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This release rounds up the fixes done in the intermediate versions and adds a few usability and MediaWiki improvements. The Collection extension can now access the MediaWiki API and generate, for example, PDFs from Wiki pages/books. There’s now a forge-global MediaWiki “Local”Settings.php file. The developer/packager changelog is, as usual, at: https://evolvis.org/scm/viewvc.php/trunk/gforge_base/evolvisforge/gforge/debian/changelog?root=evolvis&view=markup

Asides from more submit buttons in the tracker item view, some regressions in search and administrative interfaces have been fixed.

More XHTML and PHP bugfixes, and errors introduced while mass-fixing, have been taken care of in EvolvisForge, MediaWiki and mediawiki-plugins. The new MediaWiki version with two security fixes has been installed as well.

I have just upgraded all tarent-internal instances of Evolvis, as well as the public evolvis.org forge, to a new version of EvolvisForge as well as MediaWiki and its extensions. The Plugin Demonstration page at https://evolvis.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/evolvis/index.php/PluginDemo has been extended by ParserFunctions demonstration courtesy of Ben Kix. The full developer ChangeLog is, as usual, at https://evolvis.org/scm/viewvc.php/trunk/gforge_base/evolvisforge/gforge/debian/changelog?root=evolvis&view=markup – the most prominent items follow: • Correct problems with pages not working, files not found, and other errors or missing functionality (regressions and otherwise), such as MediaWiki plugin $wgLogo upload, PHP include_path, … • Improve code quality and XHTML output • For developers, the pages can optionally be checked for XHTML validity during generation (enabled on evolvis-ff and evolvis-pa test systems, disabled on all other instances and by default) – this extension also displays all errors generated by PHP instead of having them logged to where nobody ever looks at • Every single Task („Auftrag“) can now be subscribed to via RSS feeds Of course, there have been many, many changes “under the hood”, i.e. where only developers will see them. Collaboration with MediaWiki packaging for Debian continues, and with FusionForge has been pushed more. We still have a lot of improvements coming, stay tuned for the next version!

Due do bugfixing, there was a new snapshot deployed everywhere. No new features, but this is new: • Fix missing files for the theme (forum, …) • Unbreak PM/Tasks area • Unbreak Document Manager Thanks to everyone who noticed, and every user for their patience!

I have just upgraded all tarent-internal instances of Evolvis, as well as the public evolvis.org forge, to a new version of EvolvisForge as well as MediaWiki and its extensions. There are several new extensions, almost all of them enabled by default. You can see a tech demo of these at https://evolvis.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/evolvis/index.php/PluginDemo (which will automatically show you an English- or German language version depending on your web browser’s preferences). The extensions are: • Math • Cite • Collection • CreateBox • Footnote • GraphViz • ImageMap • InputBox • LanguageSelector • NewestPages • News • PageCSS • ParserFunctions • Polyglot • RSS_Reader • SpecialCite • SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi The MediaWiki extensions are “driven” (configured) by the forge semi-automatically, for example RSS_Reader uses a per-project (forge group) cache directory instead of disabling the cache (which needed to be done for the Debian package, since the default installation does not have the luxury of a directory writable for the Apache user). The configuration closely matches the “old-style” (JH) Wiki integration that has been done for Evolvis 4.5 previously. Further changes include a fair number of bugfixes to the code, theme, wiki, extensions (fed upstream), and XHTML compliance. We know there are still enough bugs to keep us busy for a while, but you might notice some improvements; others are hidden but shorten the Apache error_log noticeably ☺ To further summarise from the developer/package management system changelog – https://evolvis.org/scm/viewvc.php/trunk/gforge_base/evolvisforge/gforge/debian/changelog?root=evolvis&view=markup – the (non-bugfix) changes from the last version include: • reduced space requirements by using the xz compressor instead of gzip for nightly Subversion backups • give forge (group/project and site) admins more permissions in the Wiki by default • Konqueror users have clickable sftp:// links in the places where SFTP/manual file upload can be used • displaying filenames of uploaded files, including rules for them, has been improved • there are now two automatic mailing lists (for newly created groups/projects): unixname-commits (where every member with commit rights will be added automatically) and unixname-discuss (where every member will be added automatically); of course there’s still the option to unsubscribe or, for non-members, to subscribe (a new Mailman integration is being worked on) • Mailman list administrator passwords can now be (re-)set from the forge (by group/project or site admins); be careful to tell your co-admins the new password though… • new values for PM (Tasks) status fields • the ability to copy a task to another subproject • customisable display for the Tasks area Notable bugfixes: • the SCM URLs now always use the correct hostname • help window pop-ups are working again • Evolvis can now almost fully be used with PHP 5.3 on Debian unstable (although we are still formally targetting Debian Lenny specifically) • font sizes (in the forge and the wiki) are finally consistent • slight performance improvements The time tracking area in Tasks has been disabled, since there is a company-internal tool doing the same, with an Evolvis integration being developed. We hope you enjoy the latest installment of the Evolvis platform! -- Thorsten Glaser, for the tarent Evolvis task forge, FusionForge and Mediawiki