v11.0

What's Changed

• Update Readme.md from AzureAD to Entra ID by @EliasMasche in #424
• Update AzureAD.md by @EliasMasche in #423
• Update Auth0.md by @EliasMasche in #425
• refactor: Update component types in Bunit extensions and tests by @linkdotnet in #409
• chore(deps): bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in #429
• Adding security headers by @shahabganji in #430
• Add author name in blog post by @Arnab-Developer in #428
• Bump Azure.Storage.Blobs from 12.25.0 to 12.25.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #433
• Bump xunit.v3 from 3.0.1 to 3.1.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #435
• chore(deps): bump actions/setup-dotnet from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in #432
• Bump xunit.runner.visualstudio from 3.1.4 to 3.1.5 by @dependabot[bot] in #434
• Refactor of Scoped CSS by @EliasMasche in #413
• chore(deps): bump github/codeql-action from 3 to 4 by @dependabot[bot] in #437
• Bump Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design from 9.0.9 to 9.0.10 by @dependabot[bot] in #440
• Bump ReverseMarkdown from 4.7.0 to 4.7.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #441
• feat: Update to dotnet 10 by @linkdotnet in #442

New Contributors

• @shahabganji made their first contribution in #430
• @Arnab-Developer made their first contribution in #428

Full Changelog: v10.2...v10.3

v10.2

What's Changed

• feat: New layout/design for the create or update blog post page by @linkdotnet in #421
• Bump packages

Full Changelog: v10.1...v10.2

v10.1

What's Changed

• feat: Refactor Like button and remove custom animation by @linkdotnet in #410
• feat: Smaller ui adjustments for short card by @linkdotnet in #411
• fix: Act on CryptographyException in LocalStorage (fixes #412) by @linkdotnet in #414
• feat: Upgrade major mongo version by @linkdotnet in #418

Full Changelog: v10.0...v11.0

v10.0

What's Changed

• feat: Upgrade to EF9 by @linkdotnet in #390
• Azure Blog Storage: Support for nested containers to upload files by @sa-es-ir in #391
• Sitemap dynamic by @linkdotnet in #393
• chore(deps): bump many packages
• Added Initial PostgreSQL support by @EliasMasche in #399
• Feature: Bookmarks by @levinoeninckx in #403
• Reworked related articles

New Contributors

• @sa-es-ir made their first contribution in #391
• @EliasMasche made their first contribution in #399
• @levinoeninckx made their first contribution in #403

Full Changelog: v9.0...v10.0

v9.0

After a long time a new stable release with many, many new features. Also check the MIGRATION.md for migrations you have to do.

Features

• Table of contents is automatically created
• Top 3 similar blog posts are automatically linked at the bottom of the page
• Shortcodes, a form of dynamic templates inside blog posts, are part of the blog
• Completely new markdown editor
• RSS Feed offers multiple versions (including content)
• New ways of customizing donations: See the docs.
• Markdown Editor supports asset upload directly to Azure Blob Storage! See the docs.
• Copy button for source code, so users have an easy time to grab the code samples
• (Experimental) Transform HTML to Markdown
• New Critical CSS Generator

Improvements

• Archive page overhaul! Looks better.
• Running with .net 9
• Enabled nullable annotations for all projects
• Many updates of packages.
• EF Migrations for SQL provider

Other (breaking) changes

• InMemory as a storage provider was removed. Please use Sqlite with the in-memory settings (consult the documentation for further information).
• New places to add the "donations". That comes with a restructure of the appsettings.json file.

v8.0

Improvements

• Changed to NCronJob for scheduling jobs to make it more predictable
• General Test-Setup is easier and more maintainable
• Fixed a bug where Copy&Paste did not work on MacOS/Safari
• Update Packages

Bug Fixes

• The Dashboard showed incorrect (values) due to a bug in the implementation of a background service

v7.0

Improvements

• Reading time is moved when creating the blog post and not calculated on the fly
• Refactoring the AppConfiguration into the IOptions pattern

Migration

SQL

For SQL databases the following script will create the new ReadingTimeInMinutes column and populate the values:

ALTER TABLE BlogPosts
ADD ReadingTimeInMinutes INT
GO

UPDATE BlogPosts
SET ReadingTimeInMinutes = CEILING(
    (LEN(Content) - LEN(REPLACE(Content, ' ', '')) + 1) / 250.0
    +
    (LEN(Content) - LEN(REPLACE(Content, '![', ''))) / 2.0
)

SELECT * FROM BlogPosts ORDER BY UpdatedDate DESC

Option migrations

Some changes to the appsettings.json have to be made:

{
	//other configuration
-	"AuthenticationProvider": "Auth0",
-	"Auth0": {
+       "Authentication": {
+         "Provider": "Auth0"

Also for AboutMeProfileInformation:

{
-    "AboutMeProfileInformation": {
+    "ProfileInformation": {

v6.0

With .net 8 GA - also a new version of the blog is "released".

New Features

• .net 8 GA upgrade!
• Added Healthcheck for cloud hosting
• Cleanup of the application.settings
• Big improvement for UserRecords. Now, there is an hourly job consolidating those into a new table for quicker Dashboard results.
• Some improvements thanks to EF 8 - making Tags inline into the BlogPost entity

Improvements

• Using NSubstitue instead of Moq
• Update other NuGet packages and js dependencies

v5.2

New features, fixes and improvements:

• Upgraded to net8.0
• Polishing reading indicator
• Added patreon as donation service
• Added structured data for header
• Smaller UI/UX improvements
• Performance improvements
• Fixed bug in SQL, where tags can't be updated. Migration see #252

v5.1

New release - new features!

Features

• Reading Indicator that takes only the content without comments into account

Improvements

• Better indication between drafts and scheduled blog post in Draft Blog Post page
• Better frequency of checks for publishing (minutely instead of hourly)
• Support for MySQL (Thanks to @manishtiwari25
• Use EF8 pre-release and remove some dependencies
• Auto-Index for EF Code-First
• Smaller other improvements