After six and a half months, hundreds of fixes, tweaks and new features, I'm finally announcing the release of SimpleLog version 2.0.
This release is packed. A highlight of some key features/changes:
- Fully compatible with Rails 1.2.1!
- Comments with spam protection, blacklist, approval and a comments RSS feed
- New admin interface design
- "Static" pages
- Faster searching and full search results page
- Improved caching, preference loading and more for a much faster and stable application
- New default theme
- Support for Gravatars
- Subdomain and subdirectory support
- Tons of bugfixes
- Even easier to install or upgrade
I've been working on this version for a very long time now, and I'm extremely proud of the way it turned out. If you're curious, you can see the changelog to get an idea of just how much work has been done in the last few months.
In addition to the new release, I've created the SimpleLog wiki which is full of helpful information and will grow over time as I and users add more to it, as well as some simple forums for users to talk to each other and ask for help if they can't find it anywhere else.
Special thanks to Shawn Morrison, Garrett Dimon and Dan Conner who provided tremendous beta testing and general help during the long development phase, as well as the rest of my private beta testers.
You can view screenshots of the admin interface and default theme at Flickr. You can also digg this announcement.
Update: If you downloaded this version and got a rake error when trying to install, please re-download it. There was an error in the TGZ that caused rake not to work but it has been fixed.