Habari

Habari /həˈbɑːri/ was a free and open source blog engine written in PHP and currently supports MySQL, SQLite and PostgreSQL for the database backend.[2] It got its name from the Swahili greeting habari, which means "(what's the) news".[3]

Habari
Developer(s)Habari Community
Initial releaseApril 3, 2007
Stable release
0.9.2[1] / September 16, 2014
PlatformPHP on Apache, Lighttpd, Hiawatha, Cherokee, Nginx
Available inEnglish, localizations available in many languages
TypeWeblog publishing software
LicenseApache License 2.0
Websitehabariproject.org

The last release was on September 16, 2014. The Habari website is no longer working, but the source code is still available on the project's GitHub page.

Features
  • Modular, object-oriented core for easy extensibility[4]
  • Supports multiple database backends[5]
  • Uses prepared statements throughout to protect against SQL injection attacks
  • Media silos to directly access various ways of media storage, like Flickr, or the server's filesystem
  • Atom Publishing Protocol support
  • Multiple users (authors) supported
  • Multiple sites on one installation supported (such as blog1.example.com and blog2.example.com) (note, however, that Habari does not yet support multiple blogs on one domain such as http://example.com/blog1 and http://example.com/blog2[6]
  • Support for static content ("pages")
  • Plugin support
  • Tag support
  • WordPress importer

History

The Habari project was started in October 2006[7] to develop a modern blogging platform. The focus is on utilizing current technology, such as PHP 5, PHP Data Objects, and object-oriented programming, and the support of modern standards, such as the Atom Publishing Protocol.

The first "developer release" was released on April 3, 2007. Habari 0.2 followed on August 4, version 0.3 on November 5, version 0.4 on February 22, version 0.5 on July 27, 2008, version 0.6 on April 6, 2009, version 0.7 on April 1, 2011, version 0.8 on 13 December 2011, version 0.9 on 20 November 2012, version 0.9.1 on April 3, 2013, version 0.9.2 on September 16, 2014.

Habari was a finalist in the 2008 SourceForge Community Choice Awards in the category of Best New Project.[8]

Release history

This table contains the release history of Habari.

Colour Meaning
Red Release no longer supported
Green Release still supported
Blue Future release
Version number Date Links Notable changes
0.1 April 3, 2007 Release post
  • Initial developer release.
0.2 August 4, 2007 Release post
  • Introduction of the user manual.
  • Addition of event logging.
  • Addition of FormUI.
  • Addition of Stacks.
  • Addition of Cron.
0.3 November 5, 2007 Release notes
  • Made Blueprint and jQuery available to themes.
  • New administration area layout and colors.
  • Addition of plugins' code validation.
0.3.3 November 25, 2007 Release post
  • Improvement of the plugins' code validation.
0.4 February 22, 2008 Release notes
  • Addition of caching.
  • Initial support of media silos: Flickr, Viddler.
  • Initial implementation of ACL.
0.4.1 March 23, 2008 Release notes
  • Full SQLite support.
  • Addition of session saving on expiration.
0.5 July 27, 2008 Release notes
  • New administrative interface.
  • PostgreSQL support.
  • UTF-8 support.
0.5.1 September 19, 2008 Release notes
  • Security fix
0.5.2 October 18, 2008 Release post
  • Security fix
0.6 April 6, 2009 Release notes
  • Access control
  • Private posts
0.6.1 May 11, 2009 Release notes
  • Updated PostgreSQL support for access control
  • Minor fixes
0.6.2 May 22, 2009 Release notes
  • Security fix
0.6.3 October 16, 2009 Release notes
  • Security fix
  • PHP 5.2.10/5.3 workaround
0.6.4 February 19, 2010 Release notes
  • Security fix
  • PHP 5.2.12/5.3.1 workaround
0.6.5 November 17, 2010 Release notes
  • Security fix
0.6.6 December 4, 2010 Release notes
  • Security fix
  • Bug fix
0.7 April 1, 2011 Release notes
  • Security fix
  • Areas & Blocks
  • Taxonomy
  • Better comment spam protection
0.7.1 May 12, 2011 Release notes
  • Bug fix
0.8 December 13, 2011 Release notes
  • Security fix
  • Child themes
0.9 November 20, 2012 Release notes
  • Bug fixes
  • End of PHP 5.2 support
  • Better performance
0.9.1 April 3, 2013 Release notes
  • Bug fixes
0.9.2 September 16, 2014 Release notes
  • Security fixes
  • Bug fixes
  • PHP 5.3 not supported, 5.4 required

Development model

Habari is developed by the Habari community, in a meritocratic process inspired by the Apache Software Foundation.[9] Permission to commit code is handled liberally, with new contributors easily getting access to their own branches in the main source code repository. The decision-making process always involves the community, and in most cases decisions are made by community consensus. Some decisions, such as the decision that a new version should be released, are finalized by a vote amongst the Habari committers.[10] This ensures that different opinions are heard and discussion is not stifled. Free-flowing developer discussions are most common on the Habari Project's official IRC channel, #habari on Freenode.[11]

References
  1. http://habariproject.org/en/blog/habari-092-released
  2. "Habari Project Wiki - Before You Install". Archived from the original on 2008-09-13. Retrieved 2008-08-09.
  3. Kamusi Project - Translation of "habari"
  4. asymptomatic.net - Release Announcement
  5. Habari Project Wiki - Features page
  6. Comparison of Habari to WPmu)
  7. Habari Project Mailing List - about page
  8. SourceForge Community Choice Awards - Finalist listing
  9. How the ASF works - The Apache Software Foundation
  10. Habari Project Wiki - Cabal page
  11. Habari Project Wiki - IRC
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