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# Ghost 1.0 Beta2
- URL: https://ghost.org/changelog/1-0-0-beta-2/
- Published: 2017-06-23T09:02:10.000Z
- Updated: 2021-01-08T12:15:27.000Z
- Author: Katharina Irrgang
- Tags: #devblog, #changelog, #ghost

Following Ghost 1.0.0-beta.1 a couple of weeks ago, today we're releasing Ghost 1.0.0-beta.2 - which is the next step towards a final release. We're anticipating that this will be the last beta, and the next package to be built will be a release-candidate.

Since the first beta, a significant number of bugs have been found and fixed:

- **\[fixed\]** ghost uninstall won't screw up your instance list
- **\[fixed\]** local process manager won't die if your .ghostpid file has gone away
- **\[fixed\]** Casper is now updated during `ghost update`
- **\[improved\]** Commands that require sudo are shown in gray before they are run (future improvement will be to prompt)
- **\[fixed\]** Remove trailing slash for `{{@blog.url}}`
- **\[improved\]** Theme activation error messages
- **\[changed\]** Enable public API by default
- **\[changed\]** set spellchecker to "off" by default

You can see the [full change log](https://gist.github.com/kirrg001/5ab1e5d9b733f05664c42d3e357d5bb1?ref=ghost.org) for the details of all changes included in this release.

## A new CLI release

We've also released a new version of Ghost-CLI — 1.0.0-alpha.19\. You can update by running `npm install -g ghost-cli@latest`. This includes and important fix so that the Casper theme is updated during `ghost update`.

## Casper 2.0

Ghost 1.0.0-beta.2 also contains the most-visible change of the upcoming release, which is a brand new default theme.

Casper was originally designed for the functionality of Ghost 0.3, and as Ghost has grown and had new features added to it - those features have been tacked-on to the original design as an afterthought. Now, 4 years later, Casper has had a total rewrite to natively support all of the features which Ghost has in 2017.

We'll talk more about this in the full release post, but from a developer perpective the relevant changes are:

- More performant, cleaner use of handlebars
- Significantly more inline code documentation to help new Ghost theme developers understand how our theme API works
- Gulp + PostCSS now used to build and minify theme assets
- New use of the `{{#get}}` helper to pull content from the API (which is now switched-on by default)
- Proper support for Ghost's subscribers (beta) feature
- Better handling of RSS feeds via Feedly, rather than raw XML
- Better author meta data with extended use of new social profile fields
- Google fonts replaced with system fonts
- Icon font replaced with inline SVG icons
- Significantly improved mobile support

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/11/12/11129d96-48f2-4637-9c25-b077458f01e2/content/images/2021/01/image-54.png)

## Credits

Aileen Nowak, Kevin Ansfield, David Wolfe, John O'Nolan, Hannah Wolfe and Katharina Irrgang