From: Stephen F. <ste...@ws...> - 2018-10-02 08:40:01
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Dear Tripal Community, On behalf of the The Tripal Program Management Committee (PMC) I am happy to announce the stable release of Tripal v3. This release represents the first stable release for Tripal v3.0 and succeeds all previous release candidates. Because Tripal v3 is a major overhaul, there may still be bugs. However, this release is currently in use by several production sites and provides good performance with no major problems. The following improvements have been made: * Tripal v3.0 represents a major overhaul from Tripal v2.0. Specifically, all content is now organized via controlled vocabularies * Content types are more tightly integrated with Drupal Entities and Fields. * Tripal v3.0 requires no editing of PHP templates to alter the placement and order of content on the page * More of Chado is supported than in previous versions. * RESTful web services are provided to allow for programmatic access to data on the site, * New data collections are available to allow site visitors to place content found via searching into collections for download or use by other tools. In addition, several more changes have been made leading up to this release: * The User's Guide and Developer's Handbook have been converted to restructuredText and is now part of the Tripal source code allowing for more easy updates by anyone. Both Guides have been moved to ReadTheDocs. * Tripal now includes unit testing to help speed new releases and to maintain quality. What you should see in the near future * We are still working on documentation. You will see updates to the functional annotation for an example site in the User's Guide as well as more tutorials in the Developer's Guide. * We hope to offer more frequent minor releases as bugs are discovered and addressed. * There are quite a few extension modules that are already compatible with Tripal v3. We are currently working to get the BLAST, InterPro and KEGG modules fully supported. You can help improve the quality of Tripal in the future by being engaged! Please submit issues you find, consider submitting code fixes or reach out for help getting your site setup if you need it. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release! -- Stephen Ficklin, PhD Assistant Professor Bioinformatics and Systems Genetics Department of Horticulture Washington State University 153 Johnson Hall Pullman, WA 99164-6414 Office: (509) 335-4295 http://ficklinlab.cahnrs.wsu.edu/ |
From: Stephen F. <ste...@ws...> - 2018-10-02 09:00:09
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A few more details I should include.... *To Upgrade from an existing pre-release 3.x version:* Simply use Drupal or Drush to retrieve the most recent version of Tripal v3 and update the database. For example, to update using Drush: drush updatedb *To Upgrade from Tripal v2* Please see the Upgrade Instructions in the User's Guide: https://tripal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/install_tripal/upgrade_from_tripal2.html *Getting Help* If you encounter any issues please use the Tripal GitHub queue to post a description of the problem and someone will respond in short order. On 10/2/2018 1:39 AM, Stephen Ficklin wrote: > > Dear Tripal Community, > > On behalf of the The Tripal Program Management Committee (PMC) I am > happy to announce the stable release of Tripal v3. > > This release represents the first stable release for Tripal v3.0 and > succeeds all previous release candidates. Because Tripal v3 is a major > overhaul, there may still be bugs. However, this release is currently > in use by several production sites and provides good performance with > no major problems. The following improvements have been made: > > * Tripal v3.0 represents a major overhaul from Tripal v2.0. > Specifically, all content is now organized via controlled vocabularies > * Content types are more tightly integrated with Drupal Entities and > Fields. > * Tripal v3.0 requires no editing of PHP templates to alter the > placement and order of content on the page > * More of Chado is supported than in previous versions. > * RESTful web services are provided to allow for programmatic access > to data on the site, > * New data collections are available to allow site visitors to place > content found via searching into collections for download or use > by other tools. > > In addition, several more changes have been made leading up to this > release: > > * The User's Guide and Developer's Handbook have been converted to > restructuredText and is now part of the Tripal source code > allowing for more easy updates by anyone. Both Guides have been > moved to ReadTheDocs. > * Tripal now includes unit testing to help speed new releases and to > maintain quality. > > What you should see in the near future > > * We are still working on documentation. You will see updates to > the functional annotation for an example site in the User's Guide > as well as more tutorials in the Developer's Guide. > * We hope to offer more frequent minor releases as bugs are > discovered and addressed. > * There are quite a few extension modules that are already > compatible with Tripal v3. We are currently working to get the > BLAST, InterPro and KEGG modules fully supported. > > You can help improve the quality of Tripal in the future by being > engaged! Please submit issues you find, consider submitting code > fixes or reach out for help getting your site setup if you need it. > > Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release! > > -- > Stephen Ficklin, PhD > Assistant Professor > Bioinformatics and Systems Genetics > Department of Horticulture > Washington State University > 153 Johnson Hall > Pullman, WA 99164-6414 > Office: (509) 335-4295 > > http://ficklinlab.cahnrs.wsu.edu/ -- Stephen Ficklin, PhD Assistant Professor Bioinformatics and Systems Genetics Department of Horticulture Washington State University 153 Johnson Hall Pullman, WA 99164-6414 Office: (509) 335-4295 http://ficklinlab.cahnrs.wsu.edu/ |