XOOPS: XOOPS 2.4.0 RC Is Released
Posted by: MambaOn 2009/9/14 4:10:00 19106 readsAfter over 25,000 downloads of XOOPS 2.3.3 in just five months, the #1 CMS System hosted on SourceForge, is getting closer to the next major release. The XOOPS Development Team is pleased to announce the release of XOOPS 2.4.0 Release Candidate.
This release includes many bugfixes and user experience improvements, done by XOOPS Core Development Team and XOOPS community. Some of the major improvements include:
* a new Admin GUI (Voltan)
* new mechanism to modularize and extend Core via Preloads (trabis)
* central support for jQuery (trabis)
* improved Installer (DuGris)
* WCAG 2.0 - Sight Impaired Assisted Forms (wishcraft)
* Themeable Admininstration area (trabis)
* new WYSIWYG Editors: wymeditor, Xinha, and Spaw2 (wishcraft)
and many more.
New in Release Candidate (in addition to bug fixes):
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Updates upon community:
- Removed soap authentication and classes(trabis)
- Removed extra databases support (trabis)
They will be revisited for the next release.
Some of the changes in Beta 2 (in addition to bug fixes):
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* Admin GUI's are now using a theme factory, modules can make use of $xoTheme and $xoopsTpl (trabis)
* Preload system, modules can now respond to system events (trabis)
* Support for PHP 5.3 (trabis)
* jquery support. If you need to use jquery.js, please use $xoTheme->addScript('browse.php?Frameworks/jquery/jquery.js'); (trabis/phppp)
Some of the new/changed areas in Beta 1:
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- profile and pm modules improved by dhcst/wishcraft
- installer improved by dugris and marco, etc.
- theme improved by mamba, aph3x, kris and burning
- tinymce editor improved by dugris and luciorota
- snoopy class upgraded by julionc
- smarty upgraded by dhcst/trabis
- bug tracker managed by marco
- new Admin Theme "Oxygen" by Voltan
Please remember:This release is ONLY for testing! Do NOT use it on productions sites. And if you're installing it over previous test installation, make a BACKUP first!
Please also note that some hacks done for previous XOOPS versions might not work with this release: testing before installing is always a good choice
Download it from Sourceforge repository.
Thanks to kris_fr, you can see the API documentation for this release, incl. UML Diagrams, here.
Please post and discuss all issues related to this release in this forum
We also need help with Translations
System requirements ----------------------------------- PHP: Any PHP version >= 4.3 (PHP 4.2.x may work but is not officially supported, PHP 5.0+ is strongly recommended) MySQL: MySQL server 3.23+ (MySQL 5.0+ is strongly recommended) Web server: Any server supporting the required PHP version (Apache highly recommended) Downloading XOOPS ----------------------------------- Your can get this release package from the Sourceforge file repository Both .zip and .gz archives are provided. Installing XOOPS ----------------------------------- 1. Copy the content of the htdocs/ folder where it can be accessed by your server 2. Ensure mainfile.php and uploads/ are writable by the web server 3. For security considerations, you are encouraged to move directories "/xoops_lib" (for XOOPS libraries) and "/xoops_data" (for XOOPS data) out of Document Root, and change the folder names. 4. Make the directory xoops_data/ writable; Create (if not already present) and make the directories xoops_data/caches/, xoops_data/caches/xoops_cache/, xoops_data/caches/smarty_cache/ and xoops_data/caches/smarty_compile/ writable. 5. Access the folder where you installed the htdocs/ files using your web browser to launch the installation wizard Upgrading from a previous version ----------------------------------- Upgrading from XOOPS 2.3.x (easy way) 1. Get the right update package from the sourceforge file repository 2. Overwrite your existing files with the new ones * make sure that you copy the content of /xoops_lib to whatever directory you keep it on the server now (e.g. if you moved it outside of the Document Root). There can NOT be two directories with content of /xoops_lib 3. Move the "upgrade" folder inside the "htdocs" folder (it's been kept out as it's not needed for full installs) on your local computer 4. Access
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