Six Apart released Movable Type 3.3 beta 1 today.
I can rarely resist an upgrade. Even though they do not recommend installation of this beta on a production system, and even though the final is probably just three short weeks away; I took the plunge anyway and installed 3.3b1 on notMike.com. (I will certainly hold off upgrading my university’s installation of MT until the final, though.)
I haven’t had a chance to read all the way through the release notes, but a few new things are obvious.
Everything looks good so far. Streamlining and simplifying the admin interface looks to be the main goal of this upgrade. We finally have quick formatting buttons for entries that work in Safari; WYSIWYG-editing is still limited to Firefox or IE.
Support for tags is now built in. I started using them with this post.
The search template is now configurable at the blog level! This means that the display of my customized search pages were broken for a short while. It just underscores that I need to do a redesign based on the latest MT templates.
Nothing else broken yet, knock on wood.
