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- This is the first beta release of OpenACS 5.0.0. This - release has a number of serious bugs, and is not suitable for +
+ This is the second beta release of OpenACS 5.0.0 (tagged as oacs-5-0-0b4). This + release may still have a number of serious bugs, and is not suitable for production systems. It has passed several release criteria, including that it installs successfully, that all automated tests succeed, and that there are no known severity 1 @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
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 5.0.0b1, but an alternative is to use John + not current for OpenACS 5.0.0b4, but an alternative is to use John Sequeira's Oasis VM project.
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Spell checking. -
+ Potential incompatibilities: +
+ The undocumented special handling of ~ and +variable+ in formtemplates 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/* *~") +