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Finally the (long awaited) update for the Defensio addon for Pixelpost is here. As mentioned in this blogpost earlier it contains the fix that slowed down a lot of photoblogs earlier this month.

Thanks to Carl Mercier of the Defensio team I was able to add one more bugfix. Carl was looking at the logs over at Defensio and noticed that sometimes the article-date is not passed to the service. The date is a required parameter and from the very first version I made sure the addon passed it along with the other variables.

This was kind of odd since it was clearly a Pixelpost blog and the date was not passed. I have to say I was stumped on this one, but Carl managed to figure it out. The Defensio addon allows comments to be posted on images that don’t exists yet. Once we (Carl) identified the problem a fix was a matter of a few lines. If the article-date is not in the database, the Defensio addon will throw a nice 404 error.

So there you have it, the best just got better!