23sen uutiset

Finally something new on this front. Last kukkaisvoima version was released over a year a go. Long time no new features. After writing some new content to my blog, I discovered couple of features that Kukkaisvoima was missing: archive pages and search. Version 8 adds both.

Big change in version 8 is also the license change from GPL2 to AGPL3. Basically it means that if you modify index.cgi you should provide source to the modified version. I put a special clause to both css and settings files so that it is clear that those can be modified freely.

You can download version 8 at the usual place. See Kukkaisvoima's homepage for more information.

Version 8 intruduces three new pages to Kukkaisvoima

/archive This page adds archive of all blog entries in date order. Newest first. One could also use this page as front page of the blog, since it gives nice fast overview whats happening.

/categories Here is entries sorted by category. Nice for quick overview. There is even pages for each category at /categories/category_name.

/?search=term . Biggest change is the search page. Basically the search works like unix tool grep. Downside is that it matches the searched string only in one line, so no searches reaching between lines, sorry. This seems to work quite nicely. Search box is in the sidebar.

I also fixed some minor bugs and refactored the code a little. One functional change is that I dropped the urls category/category_name and replaced it only with urls /category_name. So urls are now somewhat shorter. As you know Cool URIs don't change, so you should redirect old urls to new ones.

New language variables in version 8:

   l_search = "Search"
   l_search2 = "No matches"
   

There is also couple new css id's

   #content3 { 
            margin-top: 10px;
            margin-bottom: 10px;
            padding:20px;
            line-height: 120%
            }
   pre {
      padding: 1em; 
      border: 1px solid gray;}

   #hit { 
      display: inline;
      text-decoration: none;
      background: #693;
      }
   

If you have your own css file you should add those.

So that were the changes this time. I have no plans for version 9, but it will appear when (and if) I get new ideas or if there are bugs in this version. As always patches are also welcome.

ps. By the way, new version of another light weight blog engine Blosxom was also released recently after long hiatus.