Announcing Melody 1.0 Release Candidate 1

[Byrne Reese]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, or not, you subscribed to
a mailing list through which you would receive announcements about
Melody, a community driven fork of the popular Movable Type publishing
platform. The mailing list was touted as a "low volume" mailing list.
I am happy to report that we lived up to that end of the bargain, but
at the expense of actually providing you with any announcements.
Something we now hope to remedy. :-D

So without further ado, I am happy to announce the general
availability of Melody 1.0 Release Candidate 1. This release is
significant because it marks the end of Melody's beta, and (hopefully)
the last release before we launch the last and final build for Melody
1.0.

The number of changes that are in this release when compared to
Movable Type 4 is extensive enough that I don't think you want me to
link to them here. Instead, I thought I would provide you with some
links you may find useful.

Release Notes:

* RC1 - https://github.com/openmelody/melody/wiki/release-v1.0.0_rc1
* Beta 3 - https://github.com/openmelody/melody/wiki/release-v1.0.0_beta3
* Beta 2 - https://github.com/openmelody/melody/wiki/release-v1.0.0_beta2
* Beta 1 - https://github.com/openmelody/melody/wiki/release-v1.0.0_beta1

Blog Posts:

* RC1 - http://openmelody.org/blog/2011/03/release-candidate-1-is-now-available
* Beta 3 - http://openmelody.org/blog/2011/01/melody-10s-last-beta
* Beta 2 - http://openmelody.org/blog/2010/11/melody-10-beta-2-now-available
* Beta 1 - http://openmelody.org/blog/2010/11/melody-10-beta-1-is-here

In the above links you will find plenty of reasons to upgrade from MT4
to Melody, including the introduction of the following features:

* Template and Entry revisioning
* A new default theme called DePoClean
* Enhanced Manage Entries screen
* Re-factored and optimized code for better performance and great
modularity
* Updates to core libraries for better performance and fewer bugs
* New UI
* Theme exporting
* Full screen template and entry editing
* AJAX driven site publishing

We hope you enjoy Melody and we encourage you to stay tuned. We have
already begun work on Melody 1.1 and it promises to be even better!

Sincerely,
Byrne Reese
Contributor, Open Melody Software Group