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I'm thrilled to announce the release of the next version of Banana Dance's beta: vB.2.4. This version comes after months of functionality testing and stress testing and solves a number of annoyances as well as adds many useful new features.

Bug Fixes

• Issues with long page titles resolved.
• Issues with breadcrumbs having trailing "junk" resolved.
• Admin logout link working.
• Widgets: Article data is filtered through the proper function allowing for a fuller set of caller tags.
• SSL connections are now considered when creating headers.
• IMPORTANT: This requires that you change the following in config.php:
• This Text: define('URL',
• Becomes: define('URLHOLD',
• Internet Explorer: Solved issues with the admin control panel.
• Widget editor: A large number of bugs with the editor have been resolved.
• Notices: Comment notices now link to the correct page.

New Features

• The biggest new feature is "Custom Callers". Custom callers allow you to automatically find specific text in your pages and do one of three things with it:
• Create a straight find and replace.
• Example 1: Find text "COMPANY_NAME" and auto-replace with "Widgets Inc.".
• Place a help bubble next to it.
• Example 1: Find text "John Smith" and auto-create a help bubble with text "John Smith is our President and CEO"
• Auto-link to a URL or page on your website.
• Example 1: Find text "About Us" and auto-link to article named "About Our Company"
• Example 2: Find text "Yahoo!" and auto-link to http://www.yahoo.com/
• Footnotes: the new [fn][/fn] functionality for footnotes has been added, allowing you to create more traditional citations.
• Stripped Privileges: Ability to remove a user type's privileges from a specific category.
• Pre-population: When creating a new page, you can pre-populate the editor with a preset "template". This can be customized for each category.
• New caller tags: %article_image% and %article_image_div%
• Creates a "fitted DIV element" with the first image on a page. Can be used in widgets.
• Improved Page Snippets: Smarter rending of page snippets to end on a sentence.
• Meta data: if no meta description or keywords are provided, the program will attempt to auto-populate these fields using the page's snippet and the page's tags.
• Theme Backups: Dtabase backups as well as automated theme file backups.

Lingering Issues

Some issues that I noticed but which couldn't be solved yet include:

• Internet Explorer issues with the dropdown menus in the admin control panel.
• Media library thumbnail rendering issues.
• Various widget editor issues.
• The template editor will something overwrite the incorrect template. The cause of this is unknown however I strongly recommend that you edit the actual template files until it can be resolved.
• The program still will occassionally create 2 copies of a new article when you are creating it. The reason is currently unknown but is being investigated.
• Caching: The caching system, which was designed for the original version of the beta, needs to be overhauled and updated.
• Search Results: Caller tags aren't always properly updating.
• Auto-updated: This system is a mess currently and needs to be overhauled.
• Styles: There are issues with system elements inheriting your website's styles which can easily cause problems.