## OpenACS 4.6 Release Notes

by Don Baccus
OpenACS docs are written by the named authors, but may be edited by OpenACS documentation staff.

This is a final release of OpenACS 4.6. This release has been subjected to an organized test effort, but please bear in mind that we are still in the process of developing testing tools, methodology, and scripts.

Please report bugs using our Software Development Manager at the OpenACS website. The latest information on installing this release under Oracle 8.1.6/7 or PostgreSQL 7.1.* can be found there as well. Currently the toolkit will not install under Oracle 9i due to Oracle having made "delete" an illegal name for PL/SQL procedures and functions.

You may want to begin by reading our installation documentation for Installing on Unix/Linux or Installing on Windows. Note that the Windows documentation is not current for OpenACS 4.6, but an alternative is to use John Sequeira's Oasis VM project.

After installation, the full documentation set can be found by visiting http://[your-host]/doc. Not all pieces are updated for OpenACS 4.6 at this moment.

### Site Wide Searching

If you're using Oracle 8.1.6 or 8.1.7 Enterprise Edition you may want to uncomment the SQL that causes InterMedia to keep online searching online while indexing. The feature doesn't exist in Standard Edition and OpenACS 4.6 now defaults to being loadable in SE. Just grep for 'sync' to find the code.

Also be sure to read the documentation in the Site Wide Search package's sql/oracle directory. The APM doesn't execute the SQL for this package, in part due to the fact that some steps need to be run as the Oracle user 'ctxsys'.

If you're using PostgreSQL be sure to read the documentation on installing the Open FTS driver for OpenACS. It's included in the package as a text file and is also summarized at the end of the installation documentation in the section, Set Up OpenFTS. As with the Oracle version, there are steps you must take manually in order to get this feature working.

### Testing Notes

Here are some notes from our testing group. While not quite up to date it should give you some ideas of where things stand.

     Summarised Testing Status

    Skin
    Minimal
    Release w/caution
    Comments:

    Package: Page
    Test Coverage: Minimal
    Release w/caution
    Comments:

    Package: Bboard
    Test Coverage: Reasonable
    Suggested Status: Alpha
    Comments:

    Package: Static Pages
    Test Coverage: Minimal
    Suggested Status: Release w/caution
    Comments:

    Package: Ticket Tracker
    Test Coverage: Reasonable
    Suggested Status: Alpha
    Comments: Don tested personally

    Package: Ticket Tracker Lite
    Test Coverage: Unknown
    Suggested Status:
    Comments:

    Package: Acs-lang
    Test Coverage: Reasonable
    Suggested Status: Alpha
    Comments: Oracle only

    Package: Simple-survey
    Test Coverage: Reasonable
    Suggested Status: Alpha
    Comments:

    Package: Portal
    Test Coverage: Extensive
    Suggested Status: Alpha
    Comments:

    Package: Notes
    Test Coverage: Extensive
    Suggested Status: Alpha
    Comments:

    Package: Bookmarks
    Test Coverage: Extensive
    Suggested Status: Alpha
    Comments:

    Package: Clickthrough
    Test Coverage: Extensive
    Suggested Status: Alpha
    Comments:

    Package: Acs-mail
    Test Coverage: Reasonable
    Suggested Status: Release w/caution
    Comments:

    Package: Acs-messaging
    Test Coverage: Reasonable
    Suggested Status: Release w/caution
    Comments:

    Package: File manager
    Test Coverage: Minimal
    Suggested Status: Release w/caution
    Comments:

    Package: File Storage
    Test Coverage: Minimal
    Suggested Status: Release w/caution
    Comments:

    Package: Site-wide-search
    Test Coverage: Minimal
    Suggested Status: Release w/caution
    Comments:

    Package: General Comments
    Test Coverage: Extensive
    Suggested Status: Alpha
    Comments:

    Package: Acs-events
    Test Coverage: None
    Suggested Status:
    Comments: Automated Testing

    Package: Acs-datetime
    Test Coverage: None
    Suggested Status:
    Comments: Automated Testing

    Package: Acs-tcl
    Test Coverage: Reasonable
    Suggested Status: Release w/caution
    Comments: Automated Testing

    Package: Acs-templating
    Test Coverage: Reasonable
    Suggested Status: Release w/caution
    Comments: Automated Testing

    Package: Acs-util
    Test Coverage: Reasonable
    Suggested Status: Release w/caution
    Comments: Automated Testing

    Package: Acs-Content-repository
    Test Coverage: Minimal
    Suggested Status: Release w/caution
    Comments: Automated Testing

    Package: Acs-content
    Test Coverage: Minimal
    Suggested Status: Release w/caution
    Comments: Automated Testing

    Package: Acs-kernel
    Test Coverage: Reasonable
    Suggested Status: Alpha
    Comments: Automated Testing

    Package: Acs-subsite
    Test Coverage: Reasonable
    Suggested Status: Alpha
    Comments:

    Package: Acs-bootstrap-installer
    Test Coverage: Extensive
    Suggested Status: Alpha
    Comments: Developers have used this extensively

    Package: Acs-api-browser
    Test Coverage: Minimal
    Suggested Status: Release w/caution
    Comments: Automated Testing

    Package: Acs-workflow
    Test Coverage: Minimal
    Suggested Status: Release w/caution
    Comments:

    Package: calendar
    Test Coverage: Minimal
    Suggested Status: Alpha
    Comments: Don tested personally

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