immediately. You can download 0.5.1 from the download page.

Thanks to all those who helped in discovering and fixing the bug. Again, please upgrade to 0.5.1 immediately.

0.5 Released

At long last, the Habari community is pleased to announce that Habari version 0.5 is ready for download. There are many significant enhancements in this version, including the following.

  • A new administrative interface, lovingly named Monolith.
  • Several translations are being shipped with Habari. These include the default English, as well as Danish, German, Japanese, and Traditional Chinese.
  • We now include three themes in the download.
  • In addition to using MySQL and SQLite, you now…
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