| Release Date | Change to Core | Change to Provider |
| 06/28/2008 | metaPost 1.2.4 We updated the code that managed the auto creation of tabs based on the metaPost tab markup to handle special cases. Simply install over the previous version. A fix to the auto footnote feature was added which solves an issue where the beginning paragraph tags were being removed thereby creating invalid HTML. | Blog Module Provider - Some summaries were incorrectly being returned as an excerpt rather than as the top half of a split post. Text/HTML Provider - HTML in the title was being encoded so that it was visible when the changes were published. |
| 09/02/2008 | metaPost 1.2.5
We updated the code to allow metaPost to work with the CTP of Windows Live Writer that is currently available. This required adding two new category related procedures and updating each of the existing providers to implement these new procedures.
The metaPost core was also updated to ensure that there was compatibility with the iFinity URL Master module. This fix should also ensure that metaPost installs and works in environments where the siteurls.config file has been secured and cannot be updated during installation.
| News Articles - The News Articles provider was updated to match recent changes in the module. Support was added for sending email messages to article approvers when an article is submitted for approval. Support has also been added to make use of new features such as the default categories feature recently added to News Articles.
Magic Content - Updates were made to the Magic Content provider to solve issues experienced while publishing content.
Updates to All Providers - Each of the providers was updated to match changes made to the IPublishable interface. These changes were required due to changes in Windows Live Writer in the CTP release of the next version of WLW.
New Providers - New providers have been added for the following DNN modules: Announcements, Help and Forum. The help files haven't been updated for these providers yet and instructional videos have not been created yet. More on this to come.
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| 10/12/2008 | metaPost 1.2.6
Added code to allow for easier debugging of installation problems. | Blog Module - Fixed an issue regarding the syntax of aliases used with the (nolock) keyword. Some installations failed based on the syntax being used. This caused errors to occur during account creation.
Forum Module - Fixed an issue with aliases similar to the one described for the blog module.
New Articles - Changed the provider to support the new hierarchical categories support added to the News Articles module.
FAQ Module - Added proper Html encoding to ensure that HTML added through WLW isn't hidden.
Help Module - Updated the code to find the exact ModuleID for the Category module instead of relying on it being 1 more than the Help module which wasn't the case in some installations. |
| 11/04/2008 | metaPost 1.2.7
Updated the NewMediaObject method to remove the : character from a provider name. This was needed because of Engage: Publish.
Updated the GetPage and GetPost code to always look at description, mt_text_more, and mt_exerpt, not just the description.
Added debug code to GetRecentPosts and GetPages | Expandable Text/HTML - Sorted the entries by Title so they are easier to find in the Open dialog.
News Articles - Updated the NewItem code to take care of an issue with the reflection when calling GetArticleLink. Updated to work with the latest version of News Articles.
Changed the code in GetRecentItems to use Substring(PageText, 1, 2000) instead of just PageText which caused errors in SQL 2000. Special thanks to Fuji from Indyne for this help resolving this issue. |
| 12/09/2008 | metaPost 1.2.8
Updated the code which saves the images to set the file permissions for the images after they are saved. This will help to make it easier to see images from the web when using modules which use the file dropdown. The permissions are now configured to allow read and write access for the user who added the image as well as read and write access for the Admin role for the portal.
Also fixed issues with the Tab and Footnote code which caused the code to only work with up to 10 Tabs or Footnotes. Now an unlimited number of tabs and footnotes can be added to a post.
Changed the name of GetModuleInfo to GetModulesForUser to be more consistent with what it does. This particular overload was only called from the Help, FAQ and Announcements providers. Also changed the implementation to remove a break which was causing the procedure to only return the top most module. | Blog Module Provider - Updated the code to take advantage of the new SEO Friendly URL format when saving a post.
New Articles - Updated the GetCategories method. Replaced code which wasn't using reflection to call the ParentID property of the CategoryInfo object. The code was there, it just hadn't been completed.
- Updated the category code to add numbering in front of the categories.
- Updated the GetItem code so that it doesn't add the article image if the image contains a FileId. To update the article image, simply associate a new image with the article by adding a new image and setting the attribute to ai.
- Updated the code to account for changes Scott made to the GetCategoryList method.
- Updated the GetRecentItems method to return all articles for ArticleApprovers |
| 01/03/2009 | metaPost 1.2.9
This was a private release used for testing purposes only. Those who have a 1.2.9 release should install 1.3 to be brought up to date. | |
| 01/08/2009 | metaPost 1.3.0
Upgraded the core metaPost publishing engine to install on DNN 5.
Modified the core redirect infrastructure.
| Announcements Provider – updated the provider to authorize user before calls are made to methods.
FAQs Provider – updated the provider to authorize user before calls are made to methods.
Help Provider – updated the provider to authorize user before calls are made to methods.
Forum Provider – updated the provider to authorize user before calls are made to methods.
DNNArticle Provider – updated the provider to authorize user before calls are made to methods.
Text/HTML Provider – updated the provider to authorize user before calls are made to methods. |
| 01/11/2009 | metaPost 1.3.1
Fixed an issue with WLW 14 (the beta version of WLW) which caused the categories not to be downloaded for some providers such as the News Articles provider.
| News Articles Provider - updated the provider to address issues in the latest release of WLW that related to the way categories are managed. |
| 01/16/2009 | metaPost 1.3.2
This update fixes an issue with the Text/HTML provider. Users with the latest release of WLW were experiencing issues related to categories that made it impossible to open existing Text/HTML modules.
| Text/HTML - updates were made to allow users to open existing modules. This issue was a result of changes made in 1.3.1. |
| 01/21/2009 | metaPost 1.3.3
Updated the localization code to ensure greater coverage of localization settings for the product. Also updated the DNNArticle provider to fix an issue with categories.
| DNNArticle - updated code related to how categories are managed in the DNNArticle provider. |
| 02/03/2009 | metaPost 1.3.4
Updated the DNNArticle provider to fix issues related to the 06.01 release of DNNArticle. | DNNArticle - updates made as noted in the entry to the left. |
| 06/24/2009 | metaPost 1.3.5
This is basically a maintenance release. It contains updates to various minor issues such as the ability to show a localized error message in the case when a user can't publish to metaPost because metaPost hasn't been enabled for a portal.
One new feature that was added is the ability to add a type=video attribute to the end of the video attributes in the rel attribute of a hyperlink pointing to a video. Without adding type=video, only links that end with the swf extension will be configured to show videos. Since some videos are stored in file repositories where the URL may not end with the swf extension, this new attribute was added to tell metaPost that a link is for a video.
One other thing to note about metaPost 1.3.5 is that there are two downloads for this release. We've compiled the product to work with two different versions of the CookComputing XML RPC library. This is to accomodate customers who are using the new version of the library. If in doubt, I would suggest installing the file which ends with _cook2.4, since this contains the latest version of the Cook Computing XML RPC library. | Ventrian News Articles - updated the News Articles provider to support integration with the SmartSocial story feed.
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| 10/2009 | metaPost 1.3.6
Fixed an issue with /n added to the end of videos when editing existing content. Fixed an issue where the IDs related to videos were removed when editing existing content. Fixed an issue where font tags would throw off the tab feature. Added code to keep p and div tags from being added asymmetrically when the [tb] tags were added
with the top tb tag on it's own line and the ending tb tag included inline (or vice versa). | Ventrian News Articles – updates were made to make the metaPost provider for News Articles compatible with the most recent version of News Articles. With the recent changes, the metaPost provider for NA is no longer backwards compatible with previous versions. The latest version of News Articles must be used with the metaPost provider for NA (NA 7.56 at the time the provider was released).
Axon Provider – an Axon provider was introduced. Only basic publishing support is included with the Axon provider.
ZLDNN DNNArticle – this provider is now shipped with DNNArticle.
Text/HTML Provider – updated to support the new workflow and versioning features added in DNN 5.1. Note that after DNN 5.1, the friendly name for the text/html provider changed to just html. This will be important when creating a new account in WLW. The key used in the posting URL will be html rather than text/html. The key remains the same for all instances of DNN older than DNN 5.1. |