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CERN DOCUMENT SERVER SOFTWARE (CDSware) NEWS
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Revision: $Id$
Here is a short summary of the most notable changes in CDSware
releases. For more info about the current release, please consult
RELEASE-NOTES. For more info about changes, please consult ChangeLog.
CDSware v0.7.1 -- released 2005-05-04
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*) important bugfix for bibconvert's ``source data in a directory''
mode, as invoked by the web submission system (BibConvert)
*) minor bugfix in the search engine, thanks to Frédéric Gobry
(WebSearch)
*) minor bugfix in the WebSearch Admin interface (WebSearch)
*) automatic linking to Google Print in the ``Haven't found what you
were looking for...'' page box (WebSearch)
*) BibFormat Admin Guide cleaned, thanks to Ferran Jorba
*) new Catalan translation, thanks to Ferran Jorba
*) updated Greek and Portuguese translations, thanks to Theodoros
Theodoropoulos and Flávio C. Coelho
*) updated Spanish translation
CDSware v0.7.0 -- released 2005-04-06
-------------------------------------
*) experimental release of the refextract program for automatic
reference extraction from PDF fulltext files (BibEdit)
*) experimental release of the citation and download ranking tools
(BibRank)
*) new module for gathering usage statistics out of Apache log files
(WebStat)
*) new similar-records-navigation tool exploring end-user viewing
habits: "people who viewed this page also viewed" (WebSearch,
BibRank)
*) OAI gateway validated against OAI Repository Explorer (BibHarvest)
*) fixed "records modified since" option for the indexer (BibIndex)
*) collection cache update is done only when the cache is not up to
date (WebSearch) [closing #WebSearch-016]
*) cleanup of user login mechanism (WebSession, WebAccess)
*) fixed uploading of already-existing records in the insertion mode
(BibUpload)
*) fixed submission in UTF-8 languages (WebSubmit)
*) updated HOWTO Run Your Existing CDSware Installation (WebHelp)
*) test suite improvements (WebSearch, BibHarvest, BibRank,
BibConvert)
*) German translation updated and new German stopwords list added,
thanks to Guido Pelzer
*) new Greek and Ukrainian translations, thanks to Theodoros
Theodoropoulos and Vasyl Ostrovskyi
*) all language codes now comply to RFC 1766 and ISO 639
*) numerous other small fixes and improvements, with many
contributions by the EPFL team headed by Frederic Gobry
(BibConvert, BibUpload, WebSearch, WebSubmit, WebSession)
CDSware v0.5.0 -- released 2004-12-17
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*) new rank engine, featuring word similarity rank method and the
journal impact factor rank demo (BibRank)
*) search engine includes ranking option (WebSearch)
*) record similarity search based on word frequency (WebSearch,
BibRank)
*) stopwords possibility when ranking and indexing (BibRank, BibIndex)
*) stemming possibility when ranking and indexing (BibRank, BibIndex)
*) search engine boolean query processing stages improved (WebSearch)
*) search engine accent matching in phrase searches (WebSearch)
*) regular expression searching mode introduced into the Simple
Search interface too (WebSearch)
*) Search Tips split into a brief Search Tips page and detailed
Search Guide page (WebSearch)
*) improvements to the ``Try your search on'' hints (WebSearch)
*) author search hints introduced (WebSearch)
*) search interface respects title prologue/epilogue portalboxes
(WebSearch)
*) improvements to admin interfaces (WebSearch, BibIndex, BibRank,
WebAccess)
*) basket item ordering problem fixed (WebBasket)
*) access error messages introduced (WebAccess and its clients)
*) new account management to enable/disable guest users and
automatic vs to-be-approved account registration (WebAccess)
*) possibility for temporary read-only access to, and closure of, the
site; useful for backups (WebAccess and its clients)
*) possibility for external authentication login methods (WebAccess)
*) new XML MARC handling library (BibEdit)
*) when uploading, bad XML records are marked as errors (BibUpload)
*) improvements to the submission engine and its admin interface,
thanks to Tiberiu Dondera (WebSubmit)
*) preparations for electronic mail submission feature, not yet
functional (ElmSubmit)
*) added example on MARC usage at CERN (WebHelp)
*) legacy compatibility with MySQL 3.23.x assured (BibUpload)
*) legacy compatibility with Python 2.2 assured (WebSubmit)
*) test suite additions and corrections (BibRank, BibIndex,
WebSearch, BibEdit)
*) French translation fixes, thanks to Eric Grand
*) minor Czech and Slovak translation cleanup
CDSware v0.3.3 (DEVELOPMENT) -- released 2004-07-16
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*) new international phrases, collection and field names; thanks to
Guido, Flavio, Tullio
*) collection international names are now respected by the search
engine and interfaces (WebSearch)
*) field international names are now respected by the search
engine and interfaces (WebSearch)
*) when no hits found in a given collection, do not display all
public hits straight away but only link to them (WebSearch)
*) records marked as DELETED aren't shown anymore in XML MARC and
other formats (WebSearch)
*) detailed record page now features record creation and modification
times (WebSearch)
*) improved XML MARC parsing and cumulative record count in case of
uploading of several files in one go (BibUpload)
*) personal `your admin activities' page introduced (WebSession)
*) added option to fulltext-index local files only (BibIndex)
*) initial release of the BibIndex Admin interface (BibIndex)
*) checking of mandatory selection box definitions (WebSubmit)
*) WebSearch Admin interface cleanup (WebSearch)
*) introducing common test suite infrastructure (WebSearch, BibIndex,
MiscUtil, WebHelp)
*) fixed accent and link problems for photo demo records (MiscUtil)
*) conference title exported via OAI XML DC (BibHarvest)
*) enabled building out of source directory; thanks to Frederic
CDSware v0.3.2 (DEVELOPMENT) -- released 2004-05-12
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*) admin area improved: all the modules have now Admin Guides; some
guides were updated, some are still to be updated (WebHelp,
BibConvert, BibFormat, BibIndex, BibSched, WebAlert, WebSession,
WebSubmit, BibEdit, BibHarvest, BibRank, BibUpload, WebAccess,
WebBasket, WebSearch, WebStyle)
*) initial release of the WebSearch Admin interface (WebSearch)
*) initial release of the BibRank Admin interface (BibRank)
*) search cache expiry after insertion of new records (WebSearch)
*) search engine now does on-the-fly formatting via BibFormat CLI
call to handle restricted site situations (WebSearch)
*) webcoll default verbosity decreased for efficiency (WebSearch)
*) added BibConvert configuration example for converting XML Dublin
Core to XML MARC (BibConvert)
*) BibConvert knowledge base mode extended by various case-sensitive
matching possibilities (BibConvert)
*) fixed various problems with fulltext file names and the submission
from MS Windows platform (WebSubmit)
*) fixed problem with bibupload append mode not updating XML MARC
properly (BibUpload)
*) fixed small problems with the submission interface such as
multiple fields selection (WebSubmit)
*) session revoking and session expiry strengthened (WebSession)
*) page design and style sheet updated to better fit large variety of
browsers (WebStyle)
*) added output format argument for basket display (WebBasket)
*) new Swedish translation and updated German, Russian, and Spanish
translations; thanks to Urban, Guido, Lyuba, and Magaly
*) faster creation of I18N static HTML and PHP files during make
CDSware v0.3.1 (DEVELOPMENT) -- released 2004-03-12
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*) security fix preventing exposure of local configuration variables
by malicious URL crafting (WebSearch, WebSubmit, WebAlert,
WebBasket, WebSession, BibHarvest, MiscUtil)
*) initial release of the ranking engine (BibRank)
*) new guide on HOWTO Run Your CDSware Installation (WebHelp)
*) fixed submit configurations with respect to fulltext links and
metadata tags (WebSubmit, MiscUtil)
*) Your Account personal corner now shows the list and the status
of submissions and approvals (WebSession)
*) uniform help and version number option for CLI executables
(WebSearch, BibSched, BibIndex, BibRank, BibHarvest, BibConvert,
WebAccess, BibFormat, WebSession, WebAlert)
*) uniform technique for on-the-fly formatting of search results via
`hb_' and `hd_' output format parameters (WebSearch)
*) check for presence of pcntl and mysql PHP libraries (BibUpload)
CDSware v0.3.0 (DEVELOPMENT) -- released 2004-03-05
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*) new development branch release (important SQL table changes)
*) introducing a new submission engine and the end-user web
interface (WebSubmit)
*) bibupload is now a BibSched task with new options (BibUpload)
*) BibWords renamed into BibIndex in the view of future phrase
indexing changes (BibIndex)
*) more secure DB server connectivity (BibSched)
*) record matching functionality (BibConvert)
*) character encoding conversion tables (BibConvert)
*) Qualified Dublin Core conversion example (BibConvert)
*) OAI deleted records policy can now be specified (BibHarvest)
*) multi-language collection portalboxes (WebSearch)
*) HTML pages now respect language selections (WebSearch, WebHelp)
*) minor layout changes (WebStyle)
*) updated Russian and other translations
*) ChangeLog is now generated from CVS log messages
*) plus the usual set of bugfixes (see ChangeLog)
CDSware v0.1.2 (DEVELOPMENT) -- released 2003-12-21
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*) development branch release
*) fix BibReformat task launching problem (BibFormat)
*) fix BibTeX -> XML MARC conversion example (BibConvert)
*) updated Spanish translation
CDSware v0.1.1 (DEVELOPMENT) -- released 2003-12-19
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*) development branch release
*) 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
CDSware v0.1.0 (DEVELOPMENT) -- released 2003-12-04
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*) 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
CDSware v0.0.9 (STABLE) -- released 2002-08-01
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*) first "public" alpha release of CDSware
*) recently standardized Library of Congress' MARC XML schema adopted
in all CDSware modules as the new default internal XML file format
(BibConvert, BibFormat, BibUpload, WebSubmit, WebSearch)
*) support for OAI-PMH v2.0 in addition to OAI-PMH v1.1 (WebSearch)
*) search interface now honors multiple output formats per collection
(BibFormat, WebSearch)
*) search interface now honors search fields, search options, and
sort options from the database config tables (WebSearch,
WebSearch Admin)
*) search interface now honors words indexes from the database config
tables (BibWords, WebSearch)
*) easy reformatting of already uploaded bibliographic records via
web admin. tool (BibFormat Admin/Reformat Records)
*) new submission form field type ("response") allowing
greater flexibility (WebSubmit) [thanks to Frank Sudholt]
*) demo site "Atlantis Institute of Science" updated to demonstrate:
Pictures collection of photographs; specific per-collection
formats; references inside Articles and Preprints; "cited by"
search link; published version linking; subject category
searching; search within, search options, sort options in the web
collection pages.
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