merengue 0.6.0-alpha2

Django-based CMS with steroids

Merengue is a full-featured and pluggable CMS designed for creating websites, writing less code and mantaining clean, elegant and re-usable code.

More information in http://www.merengueproject.org/

Changes

Version 0.6.0-alpha2 (2842 revision)

• Removed external SVN dependences. Now Merengue has all these dependences as python eggs.

• Implemented a render_all_blocks templatetags, which is a shortcut to write less templating code.

• Replaced plugins which render lists with customizable collections.

• Make Merengue documentation compatible with Sphinx 1.0.

• Several bug fixes related to:

• Permissions system.

• Administration broken links.

• banners, oldbrowser and event plugin.

• transhette application.

• etc.

• Improved usability in Merengue admin:

• A content tree, for browsing all contents.

• Improved visual block reordering.

• Themes can have a screenshot, for previewing before activating.

• Plugins can define new middlewares.

• A new “Owner” role, to may customize permissions for content owners. This role is assigned for a user when the context is a content owned by him.

• Manager can disable global permissions adquisition for a content, for example to disable “View” permission in private contents.

• Blocks showable or hiddeable by URLs in Merengue admin, using regular expressions.

• Begin integration with django-notification.

• Contents can be defined as permanents (no deletable, no changeable or some fields not changeables), when your logic relies on these contents.

• Plugin introspection before installing it. In Merengue admin you will see what blocks will be created by a plugin, or what new content types, etc.

• When customizing a section CSS, you can upload new images to may customize the backgrounds.

• New plugins:

• contactform: to create forms, customizing fields, emails, behaviour, etc.

• smartsearch: to include and manage search form, for example inside collections.

• rss: to make feeds in your site, which are configurable.

• redirect: to configure HTTP redirections in your site.

• itag: tagging with i18n support.

• addthis: addthis.com integration.

• imagesize: notifications when size of uploaded images pass the configurables thresholds.

Version 0.6.0-alpha1 (2541 revision)

• Huge speed up on related admin registration.

• Allow to extends Merengue TinyMCE editor settings in apps and plugins.

• Content collections, which are lists of managed contents with configurable filters, search form and listing options.

• Theme support in Merengue admin site.

• Post register hook to plugins, to allow developers to execute tasks after installing plugin.

• Included language catalogs in all apps and plugins. Also included compiled .mo files.

• New plugins:

• oot: ODT conversion of managed contents.

• banner: banner management plugin.

• oldbrowser: a plugin that makes easy to notify to users that their browser is too old.

• Several improvements in forum plugin:

• Grouping forums into categories.

• Show last comment in forum list and forum view.

• Do not allow anonymous users.

• Allow to close a thread so no new comments could be added.

• Allow to move a thread from one forum to another one.

• Allow different users to moderate different forums.

• Implemented a subscribers listing in subscription plugin.

Version 0.5.1

Note: Changes from 0.5.1-rc1 version

• Better south integration with translation system, that allows to migrate all translated models with all possible languages setting.

• Fixed a lot of bugs like:

• Avoid URL patterns grown every 404 request when have debug toolbar installed.

• Fix audio player.

• Error in URL parsing when accessing document inside sections.

• Error with negative numbers in integer registry params.

• Blocks placed in “home” and “beforecontent” position dissappears in home page.

• Make facebook share link (from facebook plugin) works behind virtual hosts.

• Highlight plugin does not show related content images.