CERN DOCUMENT SERVER SOFTWARE (CDSware) NEWS ============================================ Revision: $Id$ Here is a short summary of most notable changes in CDSware releases: CDSware v0.3.3 (DEVELOPMENT) -- released 2004-07-16 * 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 * 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 * 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. - end of file -