Captcha for Radio Community mailto pages

We've added a captcha to the mailto form on the Radio Community servers that should help block any bots trying to use the form to send mail.

If you still notice any spam getting through, please contact customerservice@userland.com and we'll add them to our filters.

Google BlogSearch support

If you have the preference enabled to notify the community servers, Radio and Manila will now ping the Google Blog Search service to include your site in the search results.

Update Radio.root to receive the changes.

For Manila, you can update through the Update page in the Frontier Admin site.

Aggregator: Support for Atom 1.0 feeds

The Radio UserLand and Manila news aggregators have been updated to support Atom 1.0 feeds.

You should update to receive the changes.

New Radio macros: permalinkUrl and encodedPermalinkUrl

We've released an update to Radio which includes support for two new item template macros:

permalinkUrl returns the URL for the permalink to the blog post.

encodedPermalinkUrl returns an encoded URL for the permalink which you may use for a Technorati Cosmos link etc.

Update Radio.root to receive the update.

New TrackBack spam filter

The UserLand Radio Community Servers have been updated with a new TrackBack spam filter.

Glue for SalesForce.Com API released

We released a a new "glue script table" that connects UserLand scripting environments to Salesforce.com through its SOAP interface.

Using the salesforce.com glue, it's easy to write custom applications for Radio UserLand and Manila, which utilize data in your Salesforce.com account.

Radio 8.2 Available Now

Radio UserLand 8.2 is now available! This version includes many upstreaming improvements, new features for Radio's folder viewer, and additional bug fixes and developer features.

Upgrade instructions and change notes are on the Radio UserLand website.

Salon Radio Scheduled Maintenance

The Salon Radio community and comments servers is undergoing server maintenance on Tuesday evening.

You may be unable to upstream or add/view comments during the maintenance.

If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact us directly at webmaster@userland.com.

Date:

Tuesday August 16 7:00-11:00 PM Pacific, the Salon Radio community and comment servers

Salon Radio Scheduled Maintenance

The Salon Radio community and comments servers are being moved to a new server this Thursday.

New comments will temporarily be disabled while the comment server is being moved.

If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact us directly at webmaster@userland.com.

Dates:

Thursday March 17, the Salon Radio community and comment servers

New preference: Using non-standard FTP ports for upstreaming

The FTP upstreaming driver in Radio UserLand has been updated to support a new optional port parameter to allow you to use a non-standard FTP port.

On the FTP Option preferences page in the desktop website, you will see a new port text field where you can define the custom port (by default it's empty and will default to 21 which is used by most FTP servers).