Habari
# 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. It got its name from the Swahili greeting habari, which means "(what's the) news".

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
* Supports multiple database backends
* 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 file system
* 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
* Support for static content ("pages")
* Plugin support
* Tag support
* WordPress importer

## History

The Habari project was started in October 2006 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.

### 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 |
