ANN: Bricolage 1.8.5 Released

The Bricolage development team is pleased to announce the release of
Bricolage 1.8.5. This maintenance release addresses a number of
issues in
Bricolage 1.8.3 and adds a number of improvements (there was no
announcement for the short-lived 1.8.4 release). The SOAP server in
particular sees improvements in this release, with improved
character set
support; better support for related stories and media using URIs in
addition to IDs; and as support for top-level element relations.
Issues
with the ordering of story elements have also been corrected, as
well as
errors when attempting to revert a story or media document or
template.
Here are the other highlights of this release:

Improvements

* Added Linux startup script contrib/start_scripts/linux. [David]

* Related story and media elements managed through the SOAP server
can now use a combination of URI and site ID to identify related
assets in addition to the existing approach of using story and
media
IDs. [David]

* A list of subelements is now less likely to mysteriously become
out
of order and thus lead to strange action-at-a-distance errors. And
even if they do become out of order, the error message will be
more
appropriate ("Warning! State inconsistent" instead of "Can't call
method 'get_name' on an undefined value"). Reported by Curtis Poe.
[David]

* The SOAP media interface now supports creating relationships
between the media documents elements and other story and media
documents, just like the SOAP story interface does. [David]

* The SOAP interface now supports Related stories and media on
story
type and media type elements just as in the UI. This involved the
somewhat hackish necessity for including the "related_story_id"
and
"related_media_id" (or "related_story_uri" and
"related_media_uri")
attributes in the "elements" XML element, but it does the trick.
[David]

Bug Fixes

* Calls to publish documents via SOAP will no longer fail if the
published_version attribute is not specified and the document to
be
published has never been published before. [David]

* The Bricolage virtual FTP server will no longer fail to start if
Template Toolkit is installed but its version number is less than
2.14. Reported by Adam Rinehart. [David]

* Stories and Media created or updated via the SOAP interface will
now associate contributors of the appropriate type, instead of
"All
Contributors". [Scott & David]

* Deleting an element that has a template no longer causes an
error.
Thanks to Susan for the spot! [David]

* Eliminated encoding errors when using the SOAP interface to
output
stories, media, or templates with wide characters. Reported by
Scott
Lanning. [David]

* Reverting (stories, media, templates) no longer gives an error.
Reported by Simon Wilcox, Rachel Murray, and others. [David]

* Publishing a published version of a document that has a later
version in workflow will no longer cause that later version to be
mysteriously removed from workflow. This could be caused by
passing a
document looked up using the published_version to list() to
$burner->publish_another in a template. [David]

* The SOAP server story and media interfaces now support elements
that contain both related stories and media, rather than one or
the
other. [David]

* Attempting to preview a story or media document currently
checked
out to another user no longer causes an error. Reported by Paul
Orrock. [David]

* Custom fields with default values now have their values included
when they are added to stories and media. Thanks to Clare
Parkinson
for the spot! [David]

* The bric_queued script now requires a username and password and
will authenticate the user. This user will then be used for
logging
events. All events logged when a job is run via the UI are now
also
logged by bric_queued. [Mark and David]

* Preview redirections now use the protocol setting of the preview
output channel if it's available, and falls back on using
"http://"
when it's not, instead of using the hard-coded "http://". Thanks
to
Martin Bacovsky for the spot! [David]

* The has_keyword() method in the Business class (from which the
story and media classes inherit) now works. Thanks to Clare
Parkinson
for the spot! [David]

* Clicking a link in the left-side navigation after the session
has
expired now causes the whole window to show the login form, rather
than it showing inside the nav frame, which was useless.
[Marshall]

* The JavaScript that validates form contents once again works
with
htmlArea, provided htmlArea itself is patched. See

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1155712&grou
p_id=69750&atid=525656 for the htmlArea patch. As of this writing,
you must run the version of htmlArea in CVS. [David & Marshall]

* The JavaScript that handles the double list manager has been
vastly
optimized. It should now be able to better handle large lists,
such
as a list of thousands of categories. Reported by Scott.
[Marshall]

* Uploading a new image to a media document with a different media
type than the previous image no longer causes an Imager error.
[David]

For a complete list of the changes, see the changes list at
http://www.bricolage.cc/news/announce/changes/bricolage-1.8.5/. For
the
complete history of ongoing changes in Bricolage, see Bric::Changes
at
http://www.bricolage.cc/docs/api/current/Bric::Changes.

Download Bricolage 1.8.5 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