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CHANGES
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1.0.0
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Too many changes to list individually.

Some major new features include (not an exhaustive list) :


(1.) Plugin system for news syndication.

(2.) Highly configurable news item commenting system.

(3.) "related news items"

(4.) News items now linkable by (condensed alphanumeric 
versions of) their titles.

(5.) View all news items except those belonging to a
particular news category.



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0.8.5
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Numerous small bugfixes resulting from deployment of modified version of
Thundercat at Monokromatik.com.



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0.8.4
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(1.) Patched "makeAbbrevListText" method of "adminHTML" class to
insure that abbreviated strings all have the same length in terms of
number of characters.

(2.) Pulled all filesystem-related methods out of other classes and
placed them into a fileOperations class to make maintenance easier
... publishRSSfeed method of RSS class has been removed, a method
that returns RSS feed names added and "publishing" functionality for
RSS feeds moved to a generic publishFile method of the fileOperations
class

(3.) Made userLogging class a subclass of the fileOperations class and
added an append to file method to fileOps class.




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TO DO
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(1.)  Support Blogger or Metaweblog XML-RPC APIs for publishing news items.

(2.)  Add search capability.

(3.)  Design a generalized plugin architecture.

(4.)  Support Trackback/Pingback (possibly through a plugin - see #3).

(5.)  Write more syndication plugins for other formats

(6.)  Finish syndication support for news item comments.

(7.)  Visitor and Comment views for admin screen.

(8.)  Visitor control panel (ban ip num or range of ip nums, delete accts).
      Presently, banning ip nums and ranges of ip nums works fine, but must
      be done through the db directly (like through PHPMyAdmin) instead of
      through Thundercat.

(10.) Make the potential relationships between topics and categories
      meaningful and apparent.