Cobricks (Community Bricks)

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 0.35

Notes:
Nineth Alpha Release of Cobricks-2 - See Change Log for changes compared to v0.34. See the development environment documentation in the Cobricks Wiki for information about unpacking and installing the releases, and see the projects CVS repository for newer versions of the project.

Changes:
- core: org.cobricks.core.util.MailUtil now reads Cobricks properties
  mail.smtp.from and mail.smtp.host and uses them

- core: database abstraction
  For MySQL, for timestamp values now datetime columns are created -
  to avoid the MySQL auto-update functions for timestamp columns
  
- item,user,category,context: moved several functions from the
  different data classes and managers to org.cobricks.core.DataObject
  and org.cobricks.core.CoreManager to make data object handling
  more consistent

- item: Restructured code in org.cobricks.item and build scripts to
  make compilation of Cobricks possible without Xindice libraries
  present
- item: change name of item attribute "description" to "content"

- item.Servlet: updateitem now supports the attributes uploadfileattrs
  and uploadfilenames which results in the files uploaded via the
  given attributes (uploadfileattrs, comma-separated) to be stored
  in the given files/directories (ploadfilenames, relative file names
  comma-separated) for further processing. The item stores a realtive
  URL in the named attribute.

- user: Sorting of list of (all) attributes in user.html now works
- user: attribute lastlogin and registrationtime are now loaded
    from the database and provided in User objects

- portal: new class CobricksPortlet to integrate Cobricks in Jetspeed
    portlet - see documentation how to configure this
- portal: new function sendEmail() in PortalPresenter - to be used for
    sending confirmation emails etc from web pages
- portal: user attribute lastlogin is now set

- course: changed course template to course module (renaming database
    tables and references)
    
- New utility org.cobricks.util.logbrowser