As of today, I proudly present you a new release of the linkback plugin for Dokuwiki¹⁾. I've been working on this now since somewhen around October when I found time and peace to do so. The release is currently only compatible with the Dokuwiki devel code which will become stable in the next weeks though. The current release candidate from March 31st, 2008 will not suffice as it still contains a couple of bugs in handling pingbacks I found and patched during the testing of this new release. You should be able to use this release even with the release candidate though, if you disable pingbacks via the configuration interface

The changelog gives an overview over what was changed:

• 2008/04/06
  • Fixed:
    • Akismet plugin was not called properly
    • Don't allow usage of syntax in comments
    • Minor cosmetic bugs
  • Added:
    • Logging system to log processing of incoming linkbacks. Antispam plugins can add own processing information via event-data
    • Additional antispam plugin to check if incoming trackbacks contain a link back to page
    • Option for displaying trackback URL for manual trackbacks
    • Admin component for bulk moderating linkbacks
    • URL of pinged page is now included in notification mail
  • exe/trackback.php, exe/pingback.php and action/display.php now use the pluginutils to load the tools plugin
  • Use strftime() instead of date()
  • Change to new form handling in Dokuwiki

The source of the plugin can now also be found in a darcs repository which can be found at http://devel.foosel.org/darcs/dokuwiki/linkback/ – of course there's also a webinterface.

Update

Since today, a new Dokuwiki release candidate is available that incorporates the necessary patches for the XMLRPC-client (and therefore the pingbacks) to function properly.