habari

We're pleased to announce the release of Habari 0.8, our first release from Github.

There have been many improvements and bug fixes in this release. Major changes include:

• support for child themes
• improved security

Habari's original default theme, k2, no longer ships as part of core, but can be found in habari-extras. The 0.9 release will include a responsive theme designed to be extended by child themes.

For more details, read the complete release notes, …Read More

Not much more than a month after we released 0.7, we've already packaged up a minor update to it. There are no security fixes, but we recommend you upgrade to gain the following:

• A bugfix for login issues related to certain browsers and PHP sessions.
• Improved support for viewing images in multiple silos.
• AutoP no longer formats HTML script tags.
• Improvements to the tag display template (in Mzingi and Charcoal).

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It's been a long road, but Habari 0.7 is finally seeing public release.

Over the past two years Habari has had more than 1400 bug fixes and enhancements applied to it. Major areas of improvement include:

• Blocks. When a theme defines an area for them, blocks added by the theme and plugins can be displayed, configured, and rearranged without the theme user needing to edit any theme files. The theme configuration page has been enhanced to…
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It's been a hectic month, with almost 100 changes made since the second release candidate, but we're confident that this will be the final release candidate. Habari 0.7 will be fully baked soon!

The most important change in this release is the tightening up of how we parse URLs in input data, to protect from XSS attacks that rely on manipulated link schemes.

Details of the changes made since Release Candidate 2 can be found in …Read More

Quickly on the heels of our first release candidate we're happy to announce that Habari 0.7 Release Candidate 2 is now available.

RC2 includes some important security updates for the 0.7 series as well as bug fixes and enhancements. Anyone using a Developer Preview or earlier Release Candidate build is encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible.

Details on the issues addressed in this release can be found in the 0.7-rc2 release notes. Full details on…Read More