Scott Hanselman and Shanine Omar both announced the availability of newtelligence dasBlog Community Edition 1.7.5016.1 today which among other things includes a CAPTCHA anti spam function. The upgrade to version 1.7 is not just XCOPY as we are used to instead you need to run an upgrade tool which upgrades the XML storage files in the /content folder. Anyway I went ahead and upgraded the site but some stuff is still kinda funky so please let me know if you come across any weirdness other than my writing on the site :)

Shanine mentions some of his favorite new features:

• All the search bot referrals to your site are "pretty printed" in your logs
• CAPTCHA for entering comments
• MovableType Blacklist and Content based Blacklist for visitors to the site
• <%referrallistfiltered()%>Macro that will shrink the number of referrals displayed in the Permalink and expose the rest using Javascript and css.
• Performance
• Lots of smart Caching
• Trackbacks/Pingbacks work reliably.