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Taking a leaf from Pingback’s book

10th October 2002

Moveable Type 2.5 is out. From the changelog:

Added TrackBack auto-discovery, which can automatically find TrackBack ping URLs based on permalinks in entry bodies. These entries can then be pinged without any extra effort. Inspired in part by the pingback specification.

Posted 10th October 2002 at 1:01 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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