Bricolage 1.10.2 Summer is Here

2006.06.22

The Bricolage development team is pleased to announce the release of Bricolage 1.10.2. This maintenance release adds a number of improvements and many bug fixes. Highlights include easier republishing of documents from the Find inteface and better-behaving textarea fields in Internet Explorer. The most important changes are:

Improvements

  • The codeselect field's Perl code can now return an array of array references or a hash reference, in addition to the previous support for an even-sized array reference. [David]

  • Added a Republish checkbox and corresponding Publish Checked button to the Story and Media Find pages for stories and media not currently in workflow and to which the user has PUBLISH permission. Based on a patch from Serge Sozonoff. [David]

  • The number of items on a desk can now be displayed next to the desk's name in the navigation menu, e.g. Edit (10). This feature is configurable on a per-user basis via the new Show Desk Asset Counts preference. Based heavily on a patch from Alex Howarth. [Marshall]

  • Added a close icon to the drag bar of the dialog box. This is useful when the dialog box is bigger than the browser window and the close button therefore is off-screen. [David]

  • Aliases are now indicated in Find Stories by an arrow icon just before the story title. Suggested by Paul Orrock. [David]

  • Added PUBLISH_RELATED_FAIL_BEHAVIOR bricolage.conf directive to be used when PUBLISH_RELATED_ASSETS is enabled. If the automatic publication of a related story or media document will not be possible then the publish request will fail. It can be changed to warn, the previous behaviour, if required. [Paul Orrock]

  • Added the Remove Frameset link to the control bar next to the Repreview link in the preview window. [Paul Orrock]

  • Slightly tweaked the background color on table rows to make them easier to read. [Marshall]

  • Object select lists (such as for story element types when creating a new story) will now display as scrolling lists if there are more than 50 items in the list, rather than 20 or more items. [David]

  • Added a CSS ID to the <body> tag in the UI, of the form bricolage_VHOST_SERVER_NAME, where VHOST_SERVER_NAME is the value defined in bricolage.conf. Use this ID when writing user stylesheets to override the look of the Bricolage UI (see SkinningBricolage in the Wiki) [Marshall]

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed warnings in deprecated methods of Bric::Biz::Element::Container so that they are no longer fatal. Reported by Nate Perry-Thistle. [David]

  • Fixed the Search by Subelement feature of story search. Thanks to Nate Perry-Thistle for the spot. [David]

  • The Default Field select list in Bulk Edit works again. Thanks to Tom Kjeldsen for uncovering the underlying problem. [David]

  • Fields that use the codeselect widget work again. Reported by Michael Glaesemann. [David]

  • Fixed the appearance of template diffs. Insertions and deletions now have color and no longer show underlines and strikethroughs (bug 1171). [Marshall]

  • Fixed a bug where search results would get stuck when pagination is turned on. Thanks to Nate Perry-Thistle for the spot (bug 1166). [Marshall]

  • Using Internet Explorer to create a media document via a the upload field in a related media element no longer uses a full Windows file system path. Reported by Tom Kjeldsen. [David]

  • Aliases are once again identifiable on desks by a different background color for the title, and now also with an arrow icon that appears just before the story title. [David]

  • Contributors are no longer sorted by the Name Format preference's representation of the contributors' names in the interface to edit contributor associations. They are now properly sorted by association order. Reported by Bret Dawson. [David]

  • The Help and logo popup buttons works again in Internet Explorer. Reported by Chris Heiland. [David]

  • Autosizing textarea fields now display full size in Internet Explorer when they have no content, instead of only 1 character wide. Reported by Paul Orrock. [David]

  • The Bulk Edit and template code textarea fields no longer jump around as you type in IE 6. [David]

For a complete list of the changes, see the changes list. For the complete history of ongoing changes in Bricolage, see Bric::Changes.

Download Bricolage 1.10.2 now from the Bricolage Web site Downloads page, from the SourceForge download page, and from the Kineticode download page.

About Bricolage

Bricolage is a full-featured, enterprise-class content management and publishing system. It offers a browser-based interface for ease-of use, multisite management, a full-fledged templating system with complete HTML::Mason, HTML::Template, Template Toolkit, and PHP 5 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 by eWEEK as quite possibly the most capable enterprise-class open-source application available.

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