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Save the Date: European OpenACS and Tcl / Tk Conference 2025

After the success in 2022, 2023 and 2024, we are proud to again announce the joint OpenACS and Tcl/Tk Conference 2025. This event will combine the 9th OpenACS conference and the 21th European Tcl/Tk Users Meeting (EuroTcl).

Conference will take place July 10th - July 11th, 2025 in Bologna (Italy)

Registrations are open at https://openacs.km.at/

See you there! :-)

Published on Apr 04, 2025

OpenACS 5.10.1 final released

We are proud to announce the release of OpenACS 5.10.1 [1]. The release of OpenACS 5.10.1 contains the 100 packages of the oacs-5-10 branch. These packages include the OpenACS core packages, the major application packages (e.g., most of the ones used on OpenACS.org), and DotLRN 2.10.1. The release is probably the most secure and with the most tested code since ever. Altogether, OpenACS 5.10.1 differs from OpenACS 5.10.0 by the following statistics

3038 files changed, 1291141 insertions(+), 354533 deletions(-)
These changes were contributed by 8 committers
  • Antonio Pisano
  • Gustaf Neumann
  • Günter Ernst
  • Héctor Romojaro
  • Michael Aram
  • Raúl Rodríguez
  • Sebastian Scheder
  • Thomas Renner

and additional 8 patch/bugfix providers

  • Felix Mödritscher
  • Frank Bergmann
  • Franz Penz
  • Josue Cardona
  • Keith Paskett
  • Markus Moser
  • Marty Israelsen
  • Monika Andergassen
all sorted by the first names. In terms of changes, the release contains the largest amount of changes of the releases in the last 10 years. The packages with the most changes are acs-tcl, acs-templating, xowiki, xowf, acs-automated-testing, acs-admin, and xotcl-core. For a partial summary of changes, please check the release notes [2], for the more detailed list of changes since the release of OpenACS 5.10.0, see [3]. Many changes/enhancements of the application packages are just contained in the detailed changelog. All packages of the release were tested with PostgreSQL 16.* and Tcl 8.6.*.

Many thanks to everybody who made this release possible!

[1] https://openacs.org/projects/openacs/download/
[2] https://openacs.org/doc/release-notes
[3] https://openacs.org/changelogs/ChangeLog-5.10.1

Published on Sep 03, 2024

Schedule and Slides from the OpenACS and Tcl / Tk Conference 2024

The presentation videos and slides from the OpenACS and Tcl/Tk Conference 2024 are now available!

https://openacs.org/conf2024/info/schedule

Published on Jul 15, 2024

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