Movable Type 5 Beta 3

Beau Smith - 6 October 2009 - 4 Comments

Movable Type 5.0 Beta 3 is ready! Beta 3 includes many improvements based on user feedback. While similar to the previous betas… Beta 3 feels very fresh and new due to the tightening of various user interface elements.

Beta 4 will be the last beta before there are two release candidates. At this point we’re targeting for a late November launch of MT5. A more specific date will be available as MT5 code stabilizes.

Please report bugs found during your testing.

Download ¶

Warning! - This is beta software and is not recommended in any production environment.

• Movable Type 5.0 Pro Betas (available in English and Japanese)

Check out the Pre-Release Software License Agreement for more details about the software.

Major Improvements in Beta 3 ¶

• Automatic website provisioning based upon blog domain names during upgrade from MT4.x and MT3.x 102466.
• Allow sub-domain blogs under one single website 102466.
• Selected tab is saved on “Websites and Blogs” widget on the user dashboard, so once the user clicks the “blogs” tab, this tab will be selected upon subsequent visits.(101689)
• [Create New] shortcut button on Website/Blog dashboard.(102333)
• Cleaner and simpler User Dashboard.(102338, 102331, 102429, 102339)
• Improved menu and button placement on [Edit Entry/Page] screens.(102391)
• Download a zipped theme file when user [Exports Theme].(102423)
• Display “SSI” enable/disable status icon on template listing screens. (102416)
• Display links to published pages when user searches templates.(102495)
• Do not create any sample pages when user create a new website or blog. (102269)
• Motion and Action Stream template-sets are unbundled from Pro pack. These should be re-arranged to themes or addons.(101938, 101939)

Theme and template related cases ¶

• Unable to rebuild Index Template(s) on Listing Templates screen. (102505)
• Error when opening Revision History dialog from Edit Template screen (102496)
• FB:MTEntryImageAsset doesn’t work (102448)
• mt:AuthorUserpicURL doesn’t work in dynamic publishing (102405)
• ‘Cached’ icon is always shown on Template Listing screen even if module caching option is disabled (102535)
• No warning messages when exporting a theme with the same name as an existing theme (102546)
• Can not publish an archive templates. (102474)
• Run Callback when applying the theme for blog/website (101307)
• When having included template of other blogs, “create” link is displayed in the sidebar (83134)

Custom Fields related cases ¶

• Custom Fields default values are not displayed on dynamically published start-topic.html of Community Forum (102402)
• Better Categories listing on Edit Custom Fields screen (102403)
• [Customfields] Display option setting is not saved (102451)
• Required custom field isn’t displayed (102434)
• Custom field is not displayed on Edit Entry screen if it’s associated to category (102407)
• Unable to save required asset customfields (102325)
• CF: Base name shouldn’t be saved in Japanese or symbols (102556, 102555)
• CF: Unable to be set “display” not required cf by default (102431)

Automatic website arrangement during upgrade ¶

• Create websites automatically during upgrade from MT4.x and MT3.x (102473, 102519, 102201)
• Allow to specify a full site path in blog’s site root (102544)
• Webpage trackback is broken in website (102590)

Search and Replace related cases ¶

• User search doesn’t work on the “Select a entry/page author” dialog (102566)
• Unable to see the system-wide search & replace screen (102563)
• User who has system-level manage template permission cannot search blogs from Search & Replace screen (102327)
• Remove ‘Blog’ column from the blog-level Search & Replace screen for entry (102558)
• Invalid request error when searching entries on the custom fields listing screen (102489)
• Unable to search blog’s assets on the website-wide Search & Replace screen (102488)
• Search doesn’t work with regex match option on Search & Replace screen (102455)

User, Permissions, Comments ¶

• Wrong user list on “Select a page author” dialog (102514)
• ‘Continue’ button doesn’t work on the dialog of the second page (102450)
• Default Tag Delimiter setting is always set to ‘Comma’ on system user settings screen (102512)
• Userpic is not displayed on the header. (102428)
• Comments from trusted commenters are not immediately approved (102502)
• Publishing a comment posted via Facebook authentication results in an error (102433)

Other Cases ¶

• Blog Dashboard sometimes generate error (102432)
• Cannot send notification mail. (102477)
• Website list: What should display on System Overview (102460)
• FB: Text gets garbled in dynamic publishing with latin1 database (102480)
• Dashboard error after abort restoring blogs. (101948)
• Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 8 related fixes (102526, 102418, 102603, 102578, 102575, 102562, 102561, 102528, 102507, 102472, 102410)
• FastCGI: After Create Blog, most of sidebar navigation menus are gone (102521)
• FastCGI: Need to restart Apache to refresh System Theme Settings (102554)

Known Issues in Beta 3 ¶

To be fixed in beta 4.

• Unable to restore backup (102594)
• Site root and archive root that start with ‘/’ are not shown properly (102615)
• Create “MultiBlog Trigger” for “All blogs in this website” (102593)
• Cannot save pages and entries sometimes on 5.0b1 (102281)
• [Design] Comment Pagination is only for Classic Template on slapshot (102223)
• Cannot insert asset on Page/Entry body on FF3.0x (101829)

Found a Bug? ¶

1. To avoid duplication of efforts, search existing bugs (from the feedback page) before submitting a new bug.
2. Submit a bug in the Greyhound (MT5) Beta