ANNOUNCE: Bricolage-Devel 1.5.1
The Bricolage team is pleased to announce the release of Bricolage-Devel 1.5.1, a beta release for what will soon become Bricolage 1.6.0. In addition to all of the new features of the 1.5.0 release, this version of the open-source content management system fixes many bugs and adds many new features and significant performance enhancements. The most significant changes include: * A new, complete internationalization and localization implementation. All messages, text buttons, JavaScript messages, and help files may be localized. Some Portuguese and Italian localization has already been done. Translators needed going forward! Thanks to Claudio Valente. * New Super Bulk Edit interface to allow story editors to edit multiple fields in a single textarea field using simple tags. Thanks to Macworld Magazine for sponsoring this development. * A further overhaul of groups and permissions. These changes make the permission checking and therefore the UI much more responsive. Thanks to Portugal Telecom for sponsoring this development. * The addition of a WebDAV distribution mover. Thanks to Joao Pedro Goncalves. * Extensive refactoring of most of the business classes, including stories, media, and templates, greatly enhancing the speed at which objects are retrieved from the database. Thanks Portugal Telecom and to Mark Jaroski. * Added a per-Apache request object cache. The prevents an object from being looked up in the database multiple times in a single request. Such was often the case during publishes, which are speeded up by this change by up to 33%. Thanks to Portugal Telecom for sponsoring this development. * Added a preview link to all subelement profiles within a story, thanks to Scott Lanning. * Switched exceptions from home-grown to using Exception::Class, thanks to Scott Lanning. * Added category group association -- including the ability to cascade membership assignments into subcategories -- to the category profile Thanks to Joao Pedro Goncalves. * The Content section of story, media, and subelement profiles now attempts to display a bit of text from the first text field in each listed subelement so that it's easier to see at a glance which subelement is which. Thanks to Joao Pedro Goncalves. * Subelement can now nest. That is, they can contain themselves. Not in a story, of course, but in the document model (element administration). * Over twenty bug fixes and a much more extensive test suite. For a complete list of the changes, see the changes file at https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=148352 Although this release gives every appearance of being as stable as any previous release of Bricolage, it does contain a fair bit of new code that needs to be put through the ringer. It is, however, feature complete for 1.6.0, which we expect to release in April. ABOUT BRICOLAGE Bricolage is a full-featured, enterprise-class content management and publishing system. It offers a browser-based interface for ease-of use, a full-fledged templating system with complete HTML::Mason and HTML::Template support for flexibility, and many other features. It operates in an Apache/mod_perl environment, and uses the PostgreSQL RDBMS for its repository. A comprehensive, actively-developed open source CMS, Bricolage has been hailed as Most Impressive in 2002 by eWeek. Learn more about Bricolage and download it from the Bricolage home page, http://bricolage.cc/. Enjoy! --The Bricolage Team
ANNOUNCE: Bricolage-Devel 1.5.1
The Bricolage team is pleased to announce the release of Bricolage-Devel 1.5.1, a beta release for what will soon become Bricolage 1.6.0. In addition to all of the new features of the 1.5.0 release, this version of the open-source content management system fixes many bugs and adds many new features and significant performance enhancements. The most significant changes include: * A new, complete internationalization and localization implementation. All messages, text buttons, JavaScript messages, and help files may be localized. Some Portuguese and Italian localization has already been done. Translators needed going forward! Thanks to Claudio Valente. * New Super Bulk Edit interface to allow story editors to edit multiple fields in a single textarea field using simple tags. Thanks to Macworld Magazine for sponsoring this development. * A further overhaul of groups and permissions. These changes make the permission checking and therefore the UI much more responsive. Thanks to Portugal Telecom for sponsoring this development. * The addition of a WebDAV distribution mover. Thanks to Joao Pedro Goncalves. * Extensive refactoring of most of the business classes, including stories, media, and templates, greatly enhancing the speed at which objects are retrieved from the database. Thanks Portugal Telecom and to Mark Jaroski. * Added a per-Apache request object cache. The prevents an object from being looked up in the database multiple times in a single request. Such was often the case during publishes, which are speeded up by this change by up to 33%. Thanks to Portugal Telecom for sponsoring this development. * Added a preview link to all subelement profiles within a story, thanks to Scott Lanning. * Switched exceptions from home-grown to using Exception::Class, thanks to Scott Lanning. * Added category group association -- including the ability to cascade membership assignments into subcategories -- to the category profile Thanks to Joao Pedro Goncalves. * The Content section of story, media, and subelement profiles now attempts to display a bit of text from the first text field in each listed subelement so that it's easier to see at a glance which subelement is which. Thanks to Joao Pedro Goncalves. * Subelement can now nest. That is, they can contain themselves. Not in a story, of course, but in the document model (element administration). * Over twenty bug fixes and a much more extensive test suite. For a complete list of the changes, see the changes file at https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=148352 Although this release gives every appearance of being as stable as any previous release of Bricolage, it does contain a fair bit of new code that needs to be put through the ringer. It is, however, feature complete for 1.6.0, which we expect to release in April. ABOUT BRICOLAGE Bricolage is a full-featured, enterprise-class content management and publishing system. It offers a browser-based interface for ease-of use, a full-fledged templating system with complete HTML::Mason and HTML::Template support for flexibility, and many other features. It operates in an Apache/mod_perl environment, and uses the PostgreSQL RDBMS for its repository. A comprehensive, actively-developed open source CMS, Bricolage has been hailed as Most Impressive in 2002 by eWeek. Learn more about Bricolage and download it from the Bricolage home page, http://bricolage.cc/. Enjoy! --The Bricolage Team -- David Wheeler AIM: dwTheory [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 15726394 Yahoo!: dew7e Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kineticode. Setting knowledge in motion.[sm]
