Serendipity 0.8.1 released

[garvinhicking]

The Serendipity Team is happy to announce the immediate availability
of the 0.8.1 maintenance release.

This new release mostly addresses some bugs and security issues
discovered in Serendipity 0.8.

Serendipity users who are running their blog with multiple and maybe
not trustworthy authors are urged to upgrade to this new Release
because of authors being able to upload special files without
privileges.

The other important fix addresses possible XSS injections for the
templatedropdown and shoutbox plugins.

Other non-critical fixes include:
* Fix pagination of Entries by Author
* Fix RSS 1.0 feed validation
* Deactivated GZIP encoding in certain environments
* Fix some missing allowed BBCode special characters
* Some IIS/Windows server compatibility fixes

No new features of our 0.9 development release have been ported
into this release. If you are eager to try our new features like
viewing/selecting multiple categories to read, new plugin hooks
for the media selector, uploading X images in one go and others -
feel free to try our nightlies available on www.s9y.org

On top to that new release, the following new plugins
have been published since the release of Serendipity 0.8:

* serendipity_event_aggregator: A "Planet"-like plugin that
turns a Serendipity installation into a RSS Aggregator
* serendipity_event_customarchive: A user-sortable view on
your archived entries
* serendipity_event_cachesimple: A full-page caching plugin
* serendipity_event_todolist: A todolist sidebar plugin
with maintanable project/todo states
* serendipity_event_userprofiles: Display and maintain personal
user profiles

The upgrade from a previous release is as easy as ever: Download
the new version, unpack the files into your existing directory,
open your Blog's admin interface and you will see the automatic
upgrader. No SQL updates or function calls need to be made for this
maintenance release, so the upgrade will only update your
serendipity_config_local.inc.php file to set your new version string
to 0.8.1.

Have fun with the new release,
The Serendipity Team.

[robert]

I "have to" say: Upgrading is easy! Well done

May the force be with you, young coders

Regards
Robert