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dasBlog Security Advisories

Dominick Baier has posted two security bullitens for dasBlog: Security Advisory: Log File Path Predictability in dasBlog Community Edition This issue may or may not affect you. On my host, this does not occur as they lock down /logs from anon users. Security
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dasBlog 1.7.5016.2 released

We've released dasBlog 1.7.5016.2. This is a release to address almost every bug that was reported since releasing 1.7.5016.1. There is an important Cross Site Security Vulnerability fix in this release and it's recommended that everyone upgrade. Release
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dasBlog 1.7 questions and answers

First of all, the community reaction to dasBlog Community Edition 1.7 has been great! I’m delighted that people have been able to move with little trouble. However, a number of folks have asked some questions and I’d like to answer some of those. Question
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dasBlog 1.7 released

Well, I'm a bit late to the party... but as Scott announced , dasBlog 1.7 is finished. There are numerous and substantial improvements in this version. Some of them were done months ago, and the most substantial came in the last 2 months as Scott and
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Referral Spam and Movable Type Blacklist

Well, just in time for a wave of referral spam that is hitting my blog (mostly from http://www.ownsthis.com ) I spent part of today writing a class that can consume the Movable Type Blacklist . The class will allow you to download this file from the server
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RSS xhtml:body

A while ago there was some hubub about support for xhtml:body in the RSS item tag. Since all RSS aggregators must support the description tag, which contains all the escaped html content of the post, having another tag in the RSS feed that duplicates
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Dying Thread on Trackbacks, Referrals and Pingbacks

Part 2 of 2 Bug 2: TrackingHandler Thread Dies Another problem that Scott Hanselman informed me of was that he would frequently stop receiving Trackbacks, Pingbacks and Referrals on his posts. Furthermore, it was intermittent. This was troubling since
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DateTime.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd")

Recently I found the answer to two very hard questions about bugs in dasBlog. They were kinda tricky to figure out, but also really interesting (bug 2 will be in a follow up post) Bug 1: DateTime.ToString() One of the classes in dasBlog that stores information
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Enclosure support in dasBlog

Well, thanks to some encouragement from Jeff Sandquist , I just recently added Enclosure support to dasBlog. It was a bit tricky because RSS 2.0 only allows for a single enclosure per item . I didn't want to get burned by the spec changing at some point,
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dasBlog 1.7 progress

Well I plan on spending the next few days getting together a beta of dasBlog 1.7 . I've been slowly doing some work on dasBlog the past few months (emphasis on slowly). To be honest I was pretty close to closing up shop on dasBlog and eventually writing
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dasBlog feature: Search Result Referrers

I have to admit, one of the more fascinating aspects of having a blog are the ways that people find it. I'm constantly amazed at how people get here. Having a good amount of Google Juice helps put some of my posts pretty high in google's results. Well
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dasBlog support for Newsgator Ratings

I uploaded a patch for dasBlog 1.6 that allows you to utilize the NewsGator ratings system . This patch adds support for a new PermalinkUrl Macro. You can use this macro by adding: <%permalinkUrl%> to any of your templates. To add the rating system
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dasBlog Security Update

If you are running dasBlog, make sure you install the security fix available for all released versions of dasBlog. http://www.dasblog.net/documentation/PermaLink.aspx?guid=92ad6eb7-ee40-4c89-9f1e-a07c83859e63
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dasBlog 1.6.1 hotfix

Scott Hanselman and Clemens ran into a nasty dasBlog 1.6 bug . Basically it was possible for your entry cache to get corrupted (not your entries). Thanks to Erv Walter for quickly investigating and fixing the problem. I have uploaded a hotfix for folks
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