New comment options

In reverse order: the new comment permission scheme will allow blog admins to better specify who can post comments to their blog. The currently available options are anonymous guests, guests with names, registered members of the site, members of the blog and nobody. These options also apply to the viewing permissions of the comments; you can restrict comment creation only to registered users but viewable by all and vice versa: comments created by everybody but viewable only by the blog members. Unfortunately, if you have modified your PostDetails fragment, you will need to replace the comment logic with something like this (watch the line breaks!):

## show the comment counter
#if($properties.detailEnableCommentCount)
#if($commentHelper.isCommentsShown($blog,$post) && $post.comments.size()>0)
[<a href="$link.setPost($post)#Comments">$post.comments.size() comments</a>]
#elseif($commentHelper.isCommentable($blog,$post))
[<a href="$link.setPost($post)#Comments">add comment</a>]
#end
#end

The blog and user management pages are only available to the site administrator and concern themselves only with addition and removal of blogs and users, not setting properties and settings.

The RSS subsystem has obtained a new configuration page where the blog admin can set the default format of the RSS feeds (RSS 2, RDF and ATOM are currently supported), and whether the default should include full posts or only excerpts. Several settings are now admin-settable, such as copyright statements, the address of the editor and the RSS feed language.

Whew, that was quite a bit more than I suspected...