Greetings! This week is a bit quieter on announcements as everybody has been working on the existing projects. However, we should have some new test releases available soon, and many promising new features have been discussed on the mailing lists. ============================ ---------------------------- Current versions: Stable: 1.2.5 (Mad King) Devel.: 1.2.6 beta 1 ---------------------------- ============================ Midgard 1.2.6 beta 2 schedule Alexander Bokovoy has announced that the second beta of Midgard 1.2.6 should be released quite soon, probably already on Friday this week. The release will first be available from Alexander's Web site, but we will try to add it to the CVS repository and the Midgard Web site soon afterwards. At this point the beta is almost finished, but the import utility and Admin site will still need some work. -> http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=midgard&m=94949258425357&w=2 ---------------------------- Midgard RPMs for Mandrake Thanks to Ronan-Yann Lorin, we now have RPM packages of Midgard 1.2.6 beta 1 and Midgard 1.2.5 for Linux-Mandrake. The packages are available as both source and binary RPMs, and should work with Linux-Mandrake versions 6.1 and 7.0. At this point the files can be downloaded from Ronan-Yann's FTP site, but we look forward to making them also available on the main Midgard site. -> ftp://194.206.53.42/pub/ ---------------------------- Enabling user self-registration Many sites want to enable their visitors to register and create user accounts for themselves. The permission system in the Midgard 1.x series makes this a bit difficult, as all create operations need to be made by authenticated users. The new access control system in Midgard 2 will make the process easier, but before that it requires a bit of working around. There was recently a thread on the mailing list about this, and people interested in deploying a user self-registration system on their sites will probably be interested it. Similar techniques can also be applied to other create operations, like article comments and bulletin boards. The discussion (and some code examples) can be found from the mailing list archives. -> http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?t=94943912600001&w=2&r=1 ============================ ============================ About Midgard Midgard is a freely-available Web application development and publishing platform based on the popular PHP scripting language. It is an Open Source development project, giving you the freedom to create your solutions in an open environment. Midgard is the tool for creating, modifying and maintaining dynamic database-enabled web services. -> http://www.midgard-project.org ---------------------------- About MWS The Midgard Weekly Summary is a newsletter for the Midgard user and developer community. The MWS is currently being distributed in following mediums: -The Midgard Project's Web site -> http://www.midgard-project.org -Linux Weekly News -> http://www.lwn.net -Linux Today -> http://www.linuxtoday.com -Linux Developer's Network -> http://linuxdev.net -Open Source Writers Group -> http://www.oswg.org -Midgard mailing list If you would like to release it elsewhere, please contact Henri Bergius ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Previous issues of Midgard Weekly Summary can be found archived at the Midgard web site. -> http://www.midgard-project.org/topic/169.html ============================ /Bergie -- -- Henri Bergius -- +358 40 525 1334 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.iki.fi/Henri.Bergius -- This is The Midgard Project's mailing list. For more information, please visit the project's web site at http://www.midgard-project.org To unsubscribe the list, send an empty email message to address [EMAIL PROTECTED]