1 [last changed: $Date: 2002/12/09 21:39:18 $] 2002 mir-coders group
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5 1.1(HEAD) (as of yet unreleased)
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8 [New features/Improvements]
9 * added support for a built-in search engine using lucene. indexes articles incrementally when
10 they are produced, uses standard internationalized template scheme to display results of queries,
11 which can be sorted by real publication date and include things like image thumbnails
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23 1.0.0-rc4 (as of yet unreleased)
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26 [New features/Improvements]
27 * set a "Cache-control", "Pragma" and "Expires" header to the http response
28 in the Mir and OpenMir servlets to insure that nothing gets cached by a
43 [New features/Improvements]
44 * support "video/avi" mime type.
45 * add missing multi-file dialog for audio/video/othermedia admin interface
46 * mark an article as unproduced when one of it's possible attached media items
50 * fix placement of FILE upload field in the media admin
51 that prevented description, author, etc fields to appear in uploaded files in
53 * prevent an Image Entity from getting out of sync w/ the DB when the setImage
54 method in EntityImages is called.
61 * manually insertion of "video/avi" mime-type in the media_type table is
62 required. see the dbscripts/populate_mediatyp file for details (id 20)
68 [New features/Improvements]
71 * fix nasty and embaressing bug in rc1 that prevented uploads from working.
83 [New features/Improvements]
84 * convert the media layer to use InputStreams and OutputStreams when
85 uploading and viewing files to curb memory use. add FileHandler interface
86 abstraction to handle file uploads
87 * support converting the size in bytes of a file to human readable format, eg.
89 * support for previewing of Media files in the admin interface
90 * use req.getContextPath to find the RootUri.. much more robust
91 * create new web.xml servlet url mapping for 4.0 and 4.1 compatibility
94 * fix long standing bug that caused '&''s to be removed from an http link in
100 * use cvs's \$Name\$ tag for versioning
101 * get rid of some unused methos in StrinUtil.java
104 * due to the changes introduced for Input/OutputStream support in media
105 handling, the FILE upload field in the html form, must always come after
106 all other fields required for adding the media item.
107 * you'll need to add the new "TempDir" config option to your config.properties
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111 From approx. March 2001 (beginning of indymedia.de) to 1.0.0-rc1, Dec 2002
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114 [New features/Improvements]
115 * create and improve ServletModules for managing media files in the admin
117 * support modification of the content creation date (webdb_create) meta field
119 * add a basic static file editor ServletModule to be able to edit static html
120 files through the admin interface
121 * creation of a servlet module to list all non publish content items
122 * start of a one-time passwd system for openposting to protect against SPAM
124 * allow for changing the maximum allowed size of an uploaded file as well as
125 the maximum number of files one can upload
126 * support changing the character encoding used in for produced files
127 * support creation of printable PDF files out of articles
128 * creation of the ObjectStore for Object caching to improve performance
129 * make the Entity's implement the freemarker TemplateModel simplifying the
130 the producer code and improving performance.
131 * switch to Poolman Database connection pooling
132 * i18n support for templates via language bundles. allows for a multilingual
133 admin interface and easily switching the language of the produced site.
134 * addition of the media handler interface layer for upload/handling of
135 multimedia files like audio and video
136 * support for duplicate posting checks using checksums via a postgres module
137 * simplify configuration slightly and remove redundant config options
138 * choose between direct and indirect open posting. i.e direct to newswire vs.
140 * implement multiple file upload support
143 * Better and more consistent exception handling: make sure all exceptions make
145 * make sure that if some part of a posting fails that the posting however
146 complete/inconplete it may be is deleted
147 * many bugfixes all over the place
150 * ditch build.sh wrapper in favor of a saner build.xml
151 * INSTALL documentation revamped
152 * perms.sh script to set install permissions
153 * config.properties file re-organized and commented
156 * make changes for tomcat v4.1.x compatibility
157 * change licensing to GPL
158 * translate some/most comments from German to English
159 * formal start of Mir project: get other developers involved