I upgraded Serendipity today, due to the
recent announcement of the 1.0 release, as well as to combat some rampant
issues with trackback spam.
I've been very happy with Serendipity so far; it just runs, and the default
install gives just what you need to get a blog up and running, and nothing
more; any extra functionality comes via plugins which you, the blogger, get
to decide upon.
Additionally, it's incredibly easy to upgrade. Unpack the tarball, rsync
it over your existing install (I rsync it, because I don't use 'serendipity'
as my directory name), visit the admin, boom, you're done. I've upgraded
several times, and never lost data, nor configuration settings.
My primary reason for the upgrade was, as noted earlier, to combat trackback
spam. As of this morning, I had 15,000 pending trackbacks, none of which
appeared to be valid (if any of them were, and you're not seeing yours, I'm
very sorry; I deleted them en masse). These had accumulated in less than
a month -- that's an average of about one every 3 minutes.
Since upgrading, and using the Akismet
service, I've received not a single spam trackback. Needless to say, I'm
happy I performed the upgrade!
If you're a Serendipity user, and haven't upgraded to 1.0.0 yet (or one of
it's reportedly very stable release candidates), do it today -- you have
nothing to lose, and a lot of lost time to gain!
