Bricolage 1.8.9

The Bricolage development team is pleased to announce the
release of
Bricolage 1.8.9. This maintenance release addresses numerous minor
issues in Bricolage 1.8.8 and adds a few improvements, including
better
use of the "Default Asset Sort" preference and and more
intelligent URI
and publish date handling. The most important changes include:

Improvements

* When a story or media document is published with an
expiration date
earlier than the publish date, the UI will now properly report
that
the document has been "expired", rather than "published".
Thanks to
Simon Wilcox for the spot. [David]

* The Bulk Publish interface in the UI now displays the name
of the
site alongside the category if there is more than one site, so
as to
disambiguate the list of categories. Reported by Marshall Roch.
[David]

* Added constraints to the story and media tables in the
database to
prevent the publish status from becoming out of sync with the
publish
date and first publish date. [David]

* Changed code to show the first displayable data field of a
subelement when viewing or editing an asset as opposed to only
text
fields. [Paul Orrock]

* Bric::SOAP::Workflow's publish method now schedules a
publish job
instead of immediately publishing, thus allowing the publish_date
parameter to actually work, and ensuring that the proper
version is
published. [David]

Bug Fixes

* Fixed file names for files uploaded by MSIE on Windows. Again.
Reported by Wayne Slavin. [David]

* A media document that has a file uploaded to it before it is
ever
saved will no longer cause it to store the media file in a
directory
without an ID mapping it to the media document. This only
affected
installations where media were created by some method other
than the
Bricolage UI or SOAP. Reported by Rod Taylor. [David]

* Story and Media on the search result page are now correctly
sorted
by the "Default Asset Sort" preference, or title if the
preference is
not set. [Paul Orrock]

* Media file names are now URI-escaped for inclusion in the URIs
returned by get_uri() and get_primary_uri(). Reported by Alexey
Sheynuk. [David]

* Eliminated an error in the permissions screen when a site with
workflows has been deleted. Reported by Frank Febbraro. [David]

* If a desk or My Workspace does not have assets of a
particular type
(stories, media, or templates) on it, it will no longer display
buttons for them. Reported by Scott. [David]

* Fixed the sorting menus for templates on desks. Also fixed
them for
all assets on desks so that sorting on categories sorts by URIs
(which are displayed) rather than names. Template sorting issues
reported by Scott. [David]

* Adding a variable to the message in an alert type now properly
triggers the update of the message character count. Reported by
Scott. [David]

* URIs are now always constructed with the cover date
reflecting the
global Time Zone preference, rather than the setting from a
user's
overriding Time Zone preference. This prevents URI conflicts and
makes searches for URIs with dates in them consistent.
Reported by Li
Li. [David]

For the complete history of ongoing changes in Bricolage, see
Bric::Changes at
http://www.bricolage.cc/docs/api/current/Bric::Changes.

Download Bricolage 1.8.9 now from the Bricolage Website at
http://www.bricolage.cc/downloads/, 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/downloads/.

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
"quite
possibly the most capable enterprise-class open-source application
available" by eWEEK.

Enjoy!

--The Bricolage Team