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List:       bricolage-general
Subject:    ANN: Bricolage 1.8.7
From:       David Wheeler <david () kineticode ! com>
Date:       2005-10-25 19:03:28
Message-ID: BD0D30C0-A330-4349-858B-FB13443095E1 () kineticode ! com
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     The Bricolage development team is pleased to announce the  
release of
     Bricolage 1.8.7. This maintenance release addresses numerous minor
     issues in Bricolage 1.8.6 and adds a number of improvements,  
including
     bulk publish and templating fixes, as well as PostgreSQL 8.1  
support.
     The most important changes include:

Improvements

       * The installer now prefers typical installation paths over  
those in
       the $PATH environment variable when searching for Apache and
       PostgreSQL installations. This is to favor servers installed  
manually
       over those included with the operating system. [David]

       * Added a partial index on the comp_time column of the job  
table so
       as to speed up lookups of jobs yet to be completed. This was
       originally in a 1.6.7 upgrade script, but never made it into  
the SQL
       for new installations. Suggested by Mark Jaroski. [David]

       * The Bulk Publish feature in the UI now only publishes the
       previously published versions of unexpired stories and media,  
rather
       than the latest version of expired and unexpired stories and  
media,
       thus avoiding errors when documents are checked out. [David]

       * If a story passed to the burn_another() or preview_another()  
burner
       methods is the same as the story currently being burned, it  
will no
       longer be published or previewed again by burn_another() or
       preview_another(), thus mitigating the possibility of infinite  
loops.
       [David]

       * Added an "Expired" event for when stories and media are  
expired.
       Suggested by Joshua Edelstein. [David]

Bug Fixes

       * The Template Toolkit and HTML::Template burners work again.  
[David]

       * Errors thrown when setting element field values will now be
       displayed as error messages within the context of the element
       profile, rather than throwing a fatal exception. This is  
useful for
       invalid dates, for example. [David]

       * The SOAP interface for categories now properly checks for  
and sets
       as appropriate the active attribute on categories being  
created or
       updated. Reported by Phillip Smith. [David]

       * Updated for compatibility with PostgreSQL 8.1. [David]

       * Defunct media files are now properly removed from the delivery
       server whenever a media document's file name has changed.  
Reported by
       Brad Fox. [David]

     For a complete list of the changes, see the changes list at
     http://www.bricolage.cc/news/announce/changes/bricolage-1.8.7/.  
For the
     complete history of ongoing changes in Bricolage, see  
Bric::Changes at
     http://www.bricolage.cc/docs/api/current/Bric::Changes.

     Download Bricolage 1.8.7 now from the Bricolage Website at
     http://www.bricolage.cc/downloads/, from the SourceForge  
download page
     at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=34789, and
     from the Kineticode download page at
     http://www.kineticode.com/bricolage/downloads/.

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,
     HTML::Template, and Template Toolkit 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  
"quite
     possibly the most capable enterprise-class open-source application
     available" by eWEEK.

     Enjoy!

     --The Bricolage Team


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