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After seven months of development, 300 commits, and two pre-release versions (1, 2) I’m happy to announce that the final release Comentario 3.0.0 is now available.

Comentario is a fast and powerful free comment server for web pages, written in Go.

What’s new

Since the latest pre-release:

For the first time in its history, the product has almost 100% end-to-end test coverage, which will guarantee every single change comes regression-free.
Numerous bugfixes as a result of the previous item.
The Dashboard has been redesigned: views and comments are now two distinct charts, pages and users feature new “background” charts:
The renewed Comentario Dashboard.
Dropped support for the obsolete PostgreSQL 9.x, added support for the version 16.
Domain properties: added protocol dropdown for choosing between http:// ↔ https://.
Profile: added website URL.
Static config: added PostgreSQL version and the backend server time.
Disqus import: fixed handling of “named anonymous” users.
Embed: comment time is now a permalink to that comment.
Embed: Markdown Help popup is replaced with a doc link.

Changes from the pre-release versions (since 2.3.1):

A whole new database model.
Domain user roles.
System-wide superuser privilege.
Static and dynamic Comentario configurations.
User banning.
Extended moderation settings (flagging comments containing a link or an image, or those left by recently registered users).
Extensions checking comments for spam or toxic content (Akismet, APILayer SpamChecker, Perspective).
Much more elaborate view statistics (only gathering, for now).
Domain-wide page and comment lists.
User avatars upload.
Login via Facebook.
Non-interactive Single Sign-On.
Images in comments.
Setting for disabling links in comments.
Setting for the front page content.
Binary .deb and .rpm packages, installing Comentario as a systemd service.