Movable Type 4.0

After some hesitation, I have upgraded this blog to Movable Type 4.0 Beta 6 today. The upgrade process itself went smoothly without errors. I had to disable to some old Movable Type plugins (e.g. Brad Choate’s SQL plugin) and remove relevant tags from my templates to successfully rebuild a couple of entries. This release is feature rich, but one key feature missing is a way to upgrade/transform old templates to the new style to take advantage of all the new features more easily. In the absence of this ability, I am going to have some time exploring the new default templates. There are still a few bugs, but overall, it is an impressive and major enhancement to Movable Type.