0.8.2 Update

Hi,

this time around we have been doing small tweaks here and there. These include:

• Optimized startup time + splash screen
• Mask password properly in password editor
• Various rendering and user experience issues have been fixed or worked around

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Symbian packages for S60 5.0 and 3.2:
Install: WordPress_0_8_2_selfsigned_installer.sis – Smart Installer for first time users
Update: WordPress_0_8_2_selfsigned.sis – Regular sis for updating

Symbian packages for S60 3.1 (no location support):
Install: WordPress_0_8_2_selfsigned_installer_no_location.sis – Smart Installer for first time users
Update: WordPress_0_8_2_selfsigned_no_location.sis – Regular sis for updating

Maemo builds coming up tomorrow – I’ll keep you posted…

0.8.0 with new UI design released!

We’ve been working hard to implement Pekka’s UI concepts and now have a release ready. It’s not quite pixel perfect, partly because the fonts available don’t match 100%, and partly because some limitations in Qt. However, we got pretty close, and are more than happy with the new look!

Below are the installation packages for S60 5.0 and 3.2. Maemo builds (and maybe S60 3.1) builds will follow:

• WordPress_0_8_0_selfsigned_installer.sis – Smart installer for first time users
• WordPress_0_8_0_selfsigned.sis – Reglar sis for others

0.7.4 Released

Continuing the 0.7.X trend, this build mostly improves keyboard support again. However, we do have other improvements also. Here is the full change log:

• Improve image selection user experience
• More keyboard navigation improvements/fixes
• Enable location tagging on Symbian
• Render comments and post/page titles correctly
• Fix “memory full” errors in some cases
• Various bug fixes

NB! Due to the location tagging features, this build will not install on S60 3.1 devices (this includes e.g. the E71). This is because the Location capability is not supported in self-signed builds on 3.1. Devices with S60 3.2 and 5.0 will work fine. We will have a solution for this in the future, but for now all S60 3.1 users will just have to wait, sorry…

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S60 Smart Installer: WordPress_0_7_4_selfsigned_installer.sis (initial install)
S60 SIS package: WordPress_0_7_4_selfsigned.sis (upgrade)

N900: Install wordpress from extras-devel (should be available soon)

0.7.3 Released

This release is primarily targeted toward non-touch phone users, as the improvements are mostly related to keyboard navigation. Another week of developing has brought the following new features:

• At least 97% of the UI should be navigable with the keyboard now, please report any problems you might have. We will also be doing some testing next week to be sure everything is working.
• Long comments can be scrolled with the keyboard
• Focus and scrolling are kept in sync better in lists
• Key presses in platform dialogs shouldn’t leak through to the application as they did before
• list items are smaller on low resolution devices, so you can see more at once

The E71 deadlock which was in our previous release has been worked around. We are real sorry about this one, but it seemed to be a rather obscure Qt bug we were facing. Hopefully it wont be encountered by anyone anymore!

While working at keyboard support, we noticed that the image upload selection list truly is broken on Symbian. This shows the difficulty of developing for multiple platforms, as we didn’t realize the extent of the breakage until now, as Maemo builds were working fine. Fixing the image selection view will be high on our priority list next week.

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S60 Smart Installer: WordPress_0_7_3_selfsigned_installer.sis (initial install)
S60 SIS package: WordPress_0_7_3_selfsigned.sis (upgrade)

N900: Install wordpress from extras-devel

First preview release towards E-series support – 0.7.2

We’ve been working on re-enabling support for non-touch devices for about a week now, and have come far enough to release. Version 0.7.2 includes the following changes:

• Improved keyboard navigation support
• Improved low resolution display support
• Some minor UI tweaks
• Some optimizations in refreshing (rebuilt post category view)

Keyboard navigation and low resolution support are still work in progress. You might still get stuck in some views, and some parts of the UI are too big, but mostly it is functional.

NB! With one specific Symbian device, we ran into a seemingly random deadlock situation, which went away eventually. Your phone might deadlock shortly after starting the application, forcing you to remove the battery to reboot. This should not harm your phone, but you could loose any unsaved data. You have been warned!

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he S60 build is availble as a self-signed SIS package, and a smart installer which will automatically install the Qt dependencies if needed. The maemo build is available from the extras-devel repository.

S60 Smart Installer: WordPress_0_7_2_selfsigned_installer.sis (initial install)
S60 SIS package: WordPress_0_7_2_selfsigned.sis (upgrade)

N900: Install wordpress from extras-devel

0.7.0 Release

So. Our previous development release was version 0.6.99. What version number comes after .99? We thought that 0.6.100 would be a little ugly, so we’re going to call this 0.7.0 instead. It isn’t a fully QA-verified dot-zero release, but we’re now a major step forward from 0.6.0.

Compared to 0.6.9x, we’ve done some fairly major changes to the UI code. For the more technically inclined, this means that we went back from a fullscreen QGraphicsView-based UI to a normal QWidget-based UI (with a QGraphicsView in the middle). For the rest of you, this just means good news, because the new UI looks (almost) exactly the same as the 0.6.9x UI, but it resolves a lot of our previous UI issues.

Maemo keyboard input works now. Sticky-shift, auto-caps, word completion, áccents, ümlauts, on-screen keyboard, etc.
Symbian keyboard input also works better, and a lot of other UI issues are gone.

Looking back at our original Version 0.7 – what’s going to happen post, we’ve come a long way along with those targets:

• New UI? Check.
• Better backend in terms of UI updates? Check.
• Keyboard navigation? Sorry E71 users, but we’re not quite there yet

So, this 0.7.0 release represents what we believe to finally be a working implementation of our new UI/backend concept. No doubt, however, there are still many unpolished corners, so we’re going to be pushing new 0.7.x releases to fix these at the same pace we’ve been pushing the 0.6.9x releases.

As a bonus for N900 users, we’ve also included the first version of a new Geo-location tagging feature for blog posts in the maemo build. Note, however, that this requires a supporting plugin on the wordpress side, but said plugin unfortunately isn’t yet available.

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The S60 build is availble as a self-signed SIS package, requiring Qt 4.6.3 (QtMobility 1.0.1 is already included). The maemo build is available from the extras-devel repository.

S60: WordPress_0_7_0_selfsigned.sis

An updated Smart Installer build is not yet immediately available, but will be uploaded in the immediate future.

N900: Install wordpress from extras-devel

We’re looking to promote this 0.7.0 build (or a very close relative) to extras-testing in the immediate future as well.

Edit: Symbian Smart installer build: http://nokia.trac.wordpress.org/export/446/builds/symbian/testing/WordPress_0_7_0_selfsigned_installer.sis

New 0.6.99 development build available

Hi!

We’ve been fixing some UI issues, so here’s a new update for Symbian/maemo, with many UI-visible changes:

• Feature: Fix the page/post text edit widgets to automatically resize themselves to display the entire text content
• Statistics: Fixed API key handling
• Statistics: Stats data is now only loaded when you open the Statistics view (better startup speed)
• Statistics: Update to reflect new UI style
• Blogs list: Update to use new UI style
• Maemo: more text edit focus issue workarounds (the blog-edit view should work now)
• Comment/Post/Page list view text/layout tweaks
• More robust error handling for RSD queries

The issues with advanced text input (auto-capitalization, predictive text, sticky shift, dead keys like accents) on maemo are still unresolved.

The S60 build is availble as a self-signed SIS package, requiring QtMobility.sis and Qt 4.6.3. The maemo build is available from the extras-devel repository.

S60: WordPress_0.6.99_selfsigned.sis

N900: Install wordpress from extras-devel

Thanks for helping to test these builds, your feedback on bugs is very useful to us.

0.5.4 released

Hello everybody!

We are proud to release version 0.5.4 (Maemo and Symbian). The highlight of the release is that we have added new buttons, with which it is a lot easier to add text formatting and links to your blog posts. The buttons are still work-in-progress, so any feedback is welcome.

We have also fixed some bugs. Image upload memory usage has been optimized. And if there is a network error while publishing a post or page, it is saved to local drafts. The application has better error messages as well.

Stay tuned for the next version with stats support!

Edit: While we were preparing this release, we managed to fix ticket #23, so I have uploaded new binaries that contain the fix as 0.5.4a. Otherwise, the packages are the same.

0.5.2 released

Hi everybody,

We are releasing 0.5.2 to get rid of some bugs in previous releases. Download Maemo build or Symbian build.

Symbian users: the build has been linked against 4.6.2 Qt libraries, so please upgrade your Qt to 4.6.2 before installing.

Maemo users: the data file location has changed, so you need to re-enter your blog details after upgrading. This should not happen anymore in the future.

Changes since 0.5.1 release:

Common to both platforms:
1. The application no longer writes a debug log file.

Maemo-specific changes:
1. Add photos dialog now finds images taken with the device camera.
2. The executable is now installed to /opt so that precious rootfs space is not wasted.
3. The data and other cache files are stored in different space so that they are easy to clean up in uninstall.

For installation instructions, please see this post by futubanister.