If you have customized your blog's templates, now would be a good time to download a copy of your current, custom template so you have a backup. While this is a good idea at any time, now is a really good time since there is a rare bug with Blogware where custom templates may be truncated. Depending on which template this is, it could cause anything from your custom CSS not being applied, to articles not displaying, to the whole blog not displaying.

Up until last night, we had only seen this on blogs we were testing or managing. We had reported this to Blogware as a bug a few weeks ago but they weren't able to replicate it. Last night, a customer reported their custom article template had been truncated which was causing the article to not display.

We have reopened this bug with Blogware to try to get this fixed. In the mean time, if you have customized your templates be sure to download a copy of them in case this bug bites you.

Blogware squashed a few bugs yesterday:

• Apache log file format: The logfile format has been returned to its previous format before the implementation of the SQUID caching system This will not be visible until 8/18's stats are run.
• Anonymous posting for blogs that don't allow anonymous comments: The unauthenticated user now receives a message letting them know that they need to authenticate first before posting. Uncustomized versions of article/photo.html were fixed previously and this one will address customized ones, backing up the previous version as article/photo.html.bak.
• Improved SQUID cache handling: These should address issues of displaying cached pages after some actions (like using manage_notices, or after creating a reader account).
• Issues where misspellings of getText causing errors have been fixed.

The following bugs are noted and are being prioritized for a fix:

• French accents in moblogging subject lines not handled gracefully.
• Text server side includes still being cached, but graphics seem okay.
• Some errors are being shown in another language than the blog's default language.
• Problems downloading logfiles for French and Spanish blogs -- errors with "invalid day of week".
• Browsers are caching Web Pages in the blogging environment after they're updated.
• Problems attaching additional photos (or files) to Photo blog postings.
• Posting a comment doesn't automatically refresh the page.
• Some RSS readers (most notably my.yahoo.com) are having trouble parsing RSS feeds.