[htmltmpl] ANNOUNCE: Bricolage 1.8.3

[David W. <da...@ki...>]

     The Bricolage development team is pleased to announce the release of
     Bricolage 1.8.3. This maintenance release addresses quite a large
     number of issues in Bricolage 1.8.2. The most important changes 
were to
     enhance Unicode support in Bricolage. Bricolage now internally 
handles
     all text content as UTF-8 strings, thus enabling templates to better
     control the manipulation of multibyte characters. Other changes 
include
     better performance for searches using the ANY() operators and more
     intelligent transaction handling for distribution jobs. Here are the
     other highlights of this release:

  Improvements

       * Added contrib/thumbnails/precreate-thumbs.pl script to 
pre-create
       thumbnails from images. Useful for upgraders. [Scott]

       * Added contrib/bric_import_contribs to import contributors from a
       tab-delimited file. Development by Kineticode, sponsored by the 
RAND
       Corporation. [David]

       * Added the published_version parameter to the list() methods of 
the
       story, media, and template classes. This parameter forces the 
search
       to return the versions of the assets as they were last published,
       rather than the most recent version. This will be most useful to
       those looking up other documents in templates and publishing 
them, as
       a way of avoiding pulling documents out from other anyone who 
might
       have them checked out! [David]

       * All publishing and distribution jobs are now executed in their 
own
       transactions when they are triggered by the user interface. This 
is
       to reduce the chances of a deadlock between long-running 
publishing
       transactions. [David]

       * Optimized SQL queries for key names or that order by string 
values
       to use indexes in the list() and list_ids() methods of the story,
       media, and template classes. [David]

       * Added Russian localization. [Sergey Samoilenko].

       * Changed the foreign keys in the story, media, and formatting
       (template) tables so that DELETEs do not cascade, but are 
restricted.
       This means that before deleting any source, element, site, 
workflow,
       or other related object that has a foreign key reference in an 
asset
       table, those rows must be deleted. Otherwise, PostgreSQL will 
throw
       an exception. Hopefully, this will put a stop to the mysterious 
but
       very rare disappearance of stories from Bricolage. [David]

       * A call to $burner->burn_another in a template that passes in a
       date/time string in the future now causes a publish job to be
       scheduled for that time, rather than immediate burning the 
document
       and then scheduling the distribution to take place in the future.
       Reported by Ashlee Caul. [David]

       * Changing the sort order of a list of items in a search interface
       now properly reverses the entire collection of object over the 
pages,
       rather than just the objects for the current page. Thanks to 
Marshall
       for the spot! [David]

  Bug Fixes

       * Publishing stories not in workflow via the SOAP server works 
again.
       [David]

       *

       * The Burner object's encoding attribute is now setable as well as
       readable. [David]

       * The category browser works again. [David]

       * Fixed Media Upload bug where the full local path was being 
used, by
       adding a 'winxp' key to Bric::Util::Trans::FS to account for an
       update to HTTP::BrowserDetect. [Mark Kennedy]

       * Instances of a required custom field in story elements is no 
longer
       required once it has been deleted from the element definition in 
the
       element manager. Reported by Rod Taylor. [David]

       * A false value passed to the checked_out parameter of the list() 
and
       list_ids() methods of the story, media, and template (formatting)
       classes now properly returns only objects or IDs for assets that 
are
       not checked out. [David]

       * The cover date select widget now works properly in the clone
       interface when a non-ISO style date preference is selected. 
Thanks to
       Susan G. for the spot! [David]

       * Sorting templates based on Asset Type (Element) no longer 
causes an
       error. [David]

       * Fixed a number of the callbacks in the story, media, and 
template
       profiles so that they didn't clear out the session before other
       callbacks were done with it. Most often seen as the error 'Can't 
call
       method "get_tiles" on an undefined value' in the media profile,
       especially with IE/Windows (for some unknown reason). Reported by 
Ed
       Stevenson. [David]

       * Fixed typo in clone page that caused all output channels to be
       listed rather than only those associated with the element itself.
       [Scott]

       * Fixed double listing of the "All" group in the group membership
       double list manager. [Christian Hauser]

       * Image buttons now correctly execute the onsubmit() method for 
forms
       that define an onsubmit attribute. This means that, among other
       things, changes to a group profile will persist when you click the
       "Permissions" button. [David]

       * Simple search now works when it is selected when the "Default
       Search" preference is set to "Advanced". Reported by Marshall 
Roch.
       [David]

       * Multiple alert types set up to trigger alerts for the same event
       will now all properly execute. Thanks to Christian Hauser for the
       spot! [David]

       * Publishing stories or media via SOAP with the published_only
       parameter (--published-only for bric_republish) now correctly
       republishes the published versions of documents even if the 
current
       version is in workflow. Reported by Adam Rinehart. [David]

       * Users granted a permission greater than READ to the members of 
the
       "All Users" group no longer get such permission to any members of 
the
       "Global Admins" group unless they have specifically been granted 
such
       permission to the members of the "Global Admins" group. Thanks to
       Marshall Roch for the spot! [David]

     For a complete list of the changes, see the changes list at
     http://www.bricolage.cc/news/announce/changes/bricolage-1.8.3/. For 
the
     complete history of ongoing changes in Bricolage, see Bric::Changes 
at
     http://www.bricolage.cc/docs/api/current/Bric::Changes.

     Download Bricolage 1.8.3 now from the Bricolage Website at
     http://www.bricolage.cc/downloads/, 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