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* everything is based on nodes: nodes are a conceptual "black box" to couple and manage different types of content and that promotes reusing existing code, thus reducing the complexity and size of drupal as well as improving long-term stability.
* introduced links/drupal tags: [[link]]
- rewrote submission/moderation queue:
* renamed submission.module to moderation.module
* updated submission forms
- removed FAQ and documentation module and merged them into a "book module":
* allows collaborative book writing
- removed ban module and integrated it in account.module as "access control":
* access control is based on much more powerful regular expressions (regex) now rather than on MySQL pattern matching.
- rewrote watchdog and submission throttle
- added settings.module:
* moved most configuration options to the administration section
- various updates:
* added preview functionality when submitting new content (such as a story) from the administration pages.
* made the administration section only show those links a user has access to.
* improved account module:
+ added "acess control" to allow/deny certain usernames/e-mail addresses/hostnames
+ added preview functionality for administrators
+ made it possible to permanently delete stories
* comment navigation should be less confusing now
* additional/alternative display and order methods have been added.
* modules can be extended with a "comment system": modules can embed the existing comment system without having to write their own, duplicate comment system.
* story sections make the open submission more adaptive in that you can set individual post, dump and expiration thresholds for each section according to the story type and urgency level: stories in certain sections do not "expire" and might stay interesting and active as time passes by, whereas news-related stories are only considered "hot" over a short period of time.
* you can setup multiple drupal sites on top of the same physical source tree either by using vhosts or sub-directories
- added "user ratings" similar to SlashCode's karma or Scoop's mojo:
* all rating logic is packed into a module to ease experimenting with different rating heuristics/algorithms.
- added "search infrastructure":
* improved search page and integrated search functionality in the administration pages.
- added translation / localization / internationalization support:
* because many people would love to see their website showing a lot less of English, and far more of their own language, drupal provides a framework to setup a multi-lingual website or to overwrite the default English text in English.
- added fine-grained user permission (or group) system:
* users can be granted access to specific administration sections. Example: a FAQ maintainer can be given access to maintain the FAQ and translators can be given access to the translation pages.
- added FAQ module
- changed the "open submission queue" into a (optional) module
+ user accounts can be deleted
+ added fine-grained permission support
* improved block module
* improved cron module
+ improved parser to support more "generic" RDF/RSS/XML backend
* improved themes:
+ W3C validation on a best effort basis