We're pleased to announce that Krang v1.999 is now available. This is a test release leading up to the Krang v2.000 later this summer. As you'll see Krang v1.999 is packed with new features!
Notable changes in this release: * Add-On Version 2 The add-on v2 project is complete, bringing many improvements to the way Krang add-ons work. Here's a list of the biggest changes: * Add-ons are now located installed into a separate direction called "addons/". They may be developed in-place, potentially under separate version control. * Add-ons may be packaged with dependencies from CPAN in a "src/" directory. The Krang build system will build these modules at install time. * Add-ons may be uninstalled using the new "krang_addon_uninstaller" script. (This does not apply to addons installed with the old system.) * Add-ons may register new links in the left-navigation area. * Add-ons may selectively override core Krang classes via inheritance and the use of the "conf/class.conf" configuration file. * Add-ons may include SQL source for new tables which will be included in the databases built by "krang_createdb". * Scheduler Addons * Added the ability to add external scheduler addons to Krang. * Added conditional Scheduler link in left nav bar under admin section This is for non story or media related administrative scheduler addons. Link points to new admin scheduler screen. Allows you to use scheduler addons in place of external scripts run by cron. * Added support for Scheduler addon classes that are tied to story or media content. This will show up in current scheduler screen. * WYSIWYG HTML Editor Added a new element class, Krang::ElementClass::XinhaEditor, which offers a WYSIWYG HTML editor based on the Xinha Javascript editor. * Upgraded to Apache v1.3.33. This brings Krang up-to-date with all released Apache security fixes. For more information about Krang, visit the Krang website: http://krang.sourceforge.net/ There you can download Krang, view screenshots, read documentation, join our mailing-lists and access the CVS tree. Detailed change-log here: http://krang.sf.net/docs/changelog.html Krang is an Open Source web-publisher / content-management system designed for large-scale magazine-style websites. It is a 100% Perl application using Apache/mod_perl and MySQL, as well as numerous CPAN modules. Krang provides a powerful and easy to use story and media editing environment for magazine editors, as well as a complete template development environment for web designers. On the back-end, Perl programmers can customize Krang to control the data entered in the story editor and add code to drive the templates to build output. Krang can be enhanced with add-ons containing new skins and other new features. Krang easily handles large data sets and can manage multiple websites in a single installation. - the Krang team ---- Aaron Dancygier