Thoth 0.2.0 has been released. Notable changes in this release include the following:

• Requires Ramaze 2008.06.
• Requires Sequel 2.0.1.
• Added --adapter command line option and server.adapter config option to specify a different Ramaze server adapter to use (the default is Thin).
• Added --migrate command line option to automatically upgrade or downgrade a Thoth database schema.
• Added site.enable_comments setting. Set this to false if you don’t want users to be able to post comments on your blog.
• Added server.enable_minify setting. When enabled, all CSS under /css and all JavaScript under /js will be minified on the fly.
• Pagination bars now include links to up to nine nearby result pages in addition to the prev/next links.
• Views are compiled by default in production mode, which improves performance significantly. To disable view compilation, set server.compile_views to false.
• All admin forms validate a session-specific form token on submission to prevent cross-site request forgery attacks.
• The Flickr and Delicious plugins are now included in the main Thoth gem.
• The Flickr and Delicious plugins have been modified to take advantage of Ramaze’s improved value cache rather than handling their own caching.
• Added a Twitter plugin.
• Added a Tags plugin for displaying tag statistics.
• Fixed incorrect default paths for the theme.public, theme.view, and media config settings.
• Fixed the --home command line option.

To install Thoth for the first time, run:

sudo gem install thoth

Or, to upgrade an existing Thoth blog:

sudo gem update thoth
cd /path/to/blog
thoth -d stop
thoth --migrate
thoth -d start

Note the database migration step, which is necessary to migrate your 0.1.4 database to the 0.2.0 schema. Your existing data will be preserved, but you may want to make a backup first if you’re paranoid.