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Invenio NEWS
============
Here is a short summary of the most notable changes in Invenio
releases. For more information about the current release, please
consult RELEASE-NOTES. For more information about changes, please
consult ChangeLog.
CDS Invenio v0.99.2 -- released 2010-10-20
------------------------------------------
*) stricter checking of access to restricted records: in order to
view a restricted record, users are now required to have
authorizations to access all restricted collections the given
record may belong to (WebSearch)
*) strict checking of user query history when setting up email
notification alert, preventing URL mangling attempts (WebAlert)
*) fixed possible Unix signal conflicts for tasks performing I/O
operations or running external processes, relevant notably to
full-text indexing of remote files (BibSched)
*) fixed full-text indexing and improved handling of files of
`unexpected' extensions (BibIndex, WebSubmit)
*) streaming of files of `unknown' MIME type now defaults to
application/octet-stream (WebSubmit)
*) fixed addition of new MARC fields in the record editor (BibEdit)
*) fixed issues in full-text file attachment via MARC (BibUpload)
*) fixed authaction CLI client (WebAccess)
*) ... plus other minor fixes and improvements
CDS Invenio v0.99.1 -- released 2008-07-10
------------------------------------------
*) search engine syntax now supports parentheses (WebSearch)
*) search engine syntax now supports SPIRES query language
(WebSearch)
*) strict respect for per-collection sort options on the search
results pages (WebSearch)
*) improved parsing of search query with respect to non-existing
field terms (WebSearch)
*) fixed "any collection" switch on the search results page
(WebSearch)
*) added possibility for progressive display of detailed record page
tabs (WebSearch)
*) added support for multi-page RSS output (WebSearch)
*) new search engine summarizer module with the cite summary output
format (WebSearch, BibRank)
*) "cited by" links are now generated only when needed (WebSearch)
*) new experimental comprehensive author page (WebSearch)
*) stemming for many indexes is now enabled by default (BibIndex)
*) new intelligent journal index (BibIndex)
*) new logging of missing citations (BibRank)
*) citation indexer and searcher improvements and caching (BibRank)
*) new low-level task submission facility (BibSched)
*) new options in bibsched task monitor: view task options, log and
error files; prune task to a history table; extended status
reporting; failed tasks now need acknowledgement in order to
restart the queue (BibSched)
*) safer handling of task sleeping and waking up (BibSched)
*) new experimental support for task priorities and concurrent task
execution (BibSched)
*) improved user-configured browser language matching (MiscUtil)
*) new default behaviour not differentiating between guest users;
this removes a need to keep sessions/uids for guests and robots
(WebSession)
*) optimized sessions and collecting external user information (WebSession)
*) improved logging conflicts for external vs internal users
(WebAccess)
*) improved Single Sign-On session preservation (WebAccess)
*) new 'become user' debugging facility for admins (WebAccess)
*) new bibdocfile CLI tool to manipulate full-text files archive
(WebSubmit)
*) optimized redirection of old URLs (WebSubmit)
*) new icon creation tool in the submission input chain (WebSubmit)
*) improved full-text file migration tool (WebSubmit)
*) improved stamping of full-text files (WebSubmit)
*) new approval-related end-submission functions (WebSubmit)
*) comments and descriptions of full-text files are now kept also in
bibdoc tables, not only in MARC; they are synchronized during
bibupload (WebSubmit, BibUpload)
*) fixed navigation in public baskets (WebBasket)
*) added detailed record page link to basket records (WebBasket)
*) new removal of HTML markup in alert notification emails (WebAlert)
*) improved OAI harvester logging and handling (BibHarvest)
*) improved error checking (BibConvert)
*) improvements to the record editing tool: subfield order change,
repetitive subfields; improved record locking features;
configurable per-collection curators (BibEdit)
*) fully refactored WebJournal module (WebJournal)
*) new RefWorks output format, thanks to Theodoros Theodoropoulos
(BibFormat)
*) fixed keyword detection tool's output; deactivated taxonomy
compilation (BibClassify)
*) new /stats URL for administrators (WebStat)
*) better filtering of unused translations (WebStyle)
*) updated French, Italian, Norwegian and Swedish translations;
updated Japanese translation (thanks to Makiko Matsumoto and Takao
Ishigaki); updated Greek translation (thanks to Theodoros
Theodoropoulos); new Hungarian translation (thanks to Eva Papp)
*) ... plus many other minor bug fixes and improvements
CDS Invenio v0.99.0 -- released 2008-03-27
------------------------------------------
*) new Invenio configuration language, new inveniocfg configuration
tool permitting more runtime changes and enabling separate local
customizations (MiscUtil)
*) phased out WML dependency everywhere (all modules)
*) new common RSS cache implementation (WebSearch)
*) improved access control to the detailed record pages (WebSearch)
*) when searching non-existing collections, do not revert to
searching in public Home anymore (WebSearch)
*) strict calculation of number of hits per multiple collections
(WebSearch)
*) propagate properly language environment in browse pages, thanks to
Ferran Jorba (WebSearch)
*) search results sorting made accentless, thanks to Ferran Jorba
(WebSearch)
*) new OpenURL interface (WebSearch)
*) added new search engine API argument to limit searches to record
creation/modification dates and times instead of hitherto creation
dates only (WebSearch)
*) do not allow HTTP POST method for searches to prevent hidden
mining (WebSearch)
*) added alert and RSS teaser for search engine queries (WebSearch)
*) new optimized index structure for fast integer bit vector
operations, leading to significant indexing time improvements
(MiscUtil, BibIndex, WebSearch)
*) new tab-based organisation of detailed record pages, with new URL
schema (/record/1/usage) and related CSS changes (BibFormat,
MiscUtil, WebComment, WebSearch, WebStyle, WebSubmit)
*) phased out old PHP based code; migration to Python-based output
formats recommended (BibFormat, WebSubmit)
*) new configurability to show/hide specific output formats for
specific collections (BibFormat, WebSearch)
*) new configurability to have specific stemming settings for
specific indexes (BibIndex, WebSearch)
*) optional removal of LaTeX markup for indexer (BibIndex, WebSearch)
*) performance optimization for webcoll and optional arguments to
refresh only parts of collection cache (WebSearch)
*) optional verbosity argument propagation to the output formatter
(BibFormat, WebSearch)
*) new convenient reindex option to the indexer (BibIndex)
*) fixed problem with indexing of some lengthy UTF-8 accented names,
thanks to Theodoros Theodoropoulos for reporting the problem
(BibIndex)
*) fixed full-text indexing of HTML pages (BibIndex)
*) new Stemmer module dependency, fixes issues on 64-bit systems
(BibIndex)
*) fixed download history graph display (BibRank)
*) improved citation ranking and history graphs, introduced
self-citation distinction, added new demo records (BibRank)
*) fixed range redefinition and output message printing problems in
the ranking indexer, thanks to Mike Marino (BibRank)
*) new XSLT output formatter support; phased out old BFX formats
(BibFormat)
*) I18N output messages are now translated in the output formatter
templates (BibFormat)
*) formats fixed to allow multiple author affiliations (BibFormat)
*) improved speed of the record output reformatter in case of large
sets (BibFormat)
*) support for displaying LaTeX formulas via JavaScript (BibFormat)
*) new and improved output formatter elements (BibFormat)
*) new escaping modes for format elements (BibFormat)
*) output format template editor cache and element dependency
checker improvements (BibFormat)
*) output formatter speed improvements in PHP-compatible mode
(BibFormat)
*) new demo submission configuration and approval workflow examples
(WebSubmit)
*) new submission full-text file stamper utility (WebSubmit)
*) new submission icon-creation utility (WebSubmit)
*) separated submission engine and database layer (WebSubmit)
*) submission functions can now access user information (WebSubmit)
*) implemented support for restricted icons (WebSubmit, WebAccess)
*) new full-text file URL and cleaner storage facility; requires file
names to be unique within a given record (WebSearch, WebSubmit)
*) experimental release of the complex approval and refereeing
workflow (WebSubmit)
*) new end-submission functions to move files to storage space
(WebSubmit)
*) added support for MD5 checking of full-text files (WebSubmit)
*) improved behaviour of the submission system with respect to the
browser "back" button (WebSubmit)
*) removed support for submission "cookies" (WebSubmit)
*) flexible report number generation during submission (WebSubmit)
*) added support for optional filtering step in the OAI harvesting
chain (BibHarvest)
*) new text-oriented converter functions IFDEFP, JOINMULTILINES
(BibConvert)
*) selective harvesting improvements, sets, non-standard responses,
safer resumption token handling (BibHarvest)
*) OAI archive configuration improvements: collections retrieval,
multiple set definitions, new clean mode, timezones, and more
(BibHarvest)
*) OAI gateway improvements: XSLT used to produce configurable output
(BibHarvest)
*) added support for "strong tags" that can resist metadata replace
mode (BibUpload)
*) added external OAI ID tag support to the uploader (BibUpload)
*) added support for full-text file transfer during uploading
(BibUpload)
*) preserving full history of all MARCXML versions of a record
(BibEdit, BibUpload)
*) XMLMARC to TextMarc improvements: empty indicators and more
(BibEdit)
*) numerous reference extraction tool improvements: year handling,
LaTeX handling, URLs, journal titles, output methods, and more
(BibEdit)
*) new classification daemon (BibClassify)
*) classification taxonomy caching resulting in speed optimization
(BibClassify)
*) new possibility to define more than one keyword taxonomy per
collection (BibClassify)
*) fixed non-standalone keyword detection, thanks to Annette Holtkamp
(BibClassify)
*) new embedded page generation profiler (WebStyle)
*) new /help pages layout and webdoc formatting tool (WebStyle)
*) new custom style template verification tool (WebStyle)
*) added support for the XML page() output format, suitable for AJAX
interfaces (WebStyle)
*) introduction of navigation menus (WebStyle)
*) general move from HTML to XHTML markup (all modules)
*) fixed alert deletion tool vulnerability (WebAlert)
*) do not advertise baskets/alerts much for guest users; show only
the login link (WebSession)
*) password reset interface improvements (WebSession)
*) new permanent "remember login" mechanism (WebSession, WebAccess)
*) local user passwords are now encrypted (WebSession, WebAccess)
*) new LDAP external authentication plugin (WebAccess)
*) new password reset mechanism using new secure mail cookies and
temporary role membership facilities (WebAccess, WebSession)
*) added support for Single Sign-On Shibboleth based authentication
method (WebAccess)
*) new firewall-like based role definition language, new demo
examples (WebAccess)
*) external authentication and groups improvements: nicknames,
account switching, and more (WebSession, WebAccess)
*) task log viewer integrated in the task monitor (BibSched)
*) new journal creation module (WebJournal)
*) new generic statistic gathering and display facility (WebStat)
*) deployed new common email sending facility (MiscUtil, WebAlert,
WebComment, WebSession, WebSubmit)
*) dropped support for MySQL-4.0, permitting to use clean and strict
UTF-8 storage methods; upgrade of MySQLdb to at least 1.2.1_p2
required (MiscUtil)
*) uncatched exceptions are now being sent by email to the
administrator (MiscUtil, WebStyle)
*) new general garbage collector with a possibility to run via the
task scheduler and a possibility to clean unreferenced
bibliographic values (MiscUtil)
*) new generic SQL and data cacher (MiscUtil)
*) new HTML page validator plugin (MiscUtil)
*) new web test suite running in a real browser (MiscUtil)
*) improved code kwalitee checker (MiscUtil)
*) translation updates: Spanish and Catalan (thanks to Ferran Jorba),
Japanese (Toru Tsuboyama), German (Benedikt Koeppel), Polish
(Zbigniew Szklarz and Zbigniew Leonowicz), Greek (Theodoros
Theodoropoulos), Russian (Yana Osborne), Swedish, Italian, French
*) new translations: Chinese traditional and Chinese simplified
(thanks to Kam-ming Ku)
*) ... plus many other minor bug fixes and improvements
CDS Invenio v0.92.1 -- released 2007-02-20
------------------------------------------
*) new support for external authentication systems (WebSession,
WebAccess)
*) new support for external user groups (WebSession)
*) new experimental version of the reference extraction program
(BibEdit)
*) new optional Greek stopwords list, thanks to Theodoropoulos
Theodoros (BibIndex)
*) new Get_Recid submission function (WebSubmit)
*) new config variable governing the display of the download history
graph (BibRank)
*) started deployment of user preferences (WebSession, WebSearch)
*) split presentation style for "Narrow search", "Focus on" and
"Search also" search interface boxes (WebSearch, WebStyle)
*) updated CERN Indico and KEK external collection searching facility
(WebSearch)
*) fixed search interface portalbox and collection definition
escaping behaviour (WebSearch Admin)
*) fixed problems with external system number and OAI ID matching
(BibUpload)
*) fixed problem with case matching behaviour (BibUpload)
*) fixed problems with basket record display and basket topic change
(WebBasket)
*) fixed output format template attribution behaviour (BibFormat)
*) improved language context propagation in output formats
(BibFormat)
*) improved output format treatment of HTML-aware fields (BibFormat)
*) improved BibFormat migration kit (BibFormat)
*) improved speed and eliminated set duplication of the OAI
repository gateway (BibHarvest)
*) fixed resumption token handling (BibHarvest)
*) improved record editing interface (BibEdit)
*) fixed problem with empty fields treatment (BibConvert)
*) updated Report_Number_Generation submission function to be able to
easily generate report numbers from any submission information
(WebSubmit)
*) fixed problem with submission field value escaping (WebSubmit)
*) fixed problem with submission collection ordering (WebSubmit)
*) fixed BibSched task signal handling inconsistency (BibSched)
*) fixed TEXT versus BLOB database problems for some tables/columns
*) minor updates to the HOWTO Migrate guide and several admin guides
(WebHelp, BibIndex, BibFormat)
*) minor bugfixes to several modules; see ChangeLog for details and
credits
CDS Invenio v0.92.0 -- released 2006-12-22
------------------------------------------
*) previously experimental output formatter in Python improved and
made default (BibFormat)
*) previously experimental new submission admin interface in Python
improved and made default (WebSubmit)
*) new XML-oriented output formatting mode (BibFormat)
*) new export-oriented output formats: EndNote, NLM (BibFormat)
*) RSS 2.0 latest additions feed service (WebSearch, BibFormat)
*) new XML-oriented metadata converter mode (BibConvert)
*) new metadata uploader in Python (BibUpload)
*) new integrated parallel external collection searching (WebSearch)
*) improved document classifier: composite keywords, wildcards, cloud
output (BibClassify)
*) improved UTF-8 fulltext indexing (BibIndex)
*) improved external login authentication subsystem (WebAccess)
*) added possibility to order submission categories (WebSubmit)
*) improved handling of cached search interface page formats,
preferential sort pattern functionality, international collection
names (WebSearch)
*) improved behaviour of OAI harvester: sets, deleted records,
harvested metadata transformation (BibHarvest)
*) improved MARCXML schema compatibility concerning indicators;
updates to the HTML MARC output format (BibEdit, BibUpload,
BibFormat, and other modules)
*) multiple minor bugs fixed thanks to the wider deployment of the
regression test suite (all modules)
*) new translation (Croatian) and several translation updates
(Catalan, Bulgarian, French, Greek, Spanish); thanks to Ferran
Jorba, Beatriu Piera, Alen Vodopijevec, Jasna Marković, Theodoros
Theodoropoulos, and Nikolay Dyankov (see also THANKS file)
*) removed dependency on PHP; not needed anymore
*) full compatibility with MySQL 4.1 and 5.0; upgrade from MySQL 4.0
now recommended
*) full compatibility with FreeBSD and Mac OS X
CDS Invenio v0.90.1 -- released 2006-07-23
------------------------------------------
*) output messages improved and enhanced to become more easily
translatable in various languages (all modules)
*) new translation (Bulgarian) and several updated translations
(Greek, French, Russian, Slovak)
*) respect langugage choice in various web application links
(WebAlert, WebBasket, WebComment, WebSession, WebSubmit)
*) fixed problem with commenting rights in a group-shared basket that
is also a public basket with lesser rights (WebBasket)
*) guest users are now forbidden to share baskets (WebBasket)
*) fixed guest user garbage collection, adapted to the new baskets
schema (WebSession)
*) added possibility to reject group membership requests; sending
informational messages when users are approved/refused by group
administrators (WebSession)
*) experimental release of the new BibFormat in Python (BibFormat)
*) started massive deployment of the regression test suite, checking
availability of all web interface pages (BibEdit, BibFormat,
BibHarvest, BibIndex, BibRank, MiscUtil, WebAccess, WebBasket,
WebComment, WebMessage, WebSearch, WebSession, WebSubmit)
*) updated developer documentation (I18N output messages policy, test
suite policy, coding style)
CDS Invenio v0.90.0 -- released 2006-06-30
------------------------------------------
*) formerly known as CDSware; the application name change clarifies
the relationship with respect to the CDS Sofware Consortium
producing two flagship applications (CDS Indico and Invenio)
*) version number increased to v0.90 in the anticipation of the
forthcoming v1.0 release after all the major codebase changes are
now over
*) new possibility to define user groups (WebGroup)
*) new personal basket organization in topics (WebBasket)
*) new basket sharing among user groups (WebBasket)
*) new open peer reviewing and commenting on documents (WebComment)
*) new user and group web messaging system (WebMessage)
*) new ontology-based document classification system (BibClassify)
*) new WebSubmit Admin (WebSubmit)
*) new record editing web interface (BibEdit)
*) new record matching tool (BibMatch)
*) new OAI repository administration tool (BibHarvest)
*) new OAI periodical harvesting tool (BibHarvest)
*) new web layout templating system (WebStyle)
*) new clean URL schema (e.g. /collection/Theses, /record/1234)
(WebStyle)
*) new BibTeX output format support (BibFormat)
*) new possibility of secure HTTPS authentication while keeping the
rest of the site non-HTTPS (WebSession)
*) new centralized error library (MiscUtil)
*) new gettext-based international translations, with two new beta
translations (Japanese, Polish)
*) new regression testing suite framework (MiscUtil)
*) new all prerequisites are now apt-gettable for Debian "Sarge"
GNU/Linux
*) new full support for Mac OS X
*) ... plus many fixes and changes worth one year of development
CDSware v0.7.1 -- released 2005-05-04
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*) important bugfix for bibconvert's ``source data in a directory''
mode, as invoked by the web submission system (BibConvert)
*) minor bugfix in the search engine, thanks to Frédéric Gobry
(WebSearch)
*) minor bugfix in the WebSearch Admin interface (WebSearch)
*) automatic linking to Google Print in the ``Haven't found what you
were looking for...'' page box (WebSearch)
*) BibFormat Admin Guide cleaned, thanks to Ferran Jorba
*) new Catalan translation, thanks to Ferran Jorba
*) updated Greek and Portuguese translations, thanks to Theodoros
Theodoropoulos and Flávio C. Coelho
*) updated Spanish translation
CDSware v0.7.0 -- released 2005-04-06
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*) experimental release of the refextract program for automatic
reference extraction from PDF fulltext files (BibEdit)
*) experimental release of the citation and download ranking tools
(BibRank)
*) new module for gathering usage statistics out of Apache log files
(WebStat)
*) new similar-records-navigation tool exploring end-user viewing
habits: "people who viewed this page also viewed" (WebSearch,
BibRank)
*) OAI gateway validated against OAI Repository Explorer (BibHarvest)
*) fixed "records modified since" option for the indexer (BibIndex)
*) collection cache update is done only when the cache is not up to
date (WebSearch) [closing #WebSearch-016]
*) cleanup of user login mechanism (WebSession, WebAccess)
*) fixed uploading of already-existing records in the insertion mode
(BibUpload)
*) fixed submission in UTF-8 languages (WebSubmit)
*) updated HOWTO Run Your Existing CDSware Installation (WebHelp)
*) test suite improvements (WebSearch, BibHarvest, BibRank,
BibConvert)
*) German translation updated and new German stopwords list added,
thanks to Guido Pelzer
*) new Greek and Ukrainian translations, thanks to Theodoros
Theodoropoulos and Vasyl Ostrovskyi
*) all language codes now comply to RFC 1766 and ISO 639
*) numerous other small fixes and improvements, with many
contributions by the EPFL team headed by Frederic Gobry
(BibConvert, BibUpload, WebSearch, WebSubmit, WebSession)
CDSware v0.5.0 -- released 2004-12-17
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*) new rank engine, featuring word similarity rank method and the
journal impact factor rank demo (BibRank)
*) search engine includes ranking option (WebSearch)
*) record similarity search based on word frequency (WebSearch,
BibRank)
*) stopwords possibility when ranking and indexing (BibRank, BibIndex)
*) stemming possibility when ranking and indexing (BibRank, BibIndex)
*) search engine boolean query processing stages improved (WebSearch)
*) search engine accent matching in phrase searches (WebSearch)
*) regular expression searching mode introduced into the Simple
Search interface too (WebSearch)
*) Search Tips split into a brief Search Tips page and detailed
Search Guide page (WebSearch)
*) improvements to the ``Try your search on'' hints (WebSearch)
*) author search hints introduced (WebSearch)
*) search interface respects title prologue/epilogue portalboxes
(WebSearch)
*) improvements to admin interfaces (WebSearch, BibIndex, BibRank,
WebAccess)
*) basket item ordering problem fixed (WebBasket)
*) access error messages introduced (WebAccess and its clients)
*) new account management to enable/disable guest users and
automatic vs to-be-approved account registration (WebAccess)
*) possibility for temporary read-only access to, and closure of, the
site; useful for backups (WebAccess and its clients)
*) possibility for external authentication login methods (WebAccess)
*) new XML MARC handling library (BibEdit)
*) when uploading, bad XML records are marked as errors (BibUpload)
*) improvements to the submission engine and its admin interface,
thanks to Tiberiu Dondera (WebSubmit)
*) preparations for electronic mail submission feature, not yet
functional (ElmSubmit)
*) added example on MARC usage at CERN (WebHelp)
*) legacy compatibility with MySQL 3.23.x assured (BibUpload)
*) legacy compatibility with Python 2.2 assured (WebSubmit)
*) test suite additions and corrections (BibRank, BibIndex,
WebSearch, BibEdit)
*) French translation fixes, thanks to Eric Grand
*) minor Czech and Slovak translation cleanup
CDSware v0.3.3 (DEVELOPMENT) -- released 2004-07-16
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*) new international phrases, collection and field names; thanks to
Guido, Flavio, Tullio
*) collection international names are now respected by the search
engine and interfaces (WebSearch)
*) field international names are now respected by the search
engine and interfaces (WebSearch)
*) when no hits found in a given collection, do not display all
public hits straight away but only link to them (WebSearch)
*) records marked as DELETED aren't shown anymore in XML MARC and
other formats (WebSearch)
*) detailed record page now features record creation and modification
times (WebSearch)
*) improved XML MARC parsing and cumulative record count in case of
uploading of several files in one go (BibUpload)
*) personal `your admin activities' page introduced (WebSession)
*) added option to fulltext-index local files only (BibIndex)
*) initial release of the BibIndex Admin interface (BibIndex)
*) checking of mandatory selection box definitions (WebSubmit)
*) WebSearch Admin interface cleanup (WebSearch)
*) introducing common test suite infrastructure (WebSearch, BibIndex,
MiscUtil, WebHelp)
*) fixed accent and link problems for photo demo records (MiscUtil)
*) conference title exported via OAI XML DC (BibHarvest)
*) enabled building out of source directory; thanks to Frederic
CDSware v0.3.2 (DEVELOPMENT) -- released 2004-05-12
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*) admin area improved: all the modules have now Admin Guides; some
guides were updated, some are still to be updated (WebHelp,
BibConvert, BibFormat, BibIndex, BibSched, WebAlert, WebSession,
WebSubmit, BibEdit, BibHarvest, BibRank, BibUpload, WebAccess,
WebBasket, WebSearch, WebStyle)
*) initial release of the WebSearch Admin interface (WebSearch)
*) initial release of the BibRank Admin interface (BibRank)
*) search cache expiry after insertion of new records (WebSearch)
*) search engine now does on-the-fly formatting via BibFormat CLI
call to handle restricted site situations (WebSearch)
*) webcoll default verbosity decreased for efficiency (WebSearch)
*) added BibConvert configuration example for converting XML Dublin
Core to XML MARC (BibConvert)
*) BibConvert knowledge base mode extended by various case-sensitive
matching possibilities (BibConvert)
*) fixed various problems with fulltext file names and the submission
from MS Windows platform (WebSubmit)
*) fixed problem with bibupload append mode not updating XML MARC
properly (BibUpload)
*) fixed small problems with the submission interface such as
multiple fields selection (WebSubmit)
*) session revoking and session expiry strengthened (WebSession)
*) page design and style sheet updated to better fit large variety of
browsers (WebStyle)
*) added output format argument for basket display (WebBasket)
*) new Swedish translation and updated German, Russian, and Spanish
translations; thanks to Urban, Guido, Lyuba, and Magaly
*) faster creation of I18N static HTML and PHP files during make
CDSware v0.3.1 (DEVELOPMENT) -- released 2004-03-12
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*) security fix preventing exposure of local configuration variables
by malicious URL crafting (WebSearch, WebSubmit, WebAlert,
WebBasket, WebSession, BibHarvest, MiscUtil)
*) initial release of the ranking engine (BibRank)
*) new guide on HOWTO Run Your CDSware Installation (WebHelp)
*) fixed submit configurations with respect to fulltext links and
metadata tags (WebSubmit, MiscUtil)
*) Your Account personal corner now shows the list and the status
of submissions and approvals (WebSession)
*) uniform help and version number option for CLI executables
(WebSearch, BibSched, BibIndex, BibRank, BibHarvest, BibConvert,
WebAccess, BibFormat, WebSession, WebAlert)
*) uniform technique for on-the-fly formatting of search results via
`hb_' and `hd_' output format parameters (WebSearch)
*) check for presence of pcntl and mysql PHP libraries (BibUpload)
CDSware v0.3.0 (DEVELOPMENT) -- released 2004-03-05
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*) new development branch release (important SQL table changes)
*) introducing a new submission engine and the end-user web
interface (WebSubmit)
*) bibupload is now a BibSched task with new options (BibUpload)
*) BibWords renamed into BibIndex in the view of future phrase
indexing changes (BibIndex)
*) more secure DB server connectivity (BibSched)
*) record matching functionality (BibConvert)
*) character encoding conversion tables (BibConvert)
*) Qualified Dublin Core conversion example (BibConvert)
*) OAI deleted records policy can now be specified (BibHarvest)
*) multi-language collection portalboxes (WebSearch)
*) HTML pages now respect language selections (WebSearch, WebHelp)
*) minor layout changes (WebStyle)
*) updated Russian and other translations
*) ChangeLog is now generated from CVS log messages
*) plus the usual set of bugfixes (see ChangeLog)
CDSware v0.1.2 (DEVELOPMENT) -- released 2003-12-21
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*) development branch release
*) fix BibReformat task launching problem (BibFormat)
*) fix BibTeX -> XML MARC conversion example (BibConvert)
*) updated Spanish translation
CDSware v0.1.1 (DEVELOPMENT) -- released 2003-12-19
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*) development branch release
*) access control engine now used by BibWords, BibFormat (admin and
bibreformat), WebSearch (webcoll), and BibTaskEx
*) access control engine admin guide started (WebAccess)
*) search engine support for sorting by more than one field (WebSearch)
*) more internationalization of the search engine messages (WebSearch)
*) new language: Norwegian (bokmål)
*) simple example for converting BibTeX into XML MARC (BibConvert)
*) new optional --with-python configuration option
*) Python module detection during configure
*) bugfixes: os.tempnam() warning, login page referer, and others
CDSware v0.1.0 (DEVELOPMENT) -- released 2003-12-04
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*) development branch release
*) search engine redesign to yield five times more search performance
for larger sites (WebSearch, BibWords)
*) fulltext indexation of PDF, PostScript, MS Word, MS PowerPoint and
MS Excel files (WebSearch)
*) integrated combined metadata/fulltext/citation search (WebSearch)
*) multi-stage search guidance in cases of no exact match (WebSearch)
*) OAI-PMH harvestor (BibHarvest)
*) bibliographic task scheduler (BibSched)
*) automatic daemon mode of the indexer, the formatter and the
collection cache generator (BibWords, BibFormat, WebSearch)
*) user management and session handling rewrite (WebSession)
*) user personalization, document baskets and notification alert
system (WebBasket, WebAlert)
*) role-based access control engine (WebAccess)
*) internationalization of the interface started (currently with
Czech, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese,
Russian, and Slovak support)
*) web page design update (WebStyle)
*) introduction of programmer-oriented technical documentation corner
(WebHelp)
*) source tree reorganization, mod_python technology adopted for most
of the modules
CDSware v0.0.9 (STABLE) -- released 2002-08-01
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*) first "public" alpha release of CDSware
*) recently standardized Library of Congress' MARC XML schema adopted