This is mostly a bug fixes releases of your favorite free and open source Q&A software and hosting solution with a few gems included.

Among the new updates we have:

• enhanced wiki, you can now visualize diffs between two versions of a post.

• 12 more badges (necromancer, stellar question nice question, nice answer etc)

• many bug fixes for badges, ajax, notifications, moderation and SEO.

The detailed changelog:

• option to disable groups

• moved group config to an embedded doc (reputation, display name, etc)

• option to disable geolocation

• group creator is automatically added as member

• fixed email language bug

• add default widget for new groups

• make it visible when a post is a wiki

• make slugs larger (for SEO)

• handle the case when a logged out user tries to comment

• fix showing old comment text when editing comments

• don’t send emails to friends in the wrong language

• make advice email clearer

• exclude private groups from widgets

• show a special layout when logging in private groups

• decrease answers counter when banning an answer

• make footer smaller

• make quick question smaller

• increase description box to 500 characters

• don’t show any reference to shapado when the group is private and the user is logged out

• don’t show banned answers on the homepage

Don’t forget that creating your own Q&A site is only a few clicks away

As usual, grab the code here

Hope you enjoy this release as much as we do!

Posted on 2010-03-16 21:06:31 UTC

0 comments

Tags shapado, release, changelog, mongodb, rails