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Re: [EP-tech] 3.0.1!

From: Christopher Gutteridge <cjg AT ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:50:40 +0100


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I'm planning to migrate eprints.ecs soon which is a big complex eprints 
set up which should help me sort out the migration toolkit.

I'm aware I've been tardy on this, but getting a less buggy version of 
3.0 has been my priority.

Joe Roback wrote:
> *** EPrints technical list - http://software.eprints.org/tech.php/
> *** EPrints community wiki - http://wiki.eprints.org/
>
> Hello Chris.
>
> Nice changelog for EP-3.0.1
>
> You have any update on improvements to the migration toolkit? Anita
> and I here at DLIST would love to do more EP3 testing, but the
> migration scripts are just too buggy (my previous posts to the list)
> and testing on a empty repository doesn't provide as much feedback, as
> say a full one. :)
>
> Not meaning to be demanding or anything, just curious.
>
> cheers,
> joe
>
> On 4/13/07, Christopher Gutteridge <cjg AT ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>> *** EPrints technical list - http://software.eprints.org/tech.php/
>> *** EPrints community wiki - http://wiki.eprints.org/
>>
>> Hi everybody! I've placed a beta of 3.0.1 on files.eprints.org.
>>
>> http://files.eprints.org/245/
>>
>> It's probably fine, but it's Friday. Friday the 13th, no less. I've
>> upgraded the server which runs demoprints3.eprints.org and
>> files.eprints.org and all seems well, and it passed my basic testing
>> harness.
>>
>> It fixes a bunch of issues. Most notably it speeds up the indexer and
>> sorts out the bugs in full text searching.
>>
>> We may make another 3.0 series release, but don't plan to make a
>> new-features release for some time. Please send any reports to the 
list
>> +ive or -ive about this release. Thanks
>>
>> Some of the fixes:
>>
>>  * Fixed slow rendering of "profile" page.
>>  * Fixed bugs with editorial restrictions.
>>  * Cookie values are now randomised when you logout/login again.
>>  * Fixed bugs with full-text indexing.
>>  * Fixed speed problems in indexer.
>>  * Fixed incorrectly ordered subjects.
>>  * Improved some help text.
>>  * Added a few missing phrases.
>>  * Fixed some spelling mistakes.
>>  * epadmin now obeys groupid from SystemSettings
>>  * Upload component: if there is only one document, then it is 
>> "unrolled"
>>     in the interface - saves a click.
>>  * Only .xml files are now parsed in phrases directories.
>>  * Fixed bug with 404 pages coming back blank, some of the time.
>>  * Fixed bug where after removing a user you got taken to an undefined
>>     screen.
>>  * Added some better error reporting to XML import. Now spots and 
warns
>>     if you pass v2 XML to a v3 importer.
>>  * Improved invocation of external programs.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/cjg
>>
>> Lead Developer, EPrints Project, http://eprints.org/
>>
>> Web Projects Manager, School of Electronics and Computer Science,
>> University of Southampton.
>>
>>
>

-- 
Christopher Gutteridge -- http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/cjg

Lead Developer, EPrints Project, http://eprints.org/

Web Projects Manager, School of Electronics and Computer Science,
University of Southampton. 


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