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- The release contains the 78 packages of the oacs-5-9 branch. - These packages contain the OpenACS core packages, major + The release of OpenACS 5.9.0 contains the 78 packages of the oacs-5-9 branch. + These packages include the OpenACS core packages, the major application packages (e.g. most the ones used on OpenACS.org), and - DotLRN. + DotLRN 2.9.0.
- Changes for all packages: + Summary of changes:
SQL:
Improved performance of acs-object deletion.
Replaced many manual referential integrity calls by built-in handing in PostgreSQL.
- Removed various manual bookeeping and deletion operations + Removed various manual bookkeeping and deletion operations in the content repository by built-in handing in PostgreSQL.
Removed tree_sortkey on acs-objects to reduce its size and @@ -32,6 +32,19 @@ Much better protection against XSS attacks.
Improved HTML validity (especially for admin pages) +
+ Improved admin interface: +
+ Placed all installation options to a single page. +
+ Added pagination to /admin/applications (was unusable + for large sites) +
+ New admin pages for subsites linked from + site-wide-admin package (/acs-admin). +
+ Added explanatory text to several admin pages. +
Add lightweight support for ckeditor4 for templating::richtext widget (configurable via package parameter "RichTextEditor" of acs-templating. ckeditor4 @@ -47,10 +60,10 @@ theme-able, interfaces of includes can be defined with ad_include_contract (similar to ad_page_contract).
- Improved themability for display_templates. One can now + Improved them-ability for display_templates. One can now provide a display_template_name (similar to the sql statement name) to refer to display templates. This - enables resuabilit and is theme-able. + enables reusability and is theme-able.
Dimensional slider reform (ad_dimensional): Removed hard-coded table layout from dimensional slider Add backwards compatible templates Move hard-coded styles into @@ -61,26 +74,34 @@
Misc:
- Improved Documentation templating (uniform appearance) + Improved templating of OpenACS core documentation
- Make pretty-naming of acs-core packages more consistent + Improved Russian Internationalization
+ Make pretty-names of acs-core packages more consistent +
Mark unused functions of acs-tcl/tcl/table-display-procs.tcl as deprecated
Version numbers: -
+
Require PG 9.0 (End Of Life of PostgreSQL 8.4 was July 2014) -
- require XOTcl 2.0 (presented at the Tcl conference in 2011). -
+
+ Require XOTcl 2.0 (presented at the Tcl conference in 2011). +
Significant performance improvement for large installations
+
Changes in application packages: Various bug + fixes and improvements for e.g. file-storage, forums, news, + notifications, xowiki. +
Altogether, OpenACS 5.9.0 differs from OpenACS 5.8.1 in about xxxx modifications (yyyy commits) contributed by zzzz - committers. + committers. For more details, consult the + + raw ChangeLog.
The release contains the 78 packages of the oacs-5-8 branch. These packages contain the OpenACS core packages, major @@ -380,4 +401,4 @@
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/* *~") -