[Webcollab-announce] WebCollab 2.00 development version

[Andrew S. <and...@pa...>]

I an pleased to announce development version - that is WebCollab 2.00-devel.

The general blurb follows:

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The much requested iCalendar download provision has been added.  This allows users to create downloadable files in the iCalendar format.  The iCalendar files can be read by third party calendar software, such as WebCalendar (no relation to Webcollab!), Mozilla Sunbird, Apple iCal, GNOME Evolution, etc.

The calendar now has colourised projects and tasks.  This, along with other minor cosmetic changes have made the calendar much more attractive and readable.

Contacts can now be entered at tasks and project level.  Be warned that contacts associated with tasks and projects will be deleted when that project or task is deleted.

Forums entries can now be searched.  This makes the forums much more useful to users.

Ordinary users can now clone projects.  However, private tasks (within the project) that they cannot otherwise view, will not be cloned.

Basic RSS feeds have been provided.

The minimum database version for MySQL is now 4.1.3.  MySQL 4.1.3 was released in June 2004, and has a number of very useful improvements over the 3.23.x versions.  Subqueries can now be done by the database, rather than in PHP coding; the database supports timezones internally and character sets are now properly supported.

There is no change to the minimum versions of PostgreSQL.  The above features have all been in PostgreSQL for some time.

The unicode version of WebCollab is now closely integrated with the standard version.  This means that one version can be maintained rather than two source trees. 

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As can be seen some fairly major additions and changes.  However, users familiar with WebCollab will find that the software is much the same as always.

My intention is to try and get the language translations updated, carry out more testing, and then provide a formal release.

Regards

Andrew Simpson