diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 46d739114..3a31b9661 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,58 +1,40 @@ -------------------------------------------------------------------- -CDSware News: CDSware v0.1.0 released -December 4, 2003 +CDSware News: CDSware v0.1.1 released +December 19, 2003 http://cdsware.cern.ch/news/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- -CDSware v0.1.0 was released on December 4th, 2003. +CDSware v0.1.1 was released on December 19th, 2003. What's new: * development branch release - * search engine redesign to yield five times more search performance - for larger sites (WebSearch, BibWords) - * fulltext indexation of PDF, PostScript, MS Word, MS PowerPoint and - MS Excel files (WebSearch) - * integrated combined metadata/fulltext/citation search (WebSearch) - * multi-stage search guidance in cases of no exact match (WebSearch) - * OAI-PMH harvestor (BibHarvest) - * bibliographic task scheduler (BibSched) - * automatic daemon mode of the indexer, the formatter and the - collection cache generator (BibWords, BibFormat, WebSearch) - * user management and session handling rewrite (WebSession) - * user personalization, document baskets and notification alert - system (WebBasket, WebAlert) - * role-based access control engine (WebAccess) - * internationalization of the interface started (currently with - Czech, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, - Russian, and Slovak support) - * web page design update (WebStyle) - * introduction of programmer-oriented technical documentation corner - (WebHelp) - * source tree reorganization, mod_python technology adopted for most - of the modules - + * access control engine now used by BibWords, BibFormat (admin and + bibreformat), WebSearch (webcoll), and BibTaskEx + * access control engine admin guide started (WebAccess) + * search engine support for sorting by more than one field (WebSearch) + * more internationalization of the search engine messages (WebSearch) + * new language: Norwegian (bokmål) + * simple example for converting BibTeX into XML MARC (BibConvert) + * new optional --with-python configuration option + * Python module detection during configure + * bugfixes: os.tempnam() warning, login page referer, and others + Download: - - -Notes: - This is a development branch release. It is not meant to replace - CDSware 0.0.9. Users of 0.0.9 are advised to wait for the next - stable release. Users of 0.0.9+ are advised to upgrade to 0.1.0. + http://cdsware.cern.ch/download/cdsware-0.1.1.tar.gz - As of this release we are adopting the classical stable/development - branch version numbering scheme spread in the GNU/Linux world and - elsewhere, with even minor versions denoting stable branch releases - and odd minor versions denoting development releases. For more - details, see . +Notes: + This is a development branch release. Users of 0.0.9 are advised + to wait for the next stable release. Users of 0.1.0 may upgrade to + 0.1.1 if the above features are important to them. -Known problems: +Known problems: WebSubmit is not working properly yet. Several admin-level functionality of 0.0.9 is missing in 0.1.0 yet. The task scheduler - and RBAC authentication engines are functional but not yet called - by all the clients. These issues will be subsequently dealt with - in the next releases of the 0.1.x development branch. + is functional but not yet fully tested. These issues will be + subsequently dealt with in the next releases of the 0.1.x + development branch. -What's next: +What's next: Fixing known problems described above. Stabilizing the 0.1.x tree. Continuing with the internationalization of the interface. Introducing BibIndex for better phrase indexing and browsing.