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Now that I'm back from JavaOne and my first TagUnit article has been published on java.net, I've been spending a couple of days tidying up the Pebble 1.5 release. Here's a list of the fixes and new features.

• PEB-56 : Calendar next month not a link
• PEB-72 : Static page support (was Story support)
• PEB-76 : more fine-grained CSS in tag-generated HTML
• PEB-78 : index of comments
• PEB-79 : linear post navigation
• PEB-83 : configurable default category settings
• PEB-85 : version number on the multi-user index page, please
• PEB-89 : Store "draft" posts for later publishing
• PEB-91 : Hits and referers logged for opted out blogs when requesting multi-user feeds
• PEB-95 : Allow multiple e-mail addresses for comment/TrackBack/blog entry notifications
• PEB-99 : Add role mapping for pebble-admin in PebbleContextListener & web.xml
• PEB-102 : Reloading blog restores old version of theme
• PEB-103 : Blog entry email not sent with XML-RPC API
• PEB-104 : Comment permalinks
• PEB-105 : RSS 2.0 feed that includes comments
• PEB-106 : Threaded comments
• PEB-107 : Support for posting to a category in XML-RPC Blogger API
• PEB-109 : Printable blog entries and static pages
• PEB-110 : Friendly Google referers
• PEB-111 : Extra cr hex(od) added to blog entries whenever Pebble is restarted.
• PEB-112 : Days in calendar should be localized
• PEB-113 : Blog entry excerpts

As you can see, lots of new stuff in this release although most of the work has gone into refactoring for blog entry templates, draft entries and static pages. I've also chopped down the number of themes included to two - the original Pebble theme and the one you see on my site currently. Existing Pebble 1.4.1+ themes should work okay but you'll miss much of the improved functionality and look and feel. I would recommend taking one of the included themes and modifying it to suit your needs. This is basically the reason for the increase in version number from 1.4 to 1.5 (5.0 anybody?) - it's not just a simple replace of the WAR file.

I still need to work on the user guide before a final 1.5 release but that shouldn't take too long. Please do have a play and let me know how you get on. After a bit of hassle with the SourceForge FTP server, the upload has worked and you can grab a copy here.