A list of changes in typo since 2.6.0

• Tags
  • The 'keywords' field on each article is used to store a list of tags.
  • There's a "tag soup" sidebar.
  • You can view all articles with each tag.

• Text filter plugins
  • <typo:code>
  • amazon:
  • others

• New sidebars
  • Amazon - displays links in the sidebar to any books you link to in the body of the page
  • AIM presence
  • Many more...

• Time-limited caching
  • Flickr sidebar updates correctly.
  • Future-posted articles work correctly.

• Trackback works

• Notifications (not 100% usable, because we need to be able to generate user accounts)

• Redirections. Users migrating from other blogs can populate the migration table and Typo will issue redirects for old URLs.

• File upload/podcast support

• Atom 1.0 feed support

• Per-category and per-tag feeds.

• UUIDs. Atom/RSS feeds from Typo 4.0 use consistent IDs for each item. During the transition, feed readers will probably think that each item in the feed is new, but this should be stable from here on out. This fixes a large number of problems with feed IDs in Typo 2.x.

• Changes to the API for themers - hopefully temporary, but don't bank on it
  • use article_html(@article, :body) in place of @article.body_html, there are other, similar helper methods in source:trunk/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
  • Meta data in the header is now generated using the page_header helper. Take a look at source:trunk/themes/azure/layouts/default.rhtml to see what's changed.

• Changes to the API for sidebar authors
  • The 'configure' view doesn't need all the forms boilerplate any more. See source:/trunk/components/plugins/sidebars/static/configure.rhtml for an example.

• Other API changes:
  • There's now a Blog object that holds sitewide configuration.

• Other stuff
  • I'm relying on the WikiNature? to get the rest of this filled in...