Japanese Cherry Blossom was the second theme I ported to Habari, a task I undertook for a friend's band, Bitter Sweethearts. Even for a theme that might have a couple of users, making sure that the theme is up to date with the latest Habari features was taking more time than I wanted to spend, given what should be my priorities (my beloved and, yes, finishing my PhD). So, following the recent release of Japanese Cherry Blossom 0.2, the theme has been relicensed under the ASL 2.0, with permission from the author, April D. Spreeman, and I've committed it to the Habari extras repository, where it can be maintained by the Habari community. You can now download the theme from the Habari project website distribution directory, or using subversion (recommended).

Feature requests and bug reports should now be posted on the Habari extras trac.

I've done some updating of the Japanese Cherry Blossom theme for Habari and tested it with the latest Habari release. This is mostly a bug fix and clean up release, and there are still things that need doing.

Details:

• General code clean up.
• Remove cruft left over from Connections template files.
• Fix assignment of previous posts.
• Improved search.
• Add login form

I've now released my second Habari theme, a port of the WordPress Japanese Cherry Blossom theme [I'd link to the original author's site, but it's a holding page at the moment. I'll update if I find out where to link to.] As with the Connections theme, it's an extremely basic and direct port. There is no support for plugins, no blogroll and no archives, and there are known bugs. I'll fix them as I have the time.

Please let me know if you try it out.

As always, thanks to the Habari community.