The Serendipity php weblog system, my baby, has finally made 1.0. Try it out or read the full release announcement here:

Die Liberalen verwenden s9y. Dadurch kriegen sie zwar meine Stimme nicht, aber ich freue mich. Hurra!

Extra extra, read all about it: Finally, s9y.org has it's own blog. I am so totally amazed that I cannot continue writing this entry. Head over to the official s9y.org blog for actual info!

Hey everybody, it's time to upgrade your s9y installation once again (except you're running CVS, of course): go download! Garvin has bundled s9y-0.8b1 today (read his german release announcement), the coolest s9y "release" so far... Here's why:

• Support for Smarty Templating
• Improved installer with new "Simple Installation" mode
• Redesigned Administration Panel
• Syndication plugin offers to make RSS full content feeds (including extended entry)
• Added native import tool for Nucleus, WordPress, b2evo, bblog, bmachine, pmachine, geeklog, sunlog, Textpattern, phpBB and MoveableType installations, preserving entries, categories, users and comments
• Improved "Pretty URLs"
• Media Manager allows to upload files and insert them immediately in entry creation supports hotlinking of media on foreign servers
• Support for Server-timezone offset
• Improved directory/file structure
• Serendipity can now be used with JustBlogIt Extension
• Added option to send gzip-compressed pages to save bandwidth
• Support for realnames of authors instead of login-name only

This is not all, you can check out the full 0.8b1 release notes at the s9y wiki. If you're curious and want to enjoy a sneak preview about a s9y-blog looks from the inside, check out the s9y tour at supersized.org.

This is just a shorty to let you know that supersized.org is now open for public testing. What is it? It's a site that lets you create and run your own blog without the hazzles of blog-software-setup. Just enter your name and email and you're set. Easy eh? Give it a try and knock on my head if you have any comments!