Problogger: Drupal 4.7.0 released
Drupal (a blogging platform) 4.7.0 has been released. New features include:
* Multiple Block Regions: Were you feeling constrained by only two choices for block placement? You can now dynamically specify as many block placement locations as you want.
* ‘Offline for Maintenance’ Configuration: You can now easily configure your site to display a friendly notice to visitors when you have to take down your site for maintenance.
* Free Tagging Support: Free tagging functionality is now built into the taxonomy system.
* Site-Wide Contact Form: You can now easily enable a contact form page that will let you easily collect feedback from your site visitors.
* Author Information Block: There is now a block you can enable that will display author information alongside posts.
* Public/Private Profile Fields: You can now specify permissions for profiles on a per-field basis.
* Block by IPs/Hostname: It is now possible to block users by their IP address or Hostnames. Good bye trolls!
* Aggregator now Supports Atom: It is now finally possible to aggregate Atom formatted feeds like those created by Blogger.
* Aggregator Generates RSS Feeds: It’s now easier than ever to use Drupal to power ‘Planet’ like sites.
* RSS Feed Settings You can now configure how much content and how many items to publish in your RSS feed.
* Better Search Index: The search module indexer is now smarter and more robust
* Advanced Search Operators: You can now search by advanced search operators (e.g. phrase, node type, etc.)
* Custom Search Results Ranking: The search module now lets you weight search results by keyword relevance, date of post, number of comments, and number of views.
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