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Speed Improvement, UI Enhancements, and Video Library Support November 11th, 2009

We are inching ever so close to the 1.0 release, with today’s beta version 0.9.0.169 update available at http://blackberry.wordpress.org/install
Here is what’s new:

Based on all the great feedback, we reworked much of the UI layout for the main view, blog view, and media view
Ability to upload videos from your media library
New option to [...]

Reply to Comments, Gravatars, French, Italian, and More ! October 7th, 2009

We’ve been diligently working on a slew of new features for the latest v.157 beta which is available now. Lots going on, and really happy with the feedback and participation in the community as we get close to a 1.0 release. Here’s what’s new:
We’ve updated the comments UI and also added:

Gravatar support
Ability [...]

BIS Support in New Beta 0.9.0.149 Available Now August 18th, 2009

Thanks to all your feedback, we have a new beta available for download today.
The most requested feature that we’ve been working on, is support for BIS via the BIS-B connection layer. We’d love feedback in the forums on how BIS is working for people on various devices and with different providers.
In addition to [...]

Beta 0.9.0.140 Available Now July 28th, 2009

Hi everyone ! Things are progressing nicely with this beta test thanks to everyone who has posted on the forums and on trac. We really appreciate all the feedback and time spent by all of you beta testers.
Today we have a new beta, version 0.9.0.140 for you to download. Changes include:

Improving response [...]

Beta 0.9.0.134 Available Now July 20th, 2009

A new week, a new beta ! Beta release version 0.9.0.134 is available now: http://blackberry.wordpress.org/install.
This releases introduces a big upgrade on how the app finds your site via XML-RPC. If you’ve had trouble adding your sites with the previous betas, it’s time to upgrade and try this one out. Here is the [...]

Beta 0.9.0.129 Available Now July 14th, 2009

New beta release v 0.9.0.129 is available now: http://blackberry.wordpress.org/install.
This releases fixes a few character encoding issues including the double encoded Ampersand bug. This new beta also has improved error handling and more intuitive error messages to assist with the initial setup.
If you have any issues, please head over to the forums.

Beta 0.9.0.125 Available Now July 10th, 2009

New release v 0.9.0.125: http://blackberry.wordpress.org/install.
This releases deals specifically with text encoding. The app now properly displays text encoded with the following character sets including:

ISO-8859-1
UTF-8
UTF-16BE
US-ASCII

This should fix the issue that some Chinese language users were reporting. In addition, this beta now handle “Precompound Unicode”. We are also including support for “Composite Unicode” but [...]

Beta 0.9.0.123 Available Now July 9th, 2009

New beta is available right now: http://blackberry.wordpress.org/install.
This new version addresses the following:

Better handling of XML-RPC endpoint, including the ability to enter in the exact location if the app isn’t able to identify it on it’s own
Proper identification of the user agent which should allow this to work with plugins such as Bad Behavior
Various copy tweaks

For [...]

Beta 0.9.0.121 Available Now July 8th, 2009

As you can tell, we are pushing out updates as quickly as possible here. Beta 0.9.0.121 is now available from http://blackberry.wordpress.org/install, and addresses the following issues:

Corrects a problem with some self-hosted WordPress sites with version < 2.7
Fixes an issue with WordPress installs in subfolders
A few spelling / copy issues
Fixes a categories issue

If you have [...]

Forums July 8th, 2009

Thanks for all the great feedback so far. To help facilitate all the conversations, we have opened up the WordPress for BlackBerry Forums. There you can post about getting help troubleshooting issues and also discuss new features and enhancements. To participate you’ll need a WordPress.org username which takes 2 seconds if you [...]