Lodz, November 3rd 2008 -- The Midgard Project has released the second maintenance release of Midgard 8.09 Ragnaroek LTS. Ragnaroek LTS is a Long Term Support version of the free software content management framework.
The 8.09.2 release focuses on major performance improvements and ease of upgrade from earlier Midgard 1.8 installations. It is the first maintenance release in the Ragnaroek series that combines both Midgard and MidCOM. The version 8.09.2 is recommended to all users of Midgard 1.8 and 8.09. Main changes from 8.09.0: * MySQL errors when upgrading old databases have been fixed (#355) * SQL queries generated by MidCOM's DBA layer have been optimized (#412) * Midgard now sets up a standalone Asgard administrative interface for all new site setups (#36 and #329) * MidCOM has a new handler for catching PHP Exceptions (#352) * MidCOM DBA is bypassed for configuration and element loading (#414 and #415) * Midgard Collector is now able to query metadata properties (#417) * MultiLang support has been improved with index articles and attachments (#288 and #420) * Debian and Ubuntu packages now automatically install memcached and SOLR (#380 and #381) * Datagard upgrade from 1.8 now installs same MidCOM packages to Ragnaroek (#363) * Swedish translations are now included In total 98 tickets have been closed for this release. See the Midgard issue tracker for a full list: http://trac.midgard-project.org/query?status=closed&milestone=8.09.2+Ragnaroek Planned for next maintenance release: * More performance tuning * Changing MidCOM DBA from subclasses to decorators * Unit tests for midgard-php and MidCOM DBA layers * New Midgard visual guidelines deployed more widely * Filesync git integration for collaborative site development See the full list in: http://trac.midgard-project.org/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&milestone=8.09.3+Ragnaroek Source downloads http://www.midgard-project.org/download/ Binary packages http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/midgardproject:/ragnaroek/ Getting started http://www.midgard-project.org/documentation/getting-started/ Issue tracker http://trac.midgard-project.org/roadmap More information Piotr Pokora, Midgard release manager piotrek.pokora(at)gmail.com Henri Bergius, Midgard bug master henri.bergius(at)iki.fi The Midgard Project http://www.midgard-project.org/ _______________________________________________ user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.midgard-project.org/mailman/listinfo/user
