v8.0

Improvements

• Changed to NCronJob for scheduling jobs to make it more predictable
• General Test-Setup is easier and more maintainable
• Fixed a bug where Copy&Paste did not work on MacOS/Safari
• Update Packages

Bug Fixes

• The Dashboard showed incorrect (values) due to a bug in the implementation of a background service

v7.0

Improvements

• Reading time is moved when creating the blog post and not calculated on the fly
• Refactoring the AppConfiguration into the IOptions pattern

Migration

SQL

For SQL databases the following script will create the new ReadingTimeInMinutes column and populate the values:

ALTER TABLE BlogPosts
ADD ReadingTimeInMinutes INT
GO

UPDATE BlogPosts
SET ReadingTimeInMinutes = CEILING(
    (LEN(Content) - LEN(REPLACE(Content, ' ', '')) + 1) / 250.0
    +
    (LEN(Content) - LEN(REPLACE(Content, '![', ''))) / 2.0
)

SELECT * FROM BlogPosts ORDER BY UpdatedDate DESC

Option migrations

Some changes to the appsettings.json have to be made:

{
	//other configuration
-	"AuthenticationProvider": "Auth0",
-	"Auth0": {
+       "Authentication": {
+         "Provider": "Auth0"

Also for AboutMeProfileInformation:

{
-    "AboutMeProfileInformation": {
+    "ProfileInformation": {

v6.0

With .net 8 GA - also a new version of the blog is "released".

New Features

• .net 8 GA upgrade!
• Added Healthcheck for cloud hosting
• Cleanup of the application.settings
• Big improvement for UserRecords. Now, there is an hourly job consolidating those into a new table for quicker Dashboard results.
• Some improvements thanks to EF 8 - making Tags inline into the BlogPost entity

Improvements

• Using NSubstitue instead of Moq
• Update other NuGet packages and js dependencies

v5.2

New features, fixes and improvements:

• Upgraded to net8.0
• Polishing reading indicator
• Added patreon as donation service
• Added structured data for header
• Smaller UI/UX improvements
• Performance improvements
• Fixed bug in SQL, where tags can't be updated. Migration see #252

v5.1

New release - new features!

Features

• Reading Indicator that takes only the content without comments into account

Improvements

• Better indication between drafts and scheduled blog post in Draft Blog Post page
• Better frequency of checks for publishing (minutely instead of hourly)
• Support for MySQL (Thanks to @manishtiwari25
• Use EF8 pre-release and remove some dependencies
• Auto-Index for EF Code-First
• Smaller other improvements

v5.0

A new release after quite some time. There are a lot of new features:

Features

• Using Bootstrap 5.3 to use dark and light mode
• Ability to schedule posts to publish in the future

Improvements

• Use the custom paged list to improve scalability
• Better way of counting words (faster and fewer allocations)
• DateOnly instead of DateTime for records
• Don't allow press the publish button multiple times to publish the same article twice
• Use sliding window for caching

There are some breaking changes:
BlogPost has a new ScheduledPublishDate column as well as UserRecord DateClicked is a Date instead of DateTime2.

v4.2

Features

• Full support for light and dark theme (currently it is just reading the system preference and is not selectable)
• docker files for easier setup in containers

Improvements

• Smaller refactorings and rem
• Better toast design thanks to updated packages

v4.1

This release brings smaller improvements and updates

Improvements

• Better SEO handling with additional tags (canonical URL as well as discover tags for Google)
• Bumped some packages from preview to stable release

v4.0

This is the first new major release aka v4. It brings a lot of improvements and some new features and bug-fixes

New features

• Ability to add Talks to the AboutMe page
• Better handling of dirty flag aka getting a pop-up when a blog post has unsaved changes
• Tags in the blog post page itself to allow users to see similar content

Improvements

• Big performance improvements across the board
  • Dashboard shows way quicker results
  • Removed unnecessary allocations across a lot of pages
  • Using pooled DbContext
• Code highlighting in the blog post editor
• Blog post error validation errors are aligned what the database is capable off
• Updated to .net 7

Breaking changes

• SqliteServer is renamed just to Sqlite. This has to be adopted in your appsettings.json
• For migration (SqlServer/Sqlite) you have to add the following table:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Talks](
	[Id] [nvarchar](450) NOT NULL,
	[PresentationTitle] [varchar](256) NOT NULL,
	[Place] [varchar](256) NOT NULL,
	[PublishedDate] [datetime2](7) NOT NULL,
	[Description] [varchar](max) NOT NULL
)
GO

ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Talks] ADD  CONSTRAINT [PK_Talks] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED 
(
	[Id] ASC
)

v3.12

This release brings two major bug fixes, which are long overdue:

Bug-Fixes

• Dashboard can now be used with RavenDb or InMemory storage provider as well
• Use DbContextFactory to overcome some exceptions