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Release Name: 8.0.0

Notes:


Changes:
8.0.0

  Follow the migration instructions in MigrationGuide to upgrade.
  
  Set to separate view/modify lists by default. If you want the old behavior, put 
  $EnhancedSecurity = $FALSE; in ProjectGlobals. This is backwards compatible with 
  the old setting.
   
  DocDB now uses the Perl module CGI::Untaint. CGI::Untaint is used to "purify"
  the input into the scripts. You must install it. You can use scripts/CheckModules 
  to see if you have all the modules you need for Version 8.x
  
  There is now a CanView option that you can set for a group to disable their 
  access even if they are marked as a group that can view a particular
  document.  Groups without CanView set can still access DocDB, it will just
  show publicly  accessible documents. Groups that cannot View are prohibited
  from creating or  modifying documents too. This seems logical, but if there is
  a  good reason to change it, we can. This feature was thought to be useful
  for  disabling reviewer accounts between reviews.
  The user can still use DocDB, but can only see publicly accessible documents.
  
  Topics can now have sub-topics, sub-sub-topics, etc. Users can also select top
  level topics. Make sure the long description of a sub-topic is fully
  descriptive as often the long description is shown without the context of its
  parent topic. The maintainer can set the variable
  $Preferences{Topics}{MinLevel}{Document} so that users cannot select top-level
  (or 2nd level) topics for documents. The default value is 1, other values can
  be set in ProjectGlobals.pm.

  New files
    cgi/TopicUtilities.pm