[Refdb-users] ANN: RefDB 0.9.7 released

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

Hi,

I've uploaded version 0.9.7 of RefDB. Currently only the source
package is available, but I hope that the Cygwin binaries as well as
an updated starter package will follow in due time. Moreover, it is
likely that we will soon see RPM packages.

The new release is available for download here:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=26091&package_id=19605&release_id=427590

Please report any problems to the list. A list of bugfixes and new
features is appended below. Please note that the ChangeLog included in
the sources covers only the changes that were applied since the
sources were moved from CVS to Subversion. There were more changes
since 0.9.6 while the code was managed with CVS.

regards,
Markus


Bugfixes:

- multiple citation texts are now properly included in the character
  encoding conversion

- periodical titles need to be escaped during import

- a possible segfault during the formatting of journal names in
  bibliographies was fixed

- the formatting (bold, italics, superscript and so on) of intext
  citations was fixed for both the DSSSL and the XSL stylesheets

- fixed missing preceding/following export in journal names during
  style export

- all XML output now correctly exports empty strings as empty elements
  instead of dropping the element

- bibliography titles are now left empty if the style says so, instead
  of inventing a default title

- fixed a crash in the bibliography generation code when an URL was
  missing

- print empty part title instead of none to make the output comply
  with the DTD

- fixed possible segfaults if the automatic keyword scan ran without
  any keywords

- fixed client/server dialog mishap in refdbc:getref, refdbc:getnote
  and getbib

- assorted causes of segfaults during bibliography creation were
  eliminated

- build problems on Debian due to the lack of
  batik-rasterizer. ./configure now checks for this image converter
  and falls back to ImageMagick's convert if the former is not
  available. The latter produces buttugly output from the SVG sources
  but this is better than a build that fails.

- style problems due to bugs in refdb.dump.mysql and
  refdb.dump.mysql41. The *NAMEORDER field sizes were chosen too short
  which caused valid values for these fields to become truncated when
  MySQL was used as the database engine. See the instructions in
  UPGRADING if you're a MySQL user.

- refdbd now uses the path to DB_VERSION from the config file instead
  of a compile-time value

Improvements

- added a refdb-init.sh script that helps setting up RefDB after
  installation

- added a citationlistx backend to support refdb-publist

- some fixes in the bibtex export

- the XML headers now contain a larger selection of predefined
  entities

- FIRSTSPCM (without a dot) was added to the *NAMEORDER values

- support for multi-head tex citations was added

- import and export fixes for CONF, HEAR, and ELEC types

- replaced SGML manual sources by XML sources

- replaced handcrafted man pages by DocBook output

- the logic of the configure switch to build docs was reversed: docs
  are now built by default (this is required to install the prebuilt
  docs), but if you run into problems when building from the CVS
  sources you can disable the docs by means of the --disable-docs
  switch

- alltitles and link0 support was added to the dsssl stylesheets

- the biblioset and bibliomset grouping was improved in the
  bibliography output

- alltitle, which is the only useful title code if you want titles in
  the in-text citations, is now supported

- LINK ROLE="0", MISC, and USERDEF without role attribute are now
  properly imported

- the key/citekey mismatch in the notes import code was fixed

- removed a pair of parens from print/docbook-refdb-dsl which caused a
  warning

- style export now includes the character encoding into the processing
  instruction line

- the Makefile created by refdbnd no longer removes the source file
  using the full citation format when running make clean. If you
  really need to do this, run "make shortclean". This change was done
  to better support refdb-mode which uses the full citation format by
  default.

- fixed a bug in the packaging code which kept refdb-backup and
  refdb-restore out of the tarball

- the main database version check and the update of the database
  version file are now performed only once per refdbd session

- marc2ris now imports the call numbers contained in the MARC fields
  050 (AV) and 082 (U1)


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Markus Hoenicka
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