Six Apart own the one of the most popular Blog software, Movable Type.
The latest version is 4.1, which released on Jan 24, 2008
Now MovableType has three distributions under different license.
1) MTOS (Movable Type Open Source) is a distribution of MT available under the GPL (v2).
It is Open Source license. Free to download, use, and modify. The restriction is keep Open Source, if you want to re-distribute it.
2) Movable Type for Personal Use is a distribution of Movable Type that is 100% identical to MTOS from a code perspective, however it is only available under a proprietary (closed source) license.
This is a free version for personal use. I also use this distribution.
3) Movable Type for Commercial Use is a distribution of Movable Type that includes the commercially-licensed equivalent of the core open source product and includes the Movable Type Professional Pack that contains features exclusive to our paid customers.
The advantage is the Professional Pack. The features are not included into the MTOS and personal license.
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Tag: “MovableType 4.1”
I have tested the upgrade on the MT unofficial blog. It is smooth.
Now I recorded the detailed upgrade procedures of David Yin’s Blog.
Backup
1) Login the MovableType system, Backup all blogs of this system, by tab system > tools > backup
2) Use Export feature of the system, by tab system > tools > export
Export every individual blog.
3) SSH to the Dreamhost.
Use tar command to backup all related files.
tar czvf backup.tar.gz ~/yinfor.com/
4) Go to control panel of Dreamhost, Goodies > Manage MySQL > phpMyAdmin
Export the whole database.
Now I have the full backups on different levels. I am safe even the following upgrade fails.
Upgrade
1) SSH to Dreamhost
cd ~/temp/<br />wget http://www.movabletype.com/download/personal/MTP-4.1-en.tar.gz
2) Decompress the package
tar xvzf MTP-4.1-en.tar.gz
3) Copy the decompressed files into the mt cgi folder. I use mtcgi as the system folder.
cd ~/temp/MTP-4.1-en/<br />cp -r -f . ~/yinfor.com/mtcgi/
4) Now launch Firefox.
Enter https://www.yinfor.com/mtcgi/
Click “Begin Upgrade” to continue.
Just found that Movable Type 4.1 and Movable Type Open Source 4.1 are released.
Download:
Movable Type OpenSource 4.1
Movable Type 4.1 personal
New features:
- A smarter posting screen
- New asset editing system
- Author Avatars
- Shared global templates
- Performance enhancement
I will upgrade my MovableType unofficial blog first to see its new stuff.
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