Obligatory Fireworks Photo
As we all must do when we see fireworks, let us let out a collective "oooooooohhh" and "aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh" with the release of Movable Type 4.0 Beta 5.
This release is right on par with our past releases, with over 100 fixed bugs, UI tweaks and feature enhancements.
We have updated our change log and our list of known issues (some of you may have noticed that we did not update our known issues after the last beta - for that we apologize).
This release does not have very many new features as the team is focusing 99% of its time on fixing bugs and refining the last pages of the application. There is one new feature worth mentioning however... the template editor now supports template snippets allowing users to easily insert template tags using handy keyboard shortcuts. This greatly speeds up the time it takes to code new templates and reduces the potential for error when typing template tags manually. Kudos to the team for squeaking this feature in there.
We hope everyone in the Movable Type community has a Happy Fourth of July. Just know, that no one will judge you if your idea of fun on a National Holiday is to download the latest Movable Type Beta and submit bug reports. In fact, the team salutes you.Update: A new MT4 Beta 5 build has been deployed and made available through the regular download mechanism. The build is MT-4.0-beta5-20070704.
Arvind Satyanarayan
July 4, 2007 2:05 AM | Reply
TextMate users will feel right at home with the new snippets. Just type mtentries and hit tab and voila! The real beauty is that template snippets are too defined in the registry so plugins can add their own (and in fact, I'm creating a plugin that'll allow you to define your own custom snippets!)
Sara
July 4, 2007 7:00 AM | Reply
Ohhh ahhhh :)
This is seriously starting to sound cool. Specially with the plugin Arvind is working on.
demonsurfer
July 4, 2007 7:40 AM | Reply
Thanks! :)
PRO IT Service
July 4, 2007 11:53 AM | Reply
A free online demo is available for this release as well!
http://www.movabletype4.org/
Happy Fourth of July to everybody :)
yanhuawen
July 4, 2007 9:12 PM | Reply
It's such a great day for me.
I can not wait to see the final release:P
Jay Allen
July 5, 2007 12:31 PM | Reply
With regards to:
and
Dear MT Team: I love you... I've consider this a fantastic present for my birthday.