EE 1.6.7 Released

EllisLab may be working on EE 2.0 but yesterday they signaled (again) that they have no intentions of neglecting the EE 1.6.x branch. They released version 1.6.7, which they’ve described as a “security and maintenance release” in their announcement blog post.

We want all of our users to know that we’re committed to continuing to support 1.x even as our efforts are thrust fully into 2.0. ExpressionEngine 1.x is a platform you can continue to use and rely on now and in the future.

So, are there any goodies in this release?

For developers there are two new hooks for the weblog entries: weblog_entries_query_result and weblog_entries_row. So, what they do? Both allow you previously unavailable access to hook into the weblog entries tag pair. The first hook gives you complete access to the entire query object to do with as you please and the second hook lets you alter each entry’s data. I haven’t yet played around with the new hooks, but if you have, please post a comment with any initial thoughts or ideas how you think these new hooks will be helpful to EE developers.

Among various bug fixes that you can read through in the Release Notes, there is also a nice addition of the {parent_id} tag for categories, so you can easily get the parent of any category.