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• New feature: Gravatar avatar images on comments and article postings

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• Converted all javascript UI code to JQuery, eliminating about 15 source files

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• Began converting javascript from Behaviour.js (does anyone still use that?) to JQuery
• Started adding ajax calls for admin tasks -- finished comment approval / disapproval / deletion

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• New Feature: Allow articles to be closed for commenting.

This should hopefully reduce the amount of time I spend cleaning up after spammers. I have started with closing comments for anything older than 30 days. This should at least let me concentrate on page 1 and not have to go back to older stuff.

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• Completed migration to Spring MVC 3.2
• Converted data access to Spring Data JPA
• Updated to new randomcoder-taglibs version (supports Spring Pageable implementation)
• Built against Java 7

Upcoming changes:

• Convert unit tests to JUnit 4
• Expand unit test coverage
• Update source to take advantage of Java 7 features
• Refactor data access methods and entities to minimize N+1 selects

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• Finally converted security from the truly ancient ACEGI to Spring Security 3.1. The configuration is much simpler now.
• Began migration to Spring MVC 3.2; roughly one third of the controllers are complete.
• Updated to Hibernate 4.2. This is a temporary stop on the way to using JPA and Spring Data.
• Removed the old Hibernate OpenSessionInView pattern. Unfortunately this required wrapping almost all data calls with Hibernate.initialize() due to lazy collections. Another TODO...

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• Hosting site on Jetty instead of Tomcat now.

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• Moved to using HTTPS throughout the entire site.
• Removed CardSpace support.

This is the first code update in a while... New in this release:

• Moved all code repositories to Git. These can be browsed via GitHub .
• Updated Download module and Links section to reflect new locations for all resources.
• Updated the site to Maven 3. There was some significant bitrot in the codebase that needed to be cleared up to get this working.

Other upcoming changes include:

• Move from deployment as a Tomcat WAR file to a standalone app embedding Jetty. This should result in faster restart times and decreased resource utilization.
• Remove CardSpace support as it has been deprecated by Microsoft for some time now and never really gained wide adoption.
• Update libraries to more current versions. For example, update to Spring 3.2 (using 2.0 currently).
• Move to using HTTPS throughout the entire site.