Drupal (a blogging platform) users will be excited today to see Drupal 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.
found via an IM from Regan
