September-6 - Unlimited session time, extended searches, and more

 YACS supports unlimited edition time. The Javascript code used to poll the server periodically is produced in the function render_skin() in shared/global.php. See also the server-side script heartbit.php.

 Every search requests can now be extended to Google, Yahoo!, Popdex, and Technorati. See search.php.

 Similarly, categories based on keywords offer to switch to these search engines as well. See categories/view.php.

 The anchor interface has a new get_excerpt() member function. Check shared/anchor.php.

 Thanks to this new feature, articles are now able to expose some text to comments (see articles/article.php). As a result, the edition form for comments now displays some text to be cut and paste if necessary (see comments/edit.php). This is roughly equivalent to what Blogger features.

 A new handler has been introduced to better serve scripts requiring no Unicode transcoding, such as scripts/fetch.php. See the functions yacs_*() in shared/global.php. Most feeding scripts have been modified to use yacs_gz_xml_handler().

 The script used at the home pages to animate titles in Flash has been fixed to correclty use ISO8859-1 charset. See feeds/flash/slashdot.php.

 Bug fixed to create default pages in the default language, and not in the surfer language. See articles/populate.php, in categories/populate.php, in query.php, in sections/populate.php, in servers/populate.php, and in tables/populate.php.

 Rendering bug fixed in servers/view.php.

 Local network address 127.0.0.1 is not accepted anymore on weblogsUpdate.ping. See services/ping.php.

 LookWAYUp free dictionary and Babelfish translations have been added to the yacs template. This is experimental, however.

 The matching rule used to locate e-mail address has been enhanced in codes/codes.php.

 According to standards, HTML attributes checked and selected have been changed to checked="checked" and selected="selected" in a lot of scripts.