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“The most important thing about this release is that the Skins 2.x API is now stable, meaning: this is the last time you’ll really need to upgrade your custom skin!”

Other changes in b2evolution 2.1.0:

* More SEO settings;
* Refactored blog settings;
* Enhanced commenting system with comment ratings;
* Cleaned up comment submission form and comment editing form.

For additional information, please read the release announcement.

PHP-Fusion 6.01.13 is “primarily just a maintenance update which resolves a list of smaller issues such as minor bugs and fixes, W3C validation errors, etc.”

An update package from 6.01.12 to 6.01.13 is also available. For details, please read the PHP-Fusion release announcement.

GuppY 4.6.4 corrects a security failure recently discovered on versions 4.6.1 and higher. Users of these versions are advised to upgrade immediately.

For additional information and instructions to check and improve the security of your GuppY installation, please read the release announcement.

SilverStripe 2.1.1 is a maintenance release, containing a few bug fixes and a number of small improvements.

To learn more, please refer to the release announcement and the related changelog.

According to Wikipedia, Halloween did not become a holiday in the United States until the 19th century, when the migration of nearly two million Irish following the Irish Potato Famine brought the holiday to the United States.

Halloween is in fact believed to have originated in Ireland, where pre-Christian Celts had an autumn festival, called Samhain. That night the division between the world of the living and the otherworld was blurred so spirits of the dead and inhabitants from the underworld were able to walk free on the earth.

Also Scottish emigration from the British Isles, primarily to Canada before 1870 and to the United States thereafter, brought the Scottish version of the holiday to each country.

Halloween is now the United States’ second most popular holiday (after Christmas) for home and yard decorations: jack-o’-lanterns, scarecrows, witches, orange and purple string lights, foam tombstones and gargoyles contribute to this unique holiday climate.

Happy Halloween!