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<para>
This is a final release of OpenACS X.X.X. To upgrade from a
previous version, see <xref linkend="upgrade-detail"/>.
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Please report bugs using our
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<sect2 id="release-notes-5-9-1">
<title>Release 5.9.1</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
The release of OpenACS 5.9.1 contains the 88 packages of the oacs-5-9
branch. These packages include the OpenACS core packages, the major
application packages (e.g. most the ones used on OpenACS.org), and
DotLRN 2.9.1.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Summary of changes:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Refactoring of rich-text editor integration
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Driving force: Debian packaging (e.g. js minified code is not
allowed)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Moved out code from acs-templating, provided interfaces to add
many different richtext editors as separate packages
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
New OpenACS packages:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>richtext-xinha</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>richtext-tinymce</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
richtext-ckeditor4 (has ability to choose between CDN and local
installation via web interface)
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improving admin interface
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>New theme manager:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Goals:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Make it easier to keep track of themes with local
modifications
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Make it easier to create local modification a new themes and to
update these
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Show differences between default theme parameter (in DB) and
actual settings (in subsite parameters)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Allow to delete unused themes
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Give site admin hints, which theme is used at which
subsite
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Ease theme switching</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Added a subsite::theme_changed callback to be able to handle
theme changes in custom themes (was also necessary for proper
integration with DotLRN theming)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Added support for these features under subsite admin
(/admin/)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improved support for themed templates via
[template::themed_template]
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improved (broken) interface to define/manage groups over web
interface
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Allow to send as well mail, when membership was rejected
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
New functions [membership_rel::get_user_id],
[membership_rel::get] and [membership_rel::get_group_id] to avoid
code duplication
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Added support to let user include %forgotten_password_url%
in self-registration emails (e.g. in message key
acs-subsite.email_body_Registration_password)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improved subsite/www/members
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Make it possible to manage members of arbitrary groups</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improved performance for large groups</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improved configurability: when ShowMembersListTo is set to
"3", show list to members only, when this is not the
whole subsite</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improved user interface for /admin/applications for large number of
applications
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Various fixes for sitewide-admin pages (under /acs-admin)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Update blueprint in "install from
repository" (currently just working in NaviServer)
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>SQL
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Further cleanup of .xql files (like what as done for
acs-subsite in OpenACS 5.9.0):
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
36 files deleted
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Removed more than 100 obsolete named queries
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Stripped misleading SQL statements
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Marked redundant / uncalled SQL functions as deprecated
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Replaced usages of obsolete view
"all_object_party_privilege_map" by
"acs_object_party_privilege_map"
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Removed type discrepancy introduced in 2002:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
acs_object_types.object_type has type varchar(1000), while
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
acs_object_types.supertype has type varchar(100)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
... several more data types are involved, using
acs_object_types.object_type as foreign key
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Simplified core SQL functions by using defaults:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Number of functions reduced by a factor of 2 compared to OpenACS
5.9.0 (while providing compatibility for clients using old
versions),
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Reduced code redundancy
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Affected functions:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Reduced content_item__new from 12 versions to 6,
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Reduce content_revision__new from 7 to 4
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Similar in image__new, image__new_revision, content_item__copy,
content_item__get_title, content_item__move
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
PostgreSQL 9.5 supports named parameter in the same syntax as in Oracle.
Further reduction of variants will be possible, once OpenACS
requires at least PostgreSQL 9.5
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Reduced usage of deprecated versions of SQL functions (mostly
content repository calls)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Reduced generation of dead tuples by combining multiple DML
statements to one (reduces costs of checkpoint cleanups in
PostgreSQL)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Permission queries:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Improved performance
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Support PACKAGE.FUNCTION notation for PostgreSQL to
allow calls permission queries exactly
the same way as in Oracle (e.g. "acs_permission.permission_p()").
This helps to reduce the number of postgres specific .xql
files.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Modernize SQL:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Use real Boolean types instead of character(1)
(done for new-portal, forums, faq, attachments, categories, dotlrn,
dotlrn-forums, evaluation)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Use real enumeration types rather than check constraints (done
for storage_type text/file/lob)
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
CR hygienics (reduce cr bloat)
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Provided means to avoid insert/update/delete operations in the
search queue:</para>
<para>OpenACS adds for every new revision often multiple
entries to the search_queue, without providing any means to prevent
this. This requires for busy sites very short intervals between
queue sweeps (otherwise too many entries pile up). Another
consequence is that this behavior keeps the PostgreSQL
auto-vacuum daemons permanently active. Many of these operations
are useless in cases where the content repository is used for
content that should not be provided via search. The changed
behavior should honors a publish-date set to the future, since it
will not add any content with future publish dates to the
search-queue.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>
Reduced number of insert cr_child_rels operations, just when
needed:
</para>
<para>cr_child_rels provide only little benefit (allow one to use
roles in a child-rel), but the common operation is a well available
in cr_items via the parent_id. cr_child_rels do not help for
recursive queries either. One option would be to add an additional
argument for content_item__new to omit child-rel creation (default
is old behavior) and adapt the other cases.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Security improvements
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Added support against <ulink url="/xowiki/CSRF">CSRF</ulink> (cross site request
forgery)
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
OpenACS maintains a per-request CSRF token that ensures
that form replies are coming just from sites that received the
form
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
CSRF support is optional for packages where CSRF is less
dangerous, and such requests are wanted (e.g. search and API-browser)
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Added Support for W3C "Upgrade-Insecure-Headers" (see
https://www.w3.org/TR/upgrade-insecure-requests/):
</para><para>For standard
compliant upgrade for requests from HTTP to HTTPS
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Added support for W3C "Subresource Integrity" (SRI;
see https://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Added support for W3C "Content Security Policy"
(<ulink url="/xowiki/CSP">CSP</ulink>; see https://www.w3.org/TR/CSP/)
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Removed "javascript:*" links (all such URLs are removed
from the 90 packages in oacs-5-9, excluding js libraries
(ajaxhelper) and richtext code)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Removed "onclick", "onfocus",
"onblur", "onchange" handlers from all
.adp and .tcl files in the 90 packages in oacs-5-9
(excluding js libraries (ajaxhelper) and richtext code)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Added optional nonces to all <script> elements with
literal JavaScript content
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Removed "generic downloader",
which allowed to download arbitrary content items, when item_id was
known (bug-fix)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improved protection against XSS and SQL-injection (strengthen
page contracts, add validators, added page_contract_filter
"localurl", improve HTML escaping, and
URI encoding)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Fixed for potential traversal attack
(acs-api-documentation-procs)
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improvements for "host-node mapped" subsites
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Fixed links from host-node mapped subsite pages to
swa-functions (must be always on main subsite)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Made "util_current_directory"
aware of host-node-mapped subsites
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Added ability to pass
"-cookie_domain" to make it possible
to use the same cookie for different domains
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Fixed result of affected commands
"util_current_location",
"ad_return_url",
"ad_get_login_url" and
"ad_get_logout_url" for HTTP and
HTTPS, when UseHostnameDomainforReg is 0 or 1.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improved UI for host-node maps when a large number of site
nodes exists
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Reform of acs-rels
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Made acs-rels configurable to give the developer the option to
specify, whether these are composable or not (default fully
backward compatible). This is required to control transitivity in
rel-segments
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
The code changes are based on a patch provided
by Michael Steigmann. For details, see:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
<ulink url="http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=4031049">http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=4031049</ulink>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<ulink url="http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=5330734">http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=5330734</ulink>
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improved status code handlers for AJAX scenarios
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Don't report data source errors with status code 200 (use
422 instead)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Let "permission::require_permission" return forbidden (403) in
AJAX calls (determined via [ad_conn ajaxp])
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improved Internationalization
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Extended language catalogs for
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Russian (thanks to v v)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Italian (thanks to Antonio Pisano)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Spanish (thanks to Hector Romojaro)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
German (thanks to Markus Moser)
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Added (missing) message keys
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improved wording of entries
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Added message keys for member_state changes, provide API via
group::get_member_state_pretty
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improved online documentation (/doc)
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Fixed many broken links
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Removed fully obsolete sections
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improved markup (modernize HTML)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Updated various sections
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Misc code improvements:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
18 issues from the OpenACS-bug-tracker fixed
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Made code more robust against invalid/incorrect input
(page_contracts, validators, values obtained from header fields
such as Accept-Language)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Fixed quoting of message keys on many places
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improved exception handling (often, a
"catch" swallows one too much, e.g.
script_aborts), introducing
"ad_exception".
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Generalized handling of leading zeros:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Fixed cases where leading zeros could lead to unwanted octal
interpretations
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Switch to use of "
util::trim_leading_zeros" instead of
"template::util::leadingTrim",
"dt_trim_leading_zeros" and
"template::util::leadingTrim",
marked the latter as deprecated
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
URL encoding
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
"ad_urlencode_folder_path": new
function to perform an urlencode operation on the segments of the
provided folder path
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
"export_vars": encode path always
correctly, except -no_base_encode is specified
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Fixed encoding of the URL path in
"ad_returnredirect"
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improvements for "ad_conn":
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Added [ad_conn behind_proxy_p] to check, whether the request is
coming from behind a proxy server
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Added [ad_conn behind_secure_proxy_p] to check, whether the
request is coming from behind a secure proxy server
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Added [ad_conn ajax_p] to check, whether the request is an AJAX
requests (assumption: AJAX request sets header-field
Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest")
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Added [ad_conn vhost_url] to obtain the url of host-node-mapped
subsites
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Added various missing upgrade scripts (missing since many years)
of changes that were implemented for new installs to reduce
differences between "new"-and
"old" (upgraded) installations
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Templating
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Get rid of various pesky "MISSING FORMWIDGET:
...formbutton:ok" messages
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improved support for JavaScript event handlers in
template::head
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New functions
"template::add_event_listener" and
"template::add_confirm_handler"
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix handling, when "page_size_variable_p" is set (was
broken since ages)
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improved location and URL handling:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Refactored and commented
"util_current_location" to address
security issues, handle IPv6 addresses, IP literal notation,
multiple drivers, "
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improved "security::get_secure_location"
(align with documentation)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
New functions:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
"util::configured_location"
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
"util::join_location",
"util::split_location"
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
for working on HTTP locations to reduce scattered regexps handling
URL components
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improved IPv6 support
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Use native "ns_parseurl" when
available, provide backward compatible version for AOLserver
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
MIME types:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Added more Open XML formats for MS-Office to allowed content
types
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Modernized entries to IANA recommendations
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New function "cr_check_mime_type"
centralizing the retrieval of the mime_type from uploaded
content
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Finalized cleanup of permissions (started in OpenACS 5.9.0):
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Get rid of "acs_object_context_index
" (and therefore on "acs_object_party_privilege_map
" as well) on PostgreSQL.
</para>
<para> Reasons:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>huge table,</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>expensive maintenance, used only in a few places,</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Misc new functions:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para> "lang::util::message_key_regexp":
factor out scattered regexp for detecting message keys
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para> "ns_md5" and
"ns_parseurl": improve compatibility between
AOLserver and NaviServer </para></listitem>
<listitem><para> "ad_dom_sanitize_html": allow one to
specify different sets of tags, attributes and protocols and
"ad_dom_fix_html", which is a light weight tidy
variant. </para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improved HTML rendering (acs-api-browser), provide width and
height to speed up rendering
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improved ADP files (e.g. missing doc(title))
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Added usage of
"ad_include_contract" on more
occasions
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Modernize Tcl and HTML coding
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Reduced dependency on external programs (use Tcl functions
instead)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improved robustness of "file
delete" operations all over the code
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improved documentation, fix demo pages
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Aligned usages of log notification levels (distinction between
"error",
"warning" and
"notice") with coding-standards
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Cleaned up deprecated calls:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Removed usage of deprecated API functions (e.g.
"cc_lookup_email_user",
"cc_email_from_party",
"util_unlist", ...)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Moved more deprecated procs to acs-outdated
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Marked remaining (and unused)
"cc_*" functions as well as
deprecated.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improved Oracle and windows support
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Fixed common spelling errors and standardize spelling of product
names all over the code (comments, documentation, ...)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Many more small bug fixes
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Packages:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
New Package Parameters
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
acs-kernel:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
MaxUrlLength: remove hard-coded constant in request processor
for max accepted url paths
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
SecureSessionCookie: Let site admin determine, whether or not to
use secured session cookies (useful, when not all requests are over
HTTPS)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
CSPEnabledP: activate/deactivate CSP
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
acs-kernel (recommended to be set via config file in section
"ns/server/${server}/>acs"
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
NsShutdownWithNonZeroExitCode: tell NaviServer to return with a
nonzero return code to cause restart (important under windows)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
LogIncludeUserId: include user_id in access log
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
acs-api-browser:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
ValidateCSRFP: make checking of CSRF optional (default 1)
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
acs-content-repository:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
AllowMimeTypeCreationP: Decides whether we allow unknown mime
types to be automatically registered (default: 0}
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
news-portlet:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
display_item_lead_p: Should we display news leads in the
portlet? (default 0)
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
search:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
ValidateCSRFP: make checking of CSRF optional (default 1)
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
xotcl-request-monitor:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>do_track_activity: turn activity
monitoring on or off (default 0)
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
New OpenACS packages:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
richtext-xinha
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
richtext-tinymce
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
richtext-ckeditor4 (has ability to choose between CDN and local
installation via GUI)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
openacs-bootstrap3-theme (as used on openacs.org)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
dotlrn-bootstrap3-theme
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
xotcl-core:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Improved XOTcl 2.0 and NX support (e.g. api-browser)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Added "-debug",
"-deprecated" to ad_* defined
methods (such as e.g.
"ad_instproc")
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Make use of explicit "create"
statements when creating XOTcl/NX objects (makes it easier to grab
intentions and to detect typos)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Added parameter to
"get_instance_from_db" to specify,
whether the loaded objects should be initialized
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Added support for PostgreSQL prepared statements of SQL
interface in ::xo::dc (nsdb driver)
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
xowiki:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Named all web-callable methods www-NAME (to make it clear, what
is called, what has to be checked especially carefully)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Moved templates from www into xowiki/resources to avoid naming
conflicts
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improved ckeditor support
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Added usage of prepared statements for common queries
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improved error handling
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Better value checking for query parameter, error reporting via
ad_return_complaint
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Added option "-path_encode" to methods
"pretty_link" and "folder_path" to allow one to
control, whether the result should be encoded or not (default
true)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Form fields:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Improved repeatable form fields (esp. composite cases),
don't require preallocation (can be costly in composite
cases)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Added signing of form-fields
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Added HTML5 attributes such as
"multiple" (for
"file") or
"autocomplete"
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Fixed generation of "orderby"
attribute based on form-field names
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
richtext: allow one to specify
"extraAllowedContent" via
options
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improved layout of horizontal check boxes
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Menu bar:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Added dropzone (requires bootstrap): drag and drop file upload
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Added mode toggle (requires bootstrap)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Extended default policies for handling e.g. dropzone
(file-upload method)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Distinguish between "startpage"
(menu.Package.Startpage) and "table of contents"
(menu.Package.Toc)
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Notifications:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Added support for better tailorable notifications: introduced
method "notification_render"
(similar to "search_render")
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Added support for tailorable subject lines (method
"notification_subject")
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improved bootstrap support, use
"bootstrap" as
PreferredCSSToolkit
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Switched to ckeditor4 as PreferredRichtextEditor
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improved handling of script-abort from within the payload of
::xowiki::Object payloads
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Added parameter to
"get_all_children" to specify,
whether the child objects should be initialized
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
xowf:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Added property "payload" to
"WorkflowConstruct" in order to simplify customized
workflow "allocate" actions
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Internationalized more menu buttons
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
xotcl-request-monitor
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Added class "BanUser" (use. e.g. ip
address to disallow requests from a user via request monitor)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Added support for optional user tracking in database
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Added support for monitoring response-time for certain URLs via
munin
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Increased usage of XOTcl 2.0 variable resolver (potentially
speed improvement 4x)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Performed some refactoring of response-time handling to allow
site-admin to make e.g. use of NaviServer's dynamic connection
pool management (not included in CVS)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Added support for partial times in long-calls.tcl to ease
interpretation of unexpected slow calls
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
last100.tcl: Don't report hrefs to URLs, except to SWAs
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
chat:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Introduced new options to set chat rooms so login and/or logout
message are not issued every time a user enters/exits a chat-room
(important for chats with huge number of participants)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Parameterized viewing of chat-logs
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Fixed cases of over-/under-quoting
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Fixed JavaScript for IE, where innerHTML can cause
problems
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
file-storage:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Don't show action keys, when user has no
permissions
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Added support for copying of same-named files into a folder
(adding suffix)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Fixed old bugs in connection with
"views" package
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para> Altogether, OpenACS 5.9.1 differs from OpenACS 5.9.1 by the
following statistics
<programlisting>
3548 files changed, 113292 insertions(+), 90507 deletions(-)
</programlisting>
contributed by 5 committers (Michael Aram, Gustaf Neumann, Antonio
Pisano, Hector Romojaro, Thomas Renner) and 8 patch/bugfix providers
(Frank Bergmann, Günter Ernst, Brian Fenton, Felix Mödritscher, Marcus
Moser, Franz Penz, Stefan Sobernig, Michael Steigman). All packages of
the release were tested with PostgreSQL 9.6.* and Tcl 8.5.*.
</para>
<para>
For more details, consult the
<ulink href="http://openacs.org/changelogs/ChangeLog-5.9.1">raw ChangeLog</ulink>.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="release-notes-5-9-0">
<title>Release 5.9.0</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
The release of OpenACS 5.9.0 contains the 78 packages of the oacs-5-9 branch.
These packages include the OpenACS core packages, the major
application packages (e.g. most the ones used on OpenACS.org), and
DotLRN 2.9.0.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Summary of changes:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>SQL:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Improved performance of acs-object deletion.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Replaced many manual referential integrity calls by
built-in handing in PostgreSQL.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Removed various manual bookkeeping and deletion operations
in the content repository by built-in handing in PostgreSQL.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Removed tree_sortkey on acs-objects to reduce its size and
to speedup operations, where the context-id is changed
(could take on large installation several minutes in
earlier versions)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Removed several uncalled / redundant SQL statements and functions.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para> Cleanup of .xql files in acs-subsite:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para> Some cleanup of .xql files: removed
misleading sql-statements from db_* calls, which were
ignored due .xql files
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para> Removed bug where same query-name was
used in different branches of an if-statement for
different SQL statements, but the query-name lead to the
wrong result.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para> Removed multiple entries of same query
name from .xql files (e.g. the entry
"package_create_attribute_list.select_type_info" was
7 (!) times in a single .xql file)
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Web Interface:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Improve Performance of WebSites created with OpenACS:
e.g. move core.js to a body requests, provide kernel
parameter ResourcesExpireInterval to specify expiration
times for resources.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Much better protection against XSS attacks.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improved HTML validity (especially for admin pages)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improved admin interface:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Placed all installation options to a single page.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Added pagination to /admin/applications (was unusable
for large sites)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
New admin pages for subsites linked from
site-wide-admin package (/acs-admin).
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Added explanatory text to several admin pages.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para> Add lightweight support for ckeditor4 for
templating::richtext widget (configurable via package
parameter "RichTextEditor" of acs-templating. ckeditor4
supports mobile devices (such as iPad, ...)
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Templating:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Improved theme-ability: Moved more information into theme
packages in order to create responsive designs, reduce
hard-coding of paths, HTML etc.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improved include-handling: All includes are now
theme-able, interfaces of includes can be defined with
"ad_include_contract" (similar to ad_page_contract).
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improved them-ability for display_templates. One can now
provide a display_template_name (similar to the SQL statement name) to refer to display templates. This
enables reusability and is theme-able.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para> Dimensional slider reform (ad_dimensional):
Removed hard-coded table layout from dimensional slider. Add
backwards compatible templates Move hard-coded styles into
theme styling </para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Notification chunks are now theme-able as well (using ad_include_contract)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Complete template variable suffixes (adding noi18n,
addressing bug #2692, full list is now: noquote, noi18n, literal)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Added timeout and configurable secrets for signed url
parameters to export_vars/page_contracts.
This can be used to secure sensitive operations
such as granting permissions since a link can be set to
timeout after e.g. 60 seconds; after that, the link is
invalid. A secret (password) can be set in section
ns/server/$server/acs parameter "parametersecret".
For example, one can use now "user_id:sign(max_age=60)" in
export_vars to let the exported variable expire after 60 seconds.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Misc:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Added ability to show ns_log statements of current request
to developer support output when developer support is
activated (controlled via package parameter "TclTraceLogServerities"
in the acs-tcl package parameters)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Added ability to save data sent by
ns_return in files on the filesystem. This can be used to
validate HTML content also for password protected pages
(controlled via package parameter "TclTraceSaveNsReturn" in
the acs-tcl package parameters)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
New API function "ad_log" having the same interface as
ns_log, but which logs the calling information (like URL
and call-stack) to ease tracking of errors.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para> Use per-thread caching to reduce number of
mutex lock operations and lock contention on various caches
(util-memoize, xo_site_nodes, xotcl_object_types) and nsvs
(e.g. ds_properties) </para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improved templating of OpenACS core documentation
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Improved Russian Internationalization
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Make pretty-names of acs-core packages more consistent
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Mark unused functions of acs-tcl/tcl/table-display-procs.tcl as deprecated
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Many more bug fixes (from bug tracker and extra) and
performance improvements.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Version numbers:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Require PostgreSQL 9.0 (End Of Life of PostgreSQL 8.4 was July 2014)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Require XOTcl 2.0 (presented at the Tcl conference in 2011).
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Changes in application packages:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Various bug
fixes and improvements for e.g. file-storage, forums, news,
notifications, xowiki.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para> </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para> Altogether, OpenACS 5.9.0 differs from OpenACS 5.8.1 by the
following statistics
<programlisting>
3658 files changed, 120800 insertions(+), 97617 deletions(-)
</programlisting>
contributed by 4 committers (Michael Aram, Victor Guerra, Gustaf Neumann, Antonio Pisano) and
patch/bugfix providers (Frank Bergmann, Andrew Helsley, Felix
Mödritscher, Markus Moser, Franz Penz, Thomas Renner).
These are significantly more changes as the differences
in the last releases. All packages of the release were tested with
PostgreSQL 9.4.* and Tcl 8.5.*.
</para>
<para>
For more details, consult the
<ulink href="http://openacs.org/changelogs/ChangeLog-5.9.0">raw ChangeLog</ulink>.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="release-notes-5-8-1">
<title>Release 5.8.1</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
The release contains the 78 packages of the oacs-5-8 branch.
These packages contain the OpenACS core packages, major
application packages (e.g. most the ones used on OpenACS.org), and
DotLRN.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
All packages have the following properties:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>SQL:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
All packages are PostgreSQL 9.1+ compatible
(tested with PostgreSQL 9.3)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
All SQL files with stored procedures use the
recommended $$ quoting
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
All SQL-functions have regular function arguments
instead of the old-style aliases
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
The function_args() (query-able meta-data) are
completed and fixed
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Incompatible functions (e.g. for sequences) are
replaced.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Tcl:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
All packages were brought up Tcl 8.5, including
the actual Tcl idioms where appropriate (e.g.
using the safer expand operator, range indices,
dict, lassign, etc.)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
The code was updated to prefer byte-compiled functions
instead of legacy functions from ancient Tcl versions.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
The code works with NaviServer and AOLserver.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>API:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
All packages are free from calls to deprecated code
(157 functions are marked as deprecated and will be
moved into an "outdated" package in the 5.9 or 6.0
release)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
General overhaul of package management
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Install-from-local and install-from-repository can be used
to install the provided packages based on a acs-core
installation. This means that also DotLRN can be
installed from repository or from
local into an existing OpenACS instance.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Install-from-repository offers filtering functions, allows
to install optionally from head-channel (for packages
not in the base channel of the installed instance).
Install-from-repository works more like an app-store,
showing as well vendor information
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Packages can be equipped with xml-based configuration files
(e.g. changing parameters for style packages)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Package developers can upload .apm packages via workflow
for review by core members and for inclusion to the
repository. The option is integrated with package
management, the link is offered for local packages.
We hope to attract additional vendors (universities,
companies) to make their packages available on this
path.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
New management-functions for package instances
(list, create, delete package instances)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Substantially improved API browser:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Show just relevant parts of .xql files for a function
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Provide syntax-highlighting for www scripts as well
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Handle more special cases like e.g. util_memoize
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Provide links to Tcl functions depending on the installed
Tcl version
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Provide links to NaviServer or OpenACS functions depending
on installed version
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Syntax highlighter uses CSS rather than hard-coded markup
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Significant performance improvement for large
installations
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para> </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para> Altogether, OpenACS 5.8.1 differs from OpenACS 5.8.0 in
about 100,000 modifications (6145 commits) contributed by 5
committers.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="release-notes-5-8-0">
<title>Release 5.8.0</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Compatibility with PostgreSQL 9.2:
The new version installs without any need for special parameter
settings in new PostgreSQL versions. This makes it easier to use
e.g. shared or packaged PostgreSQL installations.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Compatibility with NaviServer 4.99.5 or newer</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Performance and scalability improvements</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Various bug fixes </para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para> Altogether, OpenACS 5.8.0 differs from OpenACS 5.7.0 in
more than 18.000 modifications (781 commits) contributed by 7
committers.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="release-notes-5-7-0">
<title>Release 5.7.0</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Made changes that extend acs-kernel's create_type and create_attribute procs,
so they're optionally able to create SQL tables and columns. Optional metadata
params allow for the automatic generation of foreign key references, check
exprs, etc.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="release-notes-5-6-0">
<title>Release 5.6.0</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Added new package dependency type, "embeds". This is a variant of the
"extends" package dependency type added in OpenACS 5.5.0. It allows one
to write embeddable packages, with scripts made visible in client packages
using URLs which include the embedded package's package key. An example
embeddable package might be a rewritten "attachments" package. The current
implementation requires a global instance be mounted, and client packages
generate URLs to that global instance. Among other things, this leads to
the user navigating to the top-level subsite, losing any subsite theming
that might be associated with a community. Using "embeds", a rewritten
package would run in the client package's context, maintaining theming and
automatically associating attachments with the client package.
</para>
<para>
Added global package parameters - parameters can now have scope "local" or "global",
with "local" being the default..
</para>
<para>
Fixes for ns_proxy handling
</para>
<para>
Significant speedup for large sites
</para>
<para>
Optional support for selenium remote control (acs-automated-tests)
</para>
<para>
New administration UI to manage mime types and extension map
</para>
<para>
Added acs-mail-lite package params for rollout support
</para>
<para>
Support for 3-chars language codes in acs-lang
</para>
<para>
Added OOXML mime types in acs-content-repository
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="release-notes-5-5-0">
<title>Release 5.5.0</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>PostgreSQL 8.3 is now fully supported, including the use of the built-in
standard version of tsearch2.
</para>
<para>TinyMCE has been upgraded to 3.2.4.1 with language pack support.
</para>
<para>acs-mail-lite now correctly implements rollout support.
</para>
<para>
Added new package dependency type, "extends". Implements a weak form of
package inheritance (parameters and, optionally, templates). Multiple inheritance
is supported. For instance, the non-core "layout-managed-subsite" extends the
"acs-subsite" and "layout-manager" packages, resulting in a package that
combines the semantics of both.
</para>
<para>
Added new package attribute "implements-subsite-p" (default "f"). If true,
this package may be mounted as a subsite and is expected to implement subsite
semantics. Typically used by packages which extend acs-subsite.
</para>
<para>
Added new package attribute "inherit-templates-p" (default "t"). If true,
the package inherits templates defined in the packages it extends. This means
that the package only needs to specify templates where the UI of an extended
package is modified or extended. This greatly reduces the need to fork base
packages when one needs to customize it. Rather than modify the package directly,
use "extends" rather than "requires" then rewrite those templates you need to
customize.
</para>
<para>
Added a simple mechanism for defining subsite themes, removing the hard-wired
choices implemented in earlier versions of OpenACS. The default theme has been
moved into a new package, "openacs-default-theme". Simplifies the customization
of the look and feel of OpenACS sites and subsites.
</para>
<para>
The install xml facility has been enhanced to allow the calling of arbitrary Tcl
procedures and includes various other enhancements written by Xarg. Packages can
extend the facility, too. As an example of what can be done, the configuration of
.LRN communities could be moved from a set of interacting parameters to a cleaner
XML description of how to build classes and clubs, etc.
</para>
<para>
Notifications now calls lang::util::localize on the message subject and body
before sending the message out, using the recipient locale if set, the
site-wide one if not. This will cause message keys (entered as <span>#</span>....# strings)
to be replaced with the language text for the chosen locale.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="release-notes-5-4-2">
<title>Release 5.4.2</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>This is a minor bugfix release.
</para>
<para>Site node caching was removed as doesn't work correctly</para>
<para>Critical issues with search on oracle were fixed</para>
<para>More html strict work etc</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="release-notes-5-4-1">
<title>Release 5.4.1</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>This is a minor bugfix release.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="release-notes-5-4-0">
<title>Release 5.4.0</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>New Templating API added to add scripts, css, etc to the HTML HEAD and BODY
sections of the generated HTML document. Please see
/packages/acs-templating/tcl/head-procs.tcl or visit the template::head procs
in the API browser for details.
</para>
<para>Templates have been modified to comply with HTML strict</para>
<para>The Search package's results page has been improved</para>
<para>TinyMCE WYSIWYG support has been added, RTE and HTMLArea support dropped</para>
<para>acs-mail-lite's send has been cleaned up to properly encode content, to handle
file attachments, etc. "complex-send" will disappear from acs-core in a future
release.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<para>The ChangeLogs include an annotated list of changes (<xref
linkend="changelog-latest"></xref>) since the last release and in the
entire &majorversion;.&minorversion; release sequence <xref linkend="changelog"></xref>.</para>
<sect2 id="release-notes-5-3-1">
<title>Release 5.3.1</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Bug fixes.</para>
<para>New TIPs implemented.</para>
<para>All Core Automated Tests for Postgres pass.</para>
<para>New Site and Blank master templates and CSS compatible with the .LRN Zen
work. Compatibility master templates are provided for existing sites.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<para>The ChangeLogs include an annotated list of changes (<xref
linkend="changelog-latest"></xref>) since the last release and in the
entire &majorversion;.&minorversion; release sequence <xref linkend="changelog"></xref>.</para>
<sect2 id="release-notes-5-3-0">
<title>Release 5.3.0</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Bug fixes.</para>
<para>New TIPs implemented.</para>
<para>All Core Automated Tests for Postgres pass.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="release-notes-5-2-0">
<title>Release 5.2.0</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Bug fixes.</para>
<para>New TIPs implemented.</para>
<para>This release does <emphasis role="strong">not</emphasis> include new translations.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="release-notes-5-1-4">
<title>Release 5.1.4</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Bug fixes.</para>
<para>The missing CR Tcl API has been filled in, thanks to Rocael and
his team and Dave Bauer.</para>
<para>This release does <emphasis role="strong">not</emphasis> include new translations.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="release-notes-5-1-3">
<title>Release 5.1.3</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Bug fixes, primarily for .LRN compatibility in support of upcoming .LRN 2.1.0 releases. This release does <emphasis role="strong">not</emphasis> include new translations since 5.1.2.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="release-notes-5-1-2">
<title>Release 5.1.2</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Translations synchronized with the translation server.
Basque and Catalan added.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>For a complete change list, see the Change list since
5.1.0 in <xref linkend="changelog"></xref>.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="release-notes-5-1-1">
<title>Release 5.1.1</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>This is the first release using the newest adjustment to the versioning convention. The OpenACS 5.1.1 tag will apply to OpenACS core as well as to the most recent released version of every package, including .LRN.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Translations synchronized with the translation server.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="
http://openacs.org/bugtracker/openacs/com/acs-lang/bug?bug%5fnumber=1519">Bug
1519</ulink> fixed. This involved renaming all catalog
files for ch_ZH, TH_TH, AR_EG, AR_LB, ms_my, RO_RO, FA_IR,
and HR_HR. If you work with any of those locales, you
should do a full catalog export and then import (via
<ulink url="/acs-lang/admin">/acs-lang/admin</ulink>) after
upgrading acs-lang. (And, of course, make a backup of both
the files and database before upgrading.)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Other bug fixes since 5.1.0: <ulink
url="http://openacs.org/bugtracker/openacs/bug?bug_number=1785">1785</ulink>,
<ulink
url="http://openacs.org/bugtracker/openacs/bug?bug_number=1793">1793</ulink>,
and over a dozen additional bug fixes.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>For a complete change list, see the Change list since
5.0.0 in <xref linkend="changelog"></xref>.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="release-notes-5-1-0">
<title>Release 5.1.0</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Lots of little tweaks and fixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Complete Change list since 5.0.0 in Changelog</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink
url="http://openacs.org/bugtracker/openacs/core?filter%2efix%5ffor%5fversion=125273&filter%2estatus=closed">Many Bug fixes</ulink></para>
</listitem></itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="release-notes-5-0-4">
<title>Release 5.0.4</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>New translations, including for .LRN 2.0.2.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="release-notes-5-0-3">
<title>Release 5.0.3</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Bug fixes: <ulink url="http://openacs.org/bugtracker/openacs/bug?bug%5fnumber=1560">1560</ulink>, <ulink url="http://openacs.org/bugtracker/openacs/bug?bug%5fnumber=1556">#1556. Site becomes unresponsive, requires restart</ulink></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="release-notes-5-0-2">
<title>Release 5.0.2</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Bug fixes: <ulink url="http://openacs.org/bugtracker/openacs/bug?bug%5fnumber=1495">#1495. Croatian enabled by default</ulink>, <ulink url="http://openacs.org/bugtracker/openacs/bug?bug%5fnumber=1496">#1496. APM automated install fails if files have spaces in their names</ulink>, <ulink url="http://openacs.org/bugtracker/openacs/bug?bug%5fnumber=1494">#1494. automated upgrade crashes (halting the upgrade process)</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Complete Change list since 5.0.0 in Changelog</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>File tagging scheme in CVS changed to follow <ulink url="http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=161375">TIP #46: (Approved) Rules for Version Numbering and CVS tagging of Packages</ulink></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="release-notes-5-0-1">
<title>Release 5.0.1</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>All work on the translation server from 7 Nov 2003 to 7 Feb 2004 is now included in catalogs.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>One new function in acs-tcl, util::age_pretty</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Complete Change list since 5.0.0 in Changelog</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Many documentation updates and doc bug fixes </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="release-notes-5-0-0">
<title>Release 5.0.0</title>
<para>
This is OpenACS 5.0.0. This version contains no known security, data loss, or crashing bugs, nor any bugs judged release blockers. This version has received manual testing. It has passed current automated testing, which is not comprehensive. This release contains work done on the translation server http://translate.openacs.org through 7 Nov 2003.
</para>
<para>
Please report bugs using our
<ulink url="http://openacs.org/bugtracker/openacs/">
Bug Tracker</ulink> at the <ulink
url="http://openacs.org/">OpenACS website</ulink>.
</para>
<para>
You may want to begin by reading our installation documentation for
<xref linkend="unix-install"/>. Note that the Windows documentation is
not current for OpenACS &version;, but an alternative is to use John
Sequeira's <ulink
url="http://www.jsequeira.com/oasis/about.html">Oasis VM
project</ulink>.
</para>
<para>
After installation, the full documentation set can be found by visiting
<filename>http://yourserver/doc</filename>.
</para>
<para>
New features in this release:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Internationalization support.
A message catalog to store translated text, localization of
dates, number formatting, timezone conversion, etc. Allows
you to serve your users in their language.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
External authentication.
Integrate with outside user databases through e.g. LDAP, RADIUS, Kerberos, MS Active Directory.
Imports user information through IMS Enterprise 1.1 format. Easily extended to support other
authentication, password management, account creation, and account import mechanisms.
This includes improvements to the basic cookie handling, so logins can be expired without the
user's identity being completely lost. You can set login to expire after a certain period
(e.g. 8 hours, then password must be refreshed), or you can have all issues login cookies
expired at once, e.g. if you have left a permanent login cookie on a public machine somewhere.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
User interface enhancements.
All pages, including site-wide and subsite admin pages, will be
templated, so they can be styled using master template and
site-wide stylesheets.
We have a new default-master template, which includes links to
administration, your workspace, and login/logout, and is rendered
using CSS.
And there's a new community template
(/packages/acs-subsite/www/group-master), which provides useful
navigation to the applications and administrative UI in a
subsite.
In addition, there's new, simpler UI for managing members of a
subsite, instantiating and mounting applications, setting
permissions, parameters, etc.
Site-wide admin as also seen the addition of a new simpler
software install UI to replace the APM for non-developer users,
and improved access to parameters, internationalization,
automated testing, service contracts, etc.
The list builder has been added for easily generating templated
tables and lists, with features such as filtering, sorting,
actions on multiple rows with checkboxes, etc. Most of all, it's
fast to use, and results in consistently-looking,
consistently-behaving, templated tables.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Automated testing.
The automated testing framework has been improved significantly,
and there are automated tests for a number of packages.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Security enhancements.
HTML quoting now happens in the templating system, greatly
minimizing the chance that users can sneak malicious HTML
into the pages of other users.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Oracle 9i support.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Who's online feature.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Spell checking.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>
Potential incompatibilities:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
With the release of OpenACS 5, PostgreSQL 7.2 is no longer supported.
Upgrades are supported from OpenACS 4.6.3 under Oracle or
PostgreSQL 7.3.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The undocumented special handling of ~ and +variable+ in
formtemplates, found in <filename>packages/acs-templating/resources/*</filename>,
has been removed in favor of using <noparse> and
\@variable\@ (the standard templating mechanisms). Locally
provided formtemplate styles still using these mechanisms
will break.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Serving backup files and files from the CVS directories is turned off by default via the acs-kernel parameter
ExcludedFiles in section request-processor (The variable provides a string match glob list of files and is defaulted to "*/CVS/* *~")
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para><phrase role="cvstag">($Id: release-notes.xml,v 1.39.2.9 2024/09/02 09:31:40 gustafn Exp $)</phrase></para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Release 4.6.3</title>
<para><ulink url="release-notes-4-6-3.html">Release Notes for 4.6.3</ulink></para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Release 4.6.2</title>
<para><ulink url="release-notes-4-6-2.html">Release Notes for 4.6.2</ulink></para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Release 4.6</title>
<para><ulink url="release-notes-4-6.html">Release Notes for 4.6</ulink></para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Release 4.5</title>
<para><ulink url="release-notes-4-5.html">Release Notes for 4.5</ulink></para>
</sect2>
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