[Gmod-tripal] Tripal v3 Released

[Stephen F. <ste...@ws...>]

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/