We've released version 1.3.3 of the contributed plugins pack! There are a number of additions and bug fixes since 1.3. Most focus on the comments plugins, including anti-spam plugins (Akismet and JavaScript) and AJAX support. The full list of changes is below.

You can download the new contrib pack here. If you find problems with contributed plugins, visit this page on how to contact us. "Problems" could be bugs, feature-requests, or setup issues.

-Ryan <ryanbarrett at users dot sourceforge dot net>

General

• reorganized directory structure.

pycalendar

• fixed to be locale aware and also added a config property for specifying which day to use as the first day of the week. (Thanks Martin!)

weblogsping

• fixed the plugin to handle error conditions.

comments

• handle UTF-8 encoded text correctly. (Thanks makoshark!)
• add $cmt_optionally_linked_author template variable.
• add support for sending comment email notifications via a local MTA, using the comment_mta_cmd config variable, instead of SMTP.
• add a simple new JavaScript-based anti-spam plugin, check_javascript.py.
• add the Akismet anti-spam filter, akismetcomments.py. (Thanks Mako and Blake Winton!)
• add support for AJAX comments.
• added nofollow support to $cmt_optionally_linked_author. (Thanks, Todd Warner, for the ping!)
• updated RSS template and code to support RSS feeds for comments on individual posts. An RSS feed for all comments, site-wide, is yet to come.

trackback and xmlrpc_pingback

• these are no longer subjected to comment_reject filtering plugins. a new callback, trackback_reject, has been added for filtering trackbacks. (Thanks Junji Nakanishi!)

moinmoin

• now compatible with MoinMoin 1.5 as well as 1.0. (Thanks Zarick Lau!)

editfile

• fixed to search the environment for editors. (Thanks Mako!)

rst

• fixed two bugs that prevented the plugin from working. (Thanks g2boojum!)