Changelog

01 Nov, 2023

The following only logs functional changes. Minor bug fixes, patches and updates are not recorded.

August 2026

• Security updates
• Anti-bot hardening
• HEIC support

July 2026

• Front-matter tweaks
• Updated theme selector
• Hit and analytics endpoint optimisation

June 2026

• Fix protected subdomain vulnerability - reported by Otmane Ahardouch
• Dashboard save optimisation

March 2026

• Exclude tags in post lists
• Add italics and bold in post titles
• Date range on post lists
• Export backup as MD files instead of CSV
• Full text search on discover
• Random link to other blogs/posts
• Random blogs on discovery feed

February 2026

• Plugins are officially available
• Restore unsaved drafts on accidental navigation/reload
• Paste image into content field to upload
• Fixed viewed state on Discovery feed
• Save draft on accidental redirect/reloads

January 2026

• Rendering updates
• Hide blogs in discovery feed
• Bot storm protection on reverse proxy

November 2025

• Robust caching on the edge (about 60% speedier loads)
• Monitoring and redundancy
• Hit and upvote upgrades
• Added homepage to analytics

October 2025

• More admin tools
• Plugins repo
• Improved reverse proxy
• Transitioning to static upvoting

September 2025

• Changed code license
• Fixed favicon issue in Google and RSS readers
• Upload raw checkbox in media center
• Security updates
• Analytics speedup

August 2025

• Add a tag list anywhere using {{ tags }}
• Pasting url over selected text generates markdown link
• Support image in embedded post lists
• Add Next/Previous post links using {{ previous_post }} and {{ next_post }}

July 2025

• Styling changes to the blog list/account page
• Added RSS/Atom meta links to all pages
• More moderation tools (as always)

June 2025

• Minor dashboard updates
• Moderation tooling
• Fallbacks for infrastructure outages

May 2025

• Discovery feed work
• Minor bug fixes

April 2025

• Bot mitigation tools
• More moderation tools
• More caching and dynamic cache invalidation

March 2025

• Support paths for posts (eg: /blog/post-title/)
• Search by tag
• Community management tools
• Backup recovery tools

February 2025

• Small rendering tweaks and fixes
• Added blog hiding filter to discovery feed
• More bot fighting and redundancy work

January 2025

• Dealt with a deluge of AI scrapers and bots
• Added rate-limiting, WAF rules, and extra security
• RSS and post optimisations
• Search optimisation

December 2024

• Improved admin tooling
• Added more file support in the media center

November 2024

• Bug fixes
• Improved review process
• DB speedup and migration
• Added filtering by multiple tags

October 2024

• Database speedup
• Performance monitoring

27 September 2024

• Optimise images on upload

17 September 2024

• Allow favicons to be either emojis or links

04 September 2024

• Moved lang and date_format into settings

03 September 2024

• Improved media center
• Upload more file types
• Strip metadata from images on upload

August 2024

• Reduced dependencies
• Improved DB performance

29 July 2024

• Discovery feed language filter
• Removed email confirmation links for blog subscribers

12 July 2024

• Made the media center publicly available on the dashboard to upgraded blogs

08 July 2024

• Made error on post saving fail gracefully

05 July 2024

• Page named blog can overwrite default blog page

June 2024

• Cache RSS feeds
• Auto scaling enabled
• Better moderation tools
• Show local time instead of UTC

May 2024

• Ability to remove emoji favicon
• Rearranged a bunch of dashboard settings
• Rewrite of the Markdown and LaTeX renderer

08 March 2024

• Separated Post and Page logic for brevity

07 March 2024

• Post previews are now token protected, as opposed to just using ?preview=True flag

27 February 2024

• Added the ability to manage multiple blogs on one user account

19 February 2024

• Added custom footer content (which allows the addition of your own scripts, etc) for the dashboard. This can be found in Account > Customise dashboard

04 January 2024

• Started work on auth tokens
• Added RSS subscriber count to analytics

23 November 2023

• Added blog_last_posted attribute
• Dashboard uses uid instead of slug to handle "new"
• Cleanup Blog domain functions

21 November 2023

• Fixes:
  • Localisation bleeding
  • XSS injection in frontmatter
  • Only show relevant tags in posts

17 November 2023

• Added the ability to reference blog and post attributes in content

09 November 2023

• Removed all public instances of pk and replaced them with random uid
• Removed all dashboard instances of pk and replaced them with slug

08 November 2023

• robots.txt editor in Blog dashboard > Settings > Advanced settings
• Customise dashboard CSS in Blog dashboard > Settings > Advanced settings
• Directives editor relocated to Blog dashboard > Settings > Header and footer directives
• Refactored tags to be native instead of using taggit

07 November 2023

• Ability to embed filtered post lists in page content
• Cleaned out and refactored old code

01 November 2023

• Automated daily hash_id scrubbing
• Started this Changelog