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The ChangeLogs include an annotated list of changes (the section called “Changelog (most recent release only)”) since the last release and in the entire 5.5 release sequence the section called “Changelog for oacs-5-5”.
PostgreSQL 8.3 is now fully supported, including the use of the built-in standard version of tsearch2.
TinyMCE has been upgraded to 3.2.4.1 with language pack support.
acs-mail-lite now correctly implements rollout support.
Added new package dependency type, "extends". Implements a weak form of package inheritance (parameters and, optionally, templates). Multiple inheritance is supported. For instance, the non-core "layout-managed-subsite" extends the "acs-subsite" and "layout-manager" packages, resulting in a package that combines the semantics of both.
Added new package attribute "implements-subsite-p" (default "f"). If true, this package may be mounted as a subsite and is expected to implement subsite semantics. Typically used by packages which extend acs-subsite.
Added new package attribute "inherit-templates-p" (default "t"). If true, the package inherits templates defined in the packages it extends. This means that the package only needs to specify templates where the UI of an extended package is modified or extended. This greatly reduces the need to fork base packages when one needs to customize it. Rather than modify the package directly, use "extends" rather than "requires" then rewrite those templates you need to customize.
Added a simple mechanism for defining subsite themes, removing the hard-wired choices implemented in earlier versions of OpenACS. The default theme has been moved into a new package, "openacs-default-theme". Simplifies the customization of the look and feel of OpenACS sites and subsites.
The install xml facility has been enhanced to allow the calling of arbitrary Tcl procedures and includes various other enhancements written by Xarg. Packages can extend the facility, too. As an example of what can be done, the configuration of .LRN communities could be moved from a set of interacting parameters to a cleaner XML description of how to build classes and clubs, etc.
Notifications now calls lang::util::localize on the message subject and body before sending the message out, using the recipient locale if set, the site-wide one if not. This will cause message keys (entered as #....# strings) to be replaced with the language text for the chosen locale.
This is a minor bugfix release.
Site node caching was removed as doesn't work correctly
Critical issues with search on oracle were fixed
More html strict work etc
New Templating API added to add scripts, css, etc to the HTML HEAD and BODY sections of the generated HTML document. Please see /packages/acs-templating/tcl/head-procs.tcl or visit the template::head procs in the API browser for details.
Templates have been modified to comply with HTML strict
The Search package's results page has been improved
TinyMCE WYSIWYG support has been added, RTE and HTMLArea support dropped
acs-mail-lite's send has been cleaned up to properly encode content, to handle file attachments, etc. "complex-send" will disappear from acs-core in a future release.
The ChangeLogs include an annotated list of changes (the section called “Changelog (most recent release only)”) since the last release and in the entire 5.5 release sequence the section called “Changelog for oacs-5-5”.
Bug fixes.
New TIPs implemented.
All Core Automated Tests for Postgres pass.
New Site and Blank master templates and CSS compatible with the .LRN Zen work. Compatibility master templates are provided for existing sites.
The ChangeLogs include an annotated list of changes (the section called “Changelog (most recent release only)”) since the last release and in the entire 5.5 release sequence the section called “Changelog for oacs-5-5”.
Bug fixes.
The missing CR TCL API has been filled in, thanks to Rocael and his team and Dave Bauer.
This release does not include new translations.
Bug fixes, primarily for .LRN compatibility in support of upcoming .LRN 2.1.0 releases. This release does not include new translations since 5.1.2.
Translations syncronized with the translation server. Basque and Catalan added.
For a complete change list, see the Change list since 5.1.0 in the section called “Changelog for oacs-5-5”.
This is the first release using the newest adjustment to the versioning convention. The OpenACS 5.1.1 tag will apply to OpenACS core as well as to the most recent released version of every package, including .LRN.
Translations syncronized with the translation server.
Bug 1519 fixed. This involved renaming all catalog files for ch_ZH, TH_TH, AR_EG, AR_LB, ms_my, RO_RO, FA_IR, and HR_HR. If you work with any of those locales, you should do a full catalog export and then import (via /acs-lang/admin) after upgrading acs-lang. (And, of course, make a backup of both the files and database before upgrading.)
Other bug fixes since 5.1.0: 1785, 1793, and over a dozen additional bug fixes.
For a complete change list, see the Change list since 5.0.0 in the section called “Changelog for oacs-5-5”.
Lots of little tweaks and fixes
Complete Change list since 5.0.0 in Changelog
Bug fixes: #1495. Croatian enabled by default, #1496. APM automated install fails if files have spaces in their names, #1494. automated upgrade crashes (halting the upgrade process)
Complete Change list since 5.0.0 in Changelog
File tagging scheme in CVS changed to follow TIP #46: (Approved) Rules for Version Numbering and CVS tagging of Packages
All work on the translation server from 7 Nov 2003 to 7 Feb 2004 is now included in catalogs.
One new function in acs-tcl, util::age_pretty
Complete Change list since 5.0.0 in Changelog
Many documentation updates and doc bug fixes
This is OpenACS 5.0.0. This version contains no known security, data loss, or crashing bugs, nor any bugs judged release blockers. This version has received manual testing. It has passed current automated testing, which is not comprehensive. This release contains work done on the translation server http://translate.openacs.org through 7 Nov 2003.
Please report bugs using our Bug Tracker at the OpenACS website.
You may want to begin by reading our installation documentation for the section called “a Unix-like system”. Note that the Windows documentation is not current for OpenACS 5.5.0, but an alternative is to use John Sequeira's Oasis VM project.
After installation, the full documentation set can be found by visiting
http://yourserver/doc.
New features in this release:
Internationalization support. A message catalog to store translated text, localization of dates, number formatting, timezone conversion, etc. Allows you to serve your users in their language.
External authenticaiton. Integrate with outside user databases through e.g. LDAP, RADIUS, Kerberos, MS Active Directory. Imports user information through IMS Enterprise 1.1 format. Easily extended to support other authentication, password management, account creation, and account import mechanisms. This includes improvements to the basic cookie handling, so logins can be expired without the user's identity being completely lost. You can set login to expire after a certain period (e.g. 8 hours, then password must be refreshed), or you can have all issues login cookies expired at once, e.g. if you have left a permanent login cookie on a public machine somewhere.
User interface enhancements. All pages, including site-wide and subsite admin pages, will be templated, so they can be styled using master template and site-wide stylesheets. We have a new default-master template, which includes links to administration, your workspace, and login/logout, and is rendered using CSS. And there's a new community template (/packages/acs-subsite/www/group-master), which provides useful navigation to the applications and administrative UI in a subsite. In addition, there's new, simpler UI for managing members of a subsite, instantiating and mounting applications, setting permissions, parameters, etc. Site-wide admin as also seen the addition of a new simpler software install UI to replace the APM for non-developer users, and improved access to parameters, internationalization, automated testing, service contracts, etc. The list builder has been added for easily generating templated tables and lists, with features such as filtering, sorting, actions on multiple rows with checkboxes, etc. Most of all, it's fast to use, and results in consistently-looking, consistently-behaving, templated tables.
Automated testing. The automated testing framework has been improved significantly, and there are automated tests for a number of packages.
Security enhancements. HTML quoting now happens in the templating system, greatly minimizing the chance that users can sneak malicious HTML into the pages of other users.
Oracle 9i support.
Who's online feature.
Spell checking.
Potential incompatibilities:
With the release of OpenACS 5, PostgreSQL 7.2 is no longer supported. Upgrades are supported from OpenACS 4.6.3 under Oracle or PostgreSQL 7.3.
The undocumented special handling of ~ and +variable+ in
formtemplates, found in packages/acs-templating/resources/*,
has been removed in favor of using <noparse> and
\@variable\@ (the standard templating mechanisms). Locally
provided formtemplate styles still using these mechanisms
will break.
Serving backup files and files from the CVS directories is turned off by default via the acs-kernel parameter ExcludedFiles in section request-processor (The variable provides a string match glob list of files and is defaulted to "*/CVS/* *~")
2008-04-06 15:39 donb * packages/: acs-admin/acs-admin.info, acs-api-browser/acs-api-browser.info, acs-authentication/acs-authentication.info, acs-automated-testing/acs-automated-testing.info, acs-bootstrap-installer/acs-bootstrap-installer.info, acs-content-repository/acs-content-repository.info, acs-core-docs/acs-core-docs.info, acs-kernel/acs-kernel.info, acs-lang/acs-lang.info, acs-mail-lite/acs-mail-lite.info, acs-messaging/acs-messaging.info, acs-reference/acs-reference.info, acs-service-contract/acs-service-contract.info, acs-subsite/acs-subsite.info, acs-tcl/acs-tcl.info, acs-templating/acs-templating.info, acs-translations/acs-translations.info, intermedia-driver/intermedia-driver.info, notifications/notifications.info, ref-timezones/ref-timezones.info, search/search.info, tsearch2-driver/tsearch2-driver.info: Bumped version numbers ... 2008-04-03 12:14 emmar * packages/acs-subsite/tcl/email-image-procs.tcl: Added return_url in calls to email_image::get_user_email 2008-04-03 04:27 emmar * packages/acs-lang/www/admin/message-list.adp: Reintroduced the form to switch between locales that has been removed by Malte in previous commits 2008-04-03 03:58 emmar * packages/acs-authentication/tcl/authentication-procs.tcl: Added system name in the from of the verification email sent to the user 2008-04-03 03:35 emmar * packages/acs-subsite/www/shared/send-email.tcl: Export return_url in the send-email form 2008-04-03 03:07 emmar * packages/acs-subsite/www/admin/site-map/site-map.tcl: HTML Strict cleanup 2008-04-03 01:38 emmar * packages/acs-templating/resources/forms/standard.adp: Enclosed legend text in span so a style can be applied to it if needed. Applied implicit association for checkbox/radio by wrapping the formfield with the label tag. Don't generate empty div blocks (e.g. when label is empty) 2008-04-02 07:47 emmar * packages/acs-lang/tcl/: lang-util-procs-oracle.xql, lang-util-procs-postgresql.xql: Fixed for spellcheck. We want to match only the enabled languages. 2008-03-29 09:16 emmar * packages/acs-subsite/: lib/user-info.adp, lib/user-info.tcl, www/user/basic-info-update.tcl: Set focus for user-info form 2008-03-29 04:18 emmar * packages/acs-templating/www/resources/mktree.js: Added the mktree_remember global variable so scripts that use mktree can decide if they want to keep the state of tree or not (mktree_remember defaults to false) 2008-03-27 14:37 emmar * packages/acs-templating/www/resources/mktree.js: Replaced the use of the non valid attribute 'remember' by checking if the node has children to create/update a cookie that keeps its state 2008-03-22 16:46 donb * packages/: acs-admin/acs-admin.info, acs-api-browser/acs-api-browser.info, acs-authentication/acs-authentication.info, acs-automated-testing/acs-automated-testing.info, acs-bootstrap-installer/acs-bootstrap-installer.info, acs-content-repository/acs-content-repository.info, acs-core-docs/acs-core-docs.info, acs-kernel/acs-kernel.info, acs-lang/acs-lang.info, acs-mail-lite/acs-mail-lite.info, acs-messaging/acs-messaging.info, acs-reference/acs-reference.info, acs-service-contract/acs-service-contract.info, acs-subsite/acs-subsite.info, acs-tcl/acs-tcl.info, acs-templating/acs-templating.info, acs-translations/acs-translations.info, intermedia-driver/intermedia-driver.info, notifications/notifications.info, ref-timezones/ref-timezones.info, search/search.info, tsearch2-driver/tsearch2-driver.info: Bumped info files, which I forgot to do before putting up the beta tarball. 2008-03-22 14:25 emmar * packages/: acs-kernel/sql/oracle/community-core-create.sql, acs-kernel/sql/postgresql/community-core-create.sql, acs-lang/acs-lang.info, acs-lang/catalog/acs-lang.en_US.ISO-8859-1.xml, acs-lang/sql/oracle/ad-locales.sql, acs-lang/sql/oracle/upgrade/upgrade-5.4.1d2-5.4.1d3.sql, acs-lang/sql/postgresql/ad-locales.sql, acs-lang/sql/postgresql/upgrade/upgrade-5.4.1d2-5.4.1d3.sql, acs-lang/www/change-locale.tcl, acs-lang/www/locale-set.tcl: Add foreign key constraint on user_preferences.locale to force referencial integrity. This column is now added by acs-lang at creation time, to create the constraint at the same moment. 2008-03-22 10:31 gustafn * packages/acs-tcl/tcl/: apm-install-procs.tcl, community-core-procs.tcl, request-processor-procs.tcl, tcl-documentation-procs.tcl, tdom-procs.tcl, test/html-email-procs.tcl: normalize some more expressions 2008-03-22 10:16 gustafn * packages/acs-subsite/: tcl/email-image-procs.tcl, www/group-master.tcl, www/user/portrait/upload.tcl: normalize some more string expressions 2008-03-19 10:59 emmar * packages/search/tcl/search-procs.tcl: Roll back my previous commit that put the last dequeue call into a default block of the switch. Objects that have insert/update and delete operations in the same run would never be dequeued otherwise. 2008-03-19 10:44 emmar * packages/acs-lang/: acs-lang.info, sql/oracle/ad-locales.sql, sql/oracle/upgrade/upgrade-5.4.1d1-5.4.1d2.sql, sql/postgresql/ad-locales.sql, sql/postgresql/upgrade/upgrade-5.4.1d1-5.4.1d2.sql: Fixed for en_CA and fr_CA locale definitions 2008-03-13 08:41 donb * packages/acs-tcl/tcl/request-processor-procs.tcl: Tracked down obscure problem that has cropped up occasionally since the beginning. If AOLserver his hit with a domain name that's not bound to the IP it is listening on, it tries to serve /global/file-not-found but does not call registered preauth filters first. It does call registered procs, though. This results in rp_handler being called, but not rp_filter, and rp_handler dies because it expects rp_filter to have set up ad_conn. My solution is to simply redirect to the URL AOLserver substitutes, without the bogus domain name, which causes the file not found page to be delivered to the user. The calls I saw were GET http://www.google.com to my server's IP - probably a security exploit for IIS or Apache sometime in the deep past. 2008-03-13 08:35 donb * packages/acs-tcl/tcl/security-procs.tcl: Allow files like "file not found" or "server busy" to be displayed when the entire server is restricted to registered users. 2008-03-12 14:26 emmar * packages/search/tcl/search-procs.tcl: Changed log notice to debug 2008-03-12 01:09 maltes * packages/acs-templating/catalog/acs-templating.en_US.ISO-8859-1.xml: Missing message keys, transformed as I guess they are meant. 2008-03-11 07:50 emmar * packages/acs-tcl/tcl/table-display-procs.tcl: HTML Strict cleanup 2008-03-07 15:34 emmar * packages/acs-content-repository/tcl/filter-procs.tcl: Added -- after switches in call to ad_html_text_convert to avoid errors when the text to convert contains hyphens 2008-03-07 00:25 maltes * packages/acs-lang/tcl/lang-message-procs.tcl: Made sure you can pass an empty string as default and it translates into translation missing. Thanks To Emma for noticing this 2008-03-05 22:57 maltes * packages/acs-lang/tcl/lang-message-procs.tcl: Fix Bug #3126. lang::message::lookup was not adhering to a given default value but just returned the message key missing string, even if there was a default 2008-03-05 14:09 donb * packages/acs-tcl/tcl/security-procs.tcl: Added /favicon.ico to the magic list of URLs allowed when you restrict an entire site to registered users. 2008-03-05 12:13 donb * packages/acs-content-repository/tcl/: content-folder-procs.tcl, content-folder-procs.xql: Removed Malte's "fix" to content-folder new, and emmanuelle's fix to that fix (which was fine), by rolling back to the 5.3 version (which wasn't broken in the first place, PG 8.1 was) 2008-03-04 13:24 donb * packages/acs-tcl/tcl/install-procs.tcl: Cleaned up the install.xml stuff so it no longer puts random crap out in the log written to the http socket. 2008-03-01 13:40 emmar * packages/acs-templating/tcl/head-procs.tcl: Added column to links multirow to be able to order stylesheets 2008-02-29 07:04 emmar * packages/acs-content-repository/tcl/content-folder-procs.tcl: default value of parent_id has to be the empty string in content::folder::new 2008-02-13 10:31 emmar * packages/search/tcl/search-procs.tcl: Don't dequeue twice. Added a default switch in search indexer for operation that does not match update/insert nor delete