Bric::Changes(3)

NAME
Bric::Changes - Bricolage Changes

VERSION
$LastChangedRevision$

DATE
$LastChangedDate: 2004-07-07 23:01:08 -0700 (Wed, 07 Jul 2004) $

DESCRIPTION
This document lists the Changes to Bricolage introduced with each release.

VERSION 1.8.1 (2004-07-08)

  Improvements

•   More complete Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese localizations. Also, the Mandarin localization now simply inherits from the Traditional Chinese localization. [Kang-min Liu]

•   "make clone" now copies the lib directory and all of the bin scripts from the target to the clone, rather than from the sources. This allows any changes that have been made to scripts and classes to be properly cloned. [David]

•   When installing Bricolage, it will now allow you to proceed if the database already exists by asking if you want to create the Bricolage tables in the existing database. Suggested by Mark Fournier and Marshall Roch. [David]

•   Added some missing translations for English. [David]

•   The installer is now a bit smarter in how it handles loading the "log_config" (or "config_log", as the case may be) module. [Marshall Roch]

•   Added ID attributes to story, media, and element profiles and "fieldcontent" class to content field values in the "View" screens so that they can be used as CSS selectors. [David]

•   Added language-specific style sheets. This is especially useful for right-to-left languages or for languages that require special fonts. [David]

•   The "New Alias" search interface now displays thumbnails when searching for media documents to alias and the "USE_THUMBNAILS" bricolage.conf directive is enabled. Reported by Serge Sozonoff. [David]

•   The "has_member()" method of Bric::Util::Grp is now faster when searching for a specific group member. [David]

•   Aliases can now be made to documents within the same site. [Serge Sozonoff]

•   When viewing the contents of a document, the contents now have their HTML escaped. This prevents any broken HTML in the content from breaking the Bricolage UI. Suggested by Neal Sofge. [David]

•   The SOAP interface for importing and exporting elements now properly has "key_name" XML elements instead of "name" XML elements. The changes are backwards compatible with XML exported from Bricolage 1.8.0 servers, however. Reported by Tony Cowderoy. [David]

•   Added "move()" method to the virtual FTP interface. This means that to deploy a template, rather than having to rename it locally to append ".deploy", one can simply move in FTP to its new name with ".deploy" on appended to the new name. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   Document expirations are now somewhat more intelligent. Rather than just scheduling an expiration job only if there is an expiration date the first time a document is published, Bricolage will now always schedule an expiration job for a document provided that one does not already exist (scheduled or completed) for the same time and for one of the file resources for the document. This should allow people to more easily and arbitrarily expire content whenever necessary. Thanks to John Greene for the discussion that finally motivated this change. [David]

•   Improved zh-cn translation. [Gang Luo]

•   Burner notes now persist for all sub burns (triggered by "publish_another()" and "preview_another()" in a single burn. [Serge Sozonoff]

•   Keyword groups now properly display their members. [David]

•   Added ability to create and manage groups of objects for several different types of objects. Also added the ability manage group membership within the administrative profiles for those objects. This change makes it possible to give users permission to administer subsets of objects. The new groupable objects are:

    Preferences
    Groups
    Alert Types
    Element Types
    Keywords
    Contributors

    [David]

•   Alert rules are now evaluated within a safe compartment (using Safe.pm) to prevent security exploits. [David]

•   The Bulk Publish admin tool is no longer limited to use only by members of the Global Admins group. Now anyone can use it. All one needs is READ permission to the categories of stories, and PUBLISH permission to the stories and media documents to be published. [David]

  Bug Fixes

•   Bulk Publish now ensures that users have at least READ access to categories they wish to publish from. [Scott]

•   Eliminated 'Bareword "ENABLE_HTMLAREA" not allowed while "strict subs" in use' warning that prevented startup for some installations. [Scott]

•   The Mason burner now appends a "/" to the end of the category path it specifies for burning a story. This removes the ambiguity between a directory request and a file request, which in rare circumstances could cause unexpected problems. [David]

•   Changes made to user or contributor contacts without changing any other part of the user or contributor object are now properly saved. [David]

•   When cloning a story, the list of output channels to select from is now limited to the site the current workflow is in. Thanks to Serge Sozonoff for the spot! [David]

•   Attempting to publish a story or media document with brackets in the title no longer causes an error. Reported by Serge Sozonoff. [David]

•   Fixed a bric_soap "list_ids" bug [712] with the "no_workflow" option. [Clive Jones]

•   The upgrade to 1.8.0 now correctly updates story URIs that use the URI Suffix of an output channel instead of using the URI Prefix twice. [John Greene]

•   The Advanced Search interface for stories and media now displays only the top-level elements associated with the site the workflow is in when searching for stories and media "By Type". [David]

•   Improved error logging for more recent versions of Apache, which unfortunately escape newlines. [David]

•   When Bricolage discovers a document or template on a desk but not in a workflow, it now places it in a workflows associated with the same site as the document or template is associated with. Thanks to Serge Sozonoff for the spot! [David]

•   Aliases of Image, Audio, or Video media documents no longer remain stuck on desks. Reported by Serge Sozonoff. [David]

•   Related media and story subelements of media documents now work properly. Thanks to Kang-min Liu for the spot! [David]

•   The distribution and SOAP handlers now load a localization object so that any code that uses localization will work properly. Reported by Clive Jones. [David]

•   The "set_page_extensions()" method of Bric::Util::Burner now throws an exception if duplicate page extensions are passed, rather than deferring the exception to the creation of a distribution job, which was confusing. [Clive Jones]

•   Calls to "preview_another()" in Bric::Util::Burner will now use any templates in the current user's sandbox and properly burn them to the preview root rather than to the staging root used for publishing. Reported by Serge Sozonoff. [David]

•   Contributor fields for roles other than the default role now properly store and retain their values. [David]

•   The virtual FTP server now properly checks out templates when a template is uploaded and is already in workflow.

•   Uploading a non-existent template via the virtual FTP server now correctly creates a new template. The type of template depends on the name of the template being uploaded, and for element templates, on whether there is an element with the appropriate key name. The user must have CREATE permission to All Templates or to the start desk in the first template workflow in the relevant site.

•   Reverting a document or template to the current version number now properly reverts all changes to the time the user checked out the document or template. Reversion is also a bit more efficient in how it looks up the previous version in the database. [David]

•   The SOAP server now rolls back any changes whenever an error is thrown. This prevents problems when a few objects are created or updated before an exception is thrown. Now any error will cause the entire SOAP request to fail. Thanks to Neal Sofge for the spot! [David]

•   Changing the "Size" display attribute of a field in the Field profile (a subprofile of the Element admin profile) now properly causes the field to actually display in the new size. Reported by Tony Cowderoy. [David]

•   The table of contacts in the alert type profile is now more like other tables, in terms of border colors, etc. [David]

•   The Bulk Publish admin tool now only limits the category search to the current site context if the "Filter by Site Context" preference is checked. [David]

VERSION 1.8.0 "Portland" (2004-05-03)

  Improvements

•   The inst/upgrade/1.7.0/data_tile_key_name.pl upgrade script now skips upgrading "key_name" if it would be no different than "name". This can save a lot of time during upgrade if your database is large. [Scott]

•   For checked-out media, stories, and documents listed in the "Active" and "Find" interfaces, added the name of the user who has each checked out to the empty column that would otherwise contain a "Checkout" checkbox. [David]

•   Keyword names are now always editable in the keyword manager. [David]

•   Added UI for managing organizations, which provide the base data for souces. [David]

•   HTML, CSS, and JavaScript fixes that allow Bricolage to work properly with most browsers, including Safari 1.2.1, IE 5.2/Mac, Konqueror, Opera 7, and many others. [Marshall Roch]

•   Added stubs for zh-hk localization. [David]

•   Added missing localizations to the Language preference. Many of these are not yet translated, but there they are. [David]

•   Selecting a checkbox to delete an output channel in a story or media profile and then clicking a button other than the output channel "Delete" button or the "Save" or "Save and Stay" buttons no longer causes an error. Reported by Delfim Machado. [David]

•   If the "Select All" button is clicked to select all the checkboxes on a desk, and then is clicked again, it will uncheck all of the check boxes. [David]

•   Login redirection now works properly with Safari. [David]

•   The installation script now provides more information (and questions) when it attempts to create a database user that already exists. Suggested by Marshall Roch. [David]

  Bug Fixes

•   Added a missing space to the breadcrumb in the header. [Marshall Roch]

•   The new "SFTP_MOVER_CIPHER" bricolage.conf directive now actually works. [David]

•   The group profile works again for element groups [David]

•   "Check In To" link misalignment fixed for Konqueror, as well as some other miscellaneous CSS fixes. [Marshall Roch]

•   The "CREATE" permission is now displayed when granting permission to user groups to access the members an "All" group. [David]

•   The "none" media type is no longer editable via the UI. [David]

•   Invalid story cover and expire dates now properly trigger an error message. [David]

•   Deactivated keywords are no longer returned by the "get_keywords()" methods of the Business asset class (from which Story and Media inherit) or the Category class. Reported by Paul Orrock. [David]

•   Events are now properly logged for keywords managed in the keyword profile. [David]

•   Media URIs are now properly updated when the primary output channel is changed. Reported by Ben Bangert. [David]

•   Bulk publish no longer marks checked-out stories as published when it hasn't published them. It also is no longer redundant when it reports that checked-out assets won't be published. Thanks to Serge Sozonoff for the spot! [David]

•   Safari users will no longer be stuck on the login page. [David]

•   The CSS directory now has its files always served as "text/css". This should eliminate problems when Apache sometimes serves the CSS files as "text/html". [David]

•   The "desk_id" parameter to the "list()" methods of the story, media, and template classes now works. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   Stories published via the "Checkin and Publish" select list in the story profile now correctly publish related stories and media. Reported by Joa~o Pedro. [David]

•   Stories and media are no longer published twice when published from a publish desk or via Bulk Publish. [David]

VERSION 1.7.5 "Ashland" (2004-04-11)

  New Features

•   Added bric_template_dump to contrib. This script uses the Bricolage SOAP server to export all of the templates in a single output channel. [David]

•   Added "SFTP_MOVER_CIPHER" bricolage.conf directive to tune the SFTP mover (if enabled) to the best cipher for good performance on the wire. [David]

  Improvements

•   Added site and output channel support to bric_template_diff and bric_template_patch in contrib. [David]

•   When cloning a story, you can now select a new primary output channel, in addition to category, slug, cover date, etc. Suggested by Serge Sozonoff. [David]

•   Spell checking now works in HTMLArea. [Eric Sellers]

•   When creating a new story without a slug, Bricolage will now autogenerate a slug based on the title. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   Added single underscore parameters to the "list()" methods of the Story, Media, and Template classes to complement those that have the awful double underscores. [David]

•   Made SOAP modules more tolerant of lack of sites in 1.6. [Scott]

•   The collection API now checks newly added members when deleting members. This ensures that newly added objects won't be saved to the database if they are deleted, first. [David]

•   Turned off browser autocompletion in the Server and User profiles. This prevents some browsers (e.g., Camino) from filling in your username and password where it doesn't belong. [David]

•   When the "Filter by Site Context" preference is enabled, it no longer filters documents when searching for documents to alias. Reported by Patrick Walsh. [David]

•   The "Cancel Checkout" button in the Story, Media, and Template profiles now tries to do the right thing instead of just leaving the asset on a desk in workfow every time. If the asset was just created by the user, it will be deleted. If it was just recalled from the library by the user, it will be removed from workflow and shelved in the library. Otherwise, clicking the "Cancel Checkout" button will leave the asset in workflow. Requested by Sara Wood, Rachel Murray, and others. [David]

    "make clone" now provides the current date and time for the default name for the cloned package. Suggested by Marshall Roch. [David]

  Bug Fixes

•   Bricolage no longer tries to display thumbnails for related stories, since stories don't have thumbnails and would therefore create an error. [Eric Sellers]

•   Text::Levenshtein is again correctly loaded as an optional module, not a required module. Reported by Marshall Roch. [David]

•   Bric::Util::Burner's "preview_another()" method now actually works. Thanks to Serge Sozonoff for the spot. [David]

•   Fixed clone interface for IE users. Spotted by Serge Sozonoff. [Scott]

•   Some of the supported values for the "Order" parameter to the Story, Media, and Template classes, such as "category_uri", did not work before. Now they do. [David]

•   Changing categories on a template no longer creates Frankensteinian template paths. [David]

•   Added constant "HAS_MULTISITE" to the Bric base classe so that all classes properly declare themselves for UI search results. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   Story and Media SOAP calls now correctly use the element's key name to identify the element. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   Story, Media, and Template creation via SOAP now correctly look up the Category by URI and site ID. [Joa~o Pedro & David]

•   The Template SOAP interface now suports the "site" parameter to "list_ids()". [David]

•   The Story, Template, and Media SOAP "list_ids()" intefaces now properly look up categories, output channels, and workflows with the "site" paremeter, if there is one. [David]

•   The "LOAD_LANGUGES" and "LOAD_CHAR_SETS" directives are now space delimited, to better match other bricolage.conf options. [David]

•   Aliased media documents now correctly point to the file name for the aliased media document. Reported by Patrick Walsh. [David]

•   Thanks to the improvements to the collection class, cloning stories and putting them into new output channels to ensure that they have unique URIs now works properly. Reported by Serge Sozonoff. [David]

•   The publish status and version is once again properly set for media when they are published. Reported by Serge Sozonoff. [David]

•   The group manager now properly displays the names of the sites that member objects are associated with if the class of the objects being managed knows that its objects are associated with sites. Reported by Ho Yin Au. [David]

•   The list of output channels to add to a media or story document in the media and story profiles now includes only those output channels associated with the site that the story or media document is in. [David]

•   Thanks to the fix to 1.6.13 that prevents deleted groups from affecting permissions, there is no longer any need to provide a checkbox to get access to deleted groups in the permissions interface. So it has been removed. [David]

VERSION 1.7.4 "Sacramento" (2004-03-18)

  New Features

•   Added "Bulk Publish" feature in ADMIN->PUBLISHING that lets members of the Global Admins group publish story and media documents by category. [Scott]

•   Added "notes()" method to Bric::Util::Burner, along with the accompanying "clear_notes()". The "notes()" method provides a place to store burn data data, giving template developers a way to share data among multiple burns over the course of publishing a single story in a single category to a single output channel. Any data stored here persists for the duration of a call to "burn_one()". [David]

•   Added new contributed scripts for Bricolage button generation. These scripts use the Gimp to generate localized buttons for the Bricolage UI based on the contents of an input file. See contrib/button_gen/README for details. [Florian Rossol]

•   Added support for icons for all media documents when the "USE_THUMBNAILS" bricolage.conf directive is enabled. These rely on the presence of PNG icon files for each MIME type in comp/media/mime. Only one such icons is distributed with Bricolage, comp/media/mime/none.png (borrowed from the KDE project under <http://artist.kde.org/new/license.html#others>), which is the default icon when the MIME type of a media file is unknown or when no icon file exists for the MIME type of the media file. Administrators are free to add their own icons, and the "copy_gnome_icons" script in contrib makes it easy to use GNOME icons. [David]

•   Added "bric_template_diff" and "bric_template_patch" scripts in contrib/bric_template_diff. These scripts can be used to sync templates between two Bricolage servers. [Sam]

•   added "bric_media_load" to "contrib/". This script copies media into Bricolage while accounting for the new to update existing media. [Sam]

•   Added HTMLArea support. This adds a new type of field to be added to elements and contributor types, "WYSIWYG". Such fields are then displayed in the UI using HTMLArea, a WYSIWYG HTML editor. This can be useful in particular for simple fields that often need emphasis added or links. It is not currently available in Bulk Edit or Super Bulk edit. See Bric::Admin for installation and configuration details. [Eric Sellers]

  Improvements

•   The list of categories for which permissions can be granted to user groups to access the documents and templates in the category now displays the categories for each site separately, so that categories with same URIs (such as for the root category in each site) can be easily told apart. Reported by Ho Yin Au. [David]

•   The list of workflows for which permissions can be granted in the permissions page now includes the parenthesized name of the site each workflow is associated with. [David]

•   Modified the indexes on the "workflow__id" and "desk__id" columns of the story, media, and formatting (template) tables to be more efficient, being indexed only when their IDs are greater than 0 (that is, when a story, media document, or template is actually on a desk and in a workflow). [David]

•   Added a method "is_fixed" to story and media objects, to determine whether a business asset has a fixed URL (for example, a Cover page). Refer to Bric::Biz::Asset::Business. [Scott]

•   Added the "ENABLE_OC_ASSET_ASSOCIATION" bricolage.conf directive to remove the ability to associate output channels from the story and media profiles. [Scott]

•   The element administration profile now automatically adds the currently selected site context to new elements, thus generally saving a step when creating new elements. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   Added an interface to 'Clone' for stories so that you can change the category, slug, and cover date, because otherwise an identical story is created, which would cause errors for some stories. Clones are no longer allowed to have URIs that are identical to the stories they were cloned from. [Scott & David]

•   Added the ability to Delete from desks (same as My Workspace). Note however, that you can't delete from a publish desk. [Scott]

•   Completely documented the document element classes: Bric::Biz::Asset::Business::Parts::Tile, Bric::Biz::Asset::Business::Parts::Tile::Data, and Bric::Biz::Asset::Business::Parts::Tile::Container. This should make it a bit easier on templators learning their way around the Bricolage API. [David]

•   Refactored quite a bit of the code in the element classes. Renamed the methods with "tile" in their names to use "element" instead (but kept the old ones around as aliases, since they're used throughout the UI). Added a few methods to make the interface more complete. [David]

•   Modified the "get_containers()" method of Bric::Biz::Asset::Business::Parts::Tile::Container to take an optional list of key name arguments, and to return only the container subelements with those key names. This is most useful in templates, where it's fairly common to get a list of container subelements of only one or two particular types out all at once. It neatly replaces code such as this:

      for ( my $x = 1; my $quote = $element->get_container('quote', $x); $x++ ) {
          $burner->display_element($quote);
      }

    With this:

      for my $quote ($element->get_containers('quote')) {
          $burner->display_element($quote);
      }

    And is more efficient, too. [David]

•   Modified the "get_elements()" method of Bric::Biz::Asset::Business::Parts::Tile::Container to take an optional list of key name arguments, and to return only the subelements with those key names. [David]

•   Added the "get_data_elements()" method to Bric::Biz::Asset::Business::Parts::Tile::Container. This method functions exactly like "get_containers()" except that it returns data element objects that are subelements of the container element. It also takes an optional list of key name arguments, and, if passed, will return only the subelements with those key names. [David]

•   The "ANY()" subroutine will now throw an exception if no arguments are passed to it. Suggested by Dave Rolsky. [David]

•   Added the "unexpired" parameter to the "list()" method of the story and media classes. It selects for stories without an expire date, or with an expire date set in the future. [David]

•   The "User Override" admin tool is now available to all users. But a user can only override another user if she has EDIT permission to that other user. This makes it easier for user administrators to masquerade as other users without having to change passwords. [David]

•   Eliminated another SQL performance bottleneck with simple searches of media assets. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   Images with no dimension greater than the "THUMBNAIL_SIZE" bricolage.conf directive are no longer expanded to have one side at least "THUMBNAIL_SIZE" pixels, but are left alone. [David]

•   Thumbnails are now displayed when searching media to relate to an element. [David]

•   Thumbnails are now displayed in related media subelements. [David]

•   Added "preview_another()" method to Bric::Util::Burner. This method is designed to be the complement of "publish_another()", to be used in templates during previews to burn and distribute related documents so that they'll be readily available on the preview server within the context of previewing another document. [Serge Sozonoff]

•   Added the "subelement_key_name" parameter to the "list()" method of the story and media classes. This parameter allows searches on the key name for a container element that's a subelement of a story or media document. [David]

•   Added support for all of the parameters to the "list_ids()" method of the Story, Media, and Template classes to the "list_ids()" method of the corresponding SOAP classes. This allows for much more robust searches via the SOAP interface. [David & Scott]

•   Eliminated "login_avail()" PostgreSQL function, replacing it with a partial constraint. This not only makes things simpler code-wise, but it also eliminates backup and restore problems where the "usr" table is missing. The downside is that it requires PostgreSQL 7.2 instead of our traditional minimum requirement of 7.1. So any PostgreSQL 7.1 users will need to upgrade before upgrading to this version of Bricolage. Suggested by Josh Berkus. [David]

  Bug Fixes

•   "make clone" will now properly clone a database on a different database server, provided the host name (and port, if necessary) have been provided. Thanks to Ho Yin Au for the spot! [David]

•   Admin tool lists that include the number "9" in the corner of a table of items is now properly orange instead of green. Reported by Ho Yin Au. [David]

•   Bricolage works with Perl 5.6.x again, although it's pretty strongly deprecated. Perl 5.8.0 or later is required for character set conversion and if any content uses characters outside of US ASCII. Thanks to John Greene for the spot! [David]

•   Image files uploaded in formats not recognized by Image::Info no longer trigger an error. Reported by Alexander Ling. [David]

•   Changing the cover date of a media document once again correctly updates the primary URI of the media document. Reported by Serge Sozonoff. [David]

•   Fixed API that was causing no elements to be returned on "Add sub-elements" page, when "Filter by site context" was turned on. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   When the SOAP server serializes and deserializes element templates, it now correctly identifies the element by its key name, rather than its name. Thanks to Joa~o Pedro for the spot! [David]

•   The template profile's "cheat sheet" of the subelements of an element now correctly display subelement key names instead of munging element names, as was required before version 1.7.0. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   "Bric::SOAP::Category->list_ids" now converts site names to site IDs. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   "Bric::Util::Burner->preview" once again defaults to previewing in an asset's primary output channel instead of using the element's primary output channel. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   Added "first_publish_date" attribute to the SOAP input and output for stories and media. [David]

•   The category SOAP class now correctly calls "lookup()" with the site ID to prevent multiple categories with the same names but in different sites from being looked up. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   User overrideable preferences are now properly checked for permissions to allow users with READ permission to a user to see the permissions. [David]

•   Users can now edit their own user-overrideable preferences. [David]

•   Group management now works more correctly in user profiles where users have on READ access to the user object. [David]

•   Removed queries added in 1.7.2 that were running at Bricolage startup time. They could cause DBI to cache a database handle and return it after Apache forks, leading to strange errors such as "message type 0x49 arrived from server while idle", and occaisionally a frozen server. [David]

VERSION 1.7.3 (2004-03-01)

  New Features

•   The virtual FTP server now moves templates into workflow when they're uploaded and puts them into the user's sandbox. This behavior allows the user to test the template changes without imposing possible bugs upon other Bricolage users. This approach is much safer than the previous behavior, which simply checked in and deployed a template upon upload. Templates can still be deployed via the virtual FTP server by appending ".deploy" to their names. The original behavior of always deploying templates upon upload can be restored by enabling the "FTP_DEPLOY_ON_UPLOAD" bricolage.conf directive. [David]

•   Added "ANY" function to be used with select parameters to story, media, and template (formatting) list. Pass a list of values to this function to have any of of them match for a given parameter. This is especially useful for matching on, say, a list of URIs or category IDs. This function is automatically available in templates. [David]

•   Added a feature that counts characters used in a textarea subelement on the fly. It displays this figure and the number of characters left, immediately above the textarea. This feature is enabled when the Max size attribute for the textarea is given a non zero value when adding it to the element profile stage. The JavaScript will also not allow you to have more than max size characters in the textarea by truncating the data to that number of characters every time someone adds another character beyond the maximum. [Paul Orrock/Digital Craftsmen]

•   Added a feature to display image thumbnails in the search results and active view for media objects that are image objects. This feature uses the Perl module Imager from CPAN and the relevant image library for each format you want to display. It can be turned on or off using the "USE_THUMBNAILS" bricolage.conf directive. See Bric::Biz::Asset::Business::Media::Image for more information. [Paul Orrock/ Digital Craftsmen]

  Improvements

•   The bric_media_upload contributed script now provides a more meaningful error message when it can't find bric_soap. [Dave Rolsky]

•   The bric_dist_mon "-U" option no longer requires that "/dist/" be at the end of the URL. If "/dist/" is missing, bric_dist_mon will append it. [David]

•   More story, media, and template query optimization. [David]

•   The story, media, and template queries now use aggregates to create arrays of group IDs, instead of returning a separate row for each individual group ID. Since all story, media, and template objects are now returned in single rows instead of potentially many rows, this greatly cuts down on the overhead of fetching data from the database. Suggested by Josh Berkus; implementation help from David Fetter. [David]

•   Thanks to the aggregation of group IDs into a single row for each story, media and template object, the "Offset" and "Limit" parameters to the "list()" methods of the story, media, and template (formatting) classes are now handled by the database back end, instead of in Perl space. This makes using these parameters much more efficient.

•   Added "-k" option to bric_ftpd to kill a currently running virtual FTP server. This is made possible by the addition of the new "FTP_PID_FILE" bricolage.conf directive. [David]

•   Asset groups associated with categories are now activated or deactivated whenever their corresponding categories are now activated or deactivated. This prevents them from showing up in the permissions interface. [David]

•   Added a check box to the permissions interface to enable the display of inactive groups. This is primarily so that permissions can be modified on inactive category groups, since they still affect access to any documents and templates in those categories, even after they're deactivated. [David]

•   Updated documentation to reflect the reality that one should really only use Perl 5.8.0 and later if one needs to use any characters outside of ASCII. [Andrea Rota]

•   Added "FTP_UNLINK_BEFORE_MOVE" bricolage.conf directive. This forces the FTP mover to unlink an older version of a file before renaming the new version to that name. This is necessary for some FTP servers that won't disallow renaming a file to replace an existing file. [Andrea Rota]

•   Updated zh-cn and zh-tw localizations, translating all untranslated messages and JavaScript messages. [Kang-min Liu]

•   Relabeled the "Pre" and "Post" attributes of output channels as "URI Prefix" and "URI Suffix", respectively. [Serge Sozonoff]

•   Added "get_element()" method to Bric::Biz::Asset::Business and deprecated the "get_tile()" method. This will make things a bit more consistent for template developers, at least. [David]

•   Added "primary_category_id" parameter to the story class' "list()" method. [David]

•   Updated the German localization. [Thorsten Biel]

•   Users can no longer sneakily add subelements for which they do not have at least READ permission to the corresponding element via the Super Bulk Edit. Reported by Patrick Walsh. [David]

•   The list of output channels available to be included in an output channel now has the name of the site with which each is affiliated listed as well. This is to prevent confusion between output channels with the same names in different sites. [David]

•   Changed the vertical alignment of the labels for textarea fields in the story profile to be consistent with the labels on the element profile. i.e. top aligned. [Paul Orrock/Digital Craftsmen]

•   Made the default installed "Photograph" and "Illustration" media document types true image objects, with autopopulated fields for height, width, etc. Suggested by Simon Wilcox. [David]

•   Changed the default value of the "SMTP_SERVER" bricolage.conf directive to localhost. This has a much greater chance of working than defaulting to the value of the "VHOST_SERVER_NAME" directive. [David]

•   Eliminated the term "Asset Type" from the UI, replacing it with "Element", "Story Type Element", or "Media Type Element", as context demands. [David]

•   The Contributor manager no longer presents a "New" link if the Contributor Type on which the contributor is based has no custom fields. This will prevent folks from creating new contributor roles in the UI only to find that Bricolage hasn't created them because there are no custom fields. [David]

•   In the formBuilder interface used by the Element and Contributor Type profiles, the default maximum length of text and textarea fields is now "0", or unlimited. [David]

•   When publishing from a publish desk, you can now uncheck related assets in order to not publish them. You can also unset the "PUBLISH_RELATED_ASSETS" bricolage.conf directive to never publish related assets. [Scott]

  Bug Fixes

•   The virtual FTP server now correctly creates a utility template when a template with an unknown name is uploaded. [David]

•   The virtual FTP server now pays proper attention to all permissions. [David]

•   A number of upgrade script annoyances were cleared up. [David]

•   The "simple" parameter to the Media class' "list()" method works again. As a result, so does "Find Stories" in the UI. [David]

•   The de-de localization library has been fixed so that it now works. [David]

•   Filter by site context now works. 'All sites' context now returns results from all sites instead of none. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   Several Alert Type fixes. Rule regular expression matching (=~, !~) now handles patterns containing slashes (important for URIs, for example). Attributes no longer show up as stringified hash references in subject or message variable substitution. $trig_password was removed from the Profile as it caused an error and was useless anyway. And finally, duplicate and spurious attributes were removed from the rules and message variable lists. [Scott & David]

•   Fixed Template Element list, where container elements appeared twice. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   The deletion of a site now properly resets the workflows to be displayed in the side navigation layer. [David]

•   Changes to site settings are now correctly reflected in the UI for all users as soon as they are made. [David]

•   New media documents no longer attempt to validate URI uniqueness until a file has been uploaded. [David]

•   Autopopulated fields in media elements can once again have their values fetched in templates. This problem was due to bad key names being created for new image elements created after upgrading to 1.7.0. [David]

•   The workflow profile no longer displays deactivated sites in the site select list. Thanks to Serge Sozonoff for the spot. [David]

•   The upgrade script that adds the "first_publish_date" attribute to the database now properly sets that date for existing assets, no matter how many "publish" events have been logged. There should be only one, but some systems apparently have more. [Thorsten Biel]

•   Media, Story, and Template groups now properly display all of the permissions that can be granted to user groups to access them. [David]

•   The "Next" button in the Element Type profile now correctly loads the next page of the profile instead of returning to the manager. [David]

•   Fixed URI uniqueness upgrade scripts, which were having problems with PostgreSQL permissions. [David]

•   "make clone" works again. [David]

•   Fixed database building installer scripts to use the $PGHOST environment variable when it has been explicitly set to "localhost", both to override existing instances of that variable on a system, and to allow tunneling to work properly. [Thorsten Biel]

•   Distribution jobs can be edited via the UI again. Thanks to Marshall Roch for the spot. [David]

•   Publishes once again work when the "Date/Time Format" preference is set to something other than ISO-8601. Reported by Marshall Roch. [David]

•   "bric_dist_mon" now correctly appends "/dist/" to the end of the server URL if it is not already appended. Reported by Marshall Roch. [David]

•   If a desk is in a template workflow and a story or media workflow, and you attempt to publish a media or story document from that desk in the context of the template workflow, it will now properly publish the story or media document instead of throwing an error. Reported by Serge Sozonoff. [David]

•   Fixed previewing with multiple OCs. [Serge Sozonoff]

•   Fixed a bug in "bric_soap story create/update" caused by refactoring in version 1.7.0. Found by David during a demo. [Scott]

•   An attempt to preview a story for which no template exists now gives a friendly error message again. This was broken by the change in 1.7.2 that made the Mason burner use document templates as true dhandlers. [Dave Rolsky]

•   The workflow menus in the side navigation layer no longer disappear after a server restart. Reported by Ben Bangert. [David]

•   The Mason burner's special "<%publish>", "<%preview>", and "<%chk_syntax>" tags now work as advertised. Reported by Ben Bangert. [David]

•   Publication of stories and media that automatically schedule expiration jobs no longer causes an error. Reported by Marshall Bloch. [David]

VERSION 1.7.2 "Kat" (2004-02-12)

  New Features

•   Bricolage now has a much more robust security policy. Users with permission to edit various objects and groups in the administrative interface can no longer increase their permissions. Nor can they manage the membership of groups of which they are not members or do not have EDIT access to the members. All this is to prevent users from giving themselves higher permissions. [David]

•   Added "publish_another()" method to Bric::Util::Burner. This method publishes a document other than the one currently being published. This is useful when a template for one document type needs to trigger the publish of another document. [David]

•   Added new permissions "RECALL" and "PUBLISH". These permissions apply only to asset groups, including desks, categories, and workflows. Now users must have RECALL permission to recall assets from the library and bring them into workflow, and PUBLISH permission to publish assets. This should make it much easier to create more flexible permissions to manage approval processes. [David]

•   Bricolage now supports per-user preferences. Admins can mark a preference as overrideable, which allows users to set this preference to their preferred value. [Dave Rolsky]

•   The character set and language preferences have been moved into the database, so that these can be overridden by individual users if needed. [Dave Rolsky]

•   Added "--published-only" option to bric_soap and bric_republish so that the last-published version of a document can be republished, rather than the current version. [Scott]

•   Added Bric::Util::Job::Pub. Publication can now be placed into a queue and deferred until a scheduled time, instead of burning on command and distributing later, Bricolage will now burn a story at the time of the scheduled distribution. [Mark]

•   Added the "bric_queued" daemon to take advantage of the new publication scheduling of Bric::Util::Job::Pub. Together with the use of a carefully tuned instance of Bricolage, these new features allow the Bricolage administrator to control the amount of system resources given over to publishing. [Mark]

•   German localization completed. [Thorsten Biel]

•   Added "get_parent()" method to Bric::Biz::Asset::Business::Parts::Tile. This simplifies getting access to a parent element in an element template. [David]

•   Added User and Desk (asset) modules to the SOAP API, added asset commands to the Workflow module, and made corresponding changes to bric_soap. [Scott]

•   Added "burn_again" attribute to the Mason burner. This method can be called from within a template to force the burner to burn the current page again, creating a new file. This can be useful for creating multi-file output without extra paginated subelements. [David]

•   Added zh-cn localization, with translation based on zh-tw. [Kang-min Liu]

  Improvements

•   A field that is both required and repeatable now allows instances of the field after the first instance to be deleted. Setting a field to required essentially means that one must always be present in the UI. [David]

•   HTML::Template and Template Toolkit are now optional. If they're not installed on your system, they won't be loaded by Bricolage. [David]

•   The default "Story Editors," "Media Producers," and "Template Developers" user groups now have READ permission to the members of the "All Sites" group so that they can properly select a site context and gain access to the workflows in their site context. [David]

•   A number of improvements for the bric_media_upload contrib script:

    Creates intermediate categories if needed.
    Added a "--skip-existing" directive.
    Added a "--media-info" directive.

    See the script's usage info for details. [Simon Wilcox]

•   Fixed upgrade scripts to be more intelligent in their handling of transactions. They no longer allow SQL errors without failing the upgrade. The upgrade scripts have also been updated to ensure successful upgrades to Bricolage installations as far back as 1.4.0. [David]

•   "make upgrade" now suggests that the user run "make clone" on the existing installation, and asks the whether to continue or not. This is to encourage folks to have a good backup before upgrading, in case the upgrade fails. [David]

•   Added "element_key_name" parameter to the "list()" method of the story, media, and formatting classes. This makes it easier to use the name of a story type element, media type element, or template element to search for assets, rather than the "element__id" parameter, which isn't as friendly. [David]

•   Added "Filter by Site Context" preference. When active, search results only return assets relative to the site context instead of all the sites the user has access to [Joa~o Pedro]

•   The Mason burner now uses document templates as true dhandlers, enabling full Mason-style inheritance from autohandlers to work properly. [David & Dave Rolsky]

•   "All *" groups can now be accessed via the Group Manager. Their names and memberships cannot be edited, but their permissions can. Inspired by a bug report from Patrick Walsh. [David]

•   Queries for stories, media, and templates have been greatly optimized. Thanks to a large database from The Register and query optimization from Josh Berkus (under sponsorship from WHO) and Simon Myers of GBDirect, searches for stories in the UI are now 10-40 times faster than they were before (depending on the version of PostgreSQL you're running). [David]

•   Added the "story.category" parameter to the "list()" method of Bric::Biz::Asset::Business::Story. Pass in a story ID, and a list of stories in the same categories as the story with that ID will be returned, minus the story with that ID. This parameter triggers a complex join, which can slow the query time significantly on underpowered servers or systems with a large number of stories. Still, it can be very useful in templates that want to create a list of stories in all of the categories the current story is in. But be sure to use the <Limit> parameter! Thanks to Josh Berkus for his help figuring out the query syntax. [David]

  Bug Fixes

•   The "Checkout" checkbox is no longer missing in the Find interface for documents and templates that are already in workflow. [David]

•   Category groups can be edited again. Reported by Alexander Ling. [David]

•   Elements can be edited again. Thanks to Alexander Ling for the spot! [David]

•   Element fields can be edited again without encountering the "called the removed method 'get_name'" error. Reported by Alexander Ling. [David]

•   Improved the upgrade script for converting field definitions to use key names, thanks to reports from Nate Perry-Thistle. [David]

•   Made the index on field key names case-insensitively unique. [David]

•   Restored category asset group permissions in user group profiles. [David]

•   Templates can be deleted again. Thanks to Adeola Awoyemi for the spot! [David]

•   Stories and media with non-unique URIs can now be deleted. Reported by Simon Wilcox. [David]

•   Checkin and Publish once again works in the media profile. Thanks to Alexander Ling for the spot. [David]

•   Adding users to any of the default site user permission groups no longer incorrectly allow those users to select that site for their context. Reported by Alexander Ling. [David]

•   The inline "Bulk Edit" feature in story and media profiles works again. Thanks to Neal Sofge for the spot! [David]

•   Fixed 1.7.0 upgrade scripts that create key names to better handle key name conflicts. Thanks to Nate Perry-Thistle for having an installation that generated such conflicts. [David]

•   Attempting to create a destination with the same name as an existing or deleted destination no longer causes an SQL error. Thanks to Simon Wilcox for the spot! [David]

•   Templates are now correctly saved to the user's sandbox when "Save and Stay" is pressed. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   Select lists now correctly save their states so that, for example, dropdown menus in New Story remember the element and category that was selected last time. [Scott]

•   Group membership now correctly shows the site name for each object when there is more than one site in the installation. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   Sites can now be disassociated with elements. Reported by Alexander Ling. [David]

•   Redirects during previews work again. [David]

•   The virtual FTP server works again for the first time since before the release of 1.7.0. Now when you log in to the FTP server, the root directory will contain a list of sites. When you change directories into one of the site directories, you'll see a list of the output channels in that site. [David]

•   The virtual FTP server no longer displays output channels or categories (or sites) that the user does not have at least READ permission to access. [David]

VERSION 1.7.1 (2003-11-30)

  Improvements

•   The members of the "All" groups are prevented from being changed in the callbacks now, as well as in the interface, where a JavaScript function had been preventing it. [David]

  Bug Fixes

•   Passwords can be changed again. [Mike Slattery]

•   It is now virtually impossible to create media type or story type elements without site and output channel associations. This should eliminate errors when users try to create documents based on types without output channel associations. [David]

•   The "Output Channel" item for templates on desks now displays properly. [David]

•   Eliminated bogus "Use of element's 'name' field is deprecated" warnings. Key names are allowed to have digits and underscores, and we weren't consistent about that. [David]

•   The "display_element()" method in the Mason burner once again passes component arguments on to components. And now, so does "sdisplay_element()". [David]

•   Fixed favicon.ico code so that the browser and server don't go into an infinite loop with redirects of redirects. The favicon.ico still doesn't pop up in the location field in my browser, but it does display properly if I point my browser at it. [David]

•   An attempt to create a document with the same URI as an existing document no longer litters the database with broken stories. Thanks to Arthur for the spot. [David]

•   Redirection after some publishes and previews works again, instead of returning a text page to the browser. [David]

•   Now displaying the name of the site each story and media document is in in Find Stories and Find Media. Suggested by Arthur. [David]

•   A number of fixes for the bric_media_upload contrib script:

    Made it work with the 1.7.0 XML Schema.
    Fixed a bug in its use of File::Find.
    Fixed problem in calculating category names when given a directory to upload.
    Added "--bric_soap" and "--site" options.

    See the script's usage info for details. [Dave Rolsky]

•   Changing a media item's category and then saving caused an error. [Dave Rolsky]

•   Changing a media document's cover date no longer causes the URI to disappear. Thanks to Dave Rolsky for the spot. [David]

•   Attempting to preview a story for which there are no associated destinations no longer causes the error 'Can't call method "ACCESS" without a package or object reference'. Thanks to Earle Martin for the spot! [David]

•   Added "output_channel_id" parameter to the "list()" method of Bric::Biz::Site in order to prevent sites without output channel associations from being listed in the select list for story type and media type elements. [David]

•   When a document fails to publish because there are no destinations configured, the UI no longer displays a message saying that it was published. [David]

•   Fixed page logging so that redirects to the page before the current page can work correctly. It was most noticeably broken when trying to associate a contributor with a document. [David]

•   The upgrade process no longer moves media document files to where Bricolage can't find them. If this happened to you, just "mv $BRICOLAGE_ROOT/comp.old/data $BRICOLAGE_ROOT/comp". [David]

•   Performing an action in the contributor and category association interfaces in the story and media profiles no longer causes an empty search to be performed and return all contributors or categories. This could be a pain for organizations with 1000s of contributors or categories. Thanks to Scott for the report! [David]

•   The Key Name field in the element profile is no longer editable. Only new elements can type in the key name field. Thanks to Arthur for the spot! [David]

•   The Template toolkit burner now correctly uses element key names instead of names to find corresponding templates. [David]

•   Management of user groups in a double list manager UI no longer causes an SQL error. Spotted by Alexander Ling. [David]

•   Sites added to a site group will now be listed as members of the site group in the site group's profile. Thanks to Alexander Ling for the spot. [David]

•   Improved permission checking in the virtual FTP server. [David]

•   Uploading a new version of a media file did not change the path to the media file stored in the database, unless the file name of the media was also changed. [Dave Rolsky]

VERSION 1.7.0 (2003-10-22)

  New Features

•   Added multisite support. Now all stories, media, output channels, templates, categories, and workflows may be associated with different sites, and even have the same names in different sites. This simplifies the management of multiple Web sites with Bricolage. Story type and media type elements may be shared between sites. Funded by Portugal Telecom Multimedia. [David, Arthur, Garth, & Joa~o Pedro]

•   Added document aliasing. Stories and media in a site may now be aliased and published in another site, as long as the elements on which they are based are shared between sites. Control over the content of aliased documents remains in the original site, thus ensuring the editorial integrity of the document for that site. Funded by Portugal Telecom Multimedia. [David]

•   Changed element attribute "name" to "key name" to emphasize its uniqueness within an element. Also changed the "Display Name" to "Label" [Garth]

•   Added a "key_name" attribute to elements as the system-wide unique key for each element, rather than the name. The name is now used as a label. Note that the key name only allows certain characters, as it is used to name the template files that format the element. This makes the "has_name()" method a bit simpler -- and it can in fact be ignored in favor of "$element->get_key_name eq $key_name". Thus there may be some warnings if older name values are passed to "has_name()". [Garth]

•   Refactored Bric::Biz::Keyword. It is now more compliant with the standard API as defined in other classes. Also added support for keyword groups so that we can create a keyword manager. [David]

•   Added "$burner->sdisplay_element" method to Bric::Util::Burner. This is a "sprintf"-style version of "$burner->display_element". [Scott]

•   Added "get_data_element()" method to Bric::Biz::Asset::Business::Parts::Tile::Container. This allows template writers to more easily find a single data element object, rather than just the value of a single data element (as "get_data()" does). Inspired by a comment from Bill Cappel. [David]

•   Added the "YEAR_SPAN_BEFORE" and "YEAR_SPAN_AFTER" bricolage.conf directives. These directives control how many years before and after the current year to display in the list of years in the date and time select widget. The default values are 10 for each, meaning that if the current year is 2003, then the date span will be from 1993 to 2013.

•   Added the "ENABLE_SFTP_V2" bricolage.conf directive to make SSH protocol 2 be tried first. [Scott]

•   Added "Email" action, which can be used to email the files generated by a publish to one or more email addresses. Funded by ETonline. [David]

•   Callbacks were moved from Mason components to modules based on Params::Callback and managed by MasonX::Interp::WithCallbacks. This makes the UI layer more responsive and enhances maintainability. [Scott]

•   Optimized performance of URI uniqueness checks by adding database tables to do the job, rather than constructing the URIs for all other documents in the same categories as the document being checked. This was the last major bottleneck affecting SOAP performance, as well as document editing in general. Funded by Kineticode. [David]

•   Added "instance()" class method to Bric::Util::Language, so that non-OO functions can get access to the current language handle. [David]

•   Added "output_channel_id" parameter to the "list()" methods of Story and Media to enable querying for documents in output channels other than the primary output channel. Based on a patch from Clive Jones. [David]

•   Lots of notification message localization fixes. [Radu Greab]

•   Status message localization fixes [David]

•   Added "search by element type" to Advanced Search of the Find Stories and Find Media interfaces. [Scott]

•   Added a preference to select Simple or Advanced search in Find Stories/Media the default search when you go to those screens. [Scott]

•   Added "Select all" button to select all the checkboxes on publish desks or My Workspace. [Scott]

•   Added Keyword Management interface to centrally manage keywords. [Scott]

•   Added "--workflow" and "--desk" options to create and update commands of "bric_soap", so that assets can be moved to a desk at the same time as creation or updation. [Scott]

•   Added Group Membership sections to most of the profiles. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   Some optimizations to Bric::SOAP::(Media|Story|Template) classes. [Scott]

•   Added HTML::Mason Custom tags support, allowing template developers to write code blocks that are context sensitive. See Bric::AdvTemplates for documentation on this. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   Added new page extension support to the burner, which allows template developers to set string extensions to use for successive file names, rather than the traditional use of numeric file name extensions for successive file names. [Clive Jones]

•   Added "Text to search" option in the Advanced search of Media and Stories to search for documents based on the contents of their field. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   All preview links are now generated by a single widget. This widget adds the story or media URI to the "title" attribute of the link tag (which is modern browsers will automatically work as a roll-over tooltip), makes the story or media URI copyable (by relying on JavaScript to actually open a new window for the preview), and manages selecting an output channel in which to preview a story. [David]

•   Made User Group Permissions UI wieldy with larger numbers of users by adding a select list to choose which type of Permission to look at. [Scott]

•   Added ability to preview stories in a selection of output channels in the View (read-only) story profile. [David]

•   Combined the asset "Find" managers into a single component, thus eliminating a lot of redundant code. [David]

•   Added "contrib_id" parameter to the "list()" methods of Bric::Biz::Asset::Business::Story and Bric::Biz::Asset::Business::Media to return a list of story or media documents associated with a given contributor. [David]

•   Switched Bric::Util::CharTrans from using Text::Iconv to Encode, thus removing the dependency on a C library (libiconv). Note that this has changed the API of Bric::Util::CharTrans. Its "to_utf8()" and "from_utf8()" methods now always convert the argument passed in in place. They did this before for references, but now they do it for plain strings, as well. Also note that use of character translation also now requires Perl 5.8.0 or later. [Scott & David]

•   Factored out some of the SOAP asset classes into Bric::SOAP::Asset. [Scott]

•   Added MediaType, Site, and Keyword SOAP modules. [Scott]

•   Changes to a story's slug, cover date, or primary category will now be displayed before the story is saved. Suggested by a coworker of Andy Baio. [David]

•   The Find Stories, Find Media, and Find Templates interfaces now disallow searching for and returning all of the stories and media in the database. This will help prevent thousands or tens of thousands of assets from being displayed in the UI and sucking up all the resources on the server. [David]

•   Added "element" attribute to Bric::Util::Burner so that "$burner->get_element" should always return the element currently being burned. [David]

•   Added burner-specific exceptions with context information, including current output channel, current category, and current element. [David]

•   Added a "throw_error()" method to Bric::Util::Burner so that template developers can easily throw an exception that their users will see in the UI. [David]

•   Added "best_uri()" method to Bric::Util::Burner to return the most appropriate URI (in Bricolage's opinion) for a document. Mainly useful when multiple sites and document aliases are used. [David]

•   Greatly simplified burner subclassing by adding a new registration method to Bric::Util::Burner. This cuts down on the number of files that need to be edited to add a new burner. [David]

•   Moved category selection from Media and Story Profiles into their own separate components so that organizations with hundreds or thousands categories don't have to load them into a dropdown list every time an asset is edited. The category "browser" uses an interface similar to 'Associate Contributors', which has the advantage of being searchable rather than looking through a "long list of all categories". This feature can be enabled via the new "ENABLE_CATEGORY_BROWSER" bricolage.conf directive. [Scott]

•   Added list paging to Desks and My Workspace. [Scott]

•   XHTML/CSS-ized desk items. This approach is the future of the Bricolage interface: purely structural HTML, with CSS to create the presentation. Eventually, we'll be able to have UI preferences to change font sizes or the entire look and feel just by switching style sheets. But for now, this change should help with the display of desks with many items on them, and it should also speed the display of such desks. Turn off the "USE_XHTML" bricolage.conf directive to get the old desk views back (useful for older browsers). [David]

•   Added a preference to set the default Story/Media sorting. [Scott]

•   Added the ability to test templates without having to deploy them by using "template sandboxes" for each template developer. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   Added Template Toolkit burner support. [Arthur/Fotango]

•   Added a bricolage.conf directive, "ALLOW_SLUGLESS_NONFIXED", to prevent slugless non-fixed (non-Cover) stories. [Scott]

•   Added support for installing and upgrading Bricolage with PostgreSQL on a separate host. [Thorsten Biel]

•   Added context-sensitive help for pages that were missing it. [Scott]

•   "make upgrade" no longer simply overwrites the contents of the UI component root ($BRICOLAGE_ROOT/comp), but renames it $BRICOLAGE_ROOT/comp.old and writes out a new one. This is both so that deleted UI component files don't remain behind after an upgrade, and so that users can access any files that they've changed in the old component root. Most users can just delete it after upgrading. [David]

VERSION 1.6.14 (2004-05-02)

  Bug Fixes

•   "make upgrade" once again correctly creates postgres.db if the existing installation doesn't know the installed version of PostgreSQL. [David]

•   Adding notes to image, video, or audio media documents no longer causes an error. Reported by Christian Hauser. [David]

•   Errors in the "PERL_LOADER" bricolage.conf directive no longer silently fail. [David]

•   A successful login no longer redirects back to the login page, thus no longer forcing a second redirect in such cases. Reported by Marshall Roch. [David]

•   The $burner object is now available in Mason template "<%once>" blocks during the syntax check, although $story and $element are not. All three are in the "<%once>" block during previews and publishes. This means that they can all be used in a "<%once>" block like this:

      <%once>;
      unless ($burner->get_mode == SYNTAX_MODE) {
          # Do stuff with $story or $element.
      }
      </%once>

    Reported by Serge Sozonoff. [David]

VERSION 1.6.13 "Tripled" (2004-04-10)

  Bug Fixes

•   Deactivated groups no longer affect permission checking. Discovered thanks to a bug report from Serge Sozonoff. [David]

VERSION 1.6.12 "Tov" (2004-04-09)

  Bug Fixes

•   Warnings are no longer fatal. This was only the case ouside of mod_perl, and so was probably quite rare, anyway. [David]

•   Upgrades no longer cause an error during the execution of inst/db_grant.pl. Reported by Abdul Halim Mazahar. [David]

•   Alerts once again properly check the attributes of the events that trigger them. Reported by Patrick Walsh. [David]

VERSION 1.6.11 "Green" (2004-03-17)

  Bug Fixes

•   A checkbox that is unchecked in an element no longer reverts to checked when clicking "Save and Stay". Reported by Scott Lanning. [David]

•   Date parameters to the "list()" methods of the story, media, and template classes are now properly converted to UTC (and the database internal format) before being passed to the database. [David]

•   Elminated some warnings. Reported by Christian Hauser. [David]

•   Simplified error handling in the "Bric" base class and when running outside of "mod_perl". [David]

•   Fixed issue with load order directives in Bricolage dynamic httpd.conf generation. This had caused the "PREVIEW_MASON" directive to not work in some cases. Incidentally, this change also allows dynamic configuration of mod_perl 1.26 and earlier. [David]

VERSION 1.6.10 "Jump" (2004-02-29)

  Bug Fixes

•   Added missing index to the "workflow__id" column of the "story", "media", and "formatting" (template) tables. [David]

•   Made index on the "desk__id" column of the "story", "media", and "formatting" (template) tables a partial index, since the column will usually be "NULL". [David]

•   Added an index to the description column of the "story_instance", "media_instance", and "formatting" (template) tables to speed up simple searches. [David]

•   Added missing foreign key constraints for the "desk_id" column of the "story", "media", and "formatting" (template) tables. [David]

•   "make clone" no longer fails when it can't find httpd.conf, because it no longer looks for it. [David]

•   "make clone" no longer assumes that the conf directory is in $BRICOLAGE_ROOT, and prompts the user to find out. [David]

•   Bricolage once again works with Perl 5.6.x and Perl 5.8.1. [David]

•   Made bric_republish and bric_dev_sync safe to use with "https://". [Geoff Richards]

•   The user object is no longer instantiated from the database every time a user sends a request to Bricolage. It appears that this bit of overhead has unfortunately been imposed on every request since Bricolage 1.0 due to a very stupid typo. [David]

•   The creation of the Bricolage PostgreSQL user and database during installation no longer complains about usernames or database names with dashes and other non-alphanumeric characters in them. Thanks to Marshall Roch for the spot! [David]

•   Fixed ancient bug revealed by the release of DBI 1.41. [David]

•   Photoshop-generated images no longer make Bricolage choke when they're uploaded to a Media profile that autopopulates fields. Reported by Paul Orrock. [David]

•   The "lookup()" method of the story, media, and template classes will now correctly return inactive objects. [David]

•   Fixed typo of "CHECK_FREQUENCY" in Bric::Config that made it always use the default of 1. [Scott]

•   The "lookup()" method of the story, media, and template classes once again attempt to retrieve objects from the per-request cache before looking them up in the database. [David]

•   Changed the name of the event logged when templates are checked out from "Template Checked Out Canceled" to the correct "Template Checked Out." [David]

VERSION 1.6.9 (2004-02-06)

  Bug Fixes

•   Fixed installation and upgrade scripts to use the same perl binary as was used to execute Makefile.PL. This ensures that all necessary CPAN modules will be correctly installed and located. [Simon Wilcox]

•   Story profile JavaScript validation works again. Thanks to Simon Wilcox for the spot! [David]

•   Eliminated the need for the Apache::ConfigFile module, and thus some annoying problems with the CPAN indexer when trying to install it. [David]

•   Fixed order of SQL statement execution upon installation so that dependencies are properly handled. [Mark]

•   New file resources created for distribution are now created with the proper media type. [Mark]

•   The German localization module (Bric::Util::Language::de_de) had the wrong package name, which meant that attempts to use it failed with the error "Can't locate class method 'Bric::Util::Language::de_de::new' via package 'Bric::Util::Language::de_de'". [Dave Rolsky]

•   Added new path to find PostgreSQL installed by some Debian packages. [Cinly Ooi]

•   Workflows with special characters such as "+" and "&" now work properly in the side navigation. Thanks to Patrick Walsh for the spot! [David]

•   Start desks can no longer be removed from workflows. This prevents workflows from having no desks, thus avoiding problems adding desks to such workflows. Reported by Patrick Walsh. [David]

•   Pushing the cancel button in a desk profile and then in a workflow profile no longer redirects back to the desk profile. [David]

•   Made publish_date not be empty when publish is done through the SOAP API and no publish_date argument is passed. [Scott]

•   Fixed CPAN installer to correctly update the list of modules to be installed after a module has been successfully installed. Reported by Perrin Harkins. [David]

•   Checkout checkboxes no longer appear for assets that users don't have permission to check out. Thanks to Alexander Ling for the spot! [David]

•   Bric::Biz::AssetType::Parts::Data's "lookup()" method now returns deactivated objects, as it should. Thanks to Nuno Barreto for the spot. [David]

•   Events with attributes with the same name as attributes of the object the event was triggered on (a common occurrence) no longer confuses the two. Thanks to Todd Tyree for the spot. [David]

•   Users granted permission to access the members of a group via two user group associations now always get the highest priority permission, as it should be. Thanks to Patrick Walsh for the spot. [David]

•   Textarea fields in elements no longer lose some of their default data after editing the field in the element manager. Reported by Todd Tyree. [David]

•   Media assets now properly remember their class, which means that autopopulated fields (such as "height" and "width" for images) are autopopulated when a new image file is uploaded. Thanks to Patrick Walsh for the spot! [David]

•   Updated Chinese Traditional localization. [Kang-min Liu]

VERSION 1.6.8 (2003-11-29)

  Bug Fixes

•   Custom select fields now correctly pay attention to the size attribute. Reported by Dave Rolsky. [David]

•   The element type manager now displays "Subelement" instead of "Story" for subelement element types. Suggested by Dave Rolsky. [David]

•   Updated to work with PostgreSQL 7.4. [David]

•   Improved error message in Bric::Util::Trans::SFTP. [David]

•   It's possible to create new stories again without running into errors saying that a URI is not unique because the cover date and slug were accidentally excluded from the URI. [David]

•   Mason story templates now inherit from all category templates, thus enabling the access of "<%attr>"s and calling of "<%method>"s in category templates from story templates. [David]

•   Permission to edit element fields is now based on the permissions granted to edit the elements they belong to. This means that users other Global Admin group members can now edit fields. [David]

•   Dates are no longer editable if a user doesn't have permission to edit them. [David]

•   Users without EDIT access to an element no longer see a link to Edit fields of that element, but a link to View them, instead. They will also no longer see an "Add Subelements" button. [David]

•   Fixed bug that triggered an invalid error message when a story URI is non-unique. Reported by Kevin Elliott. [David]

•   Assets with the same IDs but in different classes (media vs. stories vs. templates) no longer prevent each other from being added to a desk that can contain different classes of assets. Thanks to Scott for the spot and doing the research that lead to the replication of the problem. [David]

•   The Log page no longer improperly redirects to the preview page after a preview. Reported by Simon Wilcox. [David]

VERSION 1.6.7 (2003-10-22)

  Bug Fixes

•   Fixed "bric_soap" to accept a "--server" argument starting with "https", which is more friendly to an SSI environment. [Geoff Richards]

•   The PostgreSQL admin username and password arguments were reversed during "make upgrade". [Thorsten Biel]

•   Fixed broken foreign key index on element table. [Dave Rolsky]

•   Added partial index to speed queries against the job table, and thus to speed distribution. [Mark]

•   Fixed upgrade module to properly grant the correct Bricolage database user permission to access new tables and sequences. [David]

•   An upgrade script failure will really now cause "make upgrade" to halt installation so that any issues are immediately identified and correctable. [David]

•   Updated slug RegExen. They were a bit too strict, and should be better now, allowing dots, dashes, and underscores. Spotted by Creighton Higgins. [David]

•   The $name variable no longer shows up twice in the list of available content variables for alert types on media documents. Thanks to Scott for the spot! [David]

•   Inactive alert types no longer trigger the sending of alerts. Thanks to Scott for the spot. [David]

•   Added tests for validity of the POD in *.pod files as well as *.pm files. Fixed a few POD typos found as a result. [David]

•   Fixed "element_data_id" parameter to Bric::Biz::Asset::Business::Parts::Tile::Data to actually work. Reported by Eldar Kononov. [David]

VERSION 1.6.6 (2003-10-03)

  New Features

•   Added README.Solaris, with thanks to Oscar Sodani and Thorsten Biel.

  Bug Fixes

•   When an asset is published or deployed directly from the asset profile, it is now properly removed from the publish or deploy desk. Reported by Andy Baio's coworker. [David]

•   The "desk_id" attribute of assets is now properly cleared when an asset is removed from workflow. [David]

•   Fixed 1.6.5 upgrade script to look for Bric::Config in the proper location. [David]

•   Templates now display their output channel associations instead of their element associations on desks. This seems to be more useful, since the element association is usually obvious from the name. [David]

•   The category URI is now displayed for assets on desks, rather than the name. This is consistent with the display of the category elsewhere. [David]

•   Elements to which no subelements can be added will no longer display an empty select list and "Add Element" button. [Geoff Richards]

•   "Bric::Biz::Asset::Business::Story->get_secondary_categories()" will no longer return categories deleted from the story. Thanks to Scott for the spot. [David]

•   Removed some unnecessary JavaScript validation. [David]

•   Bug fix when deploying to multiple output channels. If the output channel IDs matched each other partly, it could cause a file to be removed after it just had been uploaded. [Arthur/Fotango]

•   Users with CREATE access to a start desk can once again create stories on that desk even when they don't have CREATE access to "All Stories." Reported by Simon Wilcox. [David]

•   Each upgrade script is now run within the confines of a single database transaction. If any database changes within an upgrade script encounter an error, all of the changes in that script will be rolled back. Suggested by Arthur. [David]

•   An upgrade script failure will now cause "make upgrade" to halt installation so that any issues are immediately identified and correctable. [David]

•   An invalid date in a date element field no longer causes an error. Thanks to Arthur for the spot! [David]

•   With "(STORY_URI_WITH_FILENAME" enabled and when there is no defined file extension Bricolage now doesn't insert an ending '.' (dot). [Arthur/Fotango]

•   Slight fix to virtual FTP server to handle bad FTP clients that try and use directories as files. [Arthur]

VERSION 1.6.5 (2003-09-10)

  Bug Fixes

•   Previewing stories with related media that have no associated file no longer causes an error. Reported by Kevin Elliott. [David]

•   Switched to using "DBI->connect_cached()" from using our own database connection caching. This change does bump up the minimum required version of DBI to 1.18, though the latest version is always recommended. It's also the right thing to do. Thanks to Perrin Harkins for the suggestion. [David]

•   Fixed issue that could cause Bric::Util::DBI to create inconsistent transaction states. Spotted by Rudy Lippan. [David]

•   Removed passing of DEBUG argument to "prepare()", "prepare_c()" and "prepare_ca()", since it hasn't actually worked in some time, and could potentially change the behavior of the prepare. [David]

•   Bric::SOAP::Workflow no longer throws an error when its "publish_date" parameter is undefined. Reported by Kevin Elliott. [David]

•   Passing an undef via the "workflow__id" parameters to the "list()" method of Story, Media, or Template really does again cause Bricolage to correctly return only those assets that are not in workflow. It wasn't as fixed in 1.6.3 as I had thought. Reported by Kevin Elliott. [David]

•   Vastly improved the speed of the query that lists events, and added an index to help it along, as well. [Mark]

•   The list of categories associated with a story is now presented in alphabetical order by URI in the story profile. Suggested by Geoff Richards. [David]

•   The FTP mover now properly deletes files rather than erroring out. [Clive Jones]

•   Fixed installer to use PostgreSQL 7.1 syntax to update statistics. [David]

•   Now setting $PGDATESTYLE environment variable so that PostgreSQL isn't confused about the date style Bricolage is using. Suggested by Chris Riddoch. [David]

•   Users without EDIT access to the start desk in a workflow can no longer create assets in that workflow. Nor can they check out assets from the library, as there's no start desk for them to check them in to. But they can still check them out from other desks that they have EDIT access to. Reported by Rachel Murray. [David]

•   Time zone issues have been fixed to be more portable. Some platforms that experienced Bricolage unexpectedly shifting cover dates and other dates and times by several hours should no longer see this problem. [David]

•   Non-existent methods no longer throw "permission denied" exceptions, but the standard Perl "Can't locate object method" exception. This is to eliminate confusion with permission to access Bricolage objects. [David]

•   Adding a new element type with the same name as an existing or deleted element type no longer causes an SQL error. Thanks to Gary Gilchrist for the spot. [David]

VERSION 1.6.4 (2003-08-12)

  Bug Fixes

•   Preview works again. [David]

VERSION 1.6.3 (2003-08-12)

  Bug Fixes

•   Document and contributor type field information (label, options) is no longer pushed through Locale::Maketext, thus preventing errors when element and contributor type administrators create field options with brackets in them. Reported by Kevin Elliott. [David]

•   Documents associated with categories that have been deleted will once again work properly. Even though a category may be deactivated, any documents previously put into that category should still work, and still treat the category as a working category. And so they do. Thanks to Kevin Elliott for the spot! [David]

•   Renamed events for adding fields to elements and contributor types. They were mentioning "attributes," and now they mention "fields," instead. [David]

•   Updated Bric::Admin (INSTALL) to instruct users encountering installation problems to first check the list archives and post to the mailing list before filing a bug. [Cinly Ooi]

•   Permissions granted on the "All" groups work again. Reported by Kevin Elliott. [David]

•   Resize now works in super bulk edit. Thanks to Michael G. Kaiser for the spot. [David]

•   Documented that the "list_ids()" methods in Bric::Biz::Asset's subclasses ignore the "Order" and "OrderDiretion" parameters and return an unordered list of IDs. Reported by Clive Jones. [David]

•   The "Add Element" select list in story, media profiles now lists the fields that can be added in the order specified in the element profile, and then the subelements that can be added, instead of mixing up fields and subelements in alphabetical order. Thanks to Joa~o Pedro for the spot! [David]

•   When a template is deployed, Bricolage now checks to see if its file name has changed since it was last deployed, and if it has, it deletes the old file. Reported by Kevin Elliott. [David]

•   Optimized performance of Bric::Dist::Resource queries and wrote lots of tests for them. [David]

•   When a story or media document is published, Bricolage now looks to see if any files distributed for previous versions of the document are no longer associated with the document, and expires them if they are. It does so on a per-output channel basis, so note that if output channel settings have changed since the document was last published, the expiration may miss some stale files. The same goes for when destinations are changed. But this should cover the vast majority of cases.

•   Fixed error looking up alert types in the database, which affected the alert type manager on some platforms. Reported by Radu Greab. [David]

•   Deactivated alert types are once again available via the UI. [David]

•   Text input fields no longer impose a default maximum field length. This is so that element fields that have their maximum length set to 0 can truly be unlimited in length. Reported by Kevin Elliott. [David]

•   Template output channel associations no longer trigger an error when importing templates via the SOAP interface. [Clive Jones]

•   Passing an undef via the "workflow__id" parameters to the "list()" method of Story, Media, or Template once again causes Bricolage to correctly return only those assets that are not in workflow. Reported by Kevin Elliott. [David]

•   Extra blank lines between subelement tags in super bulk edit no longer causes an error. Thanks to Kevin Elliott for the spot! [David]

•   Searches no longer return unexpected results or all objects when pagination is enabled. Thanks to Kevin Elliott for the spot! [David]

•   The searches for documents by beginning and ending cover dates were not inclusive of the end date. Now they are! Reported by Kevin Elliott. [David]

•   Fixed spelling of "contributor" in the description of the contributor type class in the database. Noticed by Radu Greab. [David]

VERSION 1.6.2 (2003-07-28)

  New Features

•   German localization started. [Gerfried Fuchs]

•   New help pages for the destination, server, and action profiles. [Geoff Richards]

  Bug Fixes

•   Fixed a bug in Bric::SOAP::Media which was causing all media files uploaded with that module to be placed in "comp/data/media/$version/" rather than "comp/data/media/$id/$version/". [Mark]

•   Fixed SQL bug that might in rare situations cause element output channel associations to become confused. [David]

•   Fixed issue where new output channels added to a document type element were not always actually saved as a part of that element. [David]

•   Fixed side navigation spacer graphic to the same width as other such graphics. Helps Chinese Traditional to display more nicely. [Kang-min Liu]

•   The media simple search now searches by URI again. [Mark]

•   Now HTML-escaping the contents of the context content displayed for subelements so as to prevent HTML in fields from messing up the display. [Mark]

•   Fixed installer to again work with versions of PostgreSQL prior to 7.3. Thanks to Marc Hawson for the spot. [David]

•   Fix for 'Can't call method "out_method" on an undefined value' generated during a burn. [Mark]

•   Many minor HTML corrections. [Gerfried Fuchs]

•   Fix for SQL error when searching for media by file name. [David]

•   Eliminated 'Can't locate object method "redirect" via package "HTML::Mason::Request"' error that caused Bricolage to actually display a generic error page, instead of its custom error page. [David]

•   Alert types can once again be deleted from the alert type profile. [David]

•   Users can now only add subelements to a story if they have at least READ permission to those subelements. Thanks to Mark for the spot. [David]

•   If the installer notices that you're attempting to install Bricolage in a directory with an existing installation, it will suggest that you consider running "make upgrade", instead. Suggested by Bruce Albrecht. [David]

•   The list manager now sorts version numbers as numbers rather than strings. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   The media type profile again allows extensions to be added and removed. Reported by Tobias Kremer. [David]

•   Added the "CHAR_SET" directive's value to Bricolage's Apache configuration via the httpd.conf directive "AddDefaultCharset". Might help with some Unicode issues. [David]

•   Distribution error handling is better now, with errors passed back to the client and an error when bric_dist_mon attempts to connect to a server or URL that's not a Bricolage distribution server. [David]

•   Eliminated installation error 'Failed to create database: parser: parse error at or near "template0"', which occurred with versions of PostgreSQL prior to 7.3. [Scott]

•   Enabled the "PERL_LOADER" bricolage.conf configuration directive and gave it a default value that's actually useful. [David]

•   Perl 5.8.0 or later is now strongly recommended for better Unicode support.

•   Fixed deleting an Alert Type Rule. Also fixed Editing Alert Type Recipients. [Scott]

•   Notes are once again saved with a document. Thanks to Scott for the spot! [David]

•   Fixed an issue with FTP distribution where the incorrect FTP root was used an invalid path. [Clive Jones]

•   The title and description of a story or media document are now properly reverted when the document is reverted to an earlier version. Thanks to Scott for the spot. [David]

•   Pagination now works properly when searching for groups by type in the group manager. [Scott]

•   Pagination now works properly when searching for elements by element type in the element manager and when searching for contributors by contributor type in the contributor manager. [David]

•   Creating a new story that has a URI that conflicts with an existing story no longer creates an extra story. Reported by Clive Jones. [David]

•   Changed "Cannot publish asset because there are no Destinations associated with its output channels" to instead include the name of the output channel missing Destination associations so that the user can tell which output channels need a Destination association. [Clive Jones]

•   When an document's primary output channel has been changed to something other than that defined by its document type element, preview will now correctly use the document's primary output channel instead of the element's primary output channel. [David]

•   Returning to a desk from editing an asset that was selected for editing from that desk no longer triggers an error. Thanks to Clive Jones for the spot! [David]

•   An attempt to preview a story where its templates output no content no longer results in an error. Reported by Eldar Kononov. [David]

•   Clicking "Cancel" in an element no longer saves the changes in that element before going up to the parent element. Thanks to Andrew Baio for the spot! [David]

•   Changes made to the default values of fields in the contributor type profile are now properly saved. Reported by Scott. [David]

•   Adding Extensions to a Bric::Util::MediaType object when creating it via that class' "new()" constructor works again. Reported by Clive Jones. [David]

•   Added Localization support to widgets that were missing it. Added pt_pt localized images. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   Documents are no longer distributed to deleted (deactivated) destinations. Reported by Mark. [David]

•   Eliminated several error log authentication message such as "No cookie found." This tended only to confuse users when they were just starting to use Bricolage. I've left in a few error messages, however, so that system administrators can see in the log when it looks like someone is trying to hack into Bricolage. The remaining authentication error log messages are:

    •   Invalid username or password. Please try again.

    •   User does not exist or is disabled.

    •   Malformed cookie.

    •   Cookie hash mismatch from [IP address] (Hostname '[hostname]') for user '[username].'

•   Elements added with the same name as an existing, active or inactive element no longer trigger an SQL error to be displayed. Thanks to Clive Jones for the spot! [David]

•   Fixed issue where adding an output channel to a document type element removed that output channel from another document type element. Thanks to Clive Jones for the spot! [David]

•   Adding a server to a new destination before saving the destination or adding an action no longer causes an SQL error. [David]

•   "make clone" now properly clones bricolage.conf, "httpd.conf", and all of the contents of conf/. [David]

VERSION 1.6.1 (2003-06-12)

  New Features

•   Added bric_xfer_grps and bric_xfer_users to contrib/bric_xfer. They use the Bric API to transfer users and groups between Bricolage Installations. [Scott]

•   Added Traditional Chinese localization. [Kang-min Liu]

  Bug Fixes

•   "make clone" now properly creates inst/Pg.sql instead of inst/bricolage.sql. It also once again properly resolves the circular dependency between the "usr" table and the "login_avail()" PostgreSQL function. [David]

•   The FTP distributor now deletes existing copies of files before renaming a temporary file when connecting to Win32 servers. This is because the IIS FTP server doesn't seem to support renaming a file to the same name as an existing file. [David]

•   Creating the database during "make install" no longer fails if someone is already connected to template1. [Scott]

•   A preview link is no longer in the "Find Media," "Active Media," desk, or "My Workspace" views for media that have no associated file. [David]

•   "make upgrade" now uses the correct PostgreSQL root username and password, instead of the default "postgres" username and empty password. Thanks to Paul Cory for the spot! [David]

•   Burn-time exceptions are once again properly displayed in the error page. [David]

•   When the "STORY_URI_WITH_FILENAME" bricolage.conf directive is enabled, stories are now written to the proper file when previewed or published. Thanks to Kevin White for the spot! [David]

•   Fix issue that came up with the release of Mason 1.20. Reported by Jeff Steele. [David]

•   Fixed typo in Media Type manager that broke it. Reported by Lari Huttunen. [Scott]

•   Fixed problem where an attempt to add new output channels to a new element before saving that element cause errors. Mainly noticeable when creating elements via SOAP. Thanks to Mark for the spot. [David]

•   Various localization fixes. [Scott]

•   Fixed event logging for element fields. [David]

•   Media assets that are based on "Image", "Audio", and "Video" element types now properly show up on desks. Note that existing media assets missing from desks should be checked out via "Active Media" and moved to a new desk. [David]

•   Documented the support for passing %ARGS to "$burner->display_element()" in templates. It was added to Bric::Util::Burner::Mason a while ago, but I forgot to document it! Thanks to Mike Slattery for the spot. [David]

•   Added Crypt::SSLeay to the list of optional modules to be installed. This module is required for SOAP communications over SSL. So if you use SSL and you use the SOAP server, you'll want to install it. [David]

•   Fixed alerts so that alerts are once again sent to the members of groups. Reported by Paul Cory. [David]

•   Deleted alert types are no longer displayed in the Alert Type Manager. Thanks to Paul Cory for the spot! [David]

•   Added more intelligent code using HTTP headers instead of HTML to prevent browsers [IE] from caching pages. [David]

•   Bricolage no correctly sets the HTTP headers for the content language and character set. Thanks to Nathan Ollerenshaw for the spot! [David]

•   "make clone" now changes the user and group ownership on the cloned files to the values for the current user (root). This is to avoid problems when "tar"ing up those files. [David]

•   Added code to Apache configuration to force JavaScript files to be served with the proper character set HTTP header. Those who use manual Apache configuration along with Bric::App::ApacheStartup will want to add the following configuration directive to your httpd.conf:

      <Location /media/js>
        ForceType => "application/x-javascript; charset=utf-8"
      </Location>

•   The virtual FTP server no longer displays templates in subcategories of the current subcategory directory. Thanks to George Harrison for the spot! [David]

•   Output channel associations in story type and media type elements can now be deleted again. Thanks to Arthur Bergman for the spot! [David]

•   Added listing of emeritus developers. Otherwise Sam was simply listed as a patcher, which is hardly accurate. [David]

•   The element profile no longer displays deleted fields after clicking the "Save and Stay" button. [David]

•   The element profile now correctly issues a warning when a field is selected to be deleted. [David]

•   Made unlocalized JavaScript message localized. [David]

VERSION 1.6.0 (2003-04-29)

  New Features

•   Added the "STORY_URI_WITH_FILENAME" bricolage.conf directive, which, when enabled, allows story URIs to include the file name. This is especially useful in output channels where "Use Slug as File name" is enabled, since it allows stories to essentially have identical URIs except for the file name. Off by default. [David]

•   Added bric_media_upload, a media file bulk import utility, into contrib. Thanks to Matt Vella for the contribution.

•   New help pages for the event log and the workflow trail. Thanks to Geoff Richards for the contribution.

•   Some unnecessary JavaScript was removed from the side navigation layer. Thanks to Eldar Kononov for the suggestion. [David]

•   Added keyword support for media assets to SOAP interface. [David]

•   Neatened the "Find Stories," "Active Stories," "Find Media," and "Active Media" screens and added the ability to preview stories and media by clicking their titles. [David]

•   Added Field Profile, so that element Fields can be edited. This is a marked improvement over the old interface, which required that fields be deleted and recreated if users wanted to change them. [Scott]

  Bug Fixes

•   Granting of permission to database objects during installation has been moved to its own make target. This is to allow it to be run by "make upgrade", too, thus ensuring that the Bricolage database user always has the appropriate permissions to access the database. [David]

•   Assets can once again be removed from workflow. [David]

•   The published version attribute is now set on templates when they're deployed. Thanks to Geoff Richards for the spot. [David]

•   The bricolage.conf and httpd.conf files are now created during "make" rather than "make install" so that "make test" can take advantage of them. [David]

•   Bric::App::Session and Bric::App::Cache no longer "chown" their files and directories during "make test". [David]

•   Super Bulk Edit no longer joins lines together without a space, so that words should now be properly separated. [David]

•   Deleting a story or media subelement no longer results in an error. [David]

•   Help has been restored. [David]

•   A value of "0" (zero) can now be given to element fields. This bug has been in Bricolage since the beginning! Thanks to Mark for the spot. [David]

•   Stories with subelements containing no field elements no longer cause an error when the container profile is looking for contextual information to display about a a subelement. Thanks to Chris Jantzen for the spot. [David]

•   Bulk editing a field without first going through the element profile and without adding or removing or reordering field elements now preserves the data. This is another bug that has been in the code since the beginning of time, and was only recently identified. Thanks to Rachel Murray for the spot. [David]

•   Fixed an obscure bug where an element with a field element and a container element with the same ID could cause an error when one tries to edit the container element and Bricolage tries to load the field element, instead. Embarrassingly discovered in the middle of a presentation to the London Perl M[ou]ngers. [David]

•   Minor JavaScript fix for Opera users, thanks to Kevin White. [David]

•   The "multi" installation method now defaults the "Bricolage Root Directory" setting to /usr/local/bricolage instead of "NONE". This seems to be less annoying to people. [David]

•   The inst/upgrade/1.5.1/asset_desk.pl script, which is run by "make upgrade", now correctly checks to see if the upgrade has already been performed. [David]

•   The inst/upgrade/1.5.1/webdav_mover.pl script, which is run by "make upgrade", now correctly checks for the existence of the correct record in the "class" table before inserting a new record. [David]

•   During "make upgrade", the upgrade scripts are now run before the new APIs are installed, so that there are no conflicts when using the existing API to make changes. [David]

•   Creation and installation of man pages can now be avoided during "make upgrade" as well as during "make". [David]

•   Man pages will now be installed in the correct subdirectory of $BRICOLAGE_ROOT when using the "multi" install method. [David]

•   Fixed issue where asset groups and desk groups were conflated in workflow objects, leading to errors on the permissions page. Thanks to Joa~o Pedro for the spot. [David]

•   The URI of new stories is once again properly formed when the stories are created. [David]

•   The list of events no longer displays attributes for events that have no attributes. [David]

•   Attempting to add more keywords to the root category no longer results in the error "Cannot change the directory of the root category." [David]

•   In lists of objects a cell with a value of "0" (zero) will now be displayed. [David]

•   In "Find Templates," the list of templates in the search results will now be sorted by the file name, instead of not at all. [David]

•   "make distclean" now properly deletes inst/Pg.sql. [David]

VERSION 1.5.2 (2003-04-02)

  New Features

•   Out of the box, the Story Editors, Media Producers, and Template Developers groups now have READ permission to access members of the "All Categories" and "All Elements" groups, which allow them to actually create assets based on elements and within categories. [David]

•   Workflow and Desk permissions are a little more sensible now. CREATE permission can be granted for the start desk in each workflow, instead of for the entire workflow. This allows a lower permission to be set on the workflow (e.g., READ), and then higher permissions on the individual desks in the workflow. [David]

•   New "Tuning" sections have been added to Bric::DBA. [Mark]

  Bug Fixes

•   The default required length for usernames and passwords has been changed from 6 to 5. This is to make dealing with the default "admin" login easier.

•   It is once again possible to delete elements when they are not associated with any story or media asset. [David]

•   The output channel profile once again only complains that the name of an output channel is already in use if it happens to be true. [David]

•   Bric::Config now does its best to find a workable httpd.conf file during "make test". [David]

•   Subclasses of Bric::Biz::Asset::Business::Media work again, and can have keywords associated with them, too. [David]

•   The "Access Denied" message is back for when someone tries to access an object to which they don't have adequate permission. [David]

•   Previews of assets that are not checked out work again. [David]

•   Workflow and desk permissions relative to the assets they contain are now restored to their previous behavior. Desks no longer simply inherit the permission granted on any of the workflows they're in. This issue was resolved by creating a new secret asset group ID for each workflow. [David]

•   The primary output channel is now always enabled by default in top-level elements. This is to make it much harder to create documents without output channel associations, an event that can lead to database exceptions. [David]

•   The root category now lists itself as being in the "All Categories" group only once in the category profile. [David]

•   Assets will no longer appear to randomly disappear from workflow. [David]

•   Added constraints to the "media_type_member" group that were inadvertently left out of 1.5.1. [David]

•   Permissions are now once again properly checked for assets in categories, workflows, and on desks. [Mark]

VERSION 1.5.1 (2003-03-23)

  New Features

•   Lots of group-related optimizations. These should greatly improve the speed with which permissions are checked. [David]

•   Improved testing support with lots more tests. Many more remain to be written. See the new testing documentation in Bric::Hacker for details. [David]

•   Added ability to publish assets at a future time to Bric::SOAP::Workflow. Includes addition of new "--publish-date" option to bric_soap. [David]

•   Added WebDAV mover. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   FTP and File System movers now atomically copy files to their destination servers. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   Added "All Desks" group for managing the permission to access all desks. [David]

•   Refactored and optimized the code used in the "lookup()", "list()", "list_ids()", and, where pertinent, "href()" methods in the following classes:

    Bric::Biz::Asset
    Bric::Biz::Asset::Business
    Bric::Biz::Asset::Business::Story
    Bric::Biz::Asset::Business::Media
    Bric::Biz::Asset::Formatting
    Bric::Biz::AssetType
    Bric::Biz::ATType
    Bric::Biz::Category
    Bric::Biz::Org
    Bric::Biz::Org::Person
    Bric::Biz::Org::Source
    Bric::Biz::OutputChannel
    Bric::Biz::OutputChannel::Element
    Bric::Biz::Person
    Bric::Biz::Person::User
    Bric::Biz::Workflow
    Bric::Biz::Workflow::Parts::Desk
    Bric::Dist::Job
    Bric::Dist::ServerType
    Bric::Util::AlertType
    Bric::Util::Event
    Bric::Util::Grp
    Bric::Util::MediaType
    Bric::Util::Pref

    This work will allow permission checking to be much faster for objects of these classes, as the relevant group IDs are now looked up for each object when the object is looked up, rather than by a separate select for each object, one-at-a-time. The changes also include support for a "grp_id" parameter to be passed to the "list()" method of these classes as a way of allowing a group to return a list of the objects in the group en masse, rather than one-at-a-time from the member objects of each group. Once similar optimizations have been made to the Bric::Biz::Assest classes, the necessary change will be made to Bric::Util::Grp to allow this functionality. [David and Mark]

•   Added object caching to the base class, and calls to it from all classes with a "lookup()" method to take advantage of it. The caching is only for the duration of a request for now, but can be expanded later. [David]

•   Updated INSTALL.MacOSX to reflect changes thanks to the new Mac OS X support included in libapreq 1.1. [David]

•   Added "Super Bulk Edit", which is a bulk edit interface allowing users to edit all of the fields in an element at once using POD-like tags, rather than just a single repeatable field. [Garth]

•   Added help topic for new "Super Bulk Edit" feature. [David]

•   Localization and Internationalization support introduced, with a Portuguese library to complement the default English. Most message strings have been replaced with calls to the proper localization method. Still to be done are strings fetched from the database (e.g. events). [Claudio Valente]

•   Localization of text images (buttons), Help, and JavaScript message added. These still need translation, however. [David]

•   Added Italian translation. [Marco Ghezzi]

•   Documented bric_dist_mon and bric_ftpd. [David]

•   Optimized and added tests for Bric::Util::Priv's "get_acl()" and "get_acl_mtime()" methods. These should make the looking up of a user's access control list faster. [David]

•   Added preview link to every element profile of a story profile. [Scott]

•   Pared down number of default User groups by eliminating those that relate to only a single admin menu item. [David]

•   Fixed code in Bric::Util::Grp where the "has_member()" method would fail to look up an object with an ID of 0. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   Switched exceptions from home-grown to using Exception::Class. [Scott]

•   The installer now offers a more meaningful message when it encounters an existing database and the user doesn't want to drop that existing database. [David]

•   Added category group association, including ability to cascade membership assignments into subcategories, to category profile. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   The installer will no longer try to load CPAN.pm if all modules are already installed. Thanks to Ilia Chipitsine for the prodding. [David]

•   The "Content" section of story, media, and subelement profiles now attempts to display a bit of text from the first text field in each listed subelement so that it's easier to see at a glance which subelement is which. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   Switched POD testing from Pod::Checker to Test::Pod (using Pod::Simple). Fixed the POD errors it found, too. [David]

•   Test suite now runs all tests with warnings enabled. [David]

•   Modified "Grp->get_objects()" to use use the "grp_id" parameter to "list()", now that support for that parameter has been added to all groupable classes. Also went through all existing code to make sure that it uses this approach, rather than constructing the relevant objects one-at-a-time from each Member object. This should provide a dramatic speedup in many operations.

•   Bric::App::Session now has an "instance()" public class method to return the current %session hash. [Scott]

•   Subelements can now nest. That is, they can contain themselves. Not in a story, of course, but in the document model (element administration). [David]

•   Keywords can now be associated with media assets. [David]

•   Templates now have a "published_version" attribute that properly reflects the version of a template that was last deployed. This matches what Story and Media have done since around version 1.3.2, and eliminates some warnings from the error log. The UI has also been updated to properly show the deploy status of templates. [David]

•   The installer should now properly detect that the Apache "log_config" module is installed even when it's called "config_log". Thanks to Ilia Chipitsine for the spot and the diagnostics needed to solve the problem. [David]

  Bug Fixes

•   The publish attribute of desks can now be unset. Thanks to Sean Greathouse for the catch! [David]

•   Fixed asset class date parameters to list(). The asset classes were neglecting to change the dates passed in to list() to database dates before querying the database. This lead to the wrong stories being returned for everyone not using UTC as their local time zone. Thanks to Bill Cappel for the spot! [David]

•   Fixed bug where expired cookie resulted in a Bric::App::Session error. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   A number of default groups where not properly added to the "All Groups" group. Now they are. [David]

•   Bricolage now does more to determine the media type of uploaded media by using both the Apache media type determination and, failing that, a file name extension. Thanks to Todd Tyree for the spot. [David]

•   Fixed the description of the root category in the permissions profile for user groups so that it properly displays its URI instead of its name. This only affects the display of the root category in the permissions profile for people who installed (rather than upgraded to) Bricolage 1.4.5 or later. [David]

•   An attempt to create a template with the same name and output channel as a deactivated template now properly tells the user that the template already exists. [David]

•   Fixed indexes for person objects so that they're case-insensitive. [David]

•   Fixed problem creating new business assets with SOAP where Bricolage was trying to associate them with output channels twice, resulting in an SQL Error. [David]

•   Fixed broken index on media type extensions. It was duplicating the index on the media type names. It has been changed to uniquely index the media type file name extensions. [David]

•   "Bric::Biz::Category->get_children" now properly returns the children for the root category. Thanks to Sam for the spot! [David]

•   Removed "Bric::Biz::AssetType->remove". It shouldn't be used anywhere, and might be responsible for the mysterious disappearance of elements in general. Thanks to Joa~o Pedro for the spot. [David]

•   Assigned appropriate permissions to allow the default "Story Editors," "Media Producers," and "Template Developers" to access the default workflow and desks relevant to them. They hadn't had that access by default before. [David]

•   Changed the plural name of the "Category Group" class from "Category Group" to "Category Groups". [David]

•   Fixed bug introduced in 1.5.0 where stories where checked for duplicate URIs for output channels that they weren't actually in. Thanks to Bill Cappel for the spot. [David]

•   Fixed duplicate URI checking for media assets so that all output channels a media asset is in will be checked for duplicate URIs instead of just the primary URI. [David]

•   Fixed bug where all sources were being deactivated from their groups every time they were saved. [David]

•   Fixed bug where the SOAP server would throw an exception when it attempted to handle elements without subelements. Thanks to Sam Tregar for the report. [David]

•   It is no longer possible to create a story type or media type element without a primary output channel. [David]

•   Deleted output channels no longer show up in the list of output channels to associate with a destination. Thanks to Alex Epshteyn for the spot! [David]

•   The installer now collects Apache configuration data from any "Include"d files, as well. Thanks to Alex Wheeler for the spot! [David]

•   Media types now can be added to groups. This means that permissions can be set so that users can administer media types. Previously, only members of the "Global Admins" group could administer media types. [David]

VERSION 1.5.0 (2003-01-09)

  New Features

•   Added unit testing framework based on Test::Class and executed by Test::Harness. Tests can be run after "make install" by running "make test" or "make devtest". The former runs tests that access database data but execute no "INSERT", "UPDATE", or "DELETE" commands. The latter runs tests that can make changes to the database, and are intended to be a full testing of Bricolage's API. Both make targets can be executed in verbose mode by passing "TEST_VERBOSE=1" to the make command. From now on, all tests will be expected to pass before changes are committed to the repository. [David]

•   Added Makefile.PL. This is mainly a dummy script designed to mimic the usual way in which Perl modules are installed. It doesn't actually create a Makefile, but processes the existing one, setting it up to use whatever Perl was used to execute Makefile.PL itself. The advantage to this is that the Perl that executes Makefile.PL will be used throughout Bricolage. [David]

•   Migrated tests in lib/Bric/Util/Grp.pl to t/lib/Bric/Util/Grp/Test.pm and t/lib/Bric/Util/Grp/DevTest.pm. [David]

•   Added t/Bric/Test/PodTest.pm, which uses Pod::Checker to examine the POD in all the Bricolage modules, scripts, and test modules and report errors. Currently, all the errors are "TODO" tests, which means that, technically, they'll pass. But as soon as all existing POD errors are cleaned out, errors will turn into test failures. This will help us to keep all of our POD valid. These tests run as a part of "make devtest". [David]

•   Removed all old-style test scripts. Their contents have been copied into new unit testing classes. These classes each execute a single test, and the old testing contents are at the end of the file, after the "__END__" symbol. Thus we'll be able to use the old tests to write the new tests. [David]

•   Added documentation on merging CVS branches to Bric::Hacker. [David]

•   Removed the URI Format and URI Case preferences and put them into Output Channel objects, instead. They are now output channel-specific. [David]

•   URI format and URI case settings now properly format the URIs of media objects, too. [David]

•   The slug can now be used in the Fixed URI Format. [David]

•   The slug can now be used for story file names. The option is supported on an output channel basis, and will only work for stories that have a slug. [David]

•   Added a "and Shelve" option to the "Check In" select list in the button bar on story, media, and asset pages. When this option is selected, the asset is checked in and then removed from workflow without publishing. [David]

•   Removed the "Checkin/Publish" and "Checkin/Deploy" buttons in asset profiles and replaced them with new "and Publish" or "and Deploy" options in the "Check In" select list in the button bar. Doing this collects all the usual Check In actions in one place and saves us screen real estate! [David]

•   Changed the way the "Checkin and Publish" and "Checkin and Deploy" callbacks work to use existing code in the desk and publish widgets to do the dirty work. This greatly reduces code duplication. [David]

•   Created a new class, Bric::Biz::OutputChannel::Element, which is a subclass of Bric::Biz::OutputChannel. This new class better manages the mapping of output channels to elements than the old approach did. It also adds a new property, "enabled", which will be put to use shortly. [David]

•   Replaced all the custom handling of output channel objects in Bric::Biz::AssetType with a new Bric::Util::Coll subclass that does it all. This is a lot more efficient in terms of programmer time (and probably performance, too). [David]

•   Modified Bric::Biz::Asset::Business to manage the association between business assets and output channels by making use of the Bric::Util::Coll::OutputChannel class. It also automatically adds all of the "enabled" output channels of the element object as initial output channel associations for new business assets. [David]

•   Added a new property to templates: template types. This property can have one of three value that correspond to different template types: "Element Templates" (those associated with elements); Category Templates" (autohandlers in Mason parlance, category templates to HTML::Template users, and until now "generic templates" in the UI); and "Utility Templates" (those not associated with anything, but can be used as includes). [David]

•   Templates are now guaranteed to have unique file name/output channel combinations at the API and database levels. [David]

•   For stories on My Workspace, replaced "Trail" with "Clone". Clicking this link will make an exact copy of the story with the words "Clone of " prepended to the story title. [David]

•   Got rid of the popup window. Now when the toolbar-less window isn't the current window, the browser will be redirected to a a Welcome page where users can click a link to open the new window with the Bricolage UI. [David]

•   Improved the interface for the association of output channels in Element Profile. It now uses a list of output channels rather than a double list, and a radio button to select the primary output channel. Also, each associated output channel can be marked as "Enabled" or not, indicating whether a new asset based on the element will by default be associated with that output channel for publishing. [David]

•   On a related note, Stories and Media can now select which output channels to be published to on a per-story basis as well as which is the primary output channel, and the selection sticks with each version of a an asset. The list of available output channels comes from the output channels associated with the element on which the story or media asset is based. [David]

•   Bric::Util::Burner objects have a new property, "mode". This property contains an integer value indicating whether a burner object is currently publishing, previewing, or checking syntax. The value maps to the conveniently-named constants "PUBLISH_MODE", "PREVIEW_MODE", and "SYNTAX_MODE". [David]

•   The documentation in the Bric::Util::Burner class has been updated and improved. [David]

•   Arguments can now be passed to the "display_pages()", "display_element()", and "chain_next()" methods of the $burner object in Mason templates. These arguments are passed to the templates that are executed just as they are if you'd called "$m->comp", meaning that you can access their values via the %ARGS global and in "<%args>" blocks in Mason templates. [David]

•   Changed the "display_pages()" method of Bric::Util::Burner::Mason so that its first argument can be an anonymous array of the names of different paginated elements, and then all of those different paginated elements will be burned in order. This allows a story to have more than one type of paginated element. [David]

•   Added the methods "prev_page_file()", "prev_page_uri()", "next_page_file()", and "next_page_uri()" to Bric::Util::Burner. These methods return the strings representing the file names or URIs of the previous and next pages of a story, relative to the page that is currently being burned and, in the case of the "*_uri()" methods, appropriate to the currently-burning Output Channel. Also updated the Bric::Templates and Bric::AdvTemplates documents to reflect these additions. [David]

•   Added "source__id" to list of criteria by which stories can be searched via the Bric::Biz::Asset::Business::Story "list()" and "list_ids()" methods. [David]

•   The Bricolage CSS document is now a static file served by Apache rather than a Mason component processed by mod_perl. This allows the style sheet to be cached by the browser so that it doesn't have to request it for every page in Bricolage. It also cuts down on processing time, since it doesn't have to be managed dynamically as a Mason component anymore. Also, all font sizes are now specified in pixels instead of points, in order to maximize the consistency of cross-browser font rendering. [David]

•   Added a new style for the template profile, so that template code is now displayed in its textarea box in a monospaced font. [David]

•   The main Bricolage JavaScript library has had several other JavaScript libraries rolled into it, and is now a static file served by Apache rather than a Mason component processed by mod_perl. This allows the JS to be cached by the browser so that it doesn't have to request it for every page in Bricolage. It also cuts down on processing time, since it doesn't have to be managed dynamically as a Mason component anymore. [David]

•   Added bricolage.conf directive "ALLOW_WORKFLOW_TRANSFER" to allow assets on shared desks to be able to be transferred across workflows via that shared desk. [David]

•   Changed Bric::Util::Burner to set "publish_status" after publishing, rather than before. Thus it is only set if the publish is successful, while at the same time templates can check "publish_status" to determine if a story is being published for the first time. [David]

•   Added "get_more_pages()" method to Bric::Util::Burner::Mason. It returns true if more pages remain to be burned, and false if not. However it's only enumerated when "display_pages()" is being used to output pages. [David]

•   Optimized Bric::Biz::Category to get a list of Group IDs for each category as it is selected from the database. This prevents the "get_grp_ids()" method from having to query the database, which was happening for every category object for which permissions are checked. [Mark & David]

•   Added event logging for keywords. [David]

•   Changed the code in Bric::Util::Burner::Mason to allow for new Mason burners to be constructed and used to publish stories from within templates. This is useful for generating tables of contents and such. [David]

•   Added support for the association between business assets and output channels to the SOAP interface. [David]

•   Removed IO::String dependence. [Scott]

•   Added a FAQ. [Scott]

•   Added a preference for naming the Bricolage instance. [Scott]

•   Added search by Category URI to Find Stories. Although one could use the search by URI feature for this before, it didn't allow for search by secondary categories. Now stories can be searched for in both primary and secondary categories. [David]

•   Added the methods "page_file()" and "page_uri()" to Bric::Util::Burner. When passed a page number argument, these methods return the strings representing the file names or URIs of the given page in the currently-burning story and, in the case of the "page_uri()" method, appropriate to the currently-burning Output Channel. These methods are best used in burners that don't burn one page at a time, such as Burner::Template. [David]

•   Ported to HTML::Mason versions 1.15 and higher. [Scott]

•   Added "make uninstall" support to installation system. [Scott]

•   Added "page_filepath()" method to Bric::Util::Burner. This method allows burner subclasses to get the name of a file to write to the file system without needing to figure out the file name themselves. [David]

•   Optimized behavior of collections (internal API). Now when an object is deleted from a collection (for example, when a member is deleted from a group), all the existing objects in the collection won't first be looked up in the database. The upshot is that certain parts of Bricolage that rely on collections, such as desks, should be more responsive. [David]

VERSION 1.4.6 (2003-01-06)

  Bug Fixes

•   Bric::SAOP::Handler now properly logs fatal errors that are strings rather than exceptions. [David]

•   Updated Bric::DBA documentation to better reflect PostgreSQL standards. [Neil Conway]

•   Minor documentation correction in Bric::Util::Grp::Parts::Member. [Mark]

•   Fixed bug in SOAP interface where container subelements added to a story or media asset were logged as if the story type element or media type element was added instead of the appropriate subelement. [David]

•   Fixed bug in publish code that was attempting to use the Apache request object as a media asset. Thanks to John Greene for the spot. [David]

•   Fixed bug where an empty or non-numeric <size> element in an imported media object would cause an SQL error. [Sam]

•   The bric_apachectl, bric_clean_tmp, bric_dist_mon, and bric_ftpd scripts are now smarter about loading Bricolage libraries and reporting relevant errors when they can't load Bricolage libraries. Thanks to Geoff Richards for the patch. [David]

•   Category permissions are now properly checked on assets when they're not in workflow as well as when they are in workflow. This means that if a group of users is granted permission to access stories in a category, they can now access those stories even if they're not in workflow. [David]

•   The search interface for locating media and story assets to relate to a story now checks the permissions of the assets found and only displays the assets for which the user has at least READ permission. Thanks to Sean Greathouse for the spot. [David]

•   Reverting a media asset now properly reverts the media file itself, as well. [David]

•   The "Last" field is now properly highlighted as the default order field when displaying a list of contributors in the Contributor Manager. [David]

•   Contributor Association now includes search options and only currently-associated contributors are displayed before searching. [David]

•   The ability to select different fields by which to sort a list of objects now works again. [David]

•   The installer now checks to make sure that mod_perl is statically compiled into Apache, since weird things tend to happen when Bricolage uses a DSO mod_perl. [David]

•   Fixed reordering code for subelements. The select list for subelements should now always have an appropriate value. [David]

•   The URI is now properly updated in media assets when some part of the URI is changed in the UI. Thanks to Sean Greathouse for the spot. [David]

•   The Add More widget no longer throws an exception when "Add More" is clicked and only one field currently exists. This had affected Keywords entry in stories. Thanks to Sam for the spot. [David]

•   Fixed bug where a user could create two assets with the same URI as long as they were both checked out by that user. Thanks to Shannon Brown for the spot! [David]

•   Date fields can now be unset. That is, if each of the select fields is set to its label, rather than a value, it'll stay that way. This was first noticed with the "Expire Date" in stories. Thanks to Philip Fibiger for the spot. [David]

•   Modified installation "CREATE DATABASE" command to always create the database with the encoding set to UTF-8 (UNICODE). [David]

•   Added instructions for installing readline library to README.MacOSX. [David]

•   Fixed some inaccurate image sizes. [Geoff Richards]

•   Added missing "uri" parameter to the possible search options in "Bric::SOAP::Category->list_ids". [David]

VERSION 1.4.5 (2002-11-13)

  Changes

•   Categories are now displayed by their URIs instead of their names wherever possible. [David]

•   Added "Order" and "OrderDirection" parameters to "Bric::Util::Grp->list" in order to be able to specify a different column and sort order for getting a list of groups. [David]

•   Improved error handling by the SOAP server. Full errors will now be printed to the Apache error log, error messages sent back to the client are properly escaped, and all database transactions for a single request will be rolled back in the event of an error. [David]

  Bug Fixes

•   Fixed error message generated from Bric::SOAP::Template->update() to properly display the category name, rather than "ARRAY(0x9cf43bc)". [Sam]

•   The Bricolage SOAP interface will no longer allow the creation of stories and media with duplicate URIs. [Sam]

•   Fixed circular dependency issues when Bricolage modules are used in the "PERL_LOADER" bricolage.conf directive. [David]

•   Added the root category to the "All Categories" group. It should have been in that group all along. [David]

•   Documentation for "Bric::Biz::Workflow->list" has been improved, and the method used for finding workflows and desks to put imported assets on in Bric::SOAP has been simplified. [David]

•   Added printing of a message regarding the filenames being processed by bric_soap's "create" and "update" commands when its "--verbose" option is set. [David]

•   Setting a story's cover date to a date that causes one of its URIs to conflict with an existing story's URIs no longer causes an error. Thanks to Sam for the spot! [David]

•   Display of the source was missing from the view Story and Media profiles, but no longer. [David]

•   The correct source is now displayed in the Story and Media edit profiles. [David]

•   An attempt to install Bricolage to use an existing PostgreSQL user no longer causes an installation error when you decline drop the user. [David]

•   The burner no longer fails when it publishes an asset that's not on a desk. [David]

•   SOAP now does the proper thing when deleting assets, removing them from desks and workflow only if they're on desks and in workflow. [David]

•   Added support for the missing "publish_status" parameter to "Bric::Biz::Asset::Business::Media->list". [David]

•   Setting permissions on the assets in a category works again. [David]

•   Fixed a bug where exporting a story via SOAP containing a date field would output the formatted date rather than the expected ISO 8601 format. Systems with a modified date format pref would then refuse to accept the story on import, producing an "Unable to unpack date" error. [Sam]

•   Stories, media, and templates created but not saved no longer disappear into the void. They are instead moved into workflow, put on a desk, and saved as soon as they were created. [David]

•   Permissions are now properly checked for category and workflow settings when new stories, media, and template assets are created. [David]

•   New templates are now active by default. [David]

•   Fixed bug where the "Checkin/Publish" (and "Checkin/Deploy") button wasn't provided to users who had EDIT access to a the assets on a desk. Permissions are now properly checked and the button displayed for those who can publish from a desk. [David]

•   Added missing debugging statement to Bric::Util::DBI. Thanks to Mark for the spot. [David]

•   The SOAP interface now properly logs events for its activities. [David]

•   Previewing a story while searching for a related story to link to an element no longer replaces the Bricolage UI with the preview, as was happening with some browsers. Instead, a separate preview window is opened. [David]

•   When publishing a media asset, its name will not be properly added to the UI message, without causing an error. [Petar Bojkov]

•   Fixed exception class name in Handler.pm. [Scott]

•   Fixed installation system bug caused by inst/conf.pl loading Bric::Config during "make install". Thanks to Louis Moore for the report. [Sam]

•   Added missing "list_ids()" method to Bric::Biz::Category. [David]

VERSION 1.4.4 (2002-10-27)

  Bug Fixes

•   Empty listManager lists no longer have a gap in them. [David]

•   Made the table around the formBuilder radio buttons prettier. [David]

•   Fixed numbering of sections in Media profile so that the numbers don't skip. [David]

•   Updated display of existing contributors in the "Edit Contributors" screen of the story and media asset profiles to use listManager. This makes them look like they do everywhere else (and uses less code, to boot!). [David]

•   Improved error messages thrown in exceptions in Bric::Util::Trans::FTP. [David]

•   Removed code and documentation for PostgreSQL 7.3 compatibility. With the release of 7.3b2, it's no longer needed. [David]

•   Fixed "make clone" to properly include database contents in clone distribution. [Sam]

•   Added "<meta http-equiv="Content-Type">" tag to the "<head>" to header.mc so that the browser knows to send text back to Bricolage in the expected character set. [Mark]

•   Changed the default character set from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8. With this setting, Bricolage does no character set translation, so it's faster. Furthermore, most users should be outputting UTF-8 in their templates, anyway. If you're not, then you're likely finding doing charset translation in all of your templates to be a big PITA. And if you're not doing charset translation, then you really are outputting UTF-8 in your templates, and just haven't realized it. [David]

•   Fixed bug when reverting stories and media with no associated contributors. [Mark]

•   "Check In and Publish" now works again for Media assets. Thanks to Matt Vella for the spot. [David]

•   Deleting assets on My Workspace now prompts the user to make sure s/he really wants to do that. Not sure how we missed this all this time! Thanks to Andrew Baio for the spot. [David]

•   Assets on Desks and My Workspace that are checked out to the the user whose viewing them will now always preview the version as currently edited by the user, rather than the last checked-in version. Other users still can only preview the last checked-in version. [David]

•   Clicking the "Check In" or "Check In/Deploy" buttons in a template profile now properly updates the template with any new data entered into the template profile before attempting a syntax check. This ensures that the latest data you've entered gets its syntax checked before the template is checked in or deployed. [David]

•   Fixed a bug in Bric::Util::Class where classes couldn't be looked up by package name. This affected the "Access Denied" page. [David]

•   Made Bric::Util::Burner::Mason a little smarter handling exceptions. [David]

•   Fixed bug where Bric::SOAP::Category would fail to import ad strings. [David]

•   Fixed bug in "Bric::Util::Grp->has_member" where an already-added member wasn't always found. [Mark]

•   Conflicting URI messages for media assets no longer suggest changing the value of the slug, since media assets have no slug. [David]

•   The friendly messages confirming publishes are back. [David]

•   Fixed bug where selecting a large number of list options in the story profile would cause an SQL error. [Matt]

•   Fixed bug where Bric::SOAP would accept story element types for media and vice versa. Thanks to Evan Prodromou for the spot. [Sam]

•   Added code to installation scripts to delete existing Mason object files when upgrading. This hasn't been a problem thus far, but this step will help to ensure that users are always running the latest UI components. [David]

•   Fixed bug where deactivated element types weren't checked before creating a new element type with the same name as a deactivated element type. Thanks to Geoff Richards for the spot. [David]

VERSION 1.4.3 (2002-09-28)

  Bug Fixes

•   Fixed inconsistency between container element methods and their convenience accessors in Bric::Biz::Asset::Business. Thanks to Philip Fibiger for the spot. [David]

•   Assets can once again be recalled from the library and put on a desk. [David]

•   The "get_all_keywords()" method of Bric::Biz::Asset::Business works again. [David]

VERSION 1.4.2 (2002-09-27)

  Bug Fixes

•   Can once again check out multiple assets at once. Thanks to Andrew Baio for the spot. [David]

•   Templates once again behave themselves. There were some circumstances where they couldn't be checked in, generating "Cannot checkin non checked out versions" errors. These have been fixed. [David]

•   Some assets on My Workspace were getting "Cannot checkin non checked out versions" errors when they were checked in using the "Check in to" select list. This has been fixed. [David]

•   When templates are deployed, they now get a "Template removed from Workflow" event logged. [David]

•   Using the "Check in to" select list on My Workspace to check assets into the desk they're already on will no longer remove them from all desks altogether. [David]

VERSION 1.4.1 (2002-09-25)

  Bug Fixes

•   Upgrading from from a version prior to 1.3.3 no longer tries to create an index that already exists (and that will be dropped, anyway). [David]

•   Removed documentation for installing mod_proxy with Apache. [David]

•   Improved documentation for upgrading from older versions of Bricolage that were not installed by "make install". Thanks to Andrew Baio for helping to identify the problems. [David]

•   Added "use Bric::Util::Grp::Keyword;" back into Bric::Biz::Keyword. This prevents some upgraded Bricolage installations from breaking. [David]

•   Added Net::FTPServer and Net::SFTP to the list of optional modules. [David]

•   Fixed some SQL errors uncovered by the release of PostgreSQL 7.3b1. [David]

•   Added code and documentation for compatibility with PostgreSQL 7.3. [David]

•   Media assets can now be distributed to more than one output channel at a time. [David]

•   Files are now distributed on a per-output channel basis, to ensure that the proper file is distributed to the proper destinations. [David]

•   Assets are now properly removed from workflow when they're deactivated (deleted in the UI). [David]

•   Template syntax is now properly checked when using the "Checkin/Deploy" button. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   The example generic template (autohandler) included in the database is now included in the burn root, too, since it's marked as "Deployed" in the database. [David]

•   Deleted output channels no longer show up in the "New Template" output channel select list. Thanks to Daniel Fisher for the spot. [David]

•   The root category ("/") no longer returns itself as its own parent. [David]

•   Assets not in workflow are now properly logged as being checked out when someone checks them out. [David]

•   The "Or Pick a Type" menus in the Group manager, the Contributor manager, and the Element manager all work again. [David]

•   Changing category names now updates the name of the category asset group object, which appears in the user group permissions page. [David]

•   Hitting the "enter" key after filling in a search field now properly submits the search as if the "Search" button had been clicked. [David]

•   Changed libapreq requirement in Bric::Admin to read "Apache::Request 1.0". This should make the installer install the most recent version of libapreq, instead of relying on whatever the OS provides. [David]

•   Changed value of autopopulated media asset data fields to an empty string when the value returned by the autopopulation method is "undef". [David]

•   Fixed bug where autopopulated media asset data fields weren't properly autopopulated. [David]

•   Fixed problem with category upgrade script failing on category data created with 1.3.2. [Sam]

•   During installation, entering a directory name when prompted for the "PID File Location" now results in Bricolage using a file called "httpd.pid" in that directory, rather than trying (and failing) to use the directory itself as the PID file. [David]

•   The side navigation layer is now better aware of its context, and changes the colors of some of its graphics depending on the context. Also recreated the "WORKFLOW" tab graphics. It looks like this has been broken for over a year, and I only just noticed it! [David]

•   Slightly improved handling of assets that have forgotten where they are. [David]

•   Checked-out templates are now displayed only once (instead of twice) in the "Find Templates" manager. [David]

•   Added "get_new_objs()" method to Bric::Util::Coll so that Bric::Util::Grp's "has_member()" method can see a member even if it hasn't been saved to the database. Also changed Bric::Util::Grp to check for members in this way, of course. [David]

•   Assets retrieved from the library now appear on the desk they're checked out into only once (instead of twice). This thanks to the above-noted changes to Bric::Util::Grp. [David]

•   Added upgrade script inst/upgrade/1.4.1/clean_desks.pl to clean up existing duplicate listings of assets on desks. [David]

•   Removed the "checkin()" method from Bric::Biz::Asset::Formatting and Bric::Biz::Asset::Business and put it into Bric::Biz::Asset, instead, since it's exactly the same for all assets. [David]

•   Fixed the display of permissions settings to be more consistent with the design and layout of the rest of the application. Also neatened listManager display a bit. [David]

•   Fixed misnamed database constraint. [David]

•   Templates can once again be retrieved from the library and checked out for revising. [David]

•   Assets on a desk now no longer have the current desk listed in the "Move to" select list. Even if they did, selecting the current desk would no longer remove an asset from workflow! Thanks to Andrew Baio for the spot. [David]

•   The installer is now much more intelligent about prompting for SSL information. It won't ask if you want to use SSL if it can't find mod_ssl or apache_ssl, and will only prompt you to pick one or the other if it can find both. [David]

VERSION 1.4.0 (2002-09-02)

  New Features

•   Fetching objects from Bric::Biz::Asset::Business::Media has been optimized for greater speed. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   PostgreSQL "NOTICE" messages are now suppressed during installation. Instead, a series of dots will be displayed to indicate progress loading the database. [David]

•   Added README.MacOSX. [David]

•   You can now pass a date format string argument to the "get_data()" method of container elements in templates (and elsewhere, for that matter). This is useful if the data you're retrieving is of the "date" type, and you don't want the date to be formatted in the format specified in the "Date Format" preference. [David]

  Bug Fixes

•   The Element Type manager now displays properly again without errors. [David]

•   Assets are now properly removed from desks when they are published or moved from one desk to another. More generally, any time a single object is removed from a group, it will be properly removed. [David]

•   Media profile now display the proper category in the Category select list. [David]

•   Media assets with no associated media file now generate a message indicating that no file will be distributed, and are properly removed from workflow when published. [David]

•   Some media asset events weren't getting logged properly Now they are. [David]

•   Database transactions are now properly maintained when publishing assets. Everything was working, but DBI "AutoCommit" was getting turned on, and this likely slowed some things down a bit. [David]

•   Assets can once again be found via the "Find" pages and recalled into a workflow without error. [David]

•   Module man pages are now properly installed under Perl 5.8.0. Thanks to Michael Schwern for helping to diagnose the problem and come up with a solution. [David]

•   The select list of desks to transfer an asset to on My Workspace now includes all possible desks, including the one for which there is a link. [Joa~o Pedro]

•   All Bricolage .pod files are now installed and converted to "man" pages along with all of the .pm files. [David]

•   Corrected a bunch of spelling errors in this file. [David]

•   Calling "get_data()" on a container element in templates (or elsewhere, for that matter) now properly ignores container subelements. Likewise for "get_container()", which how properly ignores data subelements. [David]

•   All of the .pl and .tst files in lib/ no longer clutter up the distribution created by "make dist". [David]

•   Much of the POD documentation in the API classes has been cleaned up, and converting them to man pages no longer generates any error messages. [David]

•   The install process will now find Apache modules in /usr/lib/apache/modules, which is where they are in OpenBSD. Thanks to Mark Johnson for his help tracking this one down. [Sam]

•   The install process will no longer install an incompatible version of HTML::Mason (>1.09). [Sam]

•   The bric_dist_mon program works again. [David]

VERSION 1.3.3 (2002-08-24)

  New Features

•   Revised Bric::Biz::Keyword implementation to improve performance. The new implementation no longer relies on the Bric::Util::Grp system. Also implemented API and database support for Media keywords. [Sam]

•   Added support for search Media by category and file name through the SOAP interface and standard API. [Sam]

•   Added new "--save-cookie-file" and "--use-cookie-file" options to bric_soap to allow authentication to span bric_soap calls. This can result in significant time savings across multiple invocations. [Matt]

•   Added new "--chunks" option to the bric_soap tool to avoid problems with timeouts on large workloads. Currently only supports the workflow commands ("publish", "deploy", "checkin", "checkout", "move"), but it will be expanded to other long-running commands in the future. [Sam]

•   Improved performance of search paging. ListManager now only builds the output rows that will actually be shown on the screen. For large data sets this results in a huge gain in search speed. [Adam and Sam]

•   Revised category implementation to use explicit "uri" and "parent_id" fields rather than relying on the Bric::Util::Grp system. This improves performance tremendously for larger numbers of categories. [Jeff Pinyan]

•   Added new "--continue-on-errors" option to bric_soap to prevent non-fatal errors from ending the process. [Sam]

•   Beautified the list paging interface. [David]

•   Added new Media Type manager. [Scott]

•   Added list reverse feature. [Scott]

•   Added SFTP mover. [Scott]

•   Add support for Apache-SSL. This required a change to the context of the bricolage.conf "ENABLE_SSL" directive to indicate the type of SSL support: none, apache_ssl, or mod_ssl. [Michael Robinton]

•   Added support for manual httpd configuration. Split out dynamic configuration from ApacheConfig.pm and move to a new module, ApacheStartup.pm, that sets no Apache configuration directives. ApacheConfig.pm calls this module. [Michael Robinton]

•   Added bricolage.conf configuration directive to force the start up process to always write out a $TEMP_DIR/bricolage/bric_httpd.conf as an httpd.conf include file. [Michael Robinton]

•   Moved SSL key and certificate configuration from global httpd.conf settings to per virtual host via bricolage.conf configuration directives. [Michael Robinton]

•   Added a "bricolage.conf" directive to force the user to always use SSL. [Michael Robinton]

•   Added "get_data()" method to Bric::Util::Grp::Parts::Member::Contrib. This method takes a simpler scalar argument and returns the relevant attribute. This bit of syntactic sugar makes contributor objects behave a bit more like $element objects in templates, thus simplifying things for template developers. [David]

•   Categories now default to sorting by URI, and the URI is the searchable field, rather than name. [David]

•   Vastly improved the speed at which categories can be imported via SOAP. [David]

•   Makefile now confirms location of Apache and PostgreSQL to allow for systems with multiple versions of each available. [Sam]

•   Added "make clone" command to the installation system to create distributions based on existing Bricolage systems. [Sam]

•   Added bricolage.conf directive to enable/disable the browser toolbar for debugging and development. Documented in Bric::Hacker. [Michael Robinton]

•   Added support for running Bricolage with SSL support on arbitrary ports. Previous versions required https support to use only port 80 for http and port 443 for https. With this release, Bricolage fully supports http and https service on any ports. This allows the Apache daemon supporting Bricolage to be run with a minimum number of children while still allowing normal http and https service on the standard ports with a light-weight Apache daemon. See the INSTALL file (or Bric::Admin) for full details and an example installation procedure. [Michael Robinton]

•   Added new bric_apachectl command "single". This command will start Bricolage in single-process mode. This mode is principally useful for debugging. [Michael Robinton]

•   The size of the database column that stores custom field options (such as for select lists) has been changed to the TEXT PostgreSQL type, so that the number of options isn't arbitrarily limited. [Matt Vella]

•   The group API has been approximately 75% rewritten. The goal was to optimize its performance, since group activity proved to be a serious bottleneck to Bricolage performance. Those interested in the nitty-gritty details of the rewrite can read about them here: <http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=967943&forum_id=561>.

  Bug Fixes

•   Added constraint to the group table to keep a group from having itself as a parent. Thanks to Joa~o Pedro Goncalves for the patch. [David]

•   Fixed bug in side navigation where an HTML table was opened but not closed. [Charles Albrecht]

•   Fixed bug where installation system would chown all of the chosen TEMP_DIR to SYS_USER. Thanks to Dave Rolsky for the report. [Sam]

•   Fixed a bug in the installation system that was creating empty comp/comp and data/data directories BRICOLAGE_ROOT. Thanks to Michael for the spot. [Sam]

•   Fixed remote previews to redirect to a better URL. [Mark]

•   Fixed a bug where trying to create a story through the SOAP interface containing a contributor with an empty middle name would fail. [Sam]

•   Changed strftime instances of '%G' to '%Y' in URI preference, as this seems to be more portable. [David]

•   Fixed bug that was preventing 'make upgrade' from running database upgrade scripts. [Sam]

•   Fixed broken "Log" link on Media Search results screen. [Sam]

•   Fixed bug where deleted output channels were showing up in list of available output channels in the element profile. [David]

•   Fixed conflict in list manager that prevented some lists from working properly. Probably never showed up before, as we only noticed it with the new Media Type manager. Thanks to Scott for the heads-up. [David]

•   The "PREVIEW_MASON" configuration directive no longer is no longer defaulting to on in one context and off in another. It is now off by default. Thanks to Michael Slattery for the spot! [David]

•   Eliminated the password field type from the formBuilder interface used for contributor types and elements. Its inclusion up to now may be considered a bug. [David]

•   Fixed cover date editing to repopulate correctly on the Story profile screens. [Matt]

•   Fixed bug where previewing a story assigned to multiple categories would preview to a random category. Now the primary category is always chosen. [Sam]

•   Fixed display and editing of dates more than one year in the past. [Matt]

•   Fixed bug where setting CHAR_SET to UTF-8 in bricolage.conf would result in blank output. [Sam]

•   Changed Category manager to display no categories by default, only display them after a search. This is because some folks have a lot of categories. [David]

•   Fixed bug where when "SYS_USER" and/or "SYS_GROUP" wasn't in bricolage.conf, Bric::Config would use the username "nobody" instead of the UID for the user "nobody". [David]

•   Adding a note to a story that has not yet been saved no longer causes an error. [David]

•   Fixed "make dist" to work on Mac OS/X and FreeBSD. [Sam]

•   Fixed a problem in Bric::Util::Burner::Template where a newly added template wouldn't be picked up by <tmpl_include>. This was due to caching being turned on. HTML::Template's cache doesn't know that a new compilation would turn up a difference <tmpl_include> so it continues to use the old one. [Sam]

•   Fixed installer to not require unneeded Apache modules (mod_proxy and mod_rewrite). [Sam]

•   Fixed installer to first ask whether SSL support is desired before asking for a specific SSL module. [Sam]

•   Fixed documentation bug in Bric::Admin concerning PostgreSQL paths. Thanks to Vicki Brown for the catch. [Sam]

•   Fixed installation system to fail if there are errors importing the database. Also added test for missing or empty bricolage.sql. [Sam]

•   Fixed installation system to support optional modules and not force users to install them. [Sam]

•   Fixed bug that prevented the contents of fields to be updated through Bric::SOAP. [Sam]

•   Fixed "Checkin and Publish" button to only appear if the user has permissions to publish. [Matt]

•   Fixed bug where text pasted into Bulk Edit textarea box was getting words smooshed together. Thanks to Rachel Murray for the spot. [David]

•   Fixed bug where date field elements weren't getting properly converted between the local time zone and UTC, which is the time zone of all the dates in the database. Thanks to Matt Vella for the spot. [David]

•   Fixed issue where Bric::Util::Grp was adding every member of a group whenever a new member was added. This was very wasteful, and slowed performance a great deal for groups with thousands of members. Thanks to Mark for the spot. [David]

•   Added check for Category "Directory" string to make sure that no non-URL characters are added. [Matt Vella]

•   Clicking "Cancel" when editing keywords in a new story now properly returns to the story profile, rather than to the last screen before the story was created. [David]

•   Deleting a a contributor immediately after adding one no longer causes all of the contributors to be deleted on check-in. [David]

•   Contributors are now properly reverted when stories and media are reverted. [David]

VERSION 1.3.2 (2002-06-09)

  New Features

•   Added --chunks option to bric_republish to publish stories in batches. This is useful to avoid timing out on long runs. [Sam]

•   Added [Check In / Publish] button to Story Profile to checkin and publish in one step. [Matt]

•   Added needs_publish() method and associated published_version database field to Bric::Biz::Asset. This method is now used by the publisher to determine if something needs republishing. Added new graphics to display this information on the desks. [Matt]

•   Moved repeated publish and preview functionality into Bric::Util::Burner. Updated Mason code and Bric::SOAP::Workflow accordingly. [Matt]

•   Added "DBI_PROFILE" bricolage.conf option and "bric_dbprof" script to allow profiling of Bricolage database performance. [Sam]

•   Added "bric_apachectl debug" command to run Bricolage under the Perl debugger using Apache::DB. [Sam]

•   Added checks to make sure Story and Media URIs are unique within the system. [Matt]

•   Added search paging preference to break search results into multiple pages. [Adam]

•   Added support for running Bricolage under Devel::Profiler with the new PROFILE configuration option. [Sam]

•   Added support for Apache::SizeLimit to keep Apache process size under control. [Adam]

•   Revised Bric::App::Cache to improve performance. The new system is a two-level cache with Cache:Mmap and Cache::Cache. This results in a 2x speedup on some cache-sensitive operations. [Sam]

  Bug Fixes

•   Clicking "Add More" when editing contributor contacts now retains any changes made to the contributor profile. This matches the functionality of the user profile. Thanks to Joa~o Pedro Goncalves for the spot. [David]

•   Fixed bug in Bric::SOAP::Element where deleting an element or field could cause SQL errors due to overflowing the name field. [Sam]

•   Removed Bric::SOAP::Element->delete(force => 1) which could cause data corruption in existing stories. Also removed dependent options in bric_dev_sync (--delete-existing) and bric_soap (--force). [Sam]

•   Fixed bug in Bric::SOAP::Element where updating an element could cause Stories using that element to lose track of their field data. [Sam]

•   Fixed bug in Bric::Util::Burner::Template where <tmpl_include>s caused syntax errors. [Sam]

•   The Bric::Biz::Category class method get_attr() now returns attributes for category ID 0 as well as all other categories. [Joa~o Pedro Goncalves]

•   Fixed bug in DBI_DEBUG and DBI_CALL_TRACE options where non-prepared queries (row_aref(), all_aref(), etc.) were not being logged. [Sam]

•   Fixed bug in Bric::Dist::Resource that was causing publish to run very slowly by executing a bad database query. [Sam]

•   Related to the last item, fixed a bug in Bric::Util::Coll that would call the href() method on a class and pass in undefined values as parameters. This will happen if a collection is created for a new object that does not yet have an ID. The fix thus prevents the "= NULL" SQL syntax, which always matches nothing. The new syntax for constructing a collection has been implemented across the API. [David]

•   Fixed bug where the root category wasn't able to be added to a category group. Actually, this fixes a problem where any object with an id of 0 couldn't be added to a group. Thanks to Mark for the spot. [David]

•   Changed mover list to be sorted in alphabetical order in the Destination profile. This has the benefit of forcing "FTP" to be listed before "File System" -- Hurray for case-sensitive ordering! Thanks to Sam for the complaint. [David]

•   The OS for a destination server now defaults to the OS of the server on which Bricolage is installed instead of "Mac". Thanks to Sam for the spot. [David]

•   Deleted destinations will now be dissociated from output channels when they're deleted. This prevents stories from being published to deleted destinations. Thanks to Mark for the heads-up. [David]

•   Fixed bug where attribute metadata wasn't getting deleted when it was supposed to. [Joa~o Pedro Goncalves]

•   Fixed bug where some browsers submit an image button with a value stored in the image button's name as well as in the name with ".x" and ".y" appended to it. This caused callbacks to be triggered twice for a single field! I noticed this with Mozilla on Mac OS X, and presume it would happen elsewhere, too. [David]

•   Fixed bug in navigation bar HTML that caused the bar to disappear on certain browsers. [Rachel Murray]

•   Fixed bug in Bric::SOAP where Bricolage exceptions resulted in an uninformative "Application error" message. Now the full exception message is displayed. [Sam]

•   Fixed installation to work under Debian Linux 3.0 (testing). Thanks to Mark Jaroski for a helpful patch. [Sam]

•   Changed length of Bric::Dist::Job name attribute from 64 characters to 256. This allows long asset names to be used. Also added code to Bric::Dist::Job to ensure that the name property is truncated if it's longer than 256 characters. Thanks to Josh Cox for the spot. [David]

•   Fixed bug where dumber browsers would submit a new template without any Element selected. Thanks to Michael Robinton for reporting the bug. [David]

•   All stories and media are now required to be associated with a category. For stories, the primary category cannot be deleted. If you want to change the primary category, add a new category, change it to the primary, and then delete the old primary category. This fix prevents previews and publishes from breaking on stories and media that had no categories. Thanks to Mark for the heads-up. [David]

•   An overhaul of the burn system had regressed the Output Channel preview functionality. I've put it back now. [Mark]

•   Fixed button JavaScript to work correctly in Mozilla. [Matt]

•   Fixed bug in HTML::Template burner that prevented <tmpl_include>s from working in some cases. [Sam]

•   Numerous spelling errors were fixed by Scott Lanning. Thanks!

•   In the Element manager, doing a search after selecting an Element Type from which to display elements no longer causes an error. Thanks to Adam Robinson for the spot. [David]

•   Made the parent category field in the Category Profile a required field. [Mark]

•   Fix Bric::Util::FTP::FileHandle to work with a modified date-formatting preference. [Matt]

•   Fixed section numbering in the Contributor Type profile. [Scott Lanning]

VERSION 1.3.1 (2002-04-03)

  New Features

•   Bricolage SOAP interface fully implemented. The command-line clients bric_soap, bric_dev_sync and bric_republish are all complete. [Sam]

•   Bricolage now comes with a configure script and a Makefile for easier installation and configuration. [Mark Jaroski]

•   Removed MD5 Perl module requirement by requiring Apache::Session 1.54 or higher. [David]

•   Added new FTP distribution move method. Now you can distribute files either via a file system copy or via FTP. [David]

•   Added a preference to change the way URIs are formatted. [Adam]

•   Added a URI case preference to force URIs to lowercase, uppercase, or allow mixed case URIs. [Adam]

•   Categories are now all listed and sorted by URI in select lists. [Sam]

•   The cache is now cleared when the Apache server is started or restarted. This avoids potential problems with stale data in the cache. [Sam]

  Bug Fixes

•   Fixed numerous cases where user_ids were being used as booleans. Since user_id 0 is the Administrator's user_id this can cause problems. [Sam]

•   Fixed problem where deleting an asset would fail with the "cannot check-in non checked-out version" error. [Sam]

•   Fixed bug in HTML::Template burner when an element name had more than one space in it. [Sam]

•   Fixed bug in database that prevented element names over 32 characters from working properly. [Sam]

•   Fixed bug where trying to preview a story without a Preview destination and PREVIEW_LOCAL off would result in a Mason error. [Sam]

•   Fixed bug in Bric::SOAP::Story->create() where data element order was getting lost. Thanks to Mike Slattery for the spot. [Sam]

•   Fixed bug in HTML::Template burner where templates in non-root categories could not be found. Thanks to Marlon Bermas for the spot. [Sam]

•   Fixed Bric::Util::FTP::FileHandle to create new revisions on PUT. [Sam]

•   Deleting a contributor will no longer break stories with which the contributor is associated. Thanks to Rachel Murray for the spot. [David]

•   Invalid configuration directives in bricolage.conf will now be caught and keep Bricolage from starting. [Sam]

•   The view button in the element profile now works correctly. Thanks to Joa~o Pedro Goncalves for the spot. [David]

•   Changed all strftime instances of '%G' to '%Y', as this seems to be more portable. [David]

•   Checking in a template from a template profile now performs a syntax check of the template just as saving the template does. [Joa~o Pedro Goncalves]

•   Notes attached to stories and media are now once again editable from the desk and profile views if they're checked out to the current user, and only viewable otherwise. Thanks to Tracey Largay for the spot. [David]

•   Fixed a few poorly-named time zones in the time zone preference. More still needs to be done here, actually. [David]

•   Implemented the chk_syntax() method in Bric::Util::Burner::Template. [Sam]

VERSION 1.3.0 (2002-02-10)

  New Features

•   Bricolage SOAP interface partially implemented. Bric::SOAP::Story and Bric::SOAP::Media are fully implemented and tested. The command-line client - bric_soap - is complete. [Sam]

  Bug Fixes

•   Fixed numerous cases where user_ids were being used as booleans. Since user_id 0 is the Administrator's user_id this can cause problems. [Sam]

•   Fixed problem where deleting an asset would fail with the "cannot check-in non checked-out version" error. [Sam]

•   Fixed bug in HTML::Template burner when an element name had more than one space in it. [Sam]

•   Fixed bug in database that prevented element names over 32 characters from working properly. [Sam]

•   All fixes in the soon-to-be-released 1.2.1 version. See below for details.

VERSION 1.2.3 (2002-03-17)
Functionally equivalent to 1.2.2, but includes required files missing from the 1.2.2 distribution.

VERSION 1.2.2 (2002-03-15)

  New Features

•   Added chk_syntax() methods to Bric::Util::Burner and its subclasses. This method will takes a template asset object and make sure that it compiles. Bric::Util::Burner::chk_syntax() delegates to the proper subclass.

  Bug Fixes

•   Some misspellings were corrected in Bric::Admin. Thanks to Ask Bjoern Hansen for the spot. [David]

•   Fixed broken "Return" buttons on related media and related story pages. [David]

•   Fixed bug where assets weren't activated when they were created and then checked in without clicking the "Save" button. [David]

•   Fixed bug where a fixed story's slug was getting used in its URI. [David]

•   Fixed broken image autopopulation fields (compression, height, width, etc.) [David]

•   Fixed broken support for audio and video files. These can be set up by the Media Type menu in Element Types. Eventually these should arrange for some fields to be auto-populated (e.g., bit rate, frame size, length, encoding, etc.). [David]

•   Fixed bug where Categories with the same directory name could not be created. Thanks to Andrew Baio for the spot. [David]

•   Fixed a bug where a user couldn't look at her own event log if she didn't have permission. Thank to Michael Alan Dorman for the spot. [David]

•   Fixed a bug where permissions set to access workflows and desks had no affect on the display of workflows and desks. Thanks to Rachel Murray for the spot. [David]

•   Fixed bug where attempting to create a destination with the same name as an existing but deactivated destination triggered an SQL error. Thanks to Michael Alan Dorman for the spot. [David]

•   Fixed bug where Workflows with spaces in their names would not create proper submenus in the left navigation bar. Thanks to the WHO for the spot [David]

•   Fixed bug where the wrong story might be previewed when clicking the title of a story in My Workspace or on a desk. [David]

•   Changing the category a media asset is in now correctly updates the underlying category object and the URI without the media asset needing to be checked in. [Matt Vella]

•   Eliminated "Template compile failed" errors for templates with <%init> sections. [David]

•   Field elements now show up with their display names in the bulk edit select lists, instead of with their names (which are really keys). [David]

•   Eliminated "Use of uninitialized value in bitwise or (|)" warnings when checking permissions. Thanks to Sam Tregar for the spot. [David]

•   Custom fields in elements and contributor types now remember their "size" setting. Thanks to Sam Tregar for the spot. [David]

•   The Element select list on the new Template profile no longer lists media elements, since media assets don't use templates. [David]

•   Removed old XML::Writer stuff from Bric::Util::Burner, since I moved it to Bric::Util::Burner::Mason a while ago and it was causing some problems. Thanks to Michael Robinton for the spot. [David]

•   Fixed typo in Bric::Hacker spotted by Axel Beckert. [Sam]

•   The CREATE permission works properly now. Thanks to Rachel Murray for the spot. [David]

VERSION 1.2.1 (2002-02-25)

  New Features

•   Created new method of configuring Bricolage in Apache. For mod_perl 1.26 and earlier, a custom config file will be written to the bricolage temp directory every time Bricolage is started or restarted. For mod_perl 1.27 and later, no temp file will be written. [David]

•   Added support for Mozilla (and there was much rejoicing!). [David]

•   Changed password for the default "admin" user to "change me now!" [David]

•   The slug is stored in the database for both fixed and non-fixed stories. This is in anticipation of adding the ability to use the slug for fixed story URIs later on. Thanks to Darren Graves for the patch.

•   Added DISABLE_NAV_LAYER directive. It's off by default, but if you turn it on in bricolage.conf, the side navigation layer will be rendered as plain HTML in every page instead of as a separate layer. [David]

•   Documented PERL_LOADER directive in Bric::AdvTemplates. [David]

  Bug Fixes

•   Turned off the PREVIEW_MASON configuration directive in bricolage.conf. It should be off by default. [David]

•   Deleted Output Channels now properly don't show up in the Output Channel manager again. Thanks to Sara for the spot! [David]

•   All previews now preview assets in the primary Output Channel only. Previously, the previews were in the Output Channel whose name came first alphabetically. Thanks to Sara Wood for catching this bug. [David]

•   Fixed bug where templates often couldn't be found by the Mason burner if the output channel had a post_path. [David]

•   Fixed bug where templates often couldn't be found by the HTML::Template burner if the output channel had a post_path. [Sam]

•   Fixed some problems with the sideNav menus under Netscape. [David]

•   Fixed broken "Preview" button in Read-only story profile and in related story elements. [Matt Vella]

•   Updated debugging code to accommodate new syntax in Cache::Cache. Thanks to Sam Tregar for the spot. [David]

•   Fixed problem with Element names containing non-alphanumeric characters. [Sam]

•   Checking out media assets from "Find Media" now redirects you to the media profile if you've checked out one media asset, or My Workspace if you've checked out more than one. This puts it in line with how "Find Stories" and "Find Templates" work. Thanks to Sam for the report. [David]

•   Fixed bulk edit functionality for Media assets. Thanks to Sam for the spot. [David]

•   In Bric::Biz::Asset::Business, the source get_meth key in my_meths() now works properly. Also, get_all_keywords() now also returns the category keywords as well as the story keywords. Thanks to Darren Graves for the patch.

•   Removed quotation marks from DEF_MEDIA_TYPE setting in bricolage.conf. Thanks to Darren Graves for the spot. [David]

•   Sorting assets by ID in "Find X" and Workspace/Desk view now properly does a numeric sort rather than an alphanumeric sort. Thanks to Sam Tregar for the spot. [David]

•   Fixed an obscure bug where, for files uploaded as part of a Media file, Bricolage attempted to create a path on its own file system using path delimiters for another file system. Thanks to Mike Slattery for the spot. [David]

•   Required content fields in stories and elements are now displayed in the order specified in the Element profile. Thanks to Sam Tregar for the spot. [David]

•   All assets now start with the version number 0 until the first time they are checked in. Also, they will show up on desks and in the Find views after the first time they are saved. It was inconsistent before, and some items could not be seen in the desk and Find views until they were checked in. Thanks to Sam for spotting the inconsistency. [David]

•   The bric_clean_tmp script has been changed to avoid deleting the Bricolage cache file. [Sam]

•   Fixed typo that broke Bric::Dist::Client. [Mike Slattery]

•   Fixed multiple select custom fields for Elements and Contributors. Thanks to Mike Slattery for the spot. [David]

•   Fixed ugly bug where deleting a "Media Type" Element would delete all the media objects of that type. Thanks to Sam for the spot (though not for the bug!). [David]

•   Fixed bric_pgimport so that it uses DBI to drop and create the database, rather than relying on a hard-coded location for pgsql binaries. [David]

•   Fixed permission granting in bric_pgimport so that the Bricolage database use has DELETE permissions on all objects in the Bricolage database. It looks like this permission was ignored in PostgreSQL 7.1 and earlier, or problems would have shown up a long time ago! [David]

•   Fixed a bug where the time a distribution job is scheduled was not properly converted to UTC for storage in the database. Thanks to Mike Slattery for the great code archaeology! [David]

•   Fixed the spelling of "contributor" in several spots. [Andrew Baio]

•   Fixed bug where changing a story's primary category left it with no primary category. [Matt Vella]

VERSION 1.2.0 (2002-01-10)

  New Features

•   Added Context-sensitive, online help. [Sam]

•   Added separate interface for editing templates (via FTP). [Sam]

•   Added the ability to use HTML::Template Templates. [Sam]

•   Added ability for different Output Channels to function as different component roots for in Mason templates. This will allow for templates that can't be found in the current Output Channel to be searched for in other Output Channels. [David]

•   Added link to Event log to Find Story, Find Template, and Find Media screens. [David]

•   Added true previewing for media assets. Now, when you click their URIs to preview them, they will be distributed to the preview server(s) before redirecting the user to them, rather than just serving them up from where they live on the Bricolage file system. The latter can still be accessed under "Download" in the Media Asset profile. This will continue to be the preferred way to grab media files for editing and such, as it will not incur the overhead of distributing the media file. [David]

•   Allow only one template with a given name for a given category, element, burner and output channel. [Sam]

•   Added a Maintainer section to the About page. [David]

•   Updated About page to mimic the layout of the help pages. [David]

  Bug Fixes

•   Fixed a bug with local previews where a preview page could show up instead of the Bricolage UI. Thanks to Sara for the spot. [David]

•   Fixed a bug where Mason component calls failed in previews when the PREVIEW_MASON directive was enabled. [David]

•   Changed default value for text area fields added via the form builder (i.e., in Contributor Type and Element profiles) to 0. The values 0 and "" always make the the new field unlimited in length. [David]

•   Fixed a couple of buttons to be proper case rather than upper case. [David]

•   Separated the filesystem destinations for assets burned for publication and for assets burned for previewing. This will prevent someone previewing and stomping all over a published version of an asset before the published version is distributed. [David]

•   Removed hard-coding of the local preview directory in httpd.conf and httpd-ssl.conf. Now using the values stored in PREVIEW_LOCAL, instead, to determine the proper directory. [David]

•   Added the DEF_MEDIA_TYPE directive. Bricolage will use the value in this directive to assign a Media Type to all file resources if Bricolage can't figure it out from their file extensions. This fixes a bug where Bricolage would choke if it couldn't figure out the MediaType itself. [David]

VERSION 1.0.2 (2001-12-10)

  New Features

•   Added "File Name" and "File Extension" properties to OutputChannels. These properties will now be used to name files burned to the file system on preview and publish. [David]

•   Added DEFAULT_FILENAME and DEFAULT_FILE_EXT configuration directives to set default values on the "File Name" and "File Extension" Output Channel properties. [David]

•   Changed Bric::Util::Burner->display_element() so that it doesn't paginate. All paginated pages are now treated instead as regular elements. This is useful for things like printer-friendly pages. Bric::Util::Burner->display_element() continues to work as before. Use this method to output a separate file for each paginated element. [David]

•   When errors occur while previewing stories, the leftNav is now turned off. [David]

•   Browser buttons and menus are now disabled. [David]

•   Added ability to set permissions on assets based on the categories they're in. [David]

•   Moved all session and session locking files into the "bricolage" subdirectory of the local file system's tmp directory. You'll want to rm -rf /tmp/bricolage_* upon upgrading. [David]

•   Moved the location of cache files to the "bricolage/cache" subdirectory of the local file system's tmp directory. You'll want to rm -rf /tmp/FileCache upon upgrading. Together with the above change, this means that all Bricolage temporary files are stored in the "bricolage" subdirectory of the local tmp, e.g., /tmp/bricolage. [David]

•   Added new program, bric_clean_tmp, that can be used in a cron job to delete stale temporary files. [Sam]

•   Added an "About" page, linked from the logo graphic, that explains the name "Bricolage" and offers the license and credits. [David]

•   Added PERL_LOADER configuration directive. Pass a line of Perl to this directive, and on startup, it'll execute it in the same namespace as your templates execute in. [David]

•   Added INCLUDE_XML_WRITER and XML_WRITER_ARGS configuration parameters. If INCLUDE_XML_WRITER is turned on, then all templates will include a new global, $writer, that is an XML::Writer object. This object is provided as a convenience for creating XML in your templates. XML_WRITER_ARGS allows certain arguments to be passed to the XML::Writer. [David]

•   Fixed bug where data fields deleted from Elements were deleting them from existing stories, too. [David]

•   Fixed bug where stories with related media associated with them were displaying the story as an Element rather than as a story after editing the related media. [David]

•   Removed all file system location dependencies for the operation of Bricolage. Bricolage will still assume that everything's in /usr/local/bricolage, but any location is fine as long as the BRICOLAGE_ROOT environment variable is set to the proper location. [David]

•   Added code to force all preview pages to be re-requested from the server every time they're viewed. This prevents the browser from loading older versions from its cache, and allows users to always see the most recently-burned output of a story. [David]

•   Removed debugging information from URLs for when debugging is turned off -- which should be always in production code (e.g., releases). [David]

•   Elements are now displayed with their display names rather than their attribute names. Thanks to Sam Tregar for the spot. [David]

•   Fixed bug where fields (attributes) added to an Element with the name of an existing but deactivated field triggered an error. Thanks to Sam for the heads-up. [David]

•   Fixed a bug where data fields sometimes were not properly retrieved from the database in Bric::Biz::AssetType. [David]

•   Fixed a bug where clicking "Save and Stay" in the Element profile wouldn't delete attributes (fields) marked as such, or even delete the Element itself, if the "Delete this profile" checkbox was checked.

•   Fixed a bug where, for Story and Media assets, editors were given Edit access to notes, even when they didn't have the asset checked out. [David]

•   Changed the misleading and inaccurate "Two blank lines" label in the Bulk Edit interface to the more accurate "One blank line". Thanks to Sam Tregar for the heads-up.

VERSION 1.0.1 (2001-09-28)

•   Initial public release.

AUTHOR
David Wheeler <david@wheeler.net>

SEE ALSO
Bric