NEWS

Welcome to Zotonic!

Release 0.8.0, released on 2012-04-11
Release 0.8.1, released on 2012-08-11
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This is a bugfix release. See doc/changelogs/0.8.1.txt for all the
relevant bugfixes.


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* New core features:

Module manager: module manager startup stability fixes, module
dependencies and starting/stopping modules in the correct order.

Status site - the site status got a redesign to be more in line with
the current zotonic.com site. It now shows a friendly welcome
message and requires a login to view / manage the running zotonic
sites.

PostgreSQL - we stabilized the pgsql connection pool in the presence
of database connection failures and improvoved query timeout
handling.

The "host" option in a site's config file is now optional. When not
present it will be derived from the site's directory name.


* New / updated modules:

** mod_oembed - Provides an easier way to embed external content into
   your site, using the OEmbed standard.

** mod_translation - added support for RTL languages like Hebrew and
   Arabic in the admin interface. Content pages that are translated in
   multiple languages now have a separate URL for each language
   version.  Translations of the admin interface were added for Irish,
   Spanish, Estonian and Polish.

** mod_mailinglist - Improved the mailinglist interface. It is now much
   easier to track to which list a page has been sent to, to preview
   the mailing and to view and manage bounced emails.

** mod_development - On Linux, development has been made easier by
   integrating inotify. Supports on-the-fly compilation of Erlang
   files, flushing caches, and compiling/minifying
   LESS/SCSS/Coffeescript.

* Other minor features

** New filter: index_of, which gives the index of an item in a list.
** filter_random:random/3 - create random sublist with length l.
** range filter: easily generate lists with integers


* Development process

The git master branch switched to using git submodules for the most
important external dependencies.

Documentation got updated, most source files now have @doc tags which
are generated and available online at from
http://zotonic.com/documentation


Release 0.7.0, released on 2011-07-28
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* New core features:

Native SMTP support for sending and receiving e-mails in any Zotonic
site. We integrated Andrew Thompson's gen_smtp library which allows us
to manage outgoing ánd incoming mails. mod_logging provides a new
email log-view for inspecting what mails go in and out.

A "zotonic" shell command. The "zotonic.sh" shell command has been
replaced by a more generic and more powerful shell command with
support for pluggable subcommands.

Module repository: Zotonic now supports installing system-wide modules
which are not part of the core repository. We have created a place
where externally contributed modules can be linked at
http://modules.zotonic.com/. Modules registered on that site
can be easily installed through the "addsite" subcommand.

The default website has been replaced by the notion of "skeleton"
sites. The "zotonic addsite" command lets you create a new Zotonic
website based on one of the (currently two) website templates.


* New modules:

** mod_email_relay
   Relay received e-mails to an user's email address. Serving as an
   example for the SMTP functionality, this module looks up a username
   by the local part of a received e-mail and forwards the mail to the
   mail address the user configured.

** mod_email_receive
   Handle received e-mails, notifies email observers depending on a
   stored mapping of recipient addresses.

** mod_import_csv
   Fairly generic module for importing CSV files, updating or creating
   new content on the fly.

** mod_import_wordpress
   Basic import module for Wordpress WXR file format, allowing you to
   migrate a Wordpress blog into Zotonic.


** Discontinued modules

To make Zotonic more lightweight and remove some of the build
dependencies, some infrequently used modules have been removed from
the core and moved to their own repository, at
http://code.google.com/p/zotonic-modules/.  These modules are
mod_search_solr, mod_pubsub, mod_slideshow, mod_broadcast,
mod_imageclipper, mod_admin_event and mod_calendar. They can still be
easily installed with the help of the "zotonic installmodule"
command. The mod_emailer module (and its esmtp library) has been
removed in favor of the native SMTP sending/receiving capabilities.

Each module now also can have its own dependencies by including a
"deps" subfolder in the module. This is used for example in the
mod_pubsub external module which has the exmpp library as a dependency.


* Other minor features

** to_json filter for representing template values as JSON objects

** split filter for splitting a string

** slice filter for manipulating lists

** Added {% raw %}..{% endraw %} support for representing literal code blocks.

** erlydtl: Added possibility to define atoms using backquoted strings.

** admin templates are reorganized, allowing to write admin customizations with less code

** translations of the admin updated and more translations added


* Bugfixes

Too many bugfixes to list. However, the base system is becoming more
stable and this release aims to be a good step towards the 1.0.


Release 0.6.1, released on 2011-07-06
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This is a bugfix release. See doc/changelogs/0.6.1.txt for all the
relevant bugfixes.


Release 0.6.0, released on 2011-02-12
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* New features:

** SSL support
   Zotonic has gotten support for serving web pages over secure HTTPS
   connections. When configured, it listens by default on port 8443.
   See http://zotonic.com/https-support for details.

** z_logger 
   A new subsystem for the low-level logging and tracing of requests.
   This module should be used to log lower level events during
   development time. Higher-level log messages (e.g. events by
   Zotonic modules) are still handled by 'mod_logging'.

** multilingual content
   Every resource can have be translated in as many languages as you
   like. The admin has gotten an interface to provide the editing of
   the multiple language versions. Available languages are fully
   dynamically configurable.

** z_depcache
   Partial rewrite of depcache system, is now faster and using more
   the process dictionary of the calling process to cache often used
   values.


* New and changed modules:

** mod_signal
   New module providing a handy signal and slot mechanism for use in templates.

** mod_tkvstore
   New module providing a simple typed key/value store for modules and Erlang code.

** mod_translation
   Check if the user has a preferred language (in the user's persistent
   data). If not then check the accept-language header (if any)
   against the available languages.

** mod_mailinglist
   Tweaks in the templates, updated dutch translations; do not send
   mail when deleting recipient from admin; Added 'recipient_id' to
   some e-mails so that the e-mails are sent in the correct language.

** mod_authentication
   Fix user name display in password reminder e-mail.

** mod_emailer
   Fix for e-mail override, escape the '@' in the original e-mail address.
   Added flushing of poll messages

** mod_seo
   Added option to set a no-index for a complete site.
   New Google Analytics tracker code. With thanks to Richard Fergie.

** mod_contact
   Configurable from address for contact email

** mod_admin_identity
   Fix for finding users, select only identity records with type 'username_pw'

** mod_calendar
   Better handling for undefined date_end values.  

** mod_search
   Improper months ordering in archive_year_month query. (#134)

** mod_menu
   Possibility to create an arbitrary number of different menu's. Also
   a new filter (menu_trail) which gets the menu trail for the main menu.


* Changes to template filters and tags

** 'first' filter
   added optional length parameter

** min/max and minmax
   3 new filters were added to clamp a value in an (integer) range.

** filesizeformat 
   New filter, similar to the Django filesizeformat filter.

** lib tag
   Extended the lib tag with a 'use_absolute_url' option.

** confirm/alert actions
   These actions were changed and now use HTML dialogs instead of javascript popups.

** reversed
   New filter to reverse a list

** menu tag
   Added 'menu_id' parameter to specify which menu to render

** date_diff
   New filter to calculate the difference between two dates

** tinymce_add, tinymce_remove
   New actions to dynamically initialize of de-initialize rich textareas

** trigger_event
   New action to trigger a named wire.

** wire
   Added a new 'visible' wire type, which triggers when the wired
   element comes into view (by scrolling or using 'show').

** lazy
   New scomp which shows a 'loader' image and performs onetime actions
   when loader comes into view.



* General bug fixes
 - Fix for 'double-dot' in e-mails when using postfix. Also encode the $. characters using quoted-printable.
 - Fix for format_price filter. Show thousands when no cents.
 - Make video embed code editable.
 - Merged various webmachine fixes, updating it to 1.7.3:
   - support {stream, TotalSize, StreamFun} body result for range-capable streams
   - Add infinity timeout to gen_server calls
   - Allow multiple IP/port bindings
   - split chunk header on semicolon just in case a client is using chunk extensions
   - properly extract peername from all rfc1918 addrs
   - change H7 to match on any if-match, not just *
 - webmachine: WM-1.7.3(compat) ignores client's Content-Type on HTTP PUT requests (#130)
 - webmachine: prevent using chunked transfer encoding with HTTP/1.0.
 - increase the startup timeouts for the gen_servers to prevent startup race condition
 - Update mochiweb to latest version from mochi/mochiweb github repository (1.5.0)
 - Pulled latest epgsql driver to support Postgres notifications.
 - Added additional mime types (Office 2007, .rar)
 - z_session: Only mark the persistent store as dirty when a persistent value changes.
 - pgsql: Fix for a problem where a postgres connection was not returned to the pool in case of a sql error.
 - z_media_preview: some files without a preview where not showing an icon.
 - fixed an DoS vulnerability in Mochiweb/SSL
 - Added flushing for most periodic internal messages (e.g. tick, poll)
 - windows: fix build.cmd; remove some unix-specificness from imagemagick shell commands
 - mochiweb: Cookie expire date format string now follows rfc2109
 - ACL checks on static file serving
 - Comet: support for cross-domain comet connections





Release 0.5.0, released on 2010-10-03
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* New features:

** Simpler module system 
   Modules are simpler, do not have to be a fullblown
   gen_server. Registering z_notifier for modules is made more simpler
   by using erlang's introspection on modules.

** i18n support through gettext
   Gettext .po and .pot file support for translations. Templates can
   be translated per module.  Pot files are automatically generated
   from the templates.

** Pluggable Access Control system
   The new ACL structure works through pluggable ACL modules. Two ACL
   modules are included as examples.  mod_acl_adminonly, where all
   users are admins, and mod_acl_simple_roles, which implements a
   simple role based ACL system.

** Authentication can now be customized and extended.  
   mod_authentication is the basic module used for
   authentication. This module can be extended. The mod_facebook is an
   (incomplete) example of such an extender. mod_authentication
   implements the username/password authentication, including logon
   and logoff.  It also supports 'password forgotten' e-mails.

** User signup
   Non admin users can sign up using the mod_signup. This module works
   in harmony with the authentication module and authentication
   extenders.

** New OTP supervisor hierarchy. 
   The PostgreSQL connection pool is now part of the individual
   sites. Sites are more isolated and can be individually started,
   restarted or stopped. It is possible to add and remove sites
   without restarting Zotonic.  Modules are now isolated and the
   running status of a module is displayed in the admin's module
   overview.

** A status overview site, zotonic_status.  
   zotonic_status shows the running status of all sites.  When logged
   in, the user can start/stop/restart sites using his browser.  It is
   also possible to do 'hg pull' updates of sites that contain a
   mercurial repo.

** New ErlyDTL tags: {% inherit %}, {% overrule %}

** New ErlyDTL support for multiple argument {% with %}: {%  with a,b as c,d %}

** New ErlyDTL support for filters with multiple parameters.

** New ErlyDTL test set, including regression tests.

** New ErlyDTL filters
   group_by_title_firstchar, is_visible, pprint, urlize, without_embedded_media.

** Media preview enhancements
   {% image %} now supports the the following new arguments:
   
   'extent' - create a larger image then the original not by scaling
   up but by adding a border to the image.
   
   'removebg' - removes the image's
   background. It accepts an optional fuzziness parameter (range
   0..100).

   'upscale' - Forces a small image to scale up to the requested
   dimensions.

** Extended support for Websocket connections. 
   The two newest protocols, as used by Chrome and Safari, are
   supported.

** mod_development improvements
   It now supports turning on or off the concatenation of {% lib %}
   includes as one file or separate files, and can give a live trace
   of translated templates, showing clearly the template inheritance
   and selections.

** mod_menu improvements
   It implements the menu now as a template, easing your own menu implementation.

** mod_emailer improvements
   It can now inline images into the e-mails

** New: mod_slideshow 
   It can make a slideshow of any collection, you can add your own slide templates.

** New: mod_contact
   Simple contact form which gets sent over e-mail

** New: mod_facebook
   Facebook logon

** New: mod_imageclipper
   A simple javascript image-clipper bookmarklet for grabbing images
   from other websites.

** New: mod_logging
   A realtime log of debug messages and errors in the system.

** System wide configuration system (z_config) using a configuration file at 'priv/config'



* Bugfixes:

** AllowHTML5 audio and video tags (#75)
** Typo in m_config, line 127. undefind -> undefined (#83)
** setting initial admin password does not work (#88)
** After upgrading the code to latest changeset admin authentication causes exception (#91)
** Menu module does not follow ACL rules  (#92)
** Crash in start.sh using Erlang R14A on Mac OS X 10.6 (#93)
** Extra Atom Link (#95)
** Makefiles use rm GNUism (#96)
** z_email:split_name_email/1 does not what it says it should do (#97)
** dots in page paths are transformed into dashes  (#98)
** attaching media to pages does not work correctly (#99)
** After a module crashes, the new dynamic observe_* methods are not re-initialized (#100)
** setting page path and unique name is broken (#101)
** IF statements on empty rsc_list structures (#104)
** When image is too small, providing only a width should not make the image very large (#105)
** And many various other fixes which users noted on the mailinglist and were fixed quickly.



Release 0.4.0, released on 2010-04-19
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* New modules:
** mod_pubsub
   Enables resource sharing over XMPP's PubSub; share content between
   sites and get realtime updates when content changes. See:
   http://scherpenisse.net/id/644

** mod_search_solr
   Added a module which plugs into Zotonic's search system to support
   Solr (http://lucene.apache.org/solr/). Using Solr enables quick
   fulltext searching and facetting.

* New features:
** Default site improvements
   The default site of a vanilla Zotonic install has been improved
   with nicer graphics, cleaner typography, a "contact form"
   example and styles for the Twitter module.

** "More results" scomp
   A twitter/facebook style ajaxified "read more" pager, which is a
   button which will fetch more results for the current search
   question inline on the same page.

** Windows support
   Initial support for building and running Zotonic on the Windows platform.

** Database schema support
   Multiple sites running inside one Postgres database is now possible
   thanks to Postgres' support for multiple table namespaces (schema's)

** Template expressions
   It is now possible to use full boolean and arithmetic expressions in the ErlyDTL templates.

** Webserver IPv6 support 
** Yandex.Video support in mod_video_embed module (#52)
** PID-file for zotonic (#74)
** Support for HTML5 audio/video tags in TinyMCE editor (#75)
** Newer TinyMCE 3.3.2 release from upstream (#69)
** Newer Mochiweb r153 release from upstream

* Bugfixes:

** page_path controller should not redirect to the default_page_url (#6)
** Get the name of the current dispatch rule (#21)
** zotonic fails after postgresql restart (#49)
** Unreliable pivot? (#50)
** Module manager should feedback when module cannot be started. (#51)
** Do not depend on the 'default' site (#59)
** i18n of scomp_pager (#62)
** Buttons and "Logoff" link problems in Chrome (#63)
** Comment form breaks on new default site (#64)
** Getting an unknown_rsc error on startup (#66)
** Zotonic fails to (re)start if an existing admin panel is open with browser supporting WebSockets (#70)
** Can't save location without e-mail (#71)
** Improve the default styles to include list bullets/numbers (#72)
** Twitter module cannot be enabled (#76)


Release 0.3.0, released on 2010-01-25
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* New modules:
** mod_comment
   Enables a simple commenting system on your site using mod_comment.

* New core features
** A new default site
   The default site of a vanilla Zotonic install is now modelled after
   a simple blog-style website, complete with an archive section,
   keywords, navigation to previous and next posts, atom feeds and comments.

** Speed improvements
   The Webmachine code was restructured to be more lean-and-mean,
   yielding up to 20% more performance on page requests.

** WebSockets support
   When WebSockets is available in the browser, then it is used as a
   replacement for the Comet long poll. Currently only Google Chrome
   supports this feature but it is expected to arrive in other
   browsers soon.

** Admin updates
   Support for editing a location (Google map picker), a new
   collection type "query" was added for creating "saved searches".

** EUnit support
   A start has been made to put the core functionality of Zotonic in
   unit tests using the EUnit testing framework. As of yet, only a
   small fraction of the code has been covered, but we'll keep working
   on increasing the code coverage of the tests.

* Bugfixes:
** Resizing animated GIFs (#28)
** Determining EXIF orientation for images (#27)
** The OAuth API key management interface is now available from the admin. (#35)
** Hiding "meta" pages from the admin overview (#12)
** And dozens of small fixes which did not go through the issue tracker.


Release 0.2.0, released on 2009-12-11
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* New modules:
** mod_broadcast
   Send system messages to all users which are currently logged in in
   the Zotonic admin.
   
** mod_calendar
   Shows event resources in a week-overview, and generates ICalendar
   feeds.

** mod_mailinglist 
   Module which allows you to define groups of recipients and send
   mailings to them. Can also send via the unix sendmail program.

** mod_twitter
   Receives feeds for Zotonic persons,using the Twitter streaming API.


* New core features:
** "catinclude" and "all catinclude" tags 
   These include templates based on the category of a resource. Used
   in the admin to create custom fields based on category.
   http://zotonic.com/documentation/760/catinclude

** Query search model
   Generate lists of resources on the fly. Used in mod_atom_feed to
   generate atom feeds, and has an API entrypoint, /api/search.
   http://zotonic.com/documentation/761/the-query-search-model

** More template filters:
   in_future, in_past, rand, twitter, escape_ical


* Bugfixes:
** Dynamic postgresql pool size, based on system load (issue #4)
** Issue in postgres pooling on stresstesting (#15)
** Uploaded files now get a proper mime type and extension (#5)
** And other issues: #2, #3, #9, #11, #14, #19, #20



Release 0.1.0, released on 2009-11-13
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* Initial release.
* Packaged the zotonic.com site as the prime "example" site in the default install.