Bricolage

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 1.11.0

Notes:
NAME

    Bricolage - The Bricolage Content Management and Publishing System

VERSION

    1.11.0 (Development Release towards 2.0.0)

DESCRIPTION

    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, PHP 5, and Template Toolkit support for flexibility,
    and many other features. It operates in an Apache/mod_perl environment
    and uses the PostgreSQL or MySQL RDBMS for its repository. A
    comprehensive, actively-developed open source CMS, Bricolage has been
    hailed by eWEEK as "quite possibly the most capable enterprise-class
    open-source application available."

    Learn more about Bricolage and download it from the Bricolage Website,
    http://www.bricolage.cc/.

GETTING STARTED

    Before installing Bricolage, be sure to read the platform-specific
    README file relevant to your operating system, if there is one.

    For installation instructions, see INSTALL. Once Bricolage has been
    installed, this file will also be available via perldoc Bric::Admin.

    For copying information, see License. Once Bricolage has been
    installed, this file will also be available via perldoc Bric::License.

    For the latest news, see Changes. Once Bricolage has been installed,
    this file will also be available via perldoc Bric::Changes.

DOCUMENTATION

    After you've installed Bricolage, the complete API documentation will
    be available as via perldoc. It is also available on the Bricolage
    site, at http://bricolage.cc/docs/devel/api/. Here are a few entry
    points to get you started.

    For installation and system administration, see:

      Bric::Admin

      Bric::DBA

      Bric::Security

    To get started using Bricolage see:

      Bric::ElementAdmin

      Bric::AssetEditing

      Bric::Alert

    To learn how to use the Bricolage templating systems, see:

      Bric::Templates

      Bric::AdvTemplates

      Bric::HTMLTemplate

    If you'd like to contribute to Bricolage, see:

      Bric::Hacker

      http://bugs.bricolage.cc/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGN
      ED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_severity=enhancement

MAIL LISTS

    There are Bricolage user, developer, and announcement mail lists, among
    others. See the Bricolage Website for a complete list of lists and
    subscription links. http://www.bricolage.cc/support/lists/

SEE ALSO

    http://www.masonhq.com/

      The HTML::Mason templating architecture.

    http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Template/

      The HTML::Template templating architecture.

    http://www.template-toolkit.org/

      The Template Toolkit templating architecture.

    http://www.php.net/

    http://search.cpan.org/dist/PHP-Interpreter/

      The PHP templating architecture.

    http://httpd.apache.org/

      The Apache Web server.

    http://perl.apache.org/

      mod_perl.

    http://www.postgresql.org/

      The PostgreSQL object-relational database management system.

    http://www.mysql.org/

      The MySQL relational database management system.

    http://www.bricolage.cc/

      The Bricolage Website.



Changes:
Bricolge 1.11.0 Changes

 New Features

      * Added pick-a-type dropdown to Job Manager, so you can constrain the
      jobs listed to, for example, only today's job or only failed jobs.
      [Scott]

      * Added support for the FCKeditor WYSIWYG editor. See
      http://www.fckeditor.net/ for details and a demo. Sponsored by
      Freerun Technologies. [David]

      * Added support for MySQL 5.0.3 or later, from Andrei Arsu's 2006
      Google Summer of Code project. [Andrei Arsu]

      * Added a NONE function to Bric::Util::DBI. For any list parameter
      where you could've used ANY before, you can now also use NONE to
      return only objects that don't match. [Scott]

      * Added support for Apache 2. See Switching to Apache 2 in
      Bric::Admin or in README for details on swtiching an existing
      Bricolage installation from Apache 1 to Apache 2. [Scott, Chris
      Heiland, David]

      * Added element occurrence specification, from Christian Muise's 2006
      Google Summer of Code project. Element types and field types can now
      have required minimum and maximum numbers of times they appear in a
      document. For example, if a "pull quote" element type has a minimum
      of 2 and a maximum of 4, when a new story is created it will be
      pre-populated with 2 pull quote elments. The user can add up to two
      more, but no more. If either min or max are 0, then there is no
      minimum or maximum. For backwards compatibility, the upgrade will set
      existing element types and field types to have min and max set to 0.
      [Christian Muise]

 UI Improvements

      * JavaScript is now being used more extensively throughout the UI to
      improve performance and usability.

	* The following items can now be edited on-the-fly (i.e. without
	reloading):

	  * Fields and subelements in the story, media, and category
	  profiles

	  * Keywords in the story, media, and category profiles

	  * Categories in the story profile

	  * Output Channels in the story and media profiles

	  * Organizations in the source profile

	  * Roles in the contributor profile

	  * Contacts in the user and contributor profiles

	  * Extensions in the media type profile

	  * Rules in the alert type profile

	* Fields and subelements in the story and media profiles are
	displayed recursively, so a story's entire contents can be edited
	from one screen, as opposed to one screen per subelement as it was
	previously.

	* The right side of desk items has been redesigned. Icons are used
	because they save space. and they finally allow assets to be moved
	between desks from the Workspace, and assets to be checked in to
	any desk from the Desk view. The "and Publish" and "and Shelve"
	options have also been added. Additionally, you have the option to
	immediately publish assets on publish desks, or schedule them for
	later.

	* Desks now use JavaScript to execute actions immediately. Where
	you previously had to choose an action from a select list and
	scroll all the way to the bottom to execute it, you can now check
	in, move, check out, or delete an asset in one click, without a
	full page refresh.

	* The event log and trail have been merged and improved. The trail
	was a subset of the event log that only showed desk moves. You can
	now filter the log by any event type, and there's a dedicated link
	to choose the right event types to recreate the trail.

	* Error details (including oft-requested stack traces) are now
	viewable directly from the 500 error page, instead of having to
	check the error_log or view the error page's source. To avoid
	scaring lay people, the details are only shown (via JavaScript)
	when the new "View Error Details" link is clicked.

	* When more than 3 error messages need to be displayed, the first
	three are shown, along with a (more) link, which expands to show
	the remaining messages.

      [Marshall, part of the Google Summer of Code 2006]

      * The left nav menu no longer uses an <iframe>. JavaScript and
      cookies are used instead, making the left nav faster. [Scott,
      Marshall, David]

      * Added the new BLOB_SEARCH bricolage.conf directive, which enables
      data text searches in the UI to search paragraph-type fields as well
      as shorter header-type fields. [David]

      * When editing a field type, if a numeric value is set to an empty
      value, it will be set to 0 rather than retaining its previous value.
      [David]

      * The expire information for sources is now localized in the list
      view (the Sources Manager). [David]

 Improvements

      * Moved the Mason UI components in comp/widgets/wrappers/sharky/ to
      comp/widgets/wrappers/ since "sharky" makes no sense. [Marshall]

      * Updated the Portuguese localizations. [Pedro Custodio]

      * Added the related_story_id and related_media_id parameters to
      Bric::Biz::Element::Container->list(). [David]

      * Added the --fatal-no-cat option to contrib/bric_media_upload.
      [Scott]

      * Added support for a bunch of environment variables during
      installation. They're documented in Bric::Admin/INSTALL, and are most
      useful when used in combination with either INSTALL_VERBOSITY=QUIET
      or make dev. [David]

      * The installer is no longer required to become the system super user
      (root) during make install, although it is still recommended. During
      the database configuration, the installer asks whether it should
      create the database and if it should become the database system user
      during installation, which is the bit that required the user to be
      root, and is required for compatibility with "ident" authentication.
      The default is to not become the database system user, although make
      install may still need to be run as the super user in order to
      install files in their proper locations. [Brian Smith and David]