We're proud to make available a release candidate (RC) for BlogEngine.NET 2.5.  There's some very exciting new features and changes in this release.  The final release is not far behind -- most likely at the end of June.  The BlogEngine.NET 2.5 Release Candidate can be downloaded here.  If you will be testing the RC as an upgrade to existing BlogEngine.NET blog, here are upgrad... [More]* $4.95/month BlogEngine.net Hosting - Click Here!

We’ve been working on gallery site for BlogEngine.NET extensions, themes and widgets and site is finally ready for BlogEngine community to share components in centralized location. Over the next few weeks we’ll be moving content from our “extensions” page to the gallery, converting it to BlogEngine 2.0 and uploading packages to repository. If you have extension, theme or wi... [More]* $4.95/month BlogEngine.net Hosting - Click Here!

We're very pleased to announce the release of BlogEngine.NET 2.0.  It can be downloaded here. We accomplished meeting most of our Roadmap goals.  The most visible change is the redesign of the control panel.  Many thanks to team member Janko Jovanovic for this much more modern control panel UI.  There's now a Dashboard, and new pages to View all of your Posts and Pages, which ... [More]* $4.95/month BlogEngine.net Hosting - Click Here!

Just several months after version 1.6 was released, we're happy to announce that a Release Candidate for BlogEngine.NET 2.0 is available. We accomplished meeting most of our Roadmap goals.  The most visible change is the redesign of the control panel.  Many thanks to team member Janko Jovanovic for this much more modern control panel UI.  There's now a Dashboard, and new pages to V... [More]* $4.95/month BlogEngine.net Hosting - Click Here!

We are pleased to announce Janko Jovanovic officially joining BlogEngine team as The Man behind our major UI 2.0 design effort. Many BlogEngine users know and love Janko’s blog and find there many useful tips and valuable resources. Janko has number of publications on UI usability and interaction design and his work with BlogEngine.NET will be continuation of this theme he is clearly so pass... [More]* $4.95/month BlogEngine.net Hosting - Click Here!

We have reports from bloggers that there is new spam in town - pingback spam. Here is what you can do to stop it. 1. Disable Go to admin/settings/advanced and remove check mark in "enable pingbacks" and "enable trackbacks" opting to not receive them. 2. Patch Spammers used flaw in the white list logic that allowed any user who already posted number of comments on the blog to bypass validation ... [More]* $4.95/month BlogEngine.net Hosting - Click Here!

Here is update status and links of interest for BlogEngine users. We'll try to publish this regularly, if you have something to share with community please let us know in the comments. Road map We updated road map to BlogEngine 2.0 which is coming in the end of this year. We'll talk more on it later - it is a long road :) Mercurial Project source moved to Mercurial - our hope is that it will f... [More]* $4.95/month BlogEngine.net Hosting - Click Here!

BlogEngine.NET 1.6.1 is available for download on Codeplex. It is optional update, here details to help you make a decision if you need to refresh your blog. What changed from 1.6.0? 1 We tuned-up comment management to make automated moderation easier 2 Added reCaptcha 3 Added option to switch comments to Disqus 4 Minor bug fixes. How do I use new features? - Using reCaptcha - Using Disqus... [More]* $4.95/month BlogEngine.net Hosting - Click Here!