Anti-spam Features

• Automatic Referral and Trackback blacklist update
• CAPTCHA for non-admin users (Font warping has also been increased in this version)
• Logging and display of Comment IP addresses and resolved Hostnames for Admins
• DasBlogUpgrader can strip spam from existing content folders
• Support for rel="nofollow"
• Ability to delete referrals and trackbacks directly from the Admin UI
• Delete comments directly from your mail reader
• Comment moderation option
• RSS Emails removed to avoid having email addresses stolen from Feeds
• Support for AKISMET (next release)

Security Features

• HttpOnly cookies
• Admin access auditing
• SMTP Authentication for outgoing mail

Syndication Features

• Improved RSS Comments support for SharpReader and RSS Bandit
• Upgraded Atom support from 0.3 to Valid Atom 1.0. ATOM Syndication permalink changes but 301 is issued.
• RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 validates via FeedValidator.
• Ability to mark entries as "syndicated" or not. Entries can appear on the site but not in RSS/Atom.
• New between RC1 and Gold: Plugable, configurable pinging of Blog Search engines like pubsub and technorati.
• Channel Image feature (RSS Bug)
• Direct Feedburner Support with 301 redirection for RSS and Atom feeds.

Performance Features

• Search Highlighting is optional now
• Referrals are logged but not stored in XML by default. Configurable. This has huge performance benefits for high traffic sites.
• dasBlog Upgrader can optionally remove all referrals. Again with high traffic sites some folks had 5meg XML files full of referrals.
• Theme templates are now cached in memory.
• Log files are archived daily to .zip files.
• Support for Really Simple Discovery (RSD) so client software can autoconfigure itself
• Support for alternate SMTP ports

Theme Features

• dasBlog now ships with 24 themes and a Theme Combo to change between them.
• theme.manifest file makes themes and image assets more portable.
• dasBlog Badges/Artwork

Architecture

• ASP.NET 2.0, C#
• Medium Trust model
• Operational under ASP.NET 2.0 and ASP.NET 3.0
• Structured XML data store
• Supports template themes (Ships with over 24)

Content Portal

• Ability to pre- and post-date entries
• Cross Posting (post is added two blogs at once)
• Permalinks based on Title and Date optional: 2005/06/06/title.aspx
• Latest build of Free Text Box including ability to upgrade FTB without upgrading DasBlog.
• Text Editor (FTB) supports IE7
• Text Editor (FTB) supports FireFox
• Blog Statistics Log
• Blog Statistics macro
• Archive pages macro
• macro for items disclaimer
• macro for homePageTemplate disclaimerLink
• Mail-To-Weblog continues to improve. Works with Thunderbird.
• Upload Image and Upload Attachment
• Comments can now be "closed" for a given Entry
• Entries can be set to IsPublic (i.e. working drafts before release)
• Large calendar view with posts
• Blogroll.aspx for rendering your blogroll.opml file
• TrackBack Autodiscovery is attempted before PingBack Autodiscovery
• Pingbacks from one dasBlog to another dasBlog work
• TagCloud Support
• Support for Mobile Browsers like Blackberries and SmartPhones
• Top Posters macro and total comments
• Macros for Next Post and Previous Post
• Macro for Category Paging (next release)
• Support for Gravatars
• Support for limited HTML markup in comments
• Email page for leaving comments to the author, includes Captcha
• Pluggable Rich Text Editor, choose from the latest version of FreeTextBox or FCKEditor or write your own adapter
• Multi-user/blogger support
• Emailed Daily Activity Reports
• Support for Blogging directly from Word 2007
• DHTML Timeline of Posts from the MIT Simile project
• Support for SMTP Servers like Gmail for notifications (and alternate SMTP ports)
• LiveComment Preview
• Category and Home Page Paging Macros

Extensibility Features

• Custom Macro Plugin model without recompiling DasBlog (see the source for the example custom macro)
• Works with Windows Live Writer out of the box
• Support for CoComment
• Microsummary support for Firefox 2.0 Beta
• Automatic generation of Google SiteMaps
• Automatic disabling of Comments after a certain number of days. Also manual "close comments" support
• ContentLookAhead show future dated posts
• Ajax Autosave Drafts support