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We released the first drop of Communtiy Server today. (see Announcment)

It's still a little rough around the edges, but the core pieces are in place. We now need to clean up the text, wire up a couple of the features, and hit the bug list at full speed.

As for blogging, I believe it is missing a couple.Text features: Key Words, Atom support, and the SimpleBlogAPI.. All of which should be in the final release (let me know if you find anything else missing :)

Although new features were not a top priority, because of the changes that needed to happen to integrate the three core CS applications a couple of nice improvements were made:

• Search - blog, blog groups, and all blog level.
• Blog Groups - currently only enables a blog to be in a single group, but much better than the .Text SQL approach.
• Web Admin - All blogs can be created,configured, managed via a new admin UI
• Multiple blog authors (blogger can edit more than one blog with a single login)
• Multiple author per blog (more than one author per blog, with metablog API support)
• The blogger can now override the post date (and this should determine when a post goes live)
• Private/Secure blogs

At the core application level, there were also a couple other improvements:

• Partial Trust - You should now be able to run all three applications under partial trust
• Membership, Roles, Profile providers - A back ported version of all three Whidbey providers are used to integrate the user base.
• Virtualization - Ability to host more than one "Community" with in the same datastore and site. This can mean sharing data across Urls, sharing users (ie, think weblogs.asp.net and blogs.msdn.com...two different communities, but same user base) and completely separate sites.
• Single admin UI to manage it all.

NGallery also has made a ton of improvements which many of the same multi-user features found in CS::Blogs.