Campsite 2.6.0 "Joey" has been released! This version contains a number of significant new features that our users have been asking for. Those include:
1. Integrated article comments and forum, a novel way of driving the activity in your forums.
2. Flexible article types, which allows you to even futher simplify the life of journalists and contributors and shorten training times
3. New usability enhancements of the user interface, including greater feedback on different user actions
4. Automatic bug reporting
5. More user friendly backup and restore scripts
We have also nixed tens of bugs in the process. Read more below.
To download the new version, click here.
What's new in Campsite 2.6
1) One of the major features of
the 2.6 release is the ability for site visitors to make comments on
articles. These comments can be linked to a forum, so that each article
corresponds to a thread in a forum. Various settings give you control
over whether you only want to allow subscribers to comment, whether
comments are moderated, and whether to enable spam prevention features.
2) Campsite has always had a component called "Article Types",
which allows you to create your own definition of an article. We have
made a major overhaul to this component and transformed it into what we
call "flexible article types". With flexible article types, you can
choose to hide or display each field in an article type, you can
translate the field names, you can reorder the fields, and you can
change the data type for a field.
3) We've made a number of
improvements to the administration interface in order to improve
usability. The user is now notified about each action they have
performed, and if an action was unsuccessful a detailed error message
is given. The "Article Edit" screen has a new, more compact layout, and
also makes it more obvious how to switch between "View" and "Edit"
modes. The time the article was last modified is also displayed, and
when an article is locked, you now have the option to view it without
unlocking it.
4) One new feature should help us significantly
improve the quality of Campsite and make it easy for our users to give
us feedback: automated bug reporting. If anything goes wrong while you
are using the software, you will be taken to a screen that allows you
to send a bug report directly to the Campsite team. There is also an
option in the administration interface to send suggestions or other
feedback.
5) The "backup" and "restore" scripts have had a major
overhaul. These scripts allow you to make a copy of your entire website
and then restore it later. We've made these scripts much more
user-friendly and you can now use them to make daily backups, to
transfer your web site from one server to another, and to install the
demo templates.
The full changelog is below:
2.6.0 (July 10, 2006)
For full details about these changes, see:
http://code.campware.org/projects/campsite/query?milestone=2.6.0
Major New Features
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- Frontend users can post comments on articles & comments can be
moderated by the staff.
- 'Article Types' screen re-engineered with the ability to rename
article types, to translate them, to hide or show them, and merge
them together. Article Type Fields can be renamed, translated,
hidden, and can change types.
- Improved security for the login screen. The password is encrypted
when it is sent to the server, and if too many unsuccessful login
attempts are made, a CAPTCHA (an image with text inside) is
displayed. This prevents automated scripting attacks trying to
guess passwords.
- Improved responses to user interaction. The system now displays
which action the user just performed and gives a detailed
explaination if a particular action cannot be performed.
- If an error occurs in the admin interface, an automated bug reporter
takes over and allows the user to submit the bug back to the
Campsite team automatically. This takes away any extra effort on
the part of the users to submit a bug and will allow quick
resolution of anything that comes up.
- Staff users can submit feedback directly to the Campsite team from
within the interface.
- Improved backup/restore scripts: you can now transfer your site
to another server using these scripts. Backup file are now tagged
with the date and time of the backup. Lots of help
documentation has been added as well as detailed status messages
during execution.
Minor Features
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- A 'Save and Close' button has been added to the bottom of the
'Article Edit' screen
- Improved layout of the Article Edit screen - more compact, more
obvious switching between the "Edit/View" modes, and the time the
article was saved is displayed. The article number has been added,
as well as a link to the frontend page.
- When an article is locked, you are given the option to view it
without unlocking it.
- #1844: Section number is now displayed in the Section configure
screen
- #1884: Better installation procedure for the "Parser options"
section
- #1927: Xinha image popup now defaults to first image selected
- #2070: Added ability to replace a template file
- Template line numbers are now shown so it is easier to debug any
errors in the template.
- Template IDs are shown in the template list & template edit screen,
these are sometimes needed when creating a template file.
- #2069: Added the ability to view template images
- #2074: Added ability to toggle "On Front Page" and "On Section Page"
from the "Article List" screen
- #1676: Added ability to delete an issue even if it has articles in
it
- #2052: When deleting a section, there is no need to ask whether to
delete all articles from the section
- #2050: Automatically place cursor in the first text box for relevant
screens
- #2048: Added ability to publish an issue from the issue configure
screen.
- #1633: Issue scheduled publishing is now combined with the Issue
configure screen
- #1997: The search now works across multiple publications
- A number of things were done to speed up the Admin interface
- API improved & simplified
Template Language Improvements
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- You can now specify the time format (hours, minutes, seconds, AM/PM)
for time values.
- #2034: Added ability to set topic by ID and show topic ID
- #2071: Implemented "List Images" statement
- #2007: Template EDIT statements can now have arbitrary HTML added
to them
- #1828: Added ability to set "Language OFF"
- #1713: Added URL statement, equivalent of:
- identifiers in the template language can contain the double quote
character (")
Bugs Fixed
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01) #1919: Inserting image fails when caption and alt text erased in
Xinha popup
02) #1585: URL type is not localized
03) #1685: Article attachments sometimes have the wrong file name when
you download them
04) #1789: When deleting a section, only delete the articles of the
same language as the section
05) #1821: Changing a user type does not change permissions for all
users of that user type
06) #1827: Add "Other" option to user employer type
07) #1865: Creating an article with a duplicate name gives an
uninformative error
08) #1908: If you try to save the publication without changing
anything, you get an error.
09) #1914: Campsite Indexer and other scripts should display the
instance name
10) #1918: Issue edit screen allows issues with number 0
11) #1939: Trying to use an issue number that already exists crashes
12) #1946: 'Add attachment' gives an uninformative error message when
the server is not able to write the file to the destination
directory
13) #1938: Adding a new subscription crashes when there are no issues
14) #1949: No error given if there is a problem uploading an image
15) #1975: On the frontend, the subscription form javascript doesn't
work when some fields are predefined
16) #1763: Article Edit: Going into view mode should automatically
unlock the article
17) #1767: Deleting an article type doesnt warn you that you will
delete all articles of that type
18) #1943: Message not clear enough when deleting an issue that
contains articles.
19) #2037: Preview function is broken with multiple publications
20) #2112: Home page broken when user doesnt have "ChangeArticle" and
"Publish" permissions
21) #2080: Dont allow campsite-backup-instance and
campsite-restore-instance to be run as non-root. It wasnt possible
previously, but now we give a better error message.
22) #2084: Fixed bug where the javascript calendar did not show up for
the following languages: Romanian, Russian, French, Italian,
Portuguese, and German.
23) #2064: "System Preferences" section missing from Localizer
24) #2039: Install fails on Ubuntu Dapper
25) #2057: Deleting an Issue does not delete its Scheduled publishing
entries
26) #2058: Deleting article does not delete its scheduled publishing
entries
27) #2018: In IE, various png files aren't transparent
28) #2053: Article List -> Translate -> back to article List ->
suddenly the language in "Article List" is selected (wrong)
29) #2012: Internal/External links dont work when upgrading from 2.1
30) #2051: Duplicate section -> pull down for "publications" doesnt
always work
31) #2045: When editing an alias, and you save with the same name as it
already has, it gives you an error
32) #1971: If you edit Topic and change the name to an existing topic
name, it give you an error
33) #1968: Creating a folder with ".." throws an error
34) #1991: Localizer "Hide translated strings" checkbox doesnt work
on IE
35) #1990: Permissions not enforced for the localizer
36) #2143: When adding an image, adding a non-URL to the URL field
would cause a crash.
37) #2122: No way to specify empty password for
campsite-create-instance
38) #2110: Creating a duplicate template name produces a crash
39) #2105: Unsafe template deletion
