[Refdb-users] ANN: refdb-0.9.4 released

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi all,

0.9.4 is (finally) available at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/refdb

This version offers a boatload of new features which are listed
below. Please note that you should have a close look at the file
UPGRADING if you want to avoid losing your data. Both the system and
reference databases were changed considerably and require a
rebuild. Please also note that due to a change in the communication
protocol the old clients and the old Perl client library won't talk to
the new server and vice versa.

The manual and the tutorial were updated for the new version. Both are
accessible from:

http://refdb.sourceforge.net/doc.html

Thanks to all who spotted bugs, made contributions, or otherwise
helped to improve RefDB. Your help is much appreciated.

Please send all suggestions, complaints, bug reports etc. to the
mailing list.

regards,
Markus



Version 0.9.4 (February 2004)

Bugfixes:

- fixed risx output

- fixed wrong mapping of titles in some risx types

- added publication type HEAR to the risx DTD

- fixed a possible segfault if messages are logged to stderr

- fixed case mismatches in DocBook XML driver files

- fixed bug in bibliography code for subsequent multiple citations

- fixed deleteref return message if the requested reference does not
  exist

- fixed junk error messages if refdbc was run in batch mode without
  specifying a default database.

- fixed erroneus trailing spaces in middle names

- fixed handling of hyphenated double-initials (K.-H.)

- fixed error in handling of journal custom abbrev2

- fixed bug that would have blocked concurrent addref commands


Improvements:

- added XHTML support to the getref command and to DocBook XML
  bibliographies

- added support for extended notes. Extended notes can be linked to
  any number of references, keywords, author names, and periodical
  names in your database. You can search for references and display
  all notes attached to them, or you can search for notes and display
  which references they are linked to. You can search for notes which
  are attached to particular references and vice versa. The new
  refdbc commands addnote, updatenote, deletenote, and getnote work
  essentially like their *ref counterparts. The new refdbc command
  addlink adds or removes links from notes to other database objects.

- by default refdbd answers only connections from localhost. The new
  -I switch allows remote connections as well.

- deleteref will refuse to delete a reference if it is in the personal
  lists of more than one user.

- reference databases now carry additional meta information like the
  refdb version they were created with and the dates of creation and
  last modification. This information is available through the
  refdbc:whichdb command.

- listdb now only returns RefDB reference databases

- the refdbnd script was enhanced to simplify generating a Makefile
  for an existing SGML or XML document

- server and clients can now be built and installed separately

- if a default database is selected in refdbc, the program will try to
  select this database at startup to test for its presence.

- the getref and getnote query language now uses literal string
  matches by default. Use the new "~" operator to obtain a regexp
  match.

- the string quoting was improved to simplify running regexp queries
  in the batch mode.

- refdbd now has built-in support for character encoding
  conversions. You can add datasets and notes in several encodings,
  including Unicode, and retrieve datasets in all encodings that your
  libiconv supports. Incoming data is automatically converted to the
  encoding used by the current database.


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Markus Hoenicka
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