ANNOUNCE: Bricolage 1.8.1 - Mailing list pgsql-general

     The Bricolage development team is pleased to announce the release of
     Bricolage 1.8.1. This maintenance release address a number of
issues in
     Bricolage 1.8.0. Here are the highlights:

  Improvements

       * More complete Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese
       localizations. Also, the Mandarin localization now simply inherits
       from the Traditional Chinese localization.

       * make clone now copies the lib directory and all of the bin
scripts
       from the target to the clone, rather than from the sources. This
       allows any changes that have been made to scripts and classes to
be
       properly cloned.

       * When installing Bricolage, it will now allow you to proceed if
the
       database already exists by asking if you want to create the
Bricolage
       tables in the existing database. Suggested by Mark Fournier and
       Marshall Roch.

       * The installer is now a bit smarter in how it handles loading the
       log_config (or config_log, as the case may be) module.

       * Added language-specific style sheets. This is especially useful
for
       right-to-left languages or for languages that require special
fonts.

       * The "New Alias" search interface now displays thumbnails when
       searching for media documents to alias and the USE_THUMBNAILS
       bricolage.conf directive is enabled.

       * Aliases can now be made to documents within the same site.

       * The SOAP interface for importing and exporting elements now
       properly has "key_name" XML elements instead of "name" XML
elements.
       The changes are backwards compatible with XML exported from
Bricolage
       1.8.0 servers, however.

       * Added move() method to the virtual FTP interface. This means
that
       to deploy a template, rather than having to rename it locally to
       append ".deploy", one can simply move in FTP to its new name with
       ".deploy" on appended to the new name.

       * Document expirations are now somewhat more intelligent. Rather
than
       just scheduling an expiration job only if there is an expiration
date
       the first time a document is published, Bricolage will now always
       schedule an expiration job for a document provided that one does
not
       already exist (scheduled or completed) for the same time and for
one
       of the file resources for the document. This should allow people
to
       more easily and arbitrarily expire content whenever necessary.

       * Burner notes now persist for all sub burns (triggered by
       publish_another() and preview_another() in a single burn.

       * Added ability to create and manage groups of objects for several
       different types of objects. Also added the ability manage group
       membership within the administrative profiles for those objects.
This
       change makes it possible to give users permission to administer
       subsets of objects. The new groupable objects are:

       Preferences

       Groups

       Alert Types

       Element Types

       Keywords

       Contributors

       * Alert rules are now evaluated within a safe compartment (using
       Safe.pm) to prevent security exploits.

       * The Bulk Publish admin tool is no longer limited to use only by
       members of the Global Admins group. Now anyone can use it. All one
       needs is READ permission to the categories of stories, and PUBLISH
       permission to the stories and media documents to be published.

  Bug Fixes

       * Eliminated 'Bareword "ENABLE_HTMLAREA" not allowed while "strict
       subs" in use' warning that prevented startup for some
installations.

       * Changes made to user or contributor contacts without changing
any
       other part of the user or contributor object are now properly
saved.

       * The upgrade to 1.8.0 now correctly updates story URIs that use
the
       URI Suffix of an output channel instead of using the URI Prefix
       twice.

       * Aliases of Image, Audio, or Video media documents no longer
remain
       stuck on desks.

       * Related media and story subelements of media documents now work
       properly.

       * Calls to preview_another() in Bric::Util::Burner will now use
any
       templates in the current user's sandbox and properly burn them to
the
       preview root rather than to the staging root used for publishing.

       * Contributor fields for roles other than the default role now
       properly store and retain their values.

       * The virtual FTP server now properly checks out templates when a
       template is uploaded and is already in workflow.

       * Uploading a non-existent template via the virtual FTP server now
       correctly creates a new template. The type of template depends on
the
       name of the template being uploaded, and for element templates, on
       whether there is an element with the appropriate key name. The
user
       must have CREATE permission to All Templates or to the start desk
in
       the first template workflow in the relevant site.

       * Reverting a document or template to the current version number
now
       properly reverts all changes to the time the user checked out the
       document or template. Reversion is also a bit more efficient in
how
       it looks up the previous version in the database.

       * The SOAP server now rolls back any changes whenever an error is
       thrown. This prevents problems when a few objects are created or
       updated before an exception is thrown. Now any error will cause
the
       entire SOAP request to fail. Thanks to Neal Sofge for the spot!

     For a complete list of the changes, see the release notes and
changes
     list at
     Lhttp://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=251820>.
For
     the complete history of ongoing changes in Bricolage, see
Bric::Changes
     at http://www.bricolage.cc/docs/api/current/Bric::Changes.

     Download Bricolage 1.8.1 now 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/index2.html.

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 was hailed as "Most
     Impressive" in 2002 by eWeek.

     Enjoy!

     --The Bricolage Team