ANNOUNCE: Bricolage 1.8.1

[David Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>]

    The Bricolage development team is pleased to announce the release of
    Bricolage 1.8.1. This maintenance release address a number of 
issues in
    Bricolage 1.8.0. Here are the highlights:

 Improvements

      * More complete Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese
      localizations. Also, the Mandarin localization now simply inherits
      from the Traditional Chinese localization.

      * make clone now copies the lib directory and all of the bin 
scripts
      from the target to the clone, rather than from the sources. This
      allows any changes that have been made to scripts and classes to 
be
      properly cloned.

      * When installing Bricolage, it will now allow you to proceed if 
the
      database already exists by asking if you want to create the 
Bricolage
      tables in the existing database. Suggested by Mark Fournier and
      Marshall Roch.

      * The installer is now a bit smarter in how it handles loading the
      log_config (or config_log, as the case may be) module.

      * Added language-specific style sheets. This is especially useful 
for
      right-to-left languages or for languages that require special 
fonts.

      * The "New Alias" search interface now displays thumbnails when
      searching for media documents to alias and the USE_THUMBNAILS
      bricolage.conf directive is enabled.

      * Aliases can now be made to documents within the same site.

      * The SOAP interface for importing and exporting elements now
      properly has "key_name" XML elements instead of "name" XML 
elements.
      The changes are backwards compatible with XML exported from 
Bricolage
      1.8.0 servers, however.

      * Added move() method to the virtual FTP interface. This means 
that
      to deploy a template, rather than having to rename it locally to
      append ".deploy", one can simply move in FTP to its new name with
      ".deploy" on appended to the new name.

      * Document expirations are now somewhat more intelligent. Rather 
than
      just scheduling an expiration job only if there is an expiration 
date
      the first time a document is published, Bricolage will now always
      schedule an expiration job for a document provided that one does 
not
      already exist (scheduled or completed) for the same time and for 
one
      of the file resources for the document. This should allow people 
to
      more easily and arbitrarily expire content whenever necessary.

      * Burner notes now persist for all sub burns (triggered by
      publish_another() and preview_another() in a single burn.

      * Added ability to create and manage groups of objects for several
      different types of objects. Also added the ability manage group
      membership within the administrative profiles for those objects. 
This
      change makes it possible to give users permission to administer
      subsets of objects. The new groupable objects are:

      Preferences

      Groups

      Alert Types

      Element Types

      Keywords

      Contributors

      * Alert rules are now evaluated within a safe compartment (using
      Safe.pm) to prevent security exploits.

      * The Bulk Publish admin tool is no longer limited to use only by
      members of the Global Admins group. Now anyone can use it. All one
      needs is READ permission to the categories of stories, and PUBLISH
      permission to the stories and media documents to be published.

 Bug Fixes

      * Eliminated 'Bareword "ENABLE_HTMLAREA" not allowed while "strict
      subs" in use' warning that prevented startup for some 
installations.

      * Changes made to user or contributor contacts without changing 
any
      other part of the user or contributor object are now properly 
saved.

      * The upgrade to 1.8.0 now correctly updates story URIs that use 
the
      URI Suffix of an output channel instead of using the URI Prefix
      twice.

      * Aliases of Image, Audio, or Video media documents no longer 
remain
      stuck on desks.

      * Related media and story subelements of media documents now work
      properly.

      * Calls to preview_another() in Bric::Util::Burner will now use 
any
      templates in the current user's sandbox and properly burn them to 
the
      preview root rather than to the staging root used for publishing.

      * Contributor fields for roles other than the default role now
      properly store and retain their values.

      * The virtual FTP server now properly checks out templates when a
      template is uploaded and is already in workflow.

      * Uploading a non-existent template via the virtual FTP server now
      correctly creates a new template. The type of template depends on 
the
      name of the template being uploaded, and for element templates, on
      whether there is an element with the appropriate key name. The 
user
      must have CREATE permission to All Templates or to the start desk 
in
      the first template workflow in the relevant site.

      * Reverting a document or template to the current version number 
now
      properly reverts all changes to the time the user checked out the
      document or template. Reversion is also a bit more efficient in 
how
      it looks up the previous version in the database.

      * The SOAP server now rolls back any changes whenever an error is
      thrown. This prevents problems when a few objects are created or
      updated before an exception is thrown. Now any error will cause 
the
      entire SOAP request to fail. Thanks to Neal Sofge for the spot!

    For a complete list of the changes, see the release notes and 
changes
    list at
    Lhttp://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=251820>. 
For
    the complete history of ongoing changes in Bricolage, see 
Bric::Changes
    at http://www.bricolage.cc/docs/api/current/Bric::Changes.

    Download Bricolage 1.8.1 now from the SourceForge download page at
    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=34789, and 
from
    the Kineticode download page at
    http://www.kineticode.com/bricolage/index2.html.

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 "Most
    Impressive" in 2002 by eWeek.

    Enjoy!

    --The Bricolage Team