Last month we covered the soft launch of Ghost, a Node.js-based minimalist blogging platform. The application blew through a Kickstarter goal and has been under heavy development; last month, Kickstarter backers were granted early access to the application to get started with it (my own Ghost-based blog, for example, is here).

Today, the Ghost team is opening the platform up to everyone. You can download the Ghost application and get it going on your own server immediately, and users interested in assisting with the development can hit up the project’s GitHub repo and start poking around.

There are two major features still lacking from the platform: the fancy graphical management console and the hosted service. The graphical console with all of its fancy charts and graphs has been set aside temporarily while the core team focuses on making Ghost stable and functional enough for launch, but it should be making an appearance in an upcoming release.