The pLog project is proud to announce that the final release date for pLog 1.0 will be April 1st (no, it's not a joke!) unless major problems appear during these last few days before the release. The beta testing rounds have been a great success and we think that the code is ready for prime time. From here we would like to thank all those of you who have helped so far.

Code in our subversion repository is in state "frozen" meaning that nothing else will be changed before the final release (save one or two small fixes, if needed) This means that the beta packages that will be generated until the release date can be considered "release candidates" and we have even removed all debug and logging stuff from the code. In the meantime, if you find any more bugs please do not hesitate to report them via our bug-tracking interface at bugs.plogworld.net.

For those of you who want to help the project but do not know how, you can help us by promoting pLog in your company, community or just with your friends. We have created the pLog 1.0 Communications Kit, which is a package that includes all you need to promote pLog: logos, badges, and several documents and slidesets in PDF format with more information about pLog (and a formal press release too) If you don't want to download the whole package, you can also download only the logos and banners. If interested in creating alternative logos in other languages or with new slogans, we have also made available the original PSD files (to be used with Photoshop or GIMP) Finally, the rest of templates can be found in the plog/misc/comms-kit folder in our subversion repository (there you will find the PPT, DOC and Office files used to create the documents)

We are also aiming to translate the comms kit to as many languages as possible so if you want to help, let us know!

The good news today is that the beta testing round is moving forward to the second phase as outlined here, but first of all we would like to thank all the users who have helped us during phase one and we hope that things will proceed as smoothly as during phase one!

Please keep reading for more details or if you're in a hurry, get the base package from here, the templates package from here and the plugins package from here.

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After almost 8 months of intense work, pLog 1.0 is almost ready and now it's time to start the testing round period. The whole detalied testing plan can be found here, instructions on how to access our Subversion repository can be found here and you we also have instructions for new installations and upgrades. Please use the new forum for feedback and our bugtracking system for bug reports.

Please keep reading for a summary of the testing plan, how you can help, porting your old plugins and about translations of the new version. (More)

After a few weeks of testing, pLog 0.3.1 has been finally released. It includes all that was fixed in 0.3.1-beta1 plus a few more bug fixes and a few little goodies that have been thrown in for this version. The most outstanding issue is the trackback receiving feature, which was completely broken but was promptly reported by some of our forum users, and some better handling of the permissions of the resource files uploaded via the "Resource Center" feature.

For those of you wishing to upgrade from 0.3 or 0.3.1-beta to this version, there is no need to run the installer script again. Simply download and unpack the plog-0.3.1 package in the same folder where pLog is currently installed. Let it overwrite all the files (and add a new few ones) and everything should be fine.

For users wishing to upgrade from a previous 0.2.x release, the installer (wizard.php) script will take care of everything for you.

Please use the wiki when first looking for help or documentation, and use the forums whenever you can't find an answer there for your problem. Now, keep reading for the rest of improvements and bug fixes! (More)

No piece of software nowadays is 100% free from bugs and pLog is, unfortunately, no exception to the rule. I have collected a little list of the issues that have been found so far in 0.3. (More)

pLog 0.3 has just been released to the world, get it now while it's still hot! Keep reading if you want to know more about what's new in 0.3 and what's been fixed from the first beta to the final version. (More)

One nice feature of pLog is that it offers a plugin mechanism to add those little features that are missing from the without forcing everybody to use them. A couple of nice new plugins have been added today and some others have been updated to their latest versions. Keep reading to find out more! (More)

Alongside 0.2.1, two more plugins have been released: the PHPNGallery plugin and the Print View plugin. The first one has been deveoped by the good guys at phpn.de and implements a simple yet useful picture gallery, based on a text file which defines which pictures and with which description we'd like to show. The second one has been developed by the pLog team and allows to have a highly customizable "printer view" page of a post, in the same way some web sites do. The print view is driven by a template and a stylesheet that can be made as simple or as complex as needed.

Please let us know is you have any problems with any of these!

Just out from the oven, 0.2.1 has been released. It is a maintenance release based on the 0.2 codebase that does not add any new feature bug fixes a few bugs that were found since 0.2 was released some time ago. Bug fixes are related to deleting stuff and now for example deleting a blog will also delete its posts, comments, permissions and so on... Sounds kind of funny that we forgot about such an obvious thing but we actually did :) Other bugs that have been fixed are related to htmlarea leaving some garbage in empty text boxes, making for example pLog show the "read more" link when there was no more text.

If updating from 0.2, the best way to update to this release is to simply replace all the .php files from the previous release with the new ones. There is no need to re-run the wizard and pLog will use the same configuration settings, templates, languages and so on. In case we are updating from the 0.1 branch, then using the wizard is recommended.

Release notes can be found here and the download packages can be found in the "Files" section in our SF.net project page. Please let us know if you have any problems with this release and in the meantime, happy plogging! :)

Another one of our users has contributed with an implementation of the Blogger API so that you can blog right from your desktop. The plugin supports all the methods of the API, as well as some other pLog-related features such as multiple blogs and categories, topics, etc, which were not originally included in the Blogger API. The plugin includes a thorough tutorial full of screenshots describing how to configure one of the most popular clients, w.bloggar, in order to use it with pLog. The plugin has been tested to work with w.bloggar as well as with Blogbuddy, but please drop us a line if you can get it working with any other client.

The plugin can be downloaded from here.