[Pgreet-users] Penguin Greetings 0.9.7 released

[Edouard L. <pgr...@ca...>]

 Dear Penguin Greetings users,

I am pleased to announce the release of Penguin Greetings 0.9.7.  This
major update includes support object-oriented ecard sites via
Embperl::Object.  A new demonstration web site using this technology has
been provided in English and French:  The Penguin Greetings California
Poppy Collection <http://www.canebas.org/pgreet.scgi?site=PgPoppy>. 
Other important changes include:

    * Caching of all configuration file information for greatly improved
performance for the SpeedyCGI version of pgreet.pl.(s)cgi.  Configuration
files are now periodicially reloaded and can be reloaded via SIGHUP for
both the SpeedCGI application and the daemon.

    * Application daemon now handles purging of ecards older than a user-
specified number of days.  Daemon has been streamlined to improve
responsiveness and simplfy configuration.  All database files are now
backed up daily.

    * Added a new database maintenance tool PgreetDButil.

    * Application daemon log file format has been cleaned up to greatly
improve readability.

    * Updated PgTemplateTest to test object-oriented templates and purge
old test files via a -x option.

    * Replaced all of the early cards which were not based on photos of
some sort with far more artistic equivalients.

Included are nine new or updated cards including new cards for Saint
Patrick's day!

Note that there was no public release of Penguin Greetings 0.9.6, only of
the Perl module Pgreet and it had a minor but annoying bug which was
fixed in Pgreet 0.9.7.


Enjoy!

Peace, Edouard :-)

P.S. As usual, it will take a few days for the new version to be
installed on the linuxbox.co.uk mirror, so right now, the only place to
view the new version in on the www.canebas.org website.

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Edouard Lagache
Lead Developer, Penguin Greetings
http://pgreet.sourceforge.net/
pgr...@ca...