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Release announcements, version previews, security advisories, and the occasional detour — written by the team building Blesta.
How Blesta 3.0 software licensing uses digital signatures and asymmetric key encryption to prevent server spoofing, fixing flaws in naive shared-secret hash schemes.
Video tour of the Blesta 3.0 staff calendar: dashboard mini calendar with event badges, monthly/weekly/daily views, shared events, and drag-and-drop editing.
Blesta 3.0 database upgrades: InnoDB transactions for ACID compliance, UTF8 collation, and a PDO-backed Record component that builds safe, secure queries.
The Blesta 3.0 client area gets a clean new design separate from admin, combining a Portal, Account Management, and Order System that is easily themed and integrated.
A first look at the Blesta 3.0 staff login page, its TOTP/mOTP two-factor authentication (back-ported to 2.5), and session resource preservation after logout.
Blesta 3.0 plugins are mini-applications that add dashboard and billing widgets, whole new pages and nav links, ACL entries, and email templates, and can be installed and upgraded.
Blesta 3.0 themes let you pick from included color schemes, create and fine-tune your own to match your brand, and swap the Blesta logo for your own.
Blesta Translator launches as a collaborative, community-driven tool for translating Blesta 3.0, opening with 14 languages and English fallback for partial translations.
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