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I'm happy to announce the release of Blogsum-1.0. This release includes a number of bugfixes and a couple enhancements over 0.9:

• Fixed preview mode
  Preview content is now encoded so markup will always get recreated properly in your browser.
• Tag Cloud
  Thanks to Jim Razmus who submitted this new feature. Make sure you add the new $max_tags_in_cloud setting to your local Blogsum.pm.
• Update date when (re-)publishing
  The published timestamp updates when you publish or republish an article.
• Fix timezones in db
  Fixed a bug where article or comment timestamps were always set to GMT instead of localtime.
• Fix pagination
  Removed pagination view from all non-default views. That is to say, we shouldn't paginate when viewing by year/month or tag filters.
• Minor aesthetic improvements
  Lots of whitespace fixes, a redesigned footer and the addition of a meta generator tag for Blogsum.
• Example httpd.conf for Apache-2.x
  Thanks to Dan Colish for testing Blogsum with Apache-2.x and submitting his configuration example. This has been added to the examples directory as httpd2-blogsum.conf.

I'd like to also thank Johan Huldtgren for submitting Blogsum to the FreeBSD ports tree for inclusion. It has been accepted and will likely bring many new Blogsum users, which will inevitably cause me to struggle even harder against the onslaught of feature requests. ;)

Just kidding, I'm glad to see Blogsum gaining interest in the community. I've also updated the OpenBSD port, if you happen to be using that instead of following svn. Enjoy!

OpenBSD's ypldap daemon provides YP maps using an LDAP backend. It was introduced with OpenBSD 4.4 but doesn't seem to have received much exposure within the community. I've been meaning to convert one of our bastion systems from using local accounts to LDAP, mainly for convenience.

The migration went smoothly except for the lack of a netid.byname mapping. Pierre-Yves Ritschard (pyr@) told me this is high on his to-do list. Without this mapping, sudo is unable to getpwuid(). Therefore, any accounts requiring sudo rights (read: administrators) will need to remain as local accounts until this is resolved.

The vast majority of this write-up was taken almost verbatim from a similar posting at the Helion-Prime Solutions blog. I've filled in some missing bits with regards to the sudo issue as well as ypbind issues over non-broadcast segments.

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I've never claimed to be a prolific hacker. I take much longer to complete a simple piece of code than even your typical hobbyist programmer. I'm easily distracted by shiny objects and WTFs.

Nevertheless, I finally gave in and threw together something resembling a blogging app. There are no fancy features yet, and likely never will be. It currently does about 90% of what I want it to do, which is closer to 2% of what the typical blogging/CMS application is capable of. It's my own KISS approach with a healthy peppering of careful input handling and a simple SQLite backend.

If you've been looking for a small blog application, particularly one designed for running in OpenBSD's default httpd(8) chroot, then Blogsum might be good for you. If not, that's ok too. Let the next guy have his World Domination. I just want to blog some.