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This Release (R10) (January 30, 2010 - Commemorating the discovery of Comet Hyakutake in 1996 [1])

This release was mostly about making the site cleaner and easier to use. We've got:

• A better, faster, more informative activity feed and atom feed. (We can rebuild him!)
• A much cleaner interface. The home page has been redesigned to feature the activity feed. The obnoxious blue-bordered 'nodules' are gone, replaced with a more modern look. The non-logged-in home page is much more helpful now, too.
• Clearer information on how to license the code and info you post when creating snippets, articles, and algorithms. And we no longer force you to read the help page about licensing or adding algorithms before posting something :).
• Inline preview buttons for reST, code, graphs, etc on the create/edit forms. You can still use the full screen editor but it's not the only way to get previews now.
• New programming languages that you've never heard of: ABAP, Prolog, Modelica, Rebol, and MXML
• We've cleaned up a bunch of code on the backend too, which will make future updates a bit easier for us.

Please give us your feedback, what do you think about Siafoo? Where should we go from here?

Last Release (R9) (June 2009)

• Blogs!

  • You can create as many blogs as you'd like, for a group or for yourself. Create a blog now
  • You can set a blog as your personal user blog, or as the news or dev blog for a group
  • And of course, blogs have RSS feeds

• We finally have a forum

• Activity feeds available for objects you own and your subscriptions (by popular demand)

• Improved activity feed now shows comments text and changelog messages

• Comments can be edited (by popular demand)

• Articles, snippets, libraries, and algorithms now have a sidebar for easier metadata access

• Improved open search, with suggest

• We've done a lot of visual work this release. These have all been improved upon:

  • The homepage for non-logged in users
  • Nodules, especially on the homepage
  • Charts in user and group profiles (soon these nicer charts will be used throughout the site)
  • The group browse page
  • Group organization and navigation: easily switch between a group's info, members, items, or blogs.
  • Ad integration

• To save time, we have:

  • Faster logins: you no longer have to go to the /login page, instead, click on the login link and get a box that pops up immediately
  • Faster page loads due to ads being loaded after everything else and served from our server by Adjector.
  • Ability to link directly to a comment
  • Per-type activity stream... so snippets, articles, etc.

• Between releases we've also added

  • An HTML to reST translator

• New Languages:

• ActionScript 3
• Cheetah templates
• Clojure
• Cython
• GNUPlot scripts
• Lighthtpd config files
• Nasm assembly code
• Nginx config files
• POV-Ray scene files
• Scala
• Spitfire templates
• SQLite 3 console sessions
• Velocity (NVelocity)
• YAML

• New Licenses: Boost 1.0 license

Release before Last (R8.5) (6 August 2008 - Dedicated to August's Perseid Meteor Showers)

• Redesigned filters interface and cleaner browse pages
• Redesigned comments
• A Siafoo search box is now in the menu bar (Bonus: see if you can figure out the keyboard shortcut to activate it)
• Search autocompletion (still in alpha but check it out)
• reST in your user About Me field
• Improved math rendering
• Improved My Libraries widget (This will only show up if you own or subscribe to libraries)
• Error messages (404 not found, 403 insufficient permissions, etc) now more specific
• Activity stream on home page will now update itself every 15 minutes
• New Language: Nodebox (implemented by Theodore Test)
• Changes since R8 (that were implemented between the two releases):

• reST rendering and code highlighting demos
• "Siafoo Fortune" Google Gadget

Way Back (R8) (22 July 2008 - In anticipation of the total solar eclipse in 2009) [2]

• A redesigned about page shows you Siafoo's coolest features
• reST improvements:

• Flow graphs (see Flow Graphs):

  

• Math support, like (see LaTeX Style Math)

• Book citations by ISBN using the directive .. book:: 0-321-33489-2 or the interpreted text role :book:`0-321-33489-2` (see Citations)

• opengl.org links inside reST (for example, :opengl:`glBegin` will produce glBegin)

• Improved full screen code and reST editor (with split screen and AJAX preview)

  

• Redesigned news page

• Alert message is more visible

• Significantly improved text searching, especially the help search

• Group and Library content is versioned

• User ranking formula has been tweaked (it now takes into account your profile, the number of people you have invited, edits, etc.)

• Groups can now own images

• Messages can be forwarded

• Support for the OpenGL Shading Language

• Many smaller improvements

• New comments and notifications now get highlighted
• News items now allow comments
• Images now have 'author' and 'source' fields

• Significant performance improvements

Way way back (R7) (11 June 2008 - Celebrating the launch of the Venera 4 probe to Venus in 1967) [3]

• We're no longer invite-only -- anyone can create an account
• Most of the regular site pages have been redesigned or at least improved
• Update streams (like the Trac timeline) on algorithms, articles, and snippets
• Related items shown when viewing an algorithm, article, library, or snippet
• More intuitive bread crumbs when browsing
• Search improvements
• Languages can be specified for Articles
• New Languages: Io, Smalltalk, Tcl, Python 3, Logtalk, S, S-plus and R

Way way way back

For earlier release notes, visit What's Old.