Hello all,

As most of you already know, in the past week we made a business decision to remove the free version of MyBlog, NiceTalk, and Jomcomment from our site. These products will now be fully commercial. For those of you who are currently using the free version of any of these products, you can continue to use them but however to get product updates, a purchase would need to be made for the product. In any case, you can always buy MyBlog and if you are not happy with it, there is a 7 day money back guarantee, although I am very confident that you will not be disappointed, with MyBlog being the only blogging component in Joomla! that comes close to WordPress.

MyBlog 0.9 Build 3 is now finished and released. It might take some time for the new release to be put onto the email updates page, as well as Plimus (our sales solution). For existing customers of MyBlog, if you would like to get the new build right away, please send us an email with the email address that you used to purchase MyBlog and we will send you the latest build.

Here is the official release notes for MyBlog 0.9 Build 3:

Myblog 0.9 Build 3 Release Notes
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Package contents
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- com_myblog_std.zip : Installer file for main MyBlog component
- cb.myblogtab.zip : MyBlog Community Builder plugin installer file
- mod_myblog.zip: MyBlog module installer file

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Fixes
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- Auto calc dashboard thickbox size for User Blog page.
- Allow viewing of blog entry content in Joomla backend admin for MyBlog
- Fix ordering in dashboard to be sorted by date
- Fix encoding issues with dashboard home
- fix tag clouds. Previously, tags with a higher frequency had smaller fonts.
- Warning to user that entry will be lost when navigating to View Blog in dashboard
- Add blog description to the MyBlog frontpage whenever visit a blogger's blog
- Fixed social bookmarks bot to use correct links to bookmark
- Fix issue with saving entries when 'Use HTML Editor' is set to No in MyBlog settings.
- Added option to disable image browser
- Fix URL generated when searching blog entries
- Add write a new entry to backend admin interface
- Automatically ping technorati for the main MyBlog frontpage isntead of just pinging for the user's blog
- only allow safe tags for security when saving blog entries. (script tags, embeds, are all disabled)
- Fix RSS entries title link encoding issue with accented characters
- Fix permalink generation to correct convert whitespaces to dashes
- better Itemid detection while in Dashboard
- Add image file upload limit
- Add option for users to post-date publish time.
- removed 'clear' CSS in templates for better compatibility with Pure CSS templates like Rockettheme
- Saving an entry now will take into account if the entry was posted in AM or PM. Previously all entries are saved in AM.
- Remove quotes from permanent link to prevent errors while visiting a link that has quotes.
- Fix issue where SMF avatar only appears for the first entry

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Recently Added Features
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- Added feature to list all blogs. Create a menu link-url to 'index.php?option=com_myblog&task=blogs' to access this feature.

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Useful Menu Links
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- MyBlog Dashboard: Create menu 'link-url' pointing to 'index2.php?option=com_myblog&task=adminhome&admin=1&no_html=1'
- MyBlog Dashboard in a Thickbox: Create a menu 'link-url' pointing to 'index.php?option=com_myblog&task=adminhome&admin=1&lightbox=1&no_html=1'
- View My Blog: Create a menu 'link-url' pointing to 'index.php?option=com_myblog&task=userblog'
- View All Blog Entries: Create a menu 'Component' for MyBlog
- List all blogs/bloggers: Create a menu 'link-url' pointing to 'index.php?option=com_myblog&task=blogs'

Also, along with the bug fixes, we have also bundled the new MyBlog module in the Standard and Pro versions. The module is pretty awesome - sections of the module like Archive, Latest Entries, Latest Comments - all change according to the person's blog that you are viewing (or all blogs if you are viewing the main MyBlog page). You can also customize the order in which the sections appear in the module. Another thing you can do is copy the module, and then have (let's say for example) Latest Entries and Archive appear on one module on the left side of the page, and another module containing Tag Clouds and Latest Comments on the right side of the page.

And for those who have been waiting for the Pro version for a looooong time, we are happy to announce that the Pro version is ready, and it will only be a while until we get the Pro version uploaded to Plimus and have a purchase link available for it. The Pro version includes a few templates, most of which will be familiar to WordPress users as the templates were based on existing top-downloaded WordPress templates. As we progress we will also be adding more and more templates to the Pro Version. For $10 extra, it's worth the purchase =). Oh and not to mention we remove the "Powered By Azrul's MyBlog" Link on each page.

On top of that, we are also providing prioritized customer support for our paying customers! =D

Hope you all like the new features and module and bug fixes in this new build. If there are any problems, issues, or enquiries, please do not hesitate to email us at support@azrul.com , or visit our forums at http://forum.azrul.com/index.php/board,14.0.html

Thank you all