Lodz, March 12th 2009 -- The Midgard Project has released the fourth maintenance release of Midgard 8.09 Ragnaroek LTS. Ragnaroek LTS is a Long Term Support version of the free software content management framework.
The 8.09.4 "Kaiku" release focuses on API and architecture cleanups in order to ease transition from Midgard 1.x series API to Midgard 2.x APIs. Stable 8.09.4 release is recommended for all users of Midgard. Main changes from 8.09.3: * Midgard installer doesn't depend on pearified.com channel (#747) * Memory corruption in midgard-php extension has been fixed (#804) * Query Builder and Collector constructors has been improved (#556) * Several crashes has been fixed (#712, #734, #801, #870) * Internal PHP classes can be introspected by PHP Reflection (#479) * midgard_cron has been improved (#813, #816) * URL name handling and generation has been rewritten (#809) * TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor has been upgraded to version 3.2.2 * Issues with handling multilingual content have been fixed (#870, #825, #935, #865, #910) * Code editor in Asgard has been changed from CodePress to EditArea * Configuration editor in Asgard now always creates valid configuration snippets (#771) * MidCOM now uses only the modern Midgard2 API (#611) * PAM authentication has been fixed (#750) * Midgard now ships with SELinux policy files (#538) In total 153 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=8.09.4+Ragnaroek Planned for next maintenance release: * More performance tuning * Unit tests for midgard-php and MidCOM DBA layers * New Midgard visual guidelines deployed more widely * Filesync git integration for collaborative site development * MidCOM packages distributed by a Midgard-powered PEAR channel See the full list in: http://trac.midgard-project.org/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&status=closed&milestone=8.09.4+Ragnaroek&order=priority 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
