• Added ability to store templates in database
• Added template tag context to allow use of MT tags
• Changed code to use standard MT loading of templates
• Cleared out now-unused routines (load_email)
• Corrected error with missing text on management interface
• Updated database load routines to standardize coding
• Updated translation file with recent changes

After quite some time, MT-Notifier version five is close to seeing the light of day. Or, at the very least, crawling out from under the rock from which he has been hiding.

I am sure that there are those who will argue that this release is probably not worth of a full-fledged bump in the version numbers, and there are bound to be reasons why you are right. But there are also surely prior releases that were worth more than a minor bump as well. It all works out in the end.

• Corrected category code for sending all comment notifications.
• Corrected ordering of permissions for widget installation.
• Fixed template tag name in widget.

• Added bypass setting for skipping old notifications to new subscribers.
• Added checking of record count to queue sent message.
• Added include/header.tmpl to plugin.
• Changed subscription sort date to modified (from created).
• Cleaned up carriage return/line feeds in plugin files.
• Cleaned up code by removing unused callbacks.
• Cleaned up history writing routines.
• Converted Notifier->instance to MT->component.
• Converted Notifier.pl to config.yaml.
• Corrected problem with queue limit not working.
• Corrected widget method names to be more consistent.
• Moved subscription verification to CommentScript (from AdminScript).
• Moved content from App.pm to Plugin.pm.
• Updated translation file strings.
• Updated object file definitions.

If you've been awake and online at any point in the last 48 hours or so, you have no doubt heard about Melody, the fork of the Open Source version of Movable Type, driven by a number of prominent members in the Movable Type community. If you haven't, then you surely will. The news is just about everywhere, at least for now.

What is perhaps most interesting is what is yet to be said - that there is little happening other than the news of the fork itself. While lots of places seemingly have lots to say (here, here, here, here), there has mostly been no response.

• Reorganized Perl "require" statements to ensure calling order.
• Updated language file with correct string for template.

Licensed users of MT-Notifier v4 can re-download from your unique download link to obtain the updated version.

As mentioned previously, you may need to update your URL to get to the download if you are having problems.

This release fixes the problem you may have encountered with an undefined subroutine. Requests were processed, but you would have received an error.

Also, anyone who has created translation files for MT-Notifier may have had an issue with one of the email strings. That has now been corrected as well.