0.5 adds three things to the core: seeing how many people read you, sharing what you publish, and taking your site with you whenever you want. Every item is from the changelog.
Statistics without cookies
The dashboard now shows views, daily visitors, the most read pages and the sites that send readers your way. Counting happens on the site's own server: no third-party service, no cookie, no IP address or browser string stored. To count a person once a day a secret key is used that changes every day and is deleted when the day is over; it never enters a backup. Robots, browsers that ask not to be tracked and requests from other sites are not counted. The numbers live in a database file of their own, so heavy traffic does not slow your admin down. One click per site switches it off.
Atom feeds and time zones
Beside RSS there is now an Atom feed in every language, and the forum has a feed of its own. Forum topics are marked up in the discussion format search engines understand. Each site picks its own time zone, and dates are written in the page's language ("September 27, 2026").
A full export
Under System → Backups, a site's whole content (pages, posts, menus, forms, forum, media) comes out as one file in an open, documented format. Passwords, two-factor secrets and sessions never go into it. The same file can be read into another HisarBlok installation. On top of that there are importers for any RSS/Atom feed, Medium and Substack exports, and Hugo and Jekyll sites, with old addresses kept alive by permanent redirects.
Security
Every new part went through a separate security audit and a code review before release; all security findings (1 high, 8 medium, 12 low) were fixed before this version. The most important: an import file from elsewhere can no longer write a redirect over a live page on your site.
Status
More than 3,300 tests. HisarBlok is still in development; the source code and a download package are coming soon.