Habari

Habari was a free and open source blog engine written in PHP and currently supports MySQL, SQLite and PostgreSQL for the database backend. It got its name from the Swahili greeting habari, which means "(what's the) news".

The last release was on September 16, 2014. The Habari website is no longer working, but the source code is still available on the project's GitHub page.

Features

 * Modular, object-oriented core for easy extensibility
 * Supports multiple database backends
 * Uses prepared statements throughout to protect against SQL injection attacks
 * Media silos to directly access various ways of media storage, like Flickr, or the server's file system
 * Atom Publishing Protocol support
 * Multiple users (authors) supported
 * Multiple sites on one installation supported (such as blog1.example.com and blog2.example.com) (note, however, that Habari does not yet support multiple blogs on one domain such as http://example.com/blog1 and http://example.com/blog2
 * Support for static content ("pages")
 * Plugin support
 * Tag support
 * WordPress importer

History
The Habari project was started in October 2006 to develop a modern blogging platform. The focus is on utilizing current technology, such as PHP 5, PHP Data Objects, and object-oriented programming, and the support of modern standards, such as the Atom Publishing Protocol.

The first "developer release" was released on April 3, 2007. Habari 0.2 followed on August 4, version 0.3 on November 5, version 0.4 on February 22, version 0.5 on July 27, 2008, version 0.6 on April 6, 2009, version 0.7 on April 1, 2011, version 0.8 on 13 December 2011, version 0.9 on 20 November 2012, version 0.9.1 on April 3, 2013, version 0.9.2 on September 16, 2014.

Habari was a finalist in the 2008 SourceForge Community Choice Awards in the category of Best New Project.

Release history
This table contains the release history of Habari.