ExpressionEngine 2.1.1 Coming This Week!

This week, EllisLab will be releasing ExpressionEngine 2.1.1. In a blog post from friday, Derek Jones outlined the enhancements and bugfixes we will be seeing:

• Improved version update notification, to indicate normal vs. high priority releases
• show_empty= parameter of the Channel Categories tag is now ::drum roll:: channel specific!
• Added a expressionengine-2.1.1-coming-this-week global variable
• The Comment Module has a number of improvements, including it’s own control panel with better comment moderation, new variables and parameters, built-in inline editing for commenters, and smart notifications.
• Moblog module now works with POP3 over SSL (hello, GMail!)
• Improvements and bug fixes to the Channel Entries API, primarily for third party developers
• Over 50 bug fixes

Derek also gave us a behind-the-scenes look into why the date bug they had hoped to include wont be making it into this release. While I’m sure it will disappoint some people that fix isn’t included, I have to applaud their transparency in explaining why it’s not there. I’m also very glad they’re not delaying the release of 2.1.1 to finish fixing it.

With my work on Cognition, I’ve been spending lots of time in the comments module, so I’m definitely eager to get my hands on that. More than anything, though, I’m most interested to see what bugs were fixed. How about you? Will anything in this release being some welcome change in your world? Let us know in the comments.

According to Derek, EE 2.1.1 will be coming this week, and a full changelog will be posted in the usual place.