merengue 0.7.0-beta4

Django-based CMS on 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 0.7.0-beta4 (3913 revision)

• Permissions are now definible into sections. See #1564.

• Some bugs fixed:

• When I create a banner I can’t see the image on site. See #1547.

• Documented announcements section.

• Layout errors in translation UI with IE. See #583.

• Changed admin app index style. See #1569.

• Bad django-inlinetrans dependence in requirements.txt.

Version 0.7.0-beta3 (3880 revision)

• Inline translation allow to create/update po files when the msgid is not found in any catalog. See #1401.

• Some bugs fixed:

• The block tools (for dragging and configuring) are well placed on CSS absolute positioned blocks. See #1562.

• Adapted ezdashboard and filebrowser plugin to new registering API.

• Fix bug rendering document sections. See #1565.

Version 0.7.0-beta2 (3861 revision)

• Fixed a lot of bug. These are the most important:

• If a plugin is broken when registering all plugins, the process stopped. Now it continues with next plugin. See #1539.

• Cleared Django apps cache after unregister plugin, to avoid weird errors in some circunstances. See #1526.

• Plugins disabling was broken (only worked uninstalling). Now you can disable plugins. See #1486.

• Blocks with content types filtering configuration was not showing any data. See #1530.

• Add permission definition in related and non related object tools.

• You can define successfully blocks related both in sections and in contents. See #1509 and #1491.

• Removed 2mbytes of unused media in chunks plugin. See #1472.

• Block config button is not shown if block has no available configuration. See #1528.

• Others: #1532, #1519, #1508, #1523, #1525, #1543, #1544, #1487, #1460, #1410, #1497, #1527, #1498, #1476, #1549, #1546, #728, #608, #1478, #1378, #1551, #1552.

• Adapted Selenium test to new Merengue admin redesign. See #1524.

• Enable captcha in feedback plugin for non authenticated users. See #1534.

• Adapted demo.merengueproject.org demo fixtures to section as base content refactoring. See #1531.

• Finish Saml2 plugin to support federated authentication/authorization. See #1442.

• Users can now add feed collections to sections. See #1538.

• Improved plugin tab to get more intuitive for users. See #1540.

• Improve run_suites.py script, to run all selenium tests automatically. Also improve the documentation. See #1458.

• Make direct accesses to regiteres blocks and actions in installed plugins, from plugin admin. See #1542.

• Complete documentation in Merengue error reference, Merengue deployment, JS/CSS compression.

• Finished django-announcements integration.

Version 0.7.0-beta1 (3786 revision)

• Manager can set a numbers of objects limit in collections. See #1510.

• Implement related object tools for related model admins. See #1502.

• Redesign of Merengue admin to improve usability. See #1503 and #1517.

• Integrated django-announcements. Not finished yet. See #1302.

• Saml2 pulgin to get federated AuthN/AuthR via SAML SP. Not finished yet. See #1442.

• Toolbar panel which shows Merengue version for debugging purposes. See #1473.

• Section request middleware (which define request.section) is now pluggable, and can be easily redefined, for example by microsite plugin. See #1484.

• Support registering by instances, to be able to have multiple registered items of a registrable class. Used for blocks related to contents. See #1445.

• New filter by type in “browse content” admin view. See #1483.

• Merengue sections (BaseSection model) are now base contents (inherited to BaseContent), with permissions, related blocks, and all features implemented in Merengue. See #1318.

• Fixed a lot of bugs caused by last features added. See #1433, #1355, #1330, #1192, #1465, #1469, #1396, #1481, #1493, #1504, #1494, #1499.

Version 0.7.0-alpha (3630 revision)

• Support registering by instances (not classes) in Merengue registry, with singleton feature. See #1445.

• Itags view, to show all tags in website. See #1404.

• Pluggable toolbar with panels registrable in plugins. See #1391.

• Inline edit support for contents, with a rewritten django-inplaceedit.

• New selenium tests for the new features in 0.7 series.

• Integrate JS and CSS assets in a place holder, avoiding duplicates and compressing code. See #1418.

• CSS and JS compression when its configured for a production site. See #1415.

• Improved yaco theme. See #1388.

• Block configuration in public view. See #1365.

• South support in plugins. See #1381.

• Inline translation in all Merengue templates, using django-inlinetrans. See #1349.

• Implemented a print style sheet and a print action. See #966.

• Internationalized URLs. See #1112.

• Optimized Merengue SQL sentences. See #1320.

• Implemented unit tests for registry application. See #1314.

• Cleaned up and refactored the Merengue menu implementation. See #1313.

• Contact information is rendered in contents which have filled it. See #1309.

• Implemented a review system, used in redirect plugin. See #1074.

• You can attach blocks to individual contents, with a custom configuration for them. See #1261.

• Manager can set the rendering a block only for one or more contents, with custom block configuration for each content. See #1247.

• Plain text generation support for all contents, for indexing, tagging, etc. See #1088.

• Refactored MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES to improve customization in projects. See #1253.

• New features for microsite plugin:

  • MIDDLEWARE to allow URLs like /foo-microsite/foo/url that will be like /microsites/foo-microsite/foo/url/

  • All blocks in built-in plugins are valid inside microsites, showing only microsite contents.

• Implemented contentmenu plugin, to allow content grouping in a Menu, but without having contents in same section.

• Huge plugins, viewlets, blocks and breadcrumbs refactoring to improve redefinition in plugins. See #1256, #1258 and #1269

• All built-in plugins uses collection when needed, to improve customization in listings by managers. See #1267.

• HTML editor (TinyMCE) is now resizable. See #1270.

• Removed hook_post_register hook and implemented post_install hook, invoked only when plugin are installed. See #1277.

• Make rss plugin more customizable. See #1273.

• Implemented tmtemplates plugin, to create HTML templates which can be inserted in every HTML field.

• Collection can filtered by adding a extra _filters_collection context in view.

Version 0.6.0-final

• Changed Django dependence to 1.1.3 version, because a security issue, fixed on that version.

• Fixed some Postgresql database locks while creating the models when some plugins are installed.

• A little speed up for Postgresql backend, using autocommit option by default.

• Other minor bugfixes:

• Error when accessing document without sections (after delete it).

• Error when creating a searcher in a collection and you search for something on public view.

• Manager cannot assign permissions to thread objects inside a forum.

• Ensure NOT_PROVIDED value (got by the not defined config params) evaluates to False to avoid some errors.

• Fixed web layout in the restart server confirmation page in transhette.

• Added name field to contact information.

Version 0.6.0-rc1

• Several bugfixes:

• Fixed new error in params validation.

• Unit tests execution fixed when memcached is used as caching backend.

• Javascript error when moving blocks.

• Deferred PIL import in captcha to the moment of create first captcha thumbnail, to avoid syncdb errors.

• Improved validation in integerparams.

• Fixed installing of django-inlinetrans with PIP.

• Now all users with “manage_portal” permission can move blocks.

• Allow deleting sent forms in contactform plugin.

• Fixes searching in admin browse contents view.

• Speed up Merengue permission checking.

• Delete view in Merengue admin not take care about Merengue permissions in objects which are deleted in cascade.

• Refactored and fixed all selenium tests.

Version 0.6.0-beta1 (2921 revision)

• A lot of bugfixes:

• Section custom CSS validation error fixed.

• More robust tagcloud and tag validation for itag plugin.

• Several bugfixes to transhette.

• Removed several “permissions” button in admin which don’t worked.

• Registry params validation support (for plugins, actions, etc.).

• Included recaptcha keys to get captcha plugin works out-of-the-box.

• Support both for PIL 1.1.6 and 1.1.7 (have incompatible import sentences).

• Better date support in collections.

• Fixed some errors with truncatechars filter in collections.

• Errors in autoreports link in plugins admin.

• Fixes stdimage validation for non required fields.

• Fixed wrong user message when editing contents.

• Fixed 404 error when adding link into sections.

• Fixed error editing threads of a forum in forum plugin.

• Better validation in some parts of subscription plugin.

• Improved permission handling for plugin managers.

• Fixed some web layout errors.

• More robust handling of “empty” filters and other validation issues in collections.

• Fixed errors in feed info in rss plugin.

• Support of HTML emails in contactform plugin.

• Non overwritable fixtures support.

• Completed spanish translations.

• Added sent date column in forms sents admin in contactform plugin.

• Read only fields works with foreign key fields.

• Complete documentation of:

• Merengue fixtures.

• Block hiding/showing by URL regex.

• Install instructions and python dependences.

Version 0.6.0-alpha3 (2844 revision)

• Split dependences to an external requirements.txt file.

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.