use Perl

I'm thrilled to announce the release of Bricolage-Devel 1.7.5 "Ashland", the second release candidate for Bricolage 1.8.0. This version of the open-source content management system addresses all of the bugs discovered since the release of the first release candidate, 1.7.4, and adds several new features and numerous improvements. The changes since 1.7.4 include:

• New Features
• • Added bric_template_dump to contrib. This script uses the Bricolage SOAP server to export all of the templates in a single output channel. [David]
  • Added SFTP_MOVER_CIPHER bricolage.conf directive to tune the SFTP mover (if enabled) to the best cipher for good performance on the wire. [David]
• Improvements
• • Added site and output channel support to bric_template_diff and bric_template_patch in contrib. [David]
  • When cloning a story, you can now select a new primary output channel, in addition to category, slug, cover date, etc. Suggested by Serge Sozonoff. [David]
  • Spell checking now works in HTMLArea. [Eric Sellers]
  • When creating a new story without a slug, Bricolage will now autogenerate a slug based on the title. [João Pedro]
  • Added single underscore parameters to the list() methods of the Story, Media, and Template classes to complement those that have the awful double underscores. [David]
  • Made SOAP modules more tolerant of lack of sites in 1.6. [Scott]
  • The collection API now checks newly added members when deleting members. This ensures that newly added objects won't be saved to the database if they are deleted, first. [David]
  • Turned off browser autocompletion in the Server and User profiles. This prevents some browsers (e.g., Camino) from filling in your username and password where it doesn't belong. [David]
  • When the "Filter by Site Context" preference is enabled, it no longer filters documents when searching for documents to alias. Reported by Patrick Walsh. [David]
  • The "Cancel Checkout" button in the Story, Media, and Template profiles now tries to do the right thing instead of just leaving the asset on a desk in workfow every time. If the asset was just created by the user, it will be deleted. If it was just recalled from the library by the user, it will be removed from workflow and shelved in the library. Otherwise, clicking the "Cancel Checkout" button will leave the asset in workflow. Requested by Sara Wood, Rachel Murray, and others. [David]

  • make clone now provides the current date and time for the default name for the cloned package. Suggested by Marshall Roch. [David]

• Bug Fixes
• • Bricolage no longer tries to display thumbnails for related stories, since stories don't have thumbnails and would therefore create an error. [Eric Sellers]
  • Text::Levenshtein is again correctly loaded as an optional module, not a required module. Reported by Marshall Roch. [David]
  • Bric::Util::Burner's preview_another() method now actually works. Thanks to Serge Sozonoff for the spot. [David]
  • Fixed clone interface for IE users. Spotted by Serge Sozonoff. [Scott]
  • Some of the supported values for the Order parameter to the Story, Media, and Template classes, such as category_uri, did not work before. Now they do. [David]
  • Changing categories on a template no longer creates Frankensteinian template paths. [David]
  • Added constant HAS_MULTISITE to the Bric base classe so that all classes properly declare themselves for UI search results. [João Pedro]
  • Story and Media SOAP calls now correctly use the element's key name to identify the element. [João Pedro]
  • Story, Media, and Template creation via SOAP now correctly look up the Category by URI and site ID. [João Pedro & David]
  • The Template SOAP interface now suports the site parameter to list_ids(). [David]
  • The Story, Template, and Media SOAP list_ids() intefaces now properly look up categories, output channels, and workflows with the site paremeter, if there is one. [David]
  • The LOAD_LANGUGES and LOAD_CHAR_SETS directives are now space delimited, to better match other bricolage.conf options. [David]
  • Aliased media documents now correctly point to the file name for the aliased media document. Reported by Patrick Walsh. [David]
  • Thanks to the improvements to the collection class, cloning stories and putting them into new output channels to ensure that they have unique URIs now works properly. Reported by Serge Sozonoff. [David]
  • The publish status and version is once again properly set for media when they are published. Reported by Serge Sozonoff. [David]
  • The group manager now properly displays the names of the sites that member objects are associated with if the class of the objects being managed knows that its objects are associated with sites. Reported by Ho Yin Au. [David]
  • The list of output channels to add to a media or story document in the media and story profiles now includes only those output channels associated with the site that the story or media document is in. [David]
  • Thanks to the fix to 1.6.13 that prevents deleted groups from affecting permissions, there is no longer any need to provide a checkbox to get access to deleted groups in the permissions interface. So it has been removed. [David]

For a complete list of the changes, see the changes file.

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 has been hailed as "Most Impressive" in 2002 by eWeek.

Learn more about Bricolage and download it from the Bricolage home page.

Enjoy!