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Greetings, ExpressionEngine-dom, we are pleased to announce the release of ExpressionEngine 1.6.1 “Albatross”.  This version update includes all of the bug fixes and enhancements made since the release of 1.6, as well as plenty of new toys.  We are convinced that many of these additions will have you swinging from the rafters, hooting and hollering and whatnot with joy.  ExpressionEngine 1.6.1 is a free update for all licensed users with an active Download Account, and we encourage you to update to benefit from the multitude of features we have worked hard on over the past couple months while still working away on that 2.0 idea of ours.

Read more about it in the Change Log for more details.

Make sure to follow the Version Update Instructions closely.

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That list of additions is huge! Nice work, all.

I have to ask though… who shot it?

as always, thanks for the updates 😊

Going back to work this afternoon knowing that another excitement is waiting for me later today: an EE upgrade ! I’m singing in the rain…

I upgraded my sites yesterday evening. Painless as usual.

My only complaint is the Live Look feature looks interesting, but the documentation isn’t very forthcoming about what this feature actually does 😉

I upgraded my sites yesterday evening. Painless as usual.

My only complaint is the Live Look feature looks interesting, but the documentation isn’t very forthcoming about what this feature actually does 😉

From the docs:

The template that will be used for a Live Look at your entries. Links are available from both the main Edit section of the control panel as well as the “View Entry” page that displays after submitting an entry. If you do not want to use a Live Look Template with a weblog, simply set this preference to “No Live Look Template”.

And here:

Live Look: This link allows you to view the entry in a template of your choice. This will appear in place of the View link when a template is specified in the preferences for the weblog.

I don’t know how to better describe it, but I’m open to suggestions.  Set the preference in one of your weblogs to a template, and then in the Edit section, click the Live Look link to see what happens.

Derek, don’t sweat it. I’ll figure it out once I get more sleep and have had a chance to play with it 😉

great stuff. however the green button where it says current user: admin, and stuff like “create new template” is busted even worse now

Ryanb, did you read the version update notes?  You will either need to replace your themes or update your customized themes per the instructions provided.

sweet, I didn’t notice that, but thanks for the heads up! cheers

*throws tantrum*

Why didn’t I check the forum before I upgraded 3 sites today with an older version?

*reels*  Wow, now that’s a changelog! Thanks, guys.  You continue to exceed your own awesomeness.  Don’t let it go to your head. 😉

The live look feature has 1 bad thing 😛
You can’t provide your custom link/template

Normally you would use “mydomain.com/template_group/template/entry_title”
But i use sometimes “mydomain.com/template_group/entry_title”
Example:
http://www.domain.com/article/peaches_are_red_instead_of_green
Instead of:
http://www.domain.com/article/comments/peaches_are_red_instead_of_green

Maybe add possibility to select template group too??

I know a lot of sites that remove the “comments/details” template from the url.

These aren’t links intended to be bookmarked or to ever be visited by the public.  In other words, they are not front-end permalinks.  It’s just so you can quickly see what the entry will look like on the template of your choice.

You are choosing the template group, by choosing a template…just pick template_group/index

In my case, many of my templates use segment-based switches to decide which content to show. I’ll just make “preview” templates…  That’ll make things easier from a status control standpoint, anyway.

I’d be interesteed in the thought process behind going this route rather than allowing us to create a preview template on a per-weblog basis, to replace the view entry page at the end of publication, though.