Campsite 2.6.0 BETA is now released! This release brings a huge amount
of new stuff including comments, re-engineered article types, improved
security, improved feedback to user actions, and an automatic bug
reporting and feedback system (see below for the full list of changes).
You can download the new version here:
We've spent the past three weeks testing this and being users of the
system. This resulted in many bug fixes and tweaks to make things
easier, but now its your turn - please give it a try and tell us what
you think. Dont be afraid to send us feedback through the interface
itself (from the main menu: Help -> Feedback). There is also an
automatic bug reporting mechanism in place. If a special error page
shows up for you at anytime, please submit it to us via the form that
appears. Also, please let us know if you have tried it out and you
havent run into any problems! Thanks,
- The Campsite Team
2.6.0 (June 2006)
New Features
------------
- 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.
- Added Dutch translation
Minor Features
--------------
- 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
------------------------------
- You can now specify the time format (hours, minutes, seconds) for
time values.
- #2034: Added ability to set topic by ID and show topic ID
- #2071: Added "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:
Bugs Fixed (34 total)
---------------------
- #1919: Inserting image fails when caption and alt text erased in
Xinha popup
- #1585: URL type is not localized
- #1685: Article attachments sometimes have the wrong file name when
you download them
- #1789: When deleting a section, only delete the articles of the same
language as the section
- #1821: Changing a user type does not change permissions for all
users of that user type
- #1827: Add "Other" option to user employer type
- #1865: Creating an article with a duplicate name gives an
uninformative error
- #1908: If you try to save the publication without changing anything,
you get an error
- #1914: Campsite Indexer and other scripts should display the
instance name
- #1918: Issue edit screen allows issues with number 0
- #1939: Trying to use an issue number that already exists crashes
- #1946: 'Add attachment' gives an uninformative error message when
the server is not able to write the file to the destination
directory
- #1938: Adding a new subscription crashes when there are no issues
- #1949: No error given if there is a problem uploading an image
- #1975: On the frontend, the subscription form javascript doesn't
work when some fields are predefined
- #1763: Article Edit: Going into view mode should automatically
unlock the article
- #1767: Deleting an article type doesnt warn you that you will delete
all articles of that type
- #1943: Message not clear enough when deleting an issue that contains
articles
- #2037: Preview function is broken with multiple publications
- #2112: Home page broken when user doesnt have "ChangeArticle" and
"Publish" permissions
- #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.
- #2084: Fixed bug where the javascript calendar did not show up for
the following languages: Romanian, Russian, French, Italian,
Portuguese, and German.
- #2064: "System Preferences" section missing from Localizer
- #2039: Install fails on Ubuntu Dapper
- #2057: Deleting an Issue does not delete its Scheduled publishing
entries
- #2058: Deleting article does not delete its scheduled publishing
entries
- #2018: In IE, various png files aren't transparent
- #2053: Article List -> Translate -> back to article List -> language
is now selected
- #2012: Internal/External links dont work when upgrading from 2.1
- #2051: Duplicate section -> pull down for "publications" doesnt
always work
- #2045: When editing an alias, and you save with the same name as it
already has, it gives you an error
- #1971: If you edit Topic and change the name to an existing topic
name, it give you an error
- #1968: Creating a folder with ".." throws an error
- #1991: Localizer "Hide translated strings" checkbox doesnt work
on IE
- #1990: Permissions not enforced for the localizer