The Bricolage development team is pleased to announce the release of
Bricolage 1.8.5. This maintenance release addresses a number of issues in
Bricolage 1.8.3 and adds a number of improvements (there was no announcement
for the short-lived 1.8.4 release). The SOAP server in particular sees
improvements in this release, with improved character set support; better
support for related stories and media using URIs in addition to IDs; and as
support for top-level element relations. Issues with the ordering of story
elements have also been corrected, as well as errors when attempting to revert
a story or media document or template. Here are the other highlights of this
release:
Improvements
- Added Linux startup script contrib/start_scripts/linux.
[David]
- Related story and media elements managed through the SOAP server can now
use a combination of URI and site ID to identify related assets in addition to
the existing approach of using story and media IDs. [David]
- A list of subelements is now less likely to mysteriously become out of
order and thus lead to strange action-at-a-distance errors. And even if they
do become out of order, the error message will be more appropriate
(
Warning! State inconsistent
instead of Can't call method
"get_name" on an undefined value
). Reported by Curtis Poe.
[David]
- The SOAP media interface now supports creating relationships between the
media documents elements and other story and media documents, just like the
SOAP story interface does. [David]
- The SOAP interface now supports Related stories and media on story type
and media type elements just as in the UI. This involved the somewhat hackish
necessity for including the
related_story_id
and related_media_id
(or related_story_uri
and related_media_uri
) attributes in the elements
XML element,
but it does the trick. [David]
Bug Fixes
- Calls to publish documents via SOAP will no longer fail if
the
published_version attribute is not specified and the document
to be published has never been published before. [David]
- The Bricolage virtual FTP server will no longer fail to start if Template
Toolkit is installed but its version number is less than 2.14. Reported by
Adam Rinehart. [David]
- Stories and Media created or updated via the SOAP interface will now
associate contributors of the appropriate type, instead of
All
Contributors
. [Scott & David]
- Deleting an element that has a template no longer causes an error. Thanks
to Susan for the spot! [David]
- Eliminated encoding errors when using the SOAP interface to output
stories, media, or templates with wide characters. Reported by Scott Lanning.
[David]
- Reverting (stories, media, templates) no longer gives an error. Reported
by Simon Wilcox, Rachel Murray, and others. [David]
- Publishing a published version of a document that has a later version in
workflow will no longer cause that later version to be mysteriously removed
from workflow. This could be caused by passing a document looked up using
the
published_version to list()
to $burner->publish_another in a template. [David]
- The SOAP server story and media interfaces now support elements that
contain both related stories and media, rather than one or the other.
[David]
- Attempting to preview a story or media document currently checked out to
another user no longer causes an error. Reported by Paul Orrock. [David]
- Custom fields with default values now have their values included when they
are added to stories and media. Thanks to Clare Parkinson for the spot!
[David]
- The
bric_queued script now requires a username and password
and will authenticate the user. This user will then be used for logging
events. All events logged when a job is run via the UI are now also logged
by bric_queued. [Mark and David]
- Preview redirections now use the protocol setting of the preview output
channel if it’s available, and falls back on using
http://
when
it’s not, instead of using the hard-coded http://
. Thanks to
Martin Bacovsky for the spot! [David]
- The
has_keyword() method in the Business class (from which
the story and media classes inherit) now works. Thanks to Clare Parkinson for
the spot! [David]
- Clicking a link in the left-side navigation after the session has expired
now causes the whole window to show the login form, rather than it showing
inside the nav frame, which was useless. [Marshall]
- The JavaScript that validates form contents once again works with
htmlArea, provided htmlArea itself is patched. See the relevant htmlArea
bug report for the patch. As of this writing, you must run the version of
htmlArea in CVS. [David & Marshall]
- The JavaScript that handles the double list manager has been vastly
optimized. It should now be able to better handle large lists, such as a list
of thousands of categories. Reported by Scott. [Marshall]
- Uploading a new image to a media document with a different media type than
the previous image no longer causes an Imager error. [David]
For a complete list of the changes, see the changes.
For the complete history of ongoing changes in Bricolage, see Bric::Changes.
Download Bricolage 1.8.5 now from the Bricolage Web site Downloads page, from the SourceForge
download page, and from the Kineticode download
page.
About Bricolage
Bricolage is a full-featured, enterprise-class content management and
publishing system. It offers a browser-based interface for ease-of use, a
full-fledged templating system with complete HTML::Mason, HTML::Template, and
Template Toolkit support for flexibility, and many other features. It operates
in an Apache/mod_perl environment and uses the PostgreSQL RDBMS for its
repository. A comprehensive, actively-developed open source CMS, Bricolage was
hailed as quite possibly the most capable enterprise-class open-source
application available
by eWEEK.
