Serendipity 1.1.2/1.2 Beta 5

Serendipity is a PHP-powered weblog application which gives the user an easy way to maintain an online diary, weblog or even a complete homepage. While the default package is designed for the casual blogger, Serendipity offers a flexible, expandable and easy-to-use framework with the power for professional applications.
Casual users appreciate the way Serendipitys sophisticated plugin architecture allows you to easily modify both the appearance of your blog and its features. You can install more than120 plugins with just one click, instantly enhancing your blogs functionality. No need to edit code!
Likewise, one click installs any of more than 40 official templates, so your blog looks the way you like it. And Serendipitys SPARTACUS plugin automatically checks the central repository for upgrades and new functionality whenever you check the list.
Advanced users value Serendipitys Smarty templates for combining simplicity with well-documented web standards. It makes minor modifications trivial, but provides the power to unleash your creativity and completely customize your site! Serendipitys outstanding support gives you the confidence to be adventurous, too.
Programmers and other technical users commend Serendipity for its fast, stable, clean PHP code. While beginners can learn from Serendipity, advanced programmers can easily make complex modifications. Serendipity is programmed in PHP, long recognized for its ideal blend of power, simplicity, and speed. Serendipitys BSD licensing ensures that programmers around the world can learn from it and improve it.
Users of other blogging/CMS applications are already switching to Serendipity, thanks to its easy customization and outstanding support. Corporate users are taking advantage of Serendipitys unparalleled flexibility to set up fast, simple CMS sites.
Serendipity ships with a variety of plugins to plug-and-play with your blog.
Main features:
- WYSIWYG and HTML editing
- Built-in, powerful media database
- Multiple authors, configurable permission/usergroup system
- Threaded comments, nested categories, post to multiple categories
- Multiple languages (internationalization)
- Online plugin and template repository for easy plug-and-play installation
- Cool plugins: category-based sub-blogs, podcasting, RSS planet/aggregator, static pages
- Robust spam blocking
- One-click upgrading from any version
- Can be embedded into your existing web pages
- Standards-compliant templating through Smarty, remote blogging via XML-RPC
- BSD-style licensing
- Multiple Database support (SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MySQLi)
- Shared installations can power multiple blogs from just one codebase
- Native import from earlier blog applications (WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...)
Whats New in 1.1.2 Stable Release:
- Patch plugin permissionship management to properly indicateforbidden plugins/hooks, even if the admin user is not contained within the configured group. Thanks to ICE (http://board.s9y.org/viewtopic.php?t=8773) (garvinhicking)
- Patch pingback receiving function to use proper Regexp, thanks to dhaun from the forums
- Make categories sidebar plugin properly return evaluated categories list to plugin_categories.tpl template. Currently, a hidden structure would only be displayed when not using custom template. (garvinhicking)
- Change order of trackback execution flow (again) to preserve references for plugins like Track Exits, when used in conjunction with the entryproperties cache (garvinhicking)
- Fixed a bug that prevented some entryproperty-plugins to execute on the entry detail pane. (garvinhicking, Dragonblast)
- Fix a bug in sending the right login session cookies on Windows IIS servers. Major thanks to Shadowin from the forums!