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Omar and I are still busting our butts on a "newtelligence dasBlog Community Edition 1.7" release in the next few weeks. There will likely be a number of changes, many of which Omar has on the dasBlog Wiki.

In the last week we've:

• Corrected bugs in the HTTP 304 If-Modified-Since implementation that has cut Omar's RSS bandwidth from over 200 megs to under 40 megs.
• Fixed a number of little things and added better error logging.
• Command Line upgrade tool - You'll need to download your content directory, run this tool to update from 1.6 to 1.7, then upload your stuff. Think of it a "scandisk" for dasBlog. It also fixes the TimeZone problem.
• It will align the dates for entries with the dates for entry feedback (comments, etc)
• It will scrub referral spam
• It will repair Radio imported comments and entries
• A number of fixes to Login and cleaning up the MD5 security implementation for security logins over non-SSL'ed HTTP.
• Complete rewrite of ALL collection classes using Christoph Nahr's CodeSmith collections, plus some of my own secret sauce. I used version 1.6 of Chris's stuff because we desparately needed some thread safety in our (now) in-memory cache collections. We've also added thread locking in a few places which has reduced the number of "enumeration halted, collection modified" errors that I used to get all the time.
• The complete removal of BlogCoreData, CategoryCache and EntryCache increasing speed by roughly 200% and lowering disk access by roughly 400% with other perf benefits.
• All the features mentioned before like CAPTCHA, a referral blacklist, perf re-work and caching of RSS, an IP Address Blocking HttpModule, and OutputCaching in a few places.
• dasBlog will also move to SourceForge soon as newtelligence dasBlog Community Edition" with Clemens' blessing and continuing using the BSD license.
• Improved Omar's Link-by-Title-rather-than-GUID feature.
• Example:
  http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HappyNewYear-AndfromMySPOTWatchaswell.aspx 
  is
  http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=2a41619f-0dca-40ec-bf2a-e95e0b2b6483
• Addition of my Month View and Year View (here's 2004)
• Modification/Addition of the Complete Archives with bug fixes.
• Modification/Addition of the BlogRoll as an optional separate page with bug fixes.