Hi!
Below you'll find an announcement for Midgard 1.4 beta 5a. We apologize for delay
with this beta release due last minute bug hunt in installation phase (that's why 'a'
suffix in its name and CVS tag). We hope we were able to catch these errors and beta
5a is ready for public testing. This is quite stable version but, as always, we don't
recommend you to use it on mission-critical servers unless you have "Midgard guru"
sign on your jacket. We'll be happy to find your feedback in our mailboxes -- it
really helps us with Midgard development. Remember that OpenSource always has been
two-sided: OpenDeveloper and OpenUser which are two sides of one coin.
Midgard 1.4 beta 5a fixes various problems with 'named' functions (i.e. functions
like mgd_get_something_by_name) and object management as well as installation issues
in beta 4.
Below is the list of notable changes, for full description please look into
documentation inside packages:
- Authentification now provided by Midgard itself, without help of Apache's
configuration options. It means that you have to remove [<<tt>>]<Files>[<</tt>>]
section for [<<tt>>]midgard-root.php3[<</tt>>] file.
- Midgard now can be used as a source of authentication information for regular
Apache sites using standard Apache's directives.
- FileTemplates were incorporated into Midgard in order to allow creation of portable
Midgard applications on platforms where databases unavailable.
- Database structure has changed: now all text fields can contain up to 2^32 bytes
instead of 2^16 in 1.4 beta 4 and previous versions. You need to export your data
with mysqldump, re-create tables (or update their fields), and put data again in
order to use this feature. There is nothing to change at Application level.
- Midgard now uses GNOME [<<b>>]glib[<</b>>] library for safe and reliable resource
management, as well as James Clark's [<<b>>]expat[<</b>>] XML parser for working with
FileTemplates.
There will be yet another beta release of Midgard after this one before final release
of Midgard 1.4 at the end of September.
Please read installation instructions in archives. Midgard-data package uses
semi-automagical installation script which will set up database information and
prepare Apache configuration file. You need to add instructions from it to actual
Apache config, as well as copy images to Apache's document root as described in
INSTALL document.
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