[last changed: $Date: 2002/12/09 21:39:18 $]  2002 mir-coders group
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1.1(HEAD) (as of yet unreleased)
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[New features/Improvements]
* added support for a built-in search engine using lucene.  indexes articles incrementally when
  they are produced, uses standard internationalized template scheme to display results of queries, 
  which can be sorted by real publication date and include things like image thumbnails
  
[Bugfixes]

[Build process]

[Maintenance]

[Notes]


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1.0.0-rc4 (as of yet unreleased)
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[New features/Improvements]
* set a "Cache-control", "Pragma" and "Expires" header to the http response
  in the Mir and OpenMir servlets to insure that nothing gets cached by a
  client browser.

[Bugfixes]

[Build process]

[Maintenance]

[Notes]

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1.0.0-rc3
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[New features/Improvements]
* support "video/avi" mime type.
* add missing multi-file dialog for audio/video/othermedia admin interface
* mark an article as unproduced when one of it's possible attached media items
  is modified.

[Bugfixes]
* fix placement of FILE upload field in the media admin
  that prevented description, author, etc fields to appear in uploaded files in
  the admin interface.
* prevent an Image Entity from getting out of sync w/ the DB when the setImage
  method in EntityImages is called.

[Build process]

[Maintenance]

[Notes]
* manually insertion of "video/avi" mime-type in the media_type table is
  required. see the dbscripts/populate_mediatyp file for details (id 20)

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1.0.0-rc2
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[New features/Improvements]

[Bugfixes]
* fix nasty and embaressing bug in rc1 that prevented uploads from working.

[Build process]

[Maintenance]

[Notes]

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1.0.0-rc1
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[New features/Improvements]
* convert the media layer to use InputStreams and OutputStreams when
  uploading and viewing files to curb memory use. add FileHandler interface
  abstraction to handle file uploads
* support converting the size in bytes of a file to human readable format, eg.
  384K vs 384 xxx
* support for previewing of Media files in the admin interface
* use req.getContextPath to find the RootUri.. much more robust
* create new web.xml servlet url mapping for 4.0 and 4.1 compatibility

[Bugfixes]
* fix long standing bug that caused '&''s to be removed from an http link in
  an article abstract

[Build process]

[Maintenance]
* use cvs's \$Name\$ tag for versioning
* get rid of some unused methos in StrinUtil.java

[Notes]
* due to the changes introduced for Input/OutputStream support in media
  handling, the FILE upload field in the html form, must always come after
  all other fields required for adding the media item.
* you'll need to add the new "TempDir" config option to your config.properties
  file.

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From approx. March 2001 (beginning of indymedia.de) to 1.0.0-rc1, Dec 2002
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[New features/Improvements]
* create and improve ServletModules for managing media files in the admin
  interface
* support modification of the content creation date (webdb_create) meta field
  of a content item
* add a basic static file editor ServletModule to be able to edit static html
  files through the admin interface
* creation of a servlet module to list all non publish content items
* start of a one-time passwd system for openposting to protect against SPAM
  attacks
* allow for changing the maximum allowed size of an uploaded file as well as
  the maximum number of files one can upload
* support changing the character encoding used in for produced files
* support creation of printable PDF files out of articles
* creation of the ObjectStore for Object caching to improve performance
* make the Entity's implement the freemarker TemplateModel simplifying the
  the producer code and improving performance.
* switch to Poolman Database connection pooling
* i18n support for templates via language bundles. allows for a multilingual
  admin interface and easily switching the language of the produced site.
* addition of the media handler interface layer for upload/handling of
  multimedia files like audio and video
* support for duplicate posting checks using checksums via a postgres module
* simplify configuration slightly and remove redundant config options
* choose between direct and indirect open posting. i.e direct to newswire vs.
  openposting list.
* implement multiple file upload support

[Bugfixes]
* Better and more consistent exception handling: make sure all exceptions make
  it to the top.
* make sure that if some part of a posting fails that the posting however 
  complete/inconplete it may be is deleted
* many bugfixes all over the place

[Build process]
* ditch build.sh wrapper in favor of a saner build.xml
* INSTALL documentation revamped
* perms.sh script to set install permissions
* config.properties file re-organized and commented

[Maintenance]
* make changes for tomcat v4.1.x compatibility
* change licensing to GPL
* translate some/most comments from German to English
* formal start of Mir project: get other developers involved

[Notes]