This week, Matt Jacobs announced the availability of Movable Type 4.3. Jacobs calls Movable Type 4.3 "snappy" and states that this release "makes composing, publishing, and searching in Movable Type easier than ever".
Version 4.3 of this social publishing platform includes the following new features and improvements:
- Smarter Search and Pagination - Several new ways to drill down your search (author, category and date), which lays the groundwork for the ability to paginate your index and archives. The ability to paginate comments, which will dramatically improve publish times on prolific comment threads.
- Entry Asset Manager - Movable Type has been improved by the way it handles assets like photos, which means it's much easier to make slideshows and editing entries that use assets.
- Summary Object Framework - This is Movable Type's first step in dramatically improving performance for larger installations.
- Improved Documentation - Movable Type has tested, rewrote, reformatted, consolidated, and provided basic and advanced tested examples for over 80 document pages.
- Smarter Blog Cloning - Use any of your existing sites as a prototype for new ones by cloning just a blog's layout and design with a few clicks. A recommended feature for blog networks.
- In-App Performance & Developer Features - For those with thousands of entries, users or blogs, searching inside the app is much faster.
Additional resources further explaining the new features in Movable Type 4.3 can be found at MovableType.org. The new software is currently in your Movable Type account and on the website for download.