Newscoop 4.3.1 minor release

This release doesn't bring any new features, but it's very important to update your Newscoop 4.3 instance to this version. Instead of features this time we focused on performance and stability. It's up to 60% faster (in most test cases) than the original Newscoop 4.3.

Release changelog:

0ed635c fix menu issues when no issues are added
9a31769 Merge pull request #895 from danielhjames/v4.3
99da35e Fix copyright in widgets that do not use an ini file
312d9cd Update dashboard widget copyright notices
c480ffe Merge pull request #894 from danielhjames/CS-5022
5ccd9bf CS-5022 Add missing TinyMCE localization files for various languages
ed2ab3c Merge pull request #893 from takeit/v4.3
15eab5b CS-5560 - Newscoop installer should allow empty password for mysql connection
de81475 CS-5558 - Broken WYSIWYG editor for non-english languages
2047190 Merge pull request #889 from ahilles107/4_3_code_optimizations_bundle
0e13aa3 Merge pull request #891 from takeit/v4.3
8bfd48c WOBS-3597 - Widget Article of the Day has name and buttons in English in place of German
4e267ff order issues by id in menu
7dae526 change menu variable visibility
fd08cfd Merge branch 'v4.3' of https://github.com/sourcefabric/Newscoop into 4_3_code_optimizations_bundle
da69886 call menu building just once per page
79e0fff Merge pull request #885 from ahilles107/4_3_code_optimizations_bundle
da4e6a8 improve menu rendering on instances with many publications and issues
9d393da Merge pull request #881 from m038/CS-5562
5591b10 CS-5562: Adds default value for 'debug' key in $params array
6d87be5 Merge pull request #879 from ahilles107/4_3_code_optimizations_bundle
479ad04 use array filtering instead doctrine criteria
4354dfc Merge pull request #878 from ahilles107/4_3_code_optimizations_bundle
10e9be3 add missing cssrewrite filter
174b19e Merge pull request #877 from ahilles107/4_3_code_optimizations_bundle
0ed4d6b improve assetic smarty function, make paths works as current theme relatives
ecc70a1 add assetic filter
76297db remove readable param from issue getWorkflowStatus - it was not used, add root namespace to classes in CampSite
2b8030a make new properties in CampTemplate public
0ee0579 don't use system preferences in url function
9de2cf0 remove not supported olc campcache
90e6f05 improve block image function
280d17e turn off outSetIssue caching - wrong serialization
c01ee16 port themes service to 4.3
0f3cc04 don't runn public resources listener on not api routes
817bbc4 don't look for all plugins directories for translations

Newscoop 4.3 major release

New in Newscoop 4.3

RESTful API

We are trying to make Newscoop ready for all newspaper challanges and be able to exchange all content with all needed system and applications. In Newscoop 4.3 you can find improved response objects, and a lot of new endpoints.

Enhanced plugins system

In new plugins system we allows for plugins developers to extend or replace almost every part of cms.

Currently plugins can:

• Create/manage and work with database tables
• Add admin routes and controllers
• Add custom frontend routes and controllers
• Introduce custom smarty functions/blocks/lists
• Add own dashboard widgets
• Hook into some parts of Admin UI
• Work with users permissions
• Introduce and manage background jobs

Read our documentation for plugins here: http://docs.sourcefabric.org
Find our plugins created by us here: https://github.com/newscoop

New UI for users management

Better way to filter and search you regitered users. Find out how many your users use login with Facebook.

Improved performance

Newscoop 4.3 supports new cache providers, we fixed also a lot of database slow queries, and non eficient code.

Find more about our current work on dev-blog: http://dev-blog.sourcefabric.org/

Upgrade to Newscoop 4.3 from Newscoop 4.2.3

For upgrade from Newscoop 4.2.3 or 4.2.4 please follow instruction from this file

Newscoop 4.2.4 maintenance release

Bug fixes

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• IM-1572: Fixes the issue for non upgraded sites
• CS-5410: Sets config-dir parameter when URL is not valid and is handled via exception
• CS-5410: Removes testing code
• CS-5400: newscoop-restore script doesn't restore content of public/files folder
• CS-5418: newscoop-restore script breaks on mysql error
• CS-5365: Removes duplicate files (with same namespaces) from plugin
• CS-4914: Dates end in capital S in sample site
• AZ-31: Azerbaijani localization backport
• IM-1941: Preview iFrame with protocol agnostic url
• Backported Danish localization from master branch
• CS-5503 - Upgrading Newscoop from 4.2 -> 4.3 issues

Newscoop 4.2.3 maintenance release

4.2.3 (May 19, 2014)

Improvements

• CS-5382 - Search is not working in Media Archive for Article Editor

4.2.2

Improvements

• CS-5334 - Upgrade SQL needed for new localizations
• [installer] force user to give writable access for themes directory
• CS-4796 - Add Azerbaijani language support to default database

Bug fixes

• IM-1501 - user register for commenting have access to the site's backend
• CS-5344 - Blank page after restore password on back-end
• CS-5333 - link "Use to all" is not working for description in Attach image process
• CS-5312 - Reinstallation of Newscoop fails with bogus upgrade message
• help links fix
• CS-4877 - events-notifier generates fatal error
• CS-4956 & SITE-560 & IM-1355 - Fixes issue with rich text captions
• IM-1389 - Fixes route to author: {{ url options="author" }} now works
• IM-1333 - Fixes 'Numeric value out or range: 1690 BIGINT'

Know issues

• CS-5371 - Rich text is not working for caption at attach image in WYSIWYG after update

[Internal Use Only] Test 4.3 release alpha 1

Merge pull request #618 from takeit/garbage

[CS-5238] - Implement a configurable autodelete mechanism for pending us...

Newscoop 4.2.1 minor release

4.2.1 (December 05, 2013)

Improvements

• allways check if subscription is active
• better errors reporting in development mode
• build_solr_fq (Smarty function to build the Solr FQ query)
• new NO_CACHE cookie when a user logs in
• list_section_authors smarty block
• add aim, skype and jabber to $gimme->author properties
• implemented rich text captions for all caption screens

Bug fixes

• few installation fixes
• fix bug with deleting articles
• fix smarty urlparameters function
• check if image handler is avaiable and return error - not exception
• fix backup function

Newscoop 4.2 major release

Newscoop 4.2 released with API, new responsive theme and Arabic translations

Way too many bug-fixes and code improvements to list here, but expect to notice improvements with...

• Now many backend strings are localized
• Fixed the ability to send fast replies on comments
• Localized slideshow buttons
• Fixed duplicating comments bug
• Theme sample sites have been updated with new bigger retina ready images
• The article topics have a new route - :language/topic/:id/[:topicName]
• There is a new look in the users management page
• Now you can configure the 'contact email' and 'email from' address in the system preferences
• We've also updated some new tricks that prevent spam in comments