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BlogEngine.NET 1.6 is Released

February 1, 2010 01:56 by author

The team is proud to announce the release of BlogEngine.NET version 1.6. With several new features and numerous improvements and bug fixes, this is a must upgrade version for current BlogEngine.NET users and those interested in entering the blog scene.

For those who receive a steady dose of comment spam (and who doesn't!), a new powerful Comment Management and Comment Spam Filtering infrastruture has been added in version 1.6. Comments across all posts can be viewed, edited, deleted or approved in one convenient area. Comments can still be manually moderated, but now moderation can be automated by running comments thru remote or local comment spam validation services. Anyone can easily build new comment spam filters and plug them into BlogEngine.NET. It's just as simple as adding custom Extensions and Widgets is.

The other notable feature in version 1.6 is support for multiple widget zones. You can now place widgets anywhere on your site, and even move widgets from one zone to another.

A complete list of new features can be found here.

If you're upgrading from BlogEngine.NET version 1.5 or earlier, please take a minute to read these upgrade instructions.

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February 1. 2010 21:36

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nyveldt.com

February 1. 2010 22:23

Hi there, congratz ya!
I hope this engine can work better than a previous one!

anyway, thanks for the info!

Andri Apriyadi

February 2. 2010 09:53

One word - LEGEND!!! Spam comments have really been doing my head in recently, especially because I maintain a few different blogs. These changes look great, thanks very much

Please continue to maintain BlogEngine.NET - I love it

tim

February 2. 2010 10:43

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February 2. 2010 13:36

Nicely done guys, just went live with it. Curious to see how well the new SPAM filtering works!

Cheers,
AL

Al Bsharah

February 3. 2010 00:20

Congrats on finalizing the release! The work that the BlogEngine team does is top-notch. I've really enjoyed using BE.net!

Brandon

February 3. 2010 00:49

Nice to see the release of BlogEngine.NET 1.6.
Unfortunately it's still in .net 2.0, no support for multiple blogs
Any way.. congratulations to the team

Vijay Karla

February 3. 2010 02:10

Congrats on the release. Sadly I woke up this morning to see two of these comments on my blog:

"Oh noh another version has been release this year blogengine 1.6. It has new additional features now it can prevent comment spam filter that has ability to plugin custom filtering modules.It has improve outgoing emails and more improvement and fixes for this 1.6 version. Upgrade instruction is available on
dotnetblogengine.net/.../...ET-16-is-Released.aspx"

"Author information

Name: sikat ang pinoy
E-mail: renantech@yahoo.com
Website: ...
Country code: US
IP address: 112.202.4.16
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 GTB6"

So apparently the spam protection isn't working, or else I haven't set it up correctly. I have set it to "auto"...

Mads Laumann

February 3. 2010 07:03

i not yet use this engine..i think need to try..

spring wallpapers

February 4. 2010 01:17

You guys are rocking
Just updated to BE 1.6

Binu

February 4. 2010 04:15

hi

this is hosein from iran

why don't you create a menu for page in blogengine?

i thought in new verison 1.6 you fix this problem but..

please fix it because after you add menu to blogengine
all user use of blogengine in personal web-site like cms
and it is very influence for one application like bogengine to increase famous application like complete cms

thanks a lot

hosein

February 4. 2010 07:09

Wow, was thinking of implementing a blog on my page and BANG, BE 1.6 was released. Will be adding it this evening, great news!

Keep up the good work folks!

Pontonboot

February 4. 2010 13:01

So ist das Script nicht nutzbar! Als reine informationsseite ohne Möglichkeit von kommentaren ist es gut. Jeder kann irgendwas als kommentar schreiben ohne angabe von richtiger oder gültiger mailadresse. So ist das script nicht nutzbar! Jeden tag 100 von Pron Spams ist nicht gut!

gfdhgfdh

February 4. 2010 13:03

So the script is not available! As a pure information page without the possibility of commenting it is good. Anyone can write anything without specification as comments from real or valid mail address. So the script is not available! Every day 100 of .... spam is not good!

gfdhgfdh

February 4. 2010 14:01

1.6 is great except for that it doesn't work and I'm not smart enough to fix it

Fresh install I get "themes/site.master" cannot be found blah blah no matter what I try!

Read about it here: blogengine.codeplex.com/.../View.aspx

Thanks!

woah

February 4. 2010 15:54

Upgrading BlogEngine.NET from 1.5 to 1.6

Upgrading BlogEngine.NET from 1.5 to 1.6

For The Wynne

February 5. 2010 03:40

my god..it seems i have to do something again...

网站制作

February 5. 2010 11:36

Great news indeed! I just upgraded our company blog and my personal blog to v1.6. I really like the comment management addition. It really makes wading through the comment spam much easier.

Chris @ AB Web Design, LLC

February 5. 2010 13:44

Aah! Amazing.
I's waiting for your final release to start my own blog.
Keep up the spirit.
Thanks.

Abhilash

February 5. 2010 15:11

Congrats on a great release. And thanks for adding the infrastructure for supporting Incarnate (http://www.visitmix.com/labs/incarnate) so that people can choose their avatar from Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube or XBoxLive when they leave a comment -- and we can quit looking at those default gravatars!

Karsten Januszewski

February 5. 2010 15:40

BlogEngine.NET and Incarnate

BlogEngine.NET and Incarnate

IRhetoric - Convergence in the Simulacrum. A Blog by Karsten Januszewski

February 6. 2010 03:30

好样的，现在使用,也在阅读源代码，谢谢作者

xia

February 6. 2010 09:04

In version 1.6 the UserControls/PostList.ascx.cs the following is causing my theme to break:

int descriptionCharacters = 0;

This is because a few rows down the the line

postView.DescriptionCharacters = descriptionCharacters;

is resetting the preview characters to ZERO! Took a while to figure this out. The line shud be:

postView.DescriptionCharacters = BlogSettings.Instance.DescriptionCharacters;

Is this a bug or am i doing smthing wrong here coz my theme gets fixed with this change but i don't know if i am breaking smthing else in the process!!!??!!?

I don't think the descriptioncharacters shud be hardcoded to '0'.

Muhammad Talha

February 6. 2010 13:12

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February 8. 2010 03:54

Nice work!

Thanks!

Arman Obosyan

February 8. 2010 08:44

Many thanks! thought you have abandoned development. Will upgrade in the next few days!

shavit

February 11. 2010 10:16

Thanks! I've just upgraded to the latest version...

Eyre

February 12. 2010 07:39

Great thank for you from Russia!

Blush

February 12. 2010 09:40

BlogEngine.NET 1.6 Released

BlogEngine.NET 1.6 Released

Al Nyveldt

February 13. 2010 04:59

Upgrade to BlogEngine.NET 1.6

Upgrade to BlogEngine.NET 1.6

Tanza9's blog

February 13. 2010 12:54

BlogEngine.NET 1.6 Now Available

BlogEngine.NET 1.6 Now Available

Eyre's Blog

February 15. 2010 07:15

It's amazing guys, great work. I have been waiting for your release of 1.6.
Keep up the spirit.

Henrik Jensen

February 15. 2010 10:45

Great update! I think the Blog comment functionality is a big leap forward. I'm running a few Wordpress blogs and I've got a lot of issues with comment spam. I'll consider BlogEngine for my next blog

Steven van Vessum

February 16. 2010 16:36

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Eliezer Perlmutter

February 18. 2010 10:52

Keep up the great work, guys! I am starting a new project soon and I think BE is going to be a good fit, although I will have to do some customization. Thankfully, it is written so cleanly that making changes should be an utter joy! Thanks for all the hard work, it is very appreciated.

Josh Stodola

February 19. 2010 21:50

Congrats on a great release. .

Andri Apriyadi

February 20. 2010 13:23

Very nice, I was waiting for this enhancement
what about collaborate, do you accept any help for development ?

thanks

asp.net

February 20. 2010 14:21

Thanks for all the great work you've done with BlogEngine. Looking forward to upgrading to 1.6!

Michael

February 22. 2010 09:46

I've upgraded from 1.5 to 1.6- mostly a great upgrade! But for some reason, my blog won't show summary text for posts- only "....[More]". Not a problem with the standard theme, but I cannot find a way to get summary text to work on my theme:
www.onesoft.dk/.../...me-ready-for-BlogEngine.aspx
Any advice?
Thanks!

Erle Ellis

February 25. 2010 09:39

Comment Spam protection for BlogEngine.NET

Comment Spam protection for BlogEngine.NET

Alex Meyer-Gleaves

March 3. 2010 05:38

BlogEngine.NET 1.6.0.0

BlogEngine.NET 1.6.0.0

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