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- 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 - (security hole, data loss, system crash) bugs. +
+ 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 3 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 5.0.0b4, but an alternative is to use John + not current for OpenACS , but an alternative is to use John Sequeira's Oasis VM project.
After installation, the full documentation set can be found by visiting - http://[your-host]/doc. + http://yourserver/doc.
New features in this release:
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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. + 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/* *~") -