Frédéric, Piers & contributors: congratulations! You do an amazing work, thanks!
Cheers, Sazima On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 3:13 PM, de Villamil Frédéric < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > After a long time of development, Typo 5.1 "Cartier-Bresson" was released > on monday July the 21th at around 8PM GMT and can be considered as a major > Typo Version. > > It contains : > > > ** Multiple users and roles. > > This point actually makes Typo 5.1 a major version. This release introduces > 3 roles, coming along with various privileges : > – Administrator, who owns full administrative and publishing power. > – Publisher, who owns full publishing power on his own contents. > – Contributors, who only have the right to login and edit their profile. > > There is now an option to allow new users to register by themselves or not. > If not, the administrator will just have to add them himself in the admin. > > > ** Improved admin > > The admin has been heavily refactored to be lighter, easier to use, and > offer more capabilities. > – You can now save your posts as drafts. Drafts now appear in a separate > area of your administration to separarte them from offline posts. > – New editing interface. > – Tag autocompletion. > – A new dashboard that makes daily administration easier. > – Save as draft capabilities > – Autosave capabilities (only with simple visual editor) > – Revamped UI > – Many more... > > > ** New default theme > > After leaving the too much long used Azure theme for some templates found > on open source design websites, we realized Typo needed a new default theme. > We asked O2Source a French web Agency involved in many free and open source > templates, and they came up with Typographic. > > We wanted something new, far from the classic white and blue fixed width > wordpressish thing, something with its own personnality, that would take the > whole screen and adapt many resolutions, and we've been quite delighted with > what Hélène produced. > > > ** Come back of the gem and the installer > > After fixing numerous bugs happening with Typo installed through our > installer, we were able to provide the gem again, making Typo installation > easier than ever. > > MySQL is now the default database and SQLITE dependency has been removed. > > ** Lots of code improvement and refactoring > > The code have been improved and refactored, maing Typo lighter than ever. > This is a guarantee of less errors. > > ** New migrators > > We've included new migrators, allowing easy import from Wordpress and > Dotclear 1.2 and 2. Typepad and Textpattern may follow soon. > > ** New site with up to date documentation > > The bugtracker has been moved from Trac to Redmine, so has the > documentation, which has been rewriten in many ways. Access to the doc has > also been made easier by merging redmine.typosphere.org with > trac.typosphere.org. > > Lots of bugfixes, too much to say here. > -- > Frédéric de Villamil > [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +33 (0)6 62 19 1337 > http://fredericdevillamil.com Typo : http://typosphere.org > > _______________________________________________ > Typo-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list >
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