[last changed: $Date: 2002/12/08 05:05:36 $]  2002 mir-coders group
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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
* support production of RDF/XML syndication for startspecials/features, works
  with the new global indymedia system. Should probably be re-factored to be
  more generic. i.e being able to decide what makes it into the RDF file.
* 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]