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The ChangeLogs include an annotated list of changes (Section , “Changelog (most recent release only)”) since the last release and in the -entire 5.7 release sequence Section , “Changelog for oacs-5-7”.
+ +
+ The release contains the 78 packages of the oacs-5-8 branch. + These packages contain the OpenACS core packages, major + application packages (e.g. most the ones used on OpenACS.org), and + DotLRN. +
+ All packages have the following properties: +
SQL: +
+ All packages are PostgreSQL 9.1+ compatible + (tested with PostgreSQL 9.3) +
+ All SQL files with stored procedures use the + recommended $$ quoting +
+ All SQL-functions have regular function arguments + instead of the old-style aliases +
+ The function_args() (query-able meta-data) are + completed and fixed +
+ Incompatible functions (e.g. for sequences) are + replaced. +
+
Tcl: +
+ All packages were brought up Tcl 8.5, including + the actual Tcl idioms where appropriate (e.g. + using the safer expand operator, range indices, + dict, lassign, etc.) +
+ The code was updated to prefer byte-compiled functions + instead of legacy functions from ancient Tcl versions. +
+ The code works with NaviServer and AOLserver. +
+
API: +
+ All packages are free from calls to deprecated code + (157 functions are marked as deprecated and will be + moved into an "outdated" package in the 5.9 or 6.0 + release) +
+ General overhaul of package management +
+ Install-from-local and install-from-repository can be used + to install the provided packages based on a acs-core + installation. This means that also DotLRN can be + installed from repository or from + local into an existing OpenACS instance. +
+ Install-from-repository offers filtering functions, allows + to install optionally from head-channel (for packages + not in the base channel of the installed instance). + Install-from-repository works more like an app-store, + showing as well vendor information +
+ Packages can be equipped with configuration files + (e.g. changing parameters for style packages) +
+ Package developers can upload .apm packages via workflow + for review by core members and for inclusion to the + repository. The option is integrated with package + management, the link is offered for local packages. + We hope to attract additional vendors (universities, + companies) to make their packages available on this + path. +
+ New management-functions for package instances + (list, create, delete package instances) +
+ Substantially improved API browser: +
+ Show just relevant parts of .xql files for a function +
+ Provide syntax-highlighting for www scripts as well +
+ Handle more special cases like e.g. util_memoize +
+ Provide links to Tcl functions depending on the installed + Tcl version +
+ Provide links to NaviServer or OpenACS functions depending + on installed version +
+ Syntax highlighter uses CSS rather than hard-coded markup +
+ Significant performance improvement for large + installations +
+
+
+
Altogether, OpenACS 5.8.1 differs from OpenACS 5.8.0 in + about 100,000 modifications (6145 commits) contributed by 5 + committers. +
+ Compatibility with PostgreSQL 9.2: + The new version installs without any need for special parameter + settings in new PostgreSQL versions. This makes it easier to use + e.g. shared or packaged PostgreSQL installations. +
Compatibility with NaviServer 4.99.5 or newer
Performance and scalability improvements
Various bug fixes
Altogether, OpenACS 5.8.0 differs from OpenACS 5.7.0 in + more than 18.000 modifications (781 commits) contributed by 7 + committers. +
Made changes that extend acs-kernel's create_type and create_attribute procs, so they're optionally able to create sql tables and columns. Optional metadata params allow for the automatic generation of foreign key references, check exprs, etc. -
- Added new package dependency type, "embeds". This is a variant of the - "extends" package dependency type added in OpenACS 5.5.0. It allows one +
+ Added new package dependency type, "embeds". This is a variant of the + "extends" package dependency type added in OpenACS 5.5.0. It allows one to write embeddable packages, with scripts made visible in client packages using URLs which include the embedded package's package key. An example - embeddable package might be a rewritten "attachments" package. The current + embeddable package might be a rewritten "attachments" package. The current implementation requires a global instance be mounted, and client packages generate urls to that global instance. Among other things, this leads to the user navigating to the top-level subsite, losing any subsite theming - that might be associated with a community. Using "embeds", a rewritten + that might be associated with a community. Using "embeds", a rewritten package would run in the client package's context, maintaining theming and automatically associating attachments with the client package.
- Added global package parameters - parameters can now have scope "local" or "global", - with "local" being the default.. + Added global package parameters - parameters can now have scope "local" or "global", + with "local" being the default..
Fixes for ns_proxy handling
@@ -34,32 +136,32 @@ Support for 3-chars language codes in acs-lang
Added OOXML mime types in acs-content-repository -
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 + 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 + 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, + 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, + 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 + 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 + 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 @@ -72,57 +174,57 @@ 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
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 (Section , “Changelog (most recent release only)”) since the last release and in the -entire 5.7 release sequence Section , “Changelog for oacs-5-7”.
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 (Section , “Changelog (most recent release only)”) since the last release and in the -entire 5.7 release sequence Section , “Changelog for oacs-5-7”.
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. + file attachments, etc. "complex-send" will disappear from acs-core in a future + release.
The ChangeLogs include an annotated list of changes (???) since the last release and in the +entire 5.7 release sequence ???.
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 (???) since the last release and in the +entire 5.7 release sequence ???.
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 Section , “Changelog for oacs-5-7”.
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. -
For a complete change list, see the Change list since + 5.1.0 in ???.
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 + /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 Section , “Changelog for oacs-5-7”.
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
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. + + Bug Tracker at the OpenACS website.
You may want to begin by reading our installation documentation for - Section , “a Unix-like system”. Note that the Windows documentation is + the section called “a Unix-like system”. Note that the Windows documentation is not current for OpenACS 5.7.0, but an alternative is to use John - Sequeira's Oasis VM + Sequeira's Oasis VM project.
After installation, the full documentation set can be found by visiting
- http://yourserver/doc.
+ 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. @@ -133,7 +235,7 @@ 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 @@ -163,232 +265,37 @@ 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/*,
+ 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/* *~") -
-2009-09-05 21:44 donb - - * packages/acs-content-repository/tcl/apm-callback-procs.tcl: The - after upgrade callback needed a documentation block. - -2009-09-05 16:27 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, - openacs-default-theme/openacs-default-theme.info, - ref-timezones/ref-timezones.info, search/search.info, - tsearch2-driver/tsearch2-driver.info: Bumped version number to - 5.5.1b1 in preparation for release. - -2009-09-02 17:32 daveb - - * packages/acs-tcl/tcl/request-processor-procs.tcl: Fix redirect - when ForceHostP is true. Fix redirect to/from HTTP/HTTPS where - full URLs are used. - -2009-08-10 23:40 donb - - * packages/acs-subsite/tcl/: package-procs-oracle.xql, - package-procs-postgresql.xql, package-procs.tcl: - package_exec_plsql didn't work if the sql proc being called has a - parameter named "package_name"... - -2009-08-10 18:35 michaels - - * packages/acs-templating/tcl/richtext-procs.tcl: remove html - security check bypass for admins in the richtext validation per - OCT discussion - -2009-07-29 22:21 donb - - * packages/search/: search.info, tcl/apm-callback-procs.tcl, - tcl/search-init.tcl: Added a package instantiate callback so when - someone mounts "search", the search indexer is correctly started - up without a server restart being required. - -2009-07-24 14:12 victorg - - * packages/acs-templating/: acs-templating.info, - tcl/apm-callback-procs.tcl: Providing upgrade logic for removing - Xinha invalid plugins from the parameter XinhaDefaultPlugins. - -2009-07-22 20:47 emmar - - * packages/acs-subsite/acs-subsite.info: Fix dependencies and their - version - -2009-07-21 22:14 emmar - - * packages/acs-templating/tcl/date-procs.tcl: Localized default - format for date widget - -2009-07-20 21:29 emmar - - * packages/acs-templating/tcl/richtext-procs.tcl: Close LABEL tag - before adding the Format and Spellcheck widgets. This HTML should - be build in the template rather than in the rendering proc. Each - widget should be computed separately. - -2009-07-20 12:24 emmar - - * packages/acs-content-repository/: acs-content-repository.info, - sql/common/mime-type-data.sql, tcl/apm-callback-procs.tcl: - Implements TIP #135 (OOXML formats) - -2009-07-20 09:32 emmar - - * packages/acs-core-docs/www/individual-programs.html: Fix Tcl - version - -2009-07-20 08:42 emmar - - * packages/acs-core-docs/www/xml/install-guide/software.xml: Fix - Tcl version - -2009-07-17 11:48 emmar - - * 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, - openacs-default-theme/openacs-default-theme.info, - ref-timezones/ref-timezones.info, search/search.info, - tsearch2-driver/tsearch2-driver.info: Bumped version to 5.5.1d1 - -2009-07-14 11:44 emmar - - * packages/notifications/: - catalog/notifications.en_US.ISO-8859-1.xml, - catalog/notifications.es_ES.ISO-8859-1.xml, - tcl/notification-procs.tcl, www/manage.adp, www/manage.tcl, - www/request-change-frequency.adp, - www/request-change-frequency.tcl, www/request-new.adp, - www/request-new.tcl: Localization (level AA requirement) - -2009-07-14 09:47 emmar - - * packages/acs-subsite/: catalog/acs-subsite.en_US.ISO-8859-1.xml, - catalog/acs-subsite.es_ES.ISO-8859-1.xml, - www/shared/whos-online.adp, www/shared/whos-online.tcl: - Localization - -2009-07-06 11:17 emmar - - * packages/acs-core-docs/www/: database-management.html, - docbook-primer.html, install-next-nightly-vacuum.html, - install-openacs-delete-tablespace.html, - programming-with-aolserver.html, remote-postgres.html, - unix-installation.html: Regenerate HTML files after updating - variables values and the compatibility table - -2009-07-06 11:14 emmar - - * packages/acs-core-docs/www/: acs-admin.html, - acs-package-dev.html, acs-plat-dev.html, aolserver.html, - aolserver4.html, apm-design.html, apm-requirements.html, - automated-backup.html, automated-testing-best-practices.html, - backup-recovery.html, backups-with-cvs.html, - complete-install.html, configuring-configuring-packages.html, - configuring-configuring-permissions.html, - configuring-install-packages.html, - configuring-mounting-packages.html, credits.html, - cvs-guidelines.html, cvs-tips.html, db-api-detailed.html, - db-api.html, dev-guide.html, doc-standards.html, - eng-standards-constraint-naming.html, - eng-standards-filenaming.html, eng-standards-plsql.html, - eng-standards-versioning.html, ext-auth-requirements.html, - filename.html, form-builder.html, groups-design.html, - high-avail.html, how-do-I.html, i18n-convert.html, index.html, - individual-programs.html, install-cvs.html, - install-daemontools.html, install-full-text-search-openfts.html, - install-full-text-search-tsearch2.html, - install-next-add-server.html, install-next-backups.html, - install-openacs-keepalive.html, install-qmail.html, - install-redhat.html, install-steps.html, ix01.html, - kernel-doc.html, mac-installation.html, maint-performance.html, - maintenance-deploy.html, object-identity.html, - object-system-design.html, object-system-requirements.html, - objects.html, openacs-unpack.html, openacs.html, oracle.html, - packages.html, parties.html, - permissions-tediously-explained.html, permissions.html, - postgres.html, psgml-for-emacs.html, psgml-mode.html, - release-notes.html, releasing-openacs-core.html, - request-processor.html, requirements-template.html, - rp-design.html, security-notes.html, snapshot-backup.html, - style-guide.html, subsites.html, templates.html, - tutorial-database.html, tutorial-debug.html, - tutorial-newpackage.html, tutorial-pages.html, tutorial.html, - upgrade-4.5-to-4.6.html, upgrade-openacs-files.html, - upgrade-overview.html, variables.html: Updated with correct - variable values and last changes in the compatibility table - -2009-07-06 11:02 emmar - - * packages/acs-core-docs/www/xml/: variables.ent, - install-guide/compatibility.xml, install-guide/software.xml: - Updated the compatibility table. Set the variables according to - the last final release. Removed unused (and duplicated) file. - - -