I have a tendency to bleed a little on this blog, meaning I grab the latest source code version and compile it myself to run it on the server almost all the time. The last official release of dasBlog (which is an open-source .NET blogging server application) was v1.8 and it was born nearly a year ago (wow, that long?). But for those who compile it themselves from source, it's been changing regularly over the past year and we've been enjoying the trickle-flow of feature enhancements.

And sometime soon now, says Scott, the official dasBlog v1.9 release will be out.

v1.9 will include some significant feature enhancements. Here is a mostly complete list (at least at this point -- the list is blatantly stolen from Scott's blog):

  • Much better multi-user/blogger support including a Top Posters macro and total comments - from Christoph De Baene

  • TagCloud - from Scott

  • Huge (100x+) speedup in Macro execution - from Scott

  • Support for If-Not-Modified to speed up execution, improve RSS bandwidth and CPU cycles - from Scott

  • Direct Feedburner Support with 301 redirection for RSS and Atom feeds. Don't lose a single subscriber. We're the only blog with direct support for Feedburner and Feedflare I believe. - from Scott

  • Delete comments directly from your mail reader - from Omar

  • New themes out of the box, 18 at last count - from Many Folks

  • New XML-RPC support for newMediaObject - from Omar and Giuseppe Dipietro

  • New support for RSD so client software can autoconfigure itself - from Omar

  • Pluggable Rich Text Editor, choose from FreeTextBox or FCKEditor or write your own adapter - from Josh Flanagan

  • Support for CoComment - from Scott

  • Organized source, build, and packing for clarity - from Josh Flanagan

  • New Feed Icons - from Omar

  • Automatic disabling of Comments after a certain number of days. Also manual "close comments" support - from Omar

  • ContentLookAhead show future dated posts - from Josh Flanagan

  • Other misc fixes and suggestions from Tomas Restrepo, Jason Follas, Rene Lebherz and Steven Rockarts. Added entry CPU usage optimizations from George V. Reilly.

  • Better strings and support for Portuguese, Turkish and Vietnamese from Ph?m Ð?c H?i.

If you're a sourceforge nut, know how to use Subversion and want to compile it yourself, go for it. Or wait a bit longer for the release. I am running the latest code on this weblog, and it's pretty darned slick.