Campsite 2.4 "Rade" is Out!

We are pleased to announce the official release of Campsite 2.4 "Rade".

You can download the new version of Campsite 2.4 here.

The 2.4 "Rade" release brings many new features and bug fixes.

Major new features include:

• Ability to attach files to articles (multimedia, PDF, etc.)
• A completely redesigned article input (Article Edit) screen (images, topics, attachments, and publishing events are now shown and can be easily added or removed from the screen)
• Article List has been redesigned to show all relevant information at a glance
• Ability to perform actions on multiple articles at once (akin to Gmail).
• Improved subscriber management (subscriber list can now be sorted by full name, account name and creation date).
• API for third party plugins (beta)
• Simplified navigation
• Ability to restart the parser from the admin interface.
• Campsite can now be installed in standard directories without generating conflicts. The Campsite instance utilities now have globally acceptable names.
• The template engine starts automatically and it can be restarted from the user interface.
• Install maintenance binaries into the standard /usr/sbin directory.
• The template engine now displays a message instead of crashing when it encounters a critical error

Minor features:

• Article copy: When duplicating an article, you can now duplicate any number of its translations, as well as give each translation a new name.
• Article translation: when you translate an article and the issue
• and/or section do not exist in the translation language, you now have the ability to create them at the same time you create the article translation.
• Scheduled Publishing: a javascript calendar has been added for selecting dates.
• Image Archive: the search interface has been simplified. Your searches are now remembered.
• Image archive: "View image" screen now shows all translations of articles that use the image.
• Configuration screens for publications, issues, and sections now have all actions available. Previously, most actions could only be accessed on the "list" screens.
• Simplified the "Add Article" screen.
• Staff list: Added a "User type" column to the staff list.
• WYSIWYG editor: Decreased the loading time for the editor.
• WYSIWYG editor: The editor now works in Firefox 1.5.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed bug where article events would still take place even if the Article was set back to 'New' from 'Submitted'
• Fixed bug where an article would be placed in an arbitrary position when copied.
• Fixed bug where trying to save the empty string in the Xinha WYSIWYG editor would actually save a break
• Fixed the template engine crash when the issue, section or article template was not set.

Template Language Improvements:

• Added "PublishDate" to "print article" commands
• Added "PublishDate" to "article list order" command
• Added "creation_date" to "article list order" command
• Added "List ArticleTopics"
• Added "List Subtopics"
• Added "Article Number"

Developer stuff:

• Admin interface Subversion repository files now mimic the installed directory structure.
• User permissions have been refactored to allow for arbitrary
• additional user configuration variables
• Localizer: Language files are now independent of specific
• directories.
• Localizer: Added ability to move strings to different screens.
• Removed all use of the M4 macro processing language.
• Replaced PASSWORD function for generating the user password with SH1.
• Moved utility scripts into the implementation directory.

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