Postleaf is now in beta! 🎉

This release wraps up all of the remaining alpha bugs and improves support for iOS devices. There are still a few known issues that require third-party bug fixes, but the editor is already much more usable.

• Removed resetToken and password from the User global ab497f7
• Fixed a bug where embed provider would be undefined in embed cards #62
• Added attributes to comment docs 4fcf3ce
• Removed the admin menu from the editor view to provide a true inline editing experience 99f98f3
• Added a lock file for npm 5 (all npm installs will use the same dep versions now!) e8eeed7
• Removed unused heading shortcuts caa4aa2
• Changed the behavior of open in posts, tags, and users to not use a new window aa34935
• Various iOS improvements and bug fixes view

This release adds a number of improvements as well as some new features and bug fixes. Most notably:

• Improved oEmbed discoverability with embed card fallbacks #12 (see also postleaf.org/embed-cards)
• Support for sitemaps #42 (see also: postleaf.org/sitemaps)
• Support for robots.txt 749ba8c (see also: postleaf.org/robotstxt)
• Support for JSON Feed #56

Updating

If you followed the DigitalOcean tutorial to install Postleaf, you can update using the following commands:

cd /var/www/postleaf
git pull
pm2 restart app

If you're updating from alpha 3 or below, make sure to update your .env file based on the latest example.

Additional Changes

• Added {@getAdminMenu} helper #48
• Fixed broken feed template 9e6326c
• Added support for robots.txt 749ba8c
• Fixed bug where Dust.js rendering errors weren't caught 9afa763
• Fixed bug where dynamic images without src attribute caused crash cbe1acf
• Added card blocks for pasted URLs that don't support oEmbed #12
• Fixed bug where tags were incorrectly sorted in a case sensitive manner #50
• Fixed bug where tags view wasn't sorting by date 2c6b7a3
• Add support for sitemaps #42
• Fixed Babel warning for large scripts #54
• Changed JSON output to pretty print in dev (no change in production)
• Added generateUrl method for DynamicImages f761f12
• Added support for JSON Feed #56
  • JSON Feed is located at /feed/json
  • RSS feed has moved to /feed/rss
• Added feed discovery metadata 6231245
• Changed the symbol for preformatted text to something less ambiguous (previously the same as the code icon) 1fdc635
• Changed triple backtick shortcut output from <pre data-code="js"> to <pre class="language-js"> to align more closely with GitHub Flavored Markdown 09d5a02

This release fixes a critical template caching issue that affected production. Changes include:

• Fixed bug where locater results would sometimes not show up in Safari on macOS and iOS #3
• Made startup errors more verbose
• Added Arabic translation (note: RTL support is still incomplete)
• Removed new window option for links (see this post)
• Updated TinyMCE to 4.6.0 and added support for inline boundaries for a and code
• Fixed bug where animated GIFs would be improperly modified when used as a dynamic image #44
• Fixed bug where template caching in production wasn't working properly #39
• Default .env.example to production
• Added getAdminMenu helper #48
• Various code improvements

This release makes installation easier and possible on droplets (VPS) with only 512MB. The build process is no longer required to run Postleaf for non-dev uses.

The tutorial for installing Postleaf on DigitalOcean has been updated.

• Added Spanish (AR) translation #31
• Added Polish (PL) translation #37
• Improved install process by committing assets
• Improved promise performance with Bluebird #26
• Fixed bug where navigation items could lose order when updating #5
• Fixed bug where setting a custom homepage required restart #16
• Fixed bug where tags were ordered arbitrarily when fetching posts #38
• Moved app slugs to .env since they can't be changed without restart
• Various code improvements and internal bug fixes

• Added German and French translations
• Added check for .env file
• Added formatUrl helper
• Added install scripts to package.json so gulp build runs automatically
• Fixed bug where data directory wasn't getting created on initial run
• Fixed bug where the Postleaf menu would only show partially in Safari
• Fixed bug where relative URLs were being used instead of absolute URLs in metadata (JSON-LD, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards)
• Fixed bug where custom homepage wasn't working due to wrong variable name
• Fixed bug where all revisions would show when creating a new post
• Fixed bug that prevented blank previews from rendering
• Removed AUTH_PASSWORD_MIN_LENGTH
• Removed APP_ENVIRONMENT in lieu of NODE_ENV
• Improved developer instructions in the readme
• Disabled whitespace compression in production environments due to erroneous output
• Switched to pure JS version of bcrypt to reduce binary dependencies
• Various improvements to promises

Initial alpha release.