Depending on your region or country, you might not see the latest version in the BlackBerry App World just yet, but the update should be available on your device starting now.

Here’s what’s new:

• Added support forBlavatars (“Blog Avatars”).
• Added preview for drafts, scheduled and private posts.
• Introduced the home screen icon for comment notifications.
• Added a visual indicator that shows the post status in the post list screen.
• Added support for Discussion settings (enable/disable comments, pingbacks and Trackbacks).
• Categories are now alphabetically sorted.
• Added the possibility to specify a resize dimension on each image.
• Changed the image resize feature, by adding predefined dimensions loaded from the Blog Media Settings.
• Fixed issues on the Permissions settings screen, it now appears once at first startup.
• Small UI redesign.

WordPress for BlackBerry 1.4.6.1 is a security update that also improves the communication layer within the app. To store your credentials, the app is now using a completely different, strongly encrypted storage model. Due to these changes, we’ve held back on developing new features in this release to make sure the transition to the new storage model is as smooth as possible. While the app should transfer your credentials to the new storage model, you might be forced to re-add your blogs/sites when updating. (Draft posts will not be erased, so once you have re-added a blog the old drafts should become visible again.)

Other changes include:

• You can now select which type of the Media API that should be used for uploading photos and videos.
• Added the Preview for Private Posts/Pages
• Improved the preview screen, which is now using the BlackBerry browser or any browser installed on your device.
• Fix for VideoPress issue when uploading multiple videos #181.
• Fix for app permission issues that could freeze the app if all permissions are not set to Allow #179.
• Fix for postID that are bigger than the XML-RPC specification #180.
• Improved the communication layer.
• Improved the XML-RPC calls.
• Fix for post/page comments setting that allow people to post comments on new articles created using the app #163.
• Other minor changes.

Do you have questions or feedback on how we can make the app better? Please visit the WordPress for BlackBerry forums and tell us your thoughts! Also make sure to a follow @WPBlackBerry on Twitter for the latest news and updates.

Note: Depending on your region or country, you may not see the latest version in BlackBerry App World yet. However, the new release should be available for download on your device starting today.

Depending on your region or country, you may not see the latest version in BlackBerry App World yet. However, the new release should be available for download on your device starting today.

1.4.4 adds the following features:

• Rotate uploaded photos.
• Better integration with BlackBerry Torch 9800.

We also squeezed in some bug fixes, including the media uploading issue on the 9800 Torch device:

• Fixed the media uploading issue on the 9800. It requires AtomPub to be enabled on your blog.
• Fixed an issue that would sometimes occur with long post titles.
• Fixed issues with orphan categories.
• Fixed issues with the blog shortcut icon which would appear too big sometimes.
• Minor bug fixing.

Do you have questions or feedback on how we can make the app better? Please visit the WordPress for BlackBerry forums and tell us your thoughts!

Psst.. Follow us on Twitter for the latest news: @WPBlackBerry.

WordPress for BlackBerry version 1.4.1 has been released to BlackBerry App World.

Depending on your region or country, you might not see the latest version in the BlackBerry App World, but on your device you should now already see the latest version 1.4.1.

It was a bug squashing release, including:

• Fixed empty title issue for those blogs with “Site Title” field set to empty value.
• Fixed an issue on the comments screen that doesn’t permit editing of comments with weird characters within URL or e-mail field.
• Introduced a better integration with the VideoPress service and the WordPress.com Space-Upgrade option.
• Added support for the blog shortcut icon.
• Minor bug fixing.

The app now supports the following languages:
English
Italian
Finnish [Thanks Apuasi]
French [Thanks Yann Nave]
Indonesian [Thanks Kate of Pixel Insert]
German [Thanks Frank Wessel]
Portuguese (Portugal) [Thanks José Fontainhas]
Japanese [Thanks Nao]
Spanish [Thanks danivloven]
Colombian Spanish [Thanks Blanca Mancilla]
Polish [Thanks waclawjacek]

Interested in translating the app ? Visit translate.wordpress.org/projects.

Have questions or feedback that would enhance the app ? Please visit the WordPress for BlackBerry forums.

If you find bugs submit tickets over  blackberry.trac.wordpress.org (please read the How To Report a Bug documentation before submitting).

For developers out there wanting to get involved, you can browse the source code and check out a copy of the app via SVN: http://blackberry.svn.wordpress.org/.

We look forward to your feedback, and definitely want to hear from you if you want to participate in this great project.

The following features have been added in version 1.4:

• Easier sign in process
• Added support for HTTP authentication on password-protected self-hosted blogs
• Improved the app’s ability for bug reporting and feedback
• The file browser now remember the last opened folder

This release contains many bug fixes, including:

• issue when modifying the properties of a picture attached to a post
• startup issue on the splash screen that causing the app freezing
• issue on the Stats view when a post title contains more double quote characters

The app now supports the following languages:
English
Italian
Finnish [Thanks Apuasi]
French [Thanks Yann Nave]
Indonesian [Thanks Kate of Pixel Insert]
German [Thanks Frank Wessel]
Portuguese (Portugal) [Thanks José Fontainhas]
Japanese [Thanks Nao]
Spanish [Thanks danivloven]
Colombian Spanish [Thanks Blanca Mancilla]
Polish [Thanks waclawjacek]

Interested in translating the app ? Visit translate.wordpress.org/projects.

Have questions or feedback that would enhance the app ? Please visit the WordPress for BlackBerry forums.

These features have been added in version 1.3:

• Option to load more comments, not just the latest 100
• Ability to load comments by status (all/spam/pendings)
• You can now edit the comment details (Author Name/E-mail/URL)
• Option to manually set the video-size when using VideoPress service
• A much requested formatting toolbar that allows you to bold text for example
• A new word count feature is shown on the post/page write screen
• You can now submit bug reports and feedback from within the app
• Multiple improvement to how Stats are handled
• Improvements on the photo resizing options and a new jpeg encoder is now being used

The app now supports the following languages:

English
Italian
Finnish [Thanks Apuasi]
French [Thanks Yann Nave]
Korean [Thanks Ben K']
Indonesian [Thanks Kate of Pixel Insert]
German [Thanks Frank Wessel]
Portuguese (Portugal) [Thanks José Fontainhas]
Japanese [Thanks Nao]
Spanish [Thanks danivloven]
Colombian Spanish [Thanks Blanca Mancilla]

Interested in translating the app ? Visit translate.wordpress.org/projects.

Have questions or feedback that would enhance the app ? Please visit the WordPress for BlackBerry forums.

If you are experiencing issues using WordPress for BlackBerry in languages other than English, we strongly encourage you to update to this new version.

Depending on your region or country, you might not see the latest version in the BlackBerry App World, but on your device you should now already see the latest version 1.2.1.