[Refdb-users] ANN: RefDB 0.8.6

[Markus H. <hoe...@co...>]

Hi,

just to let you know that the latest and greatest RefDB is available
at http://sourceforge.net/projects/refdb

The noteworthy changes are:

Bugfixes:

- fixed a segfault in refdbib

- the adduser command was fixed for host names containing wildcards

- retrieving journal abbreviations through the web interface now works
  as expected

- etc/Makefile now correctly creates the sysconfdir directory if it
  doesn't exist yet

- fixed a protocol error in the bibliography code

- fixed handling of visible and hidden user config files

- the additional information in PY fields is now correctly added to
  the appropriate row

Improvements:

- a new command line option (-y) allows to specify the directory
  containing the configuration files. This is important only if you move
  around precompiled binaries, e.g. when relocating a rpm package.

In addition to this release I'd like to point out the existence of a
libdbi-pre1 branch in CVS. This branch uses libdbi as a database
abstraction layer and works with both MySQL and
PostgreSQL. Unfortunately the current libdbi release needs a few
patches to work properly, so I'll wait with an official release of
this new branch until libdbi is updated. If anyone is interested in
test-driving this branch, I'd be happy to write up the necessary
libdbi fixes (they're all submitted to the libdbi list BTW) and to
provide installation and setup instructions.

regards,
Markus

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