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CERN DOCUMENT SERVER SOFTWARE (CDSware) NEWS
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Here is a short summary of most notable changes in CDSware releases:
CDSware v0.3.1 (DEVELOPMENT) -- released 2004-03-12
* 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
* 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
* 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
* 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
* 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
* 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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