Overall I’m very happy with MT4 and I intend to migrate all my non MT blogs over to the platform once a couple of the minor issues have been resolved

Michele

* Upgrading MT3 templates
* About Archive Mapping

Things that previously required technical knowledge, third-party code, or scripting expertise are now fundamental to the platform and don’t require 1. knowledge of their existence or 2. the effort to make them happen. That’s a feature! Otherwise anything that can be done with a Turing-complete language (which is to say, anything a computer can do) is automatically disqualified and then we can never count anything as a new feature ever again.

The fact though is this: Movable Type 4.0 has over 50 legitimately new features to users available right out of the box. Plus it has over 100 new template tags for designing blog, and 50 additional API features made available to developers through its API.

But “MT4″ is about so much more than “Movable Type 4.0,” which is just the first step of many. MT4 is in fact about an entire line of products and an entire series of releases that we will be making over the next 6-12 months, through which I sincerely hope to achieve the following goals:

to demonstrate to users that Six Apart is committed to this product
that we have the ability to listen to and take action on the community’s feedback
that Movable Type is a serious blogging platform for serious bloggers

I for one view Movable Type 4.0 as a beginning, not an end. And I think in time others will see that as well. From a new product, to a new web site, to a new community home, to a new plugin directory, to completely rewritten documentation, to better to support, to additional services like the Six Apart Update stream and more, to more features, more themes and a larger more vibrant community.

I for one am excited. Excited and proud of what we have done, and even more excited for what’s next.

Byrne Reese
Product Manager, Movable Type

Is there an easy way to find those settings or have I overseen them? Or is it a template tag?

The standard implementation of the CatCalendar plugin would have improved MT4 majorly.

As a matter of fact, the Cat Calendar plugin has been folded into the core of Movable Type. Now any archive can be paginated by any time period the publisher desires. That includes category archives, but also author archives as well. Tests have shown internally that Movable Type’s publishing speeds have been increased up to 20% using its new templates.

Byrne Reese
Product Manager, Movable Type

MT4 is a real disappointment. Six Apart should reconsider releasing it in its current form – just as their user community has been asking them to do.