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CDSware v0.3.1 (DEVELOPMENT) is released
March 12, 2004
http://cdsware.cern.ch/news/
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CDSware v0.3.1 (DEVELOPMENT) was released on March 12th, 2004.

What's new:
* security fix preventing exposure of local configuration variables
by malicious URL crafting (WebSearch, WebSubmit, WebAlert,
WebBasket, WebSession, BibHarvest, MiscUtil)
* initial release of the ranking engine (BibRank)
* new guide on HOWTO Run Your CDSware Installation (WebHelp)
* fixed submit configurations with respect to fulltext links and
metadata tags (WebSubmit, MiscUtil)
* Your Account personal corner now shows the list and the status
of submissions and approvals (WebSession)
* uniform help and version number option for CLI executables
(WebSearch, BibSched, BibIndex, BibRank, BibHarvest, BibConvert,
WebAccess, BibFormat, WebSession, WebAlert)
* uniform technique for on-the-fly formatting of search results via
`hb_' and `hd_' output format parameters (WebSearch)
* check for presence of pcntl and mysql PHP libraries (BibUpload)

Download:
<http://cdsware.cern.ch/download/cdsware-0.3.1.tar.gz>

Notes:
This DEVELOPMENT release contains an important security fix. All
CDSware DEVELOPMENT users (v0.1.x and v0.3.x) are asked to upgrade
to v0.3.1 as soon as possible. Users of v0.0.9 are not affected.

Known problems:
Ranking engine is fully functional from the admin-level point of
view, but the end-user ranking functionality still has to be
plugged into the search interface. Several important admin-level
functionalities of v0.0.9 are still missing in the v0.3.x tree.

What's next:
Fixing known problems described above. Developing BibIndex for
better phrase indexing and browsing.

CDSware v0.3.0 (DEVELOPMENT) is released
March 5, 2004
http://cdsware.cern.ch/news/
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CDSware v0.3.0 (DEVELOPMENT) was released on March 5th, 2003.

What's new:
* new development branch release (important SQL table changes)
* introducing a new submission engine and the end-user web
interface (WebSubmit)
* bibupload is now a BibSched task with new options (BibUpload)
* BibWords renamed into BibIndex in the view of future phrase
indexing changes (BibIndex)
* more secure DB server connectivity (BibSched)
* record matching functionality (BibConvert)
* character encoding conversion tables (BibConvert)
* Qualified Dublin Core conversion example (BibConvert)
* OAI deleted recods policy can now be specified (BibHarvest)
* multi-language collection portalboxes (WebSearch)
* HTML pages now respect language selections (WebSearch, WebHelp)
* minor layout changes (WebStyle)
* updated Russian and other translations
* ChangeLog is now generated from CVS log messages
* plus the usual set of bugfixes (see ChangeLog)

Download:
<http://cdsware.cern.ch/download/cdsware-0.3.0.tar.gz>

Notes:
The minor version number of the development branch was bumped to
indicate important SQL table structure changes. An upgrade from
CDSware v0.1.x is relatively easy though. Please contact us if you
want some hints in this direction. (We do not provide an upgrade
script automatically in the tarball because of the development
branch nature of the release.)

CDSware v0.3.0 now includes the first Pythonic DEVELOPMENT version
of the WebSubmit module. We encourage you to test it. Users of
v0.0.9 are however advised to stay with their system until a STABLE
release is announced.

Known problems:
Several important admin-level functionality of v0.0.9 is still
missing in v0.3.0. These issues will be subsequently dealt with in
the next releases of the v0.3.x development branch.

What's next:
Fixing known problems described above. Developing BibIndex for
better phrase indexing and browsing. Introducing BibRank to
provide basic ranking features.

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CDSware News: CDSware v0.1.2 released
December 21, 2003
http://cdsware.cern.ch/news/
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CDSware v0.1.2 was released on December 21st, 2003.

What's new:
* development branch release
* fix BibReformat task launching problem (BibFormat)
* fix BibTeX -> XML MARC conversion example (BibConvert)
* updated Spanish translation

Download:
<http://cdsware.cern.ch/download/cdsware-0.1.2.tar.gz>

Notes:
This development branch release is intended primarily to fix
BibReformat's task-launching password-reading problem that slipped
into v0.1.1. Users of v0.1.1 are advised either to patch their
running CDSware installation by this one-liner:

$ perl -pi~ -e 's,getpass\(,getpass.getpass(,g' /path/to/your/cdsware/bin/bibreformat

or to upgrade to v0.1.2 which brings, as a bonus, updated Spanish
translation.

Known problems:
WebSubmit is not working yet. Several admin-level functionality of
v0.0.9 is missing in v0.1.x. The task scheduler is functional but
not fully tested. These issues will be subsequently dealt with in
the next releases of the v0.1.x development branch.

What's next:
Fixing known problems described above. Stabilizing the v0.1.x
tree. Continuing with the internationalization of the interface.
Introducing BibIndex for better phrase indexing and browsing.

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CDSware News: CDSware v0.1.1 released
December 19, 2003
http://cdsware.cern.ch/news/
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CDSware v0.1.1 was released on December 19th, 2003.

What's new:
* development branch release
* access control engine now used by BibWords, BibFormat (admin and
bibreformat), WebSearch (webcoll), and BibTaskEx
* access control engine admin guide started (WebAccess)
* search engine support for sorting by more than one field (WebSearch)
* more internationalization of the search engine messages (WebSearch)
* new language: Norwegian (bokmål)
* simple example for converting BibTeX into XML MARC (BibConvert)
* new optional --with-python configuration option
* Python module detection during configure
* bugfixes: os.tempnam() warning, login page referer, and others

Download:
http://cdsware.cern.ch/download/cdsware-0.1.1.tar.gz

Notes:
This is a development branch release. Users of 0.0.9 are advised
to wait for the next stable release. Users of 0.1.0 may upgrade to
0.1.1 if the above features are important to them.

Known problems:
WebSubmit is not working properly yet. Several admin-level
functionality of 0.0.9 is missing in 0.1.0 yet. The task scheduler
is functional but not yet fully tested. These issues will be
subsequently dealt with in the next releases of the 0.1.x
development branch.

What's next:
Fixing known problems described above. Stabilizing the 0.1.x tree.
Continuing with the internationalization of the interface.
Introducing BibIndex for better phrase indexing and browsing.

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CDSware News: CDSware v0.1.0 released
December 4, 2003
http://cdsware.cern.ch/news/
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CDSware v0.1.0 was released on December 4th, 2003.

What's new:
* development branch release
* search engine redesign to yield five times more search performance
for larger sites (WebSearch, BibWords)
* fulltext indexation of PDF, PostScript, MS Word, MS PowerPoint and
MS Excel files (WebSearch)
* integrated combined metadata/fulltext/citation search (WebSearch)
* multi-stage search guidance in cases of no exact match (WebSearch)
* OAI-PMH harvestor (BibHarvest)
* bibliographic task scheduler (BibSched)
* automatic daemon mode of the indexer, the formatter and the
collection cache generator (BibWords, BibFormat, WebSearch)
* user management and session handling rewrite (WebSession)
* user personalization, document baskets and notification alert
system (WebBasket, WebAlert)
* role-based access control engine (WebAccess)
* internationalization of the interface started (currently with
Czech, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese,
Russian, and Slovak support)
* web page design update (WebStyle)
* introduction of programmer-oriented technical documentation corner
(WebHelp)
* source tree reorganization, mod_python technology adopted for most
of the modules

Download:
<http://cdsware.cern.ch/download/cdsware-0.1.0.tar.gz>

Notes:
This is a development branch release. It is not meant to replace
CDSware 0.0.9. Users of 0.0.9 are advised to wait for the next
stable release. Users of 0.0.9+ are advised to upgrade to 0.1.0.

As of this release we are adopting the classical stable/development
branch version numbering scheme spread in the GNU/Linux world and
elsewhere, with even minor versions denoting stable branch releases
and odd minor versions denoting development releases. For more
details, see <http://cdsware.cern.ch:8000/hacking/releases.html>.

Known problems:
WebSubmit is not working properly yet. Several admin-level
functionality of 0.0.9 is missing in 0.1.0 yet. The task scheduler
and RBAC authentication engines are functional but not yet called
by all the clients. These issues will be subsequently dealt with
in the next releases of the 0.1.x development branch.

What's next:
Fixing known problems described above. Stabilizing the 0.1.x tree.
Continuing with the internationalization of the interface.
Introducing BibIndex for better phrase indexing and browsing.

Hello

The CDSware v0.0.9 was released on August 1st, 2002.

What's new:
* first "public" alpha release of CDSware
* recently standardized Library of Congress' MARC XML schema adopted
in all CDSware modules as the new default internal XML file format
(BibConvert, BibFormat, BibUpload, WebSubmit, WebSearch)
* support for OAI-PMH v2.0 in addition to OAI-PMH v1.1 (WebSearch)
* search interface now honors multiple output formats per collection
(BibFormat, WebSearch)
* search interface now honors search fields, search options, and
sort options from the database config tables (WebSearch,
WebSearch Admin)
* search interface now honors words indexes from the database config
tables (BibWords, WebSearch)
* easy reformatting of already uploaded bibliographic records via
web admin. tool (BibFormat Admin/Reformat Records)
* new submission form field type ("response") allowing
greater flexibility (WebSubmit) [thanks to Frank Sudholt]
* demo site "Atlantis Institute of Science" updated to demonstrate:
Pictures collection of photographs; specific per-collection
formats; references inside Articles and Preprints; "cited by"
search link; published version linking; subject category
searching; search within, search options, sort options in the web
collection pages.

Download:
<http://cdsware.cern.ch/download/cdsware-0.0.9.tar.gz>

Notes:
As of release v0.0.9 the CDSware uses recently standardized MARC
XML schema provided by the Library of Congress. The default
configurations of nearly all CDSware modules have been changed
accordingly. We recommend you to install from scratch rather than
over an existing previous v0.01preX installations. However, in case
you want to keep your existing configuration and data, please feel
free to contact us for assistance.

Known problems:
The admin interface is missing some functionality (e.g. there is no
BibWords Admin yet). The interaction between WebSubmit and
WebSearch is missing some functionality (e.g. search pages are not
updated automatically when new documents are submitted). We plan
to concentrate on these problems now.

What's next:
The v0.0.9 release should be the last one in the v0.0.x series. We
plan to complete various missing admin interface functionality and
to release v0.1 during August 2002.

See also:
<http://cdsware.cern.ch/news/index.shtml#20020801>