merengue 0.8.1

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 0.8.1

• Fixed a weird error when registering new plugins. See #2229.

• Improved setup.py keywords to improve searching on pypi. See #2284.

Version 0.8.0-final

• More Selenium tests. See #2136 and #1746.

• Invalid the block cache when user edit a block using inline edit. See #2242.

• SEO improvements, with sitemap.xml generation. See #2248.

• Included merengue/media in the synchronized media when you executes sync_apps_media command. See #2243.

• Including expire headers in nginx configuration in the install documentation. See #377.

• Incluiding inline edit to highlight plugin. See #2246.

• Complete view for reporting a permission denied to the user and manager. See #2151.

• More translations. See #2.

• Unfrozen recaptcha client dependence in contactform plugin. See #2267.

• Added cache block in render_single_block tag. See #2269.

• Hided 3d images and panoramic views, because are not fully implemented in Merengue. See #2275.

• New Debug Toolbar panel with blocks information for profiling purposes. See #2276.

• “Cache invalidation” permission to have a more grained authorization. Fixes #2277.

• Vast improvement in Merengue performance:

• Menu.get_section improvement. See #2233.

• Edit inline improvement. See #2234.

• RSS plugin caching. See #2235.

• Block cache is more efficient. See #2236.

• getEventsMonthYear improvement. See #2238.

• MenuBlock improvement. See #2241.

• Bugfixes:

• Fixed inplaceeditform error with text fields whose font size is not integer. See #2222.

• Flowplayer error fixed in IE. See #2224.

• Fixed error when CSS and JS compression is enabled. See #2223.

• Fixed permission error in object when the passed object is None. See #2110.

• Improved the inplace edit logic to check the “edit” permission. See #2230.

• Some layout error. See #2217.

• User is able to edit the blocks that are non cacheables. See #2237.

• Fixed some migrations when executed in very old merengue sites. See #2244.

• Now the render_single_block works with ContentBlock. See #2252.

• Make sure the unit tests run with dummy cache. See #2254.

• Registry cache should not set cache when empty elements found. See #2255.

• Fixed “save and restore config” issues. See #2189 and #918.

• Fixed the inline edit when it’s used with the intro button to save changes. See #2256.

• Fixed permission test suite, related to a caching invalidation error. See #2253.

• Avoid 301 redirect caching by some browser like Chrome or Firefox 3.5+. See #2220.

• Error in AJAX request in the collection admin when the collection is inside a section. See #2260.

• Error when installing some plugins after uninstalling them without server reloading. See #2262.

• Removing some absolute references between CSS and the images. See #2264.

• Now the contactform plugin works if this loaded with ajax, although this is not a default behaviour. See #2268.

• Fixed a migration when GIS is disabled. See #2271.

• Frozen django-mptt and django-ajax-selects packages because are now backward incompatibles. See #2278 and #2279.

Version 0.8.0-rc2 (r5269)

• Fixed migration in MySQL databases. See #2215.

• New non addable blocks. See #2147.

• Optimized Merengue registry. See #2142.

• Optimized permissions system. See #1322.

• Optimized SQL sentences. See #2144.

• Changed plugin detection implementation to make it works in all environments (deployments). This approach removes using a external process. See #2158.

• Removed the --develop option in startproject command. By default the merengue will be symlinked. See #2148.

• Completed spanish translations. See #2.

• Completed and reviewed the documentation. See #377.

• Changed JW Player to flowplayer, which is completely free. See #2199.

• New MERENGUE_MAX_FILE_SIZE and MERENGUE_MAX_IMAGE_SIZE parameters to restrict the size of uploaded files. See #2185.

• Reduced size of test data. See #2141.

• Added anchor button to the tinyMCE.

• Improved and fixing the Yaco theme look&feel. See #1990.

• Include spellchecking in the visual editor, that will be in English by default.

• Selenium tests for permission system. See #2136.

• Make customizable the reviewers who will receive the review task notifications. See #2193.

• The tags are now comma separated. See #2155.

• Sortable fields for search form. See #2175.

• Used autocompletion widget to select the main content of a section. See #2115.

• New max_num_items parameter to the MenuBlock which collapse any menú branch if the number of children became higher than the parameter. See #2161.

• Make a revision of all the CSS. See #2135.

• Make the workflow statuses translatables. See #2212.

• Allowed categories in the slideshow. See #2213. See #1983.

• A lot of bugfixes:

• Fixed an error in contentmenu. See #2083.

• Removed by default a not very useful action (can be activated later). See #2032.

• Sanitize internal links filters. See #2190.

• Fixed the order in the forum index. See #2191.

• Fixed the change_status admin action, which fails when it is done by a non superuser. See #2192.

• Make piwik plugin more robust when piwik doesn’t return nothing. See #1573.

• Fixed error detecting saml plugin when no have python-saml2 installed. See #2201.

• Restrict selectable multimedia contents to the owned ones. See #2150.

• Feed items automatically created should be published. See #2157.

• Fixed itags listing which fails in some circunstances. See #2162.

• Fixed some errors in standingout plugin. See #2167.

• Fixed addthis plugin language. See #2168.

• Fixed CSRF problem in inplace edit form.

• Fixed the syncdb --migrate command when a migration saves a plugin. See #2178.

• Restrict by permissions the content you can link to a multimedia asset. See #2150.

• Make djangosaml2 application required for installing saml2 plugin. See #2180.

• Showed an admin link when menu view doesn’t point to anywhere. See #2164

• Some IE CSS bugfixes.

• Fixed a problem with the latest BeautifulSoap version. See #2209. Thanks to Paul Sabou.

• Make MemoizeCache (used for permissions, roles and registry cache) consistent in multithread environments. See #2214.

• The url of the banner should not be verifiable. See #2219

Version 0.8.0-rc1 (r5126)

• Permissions cache for speed up Merengue. See #2085.

• Optimized block rendering. See #2090.

• Refactored the permission system to generalize the roles acquisition from a section. See #2094.

• startplugin command to help developers to create plugins easily. See #2060.

• A new register plugin for user registration. See #2000.

• Enable inplace edit in the navigation block root elements. See #2055.

• A new Reviewer role for improving the publishing process flexibility. See #2093.

• Admin filters for installed or active plugins. See #2053.

• Automatic plugins detection is disabled by default, because there is a “detect new plugins” view. See #2051.

• Used the Django 1.3 message framework in the admin interface, to get latest features. See #2050.

• Direct link in the block configuration view to the admin view for this block. See #2061.

• Make more flexible the owners lookup for a content. See #2075.

• Disable by default to the user the permission editing capabilities in the “permission” tab. See #2138.

• Make the delete permission checking more flexible to be used in non BaseContent objects. See #2081.

• Unit tests in the block mechanism. See #2089.

• A new testmerengue command to test all the Merengue unit tests at once. See #2124.

• Make more homogeneous the forms CSS. See #73.

• Improved the selenium test runner to use frame buffer is needed. See #1999.

• Allow deleting of broken registered items like broken plugins. See #2130.

• Fixed a lot of bugs:

• Reviewed permissions in related model admins. See #2042 and #2110.

• Updating the open layers library to fix some FF3.0 errors. See #2084.

• Custom permission in a content type are now visible in admin permissions view. See #2058.

• Error adding non content blocks in the content scope. See #2077.

• Make sure that contenttypes are sync after installing the plugin. This could cause weird issues. See #2052.

• Fixed the detection of broken plugins in all circunstances. See #2054.

• Workflows are loading without fixtures to avoid issues. See #2119.

• Some translations. See #2045, #2097 and #2.

• Others: #1772, #2063, #2064, #2066, #2067, #2042, #2074, #2076, #2077, #2080, #2082, #2086, #2088, #1744, #1989, #2092, #2096, #2098, #2100, #2101, #2102, #2103, #2104, #2105, #2106, #2109, #2112, #2114, #2045, #1923, #2117, #2118, #2120, #2121, #1982, #1972, #691, #2127, #2128, #2126, #2123, #2131, #2133.

Version 0.8.0-b2 (r4957)

• Fixed a critical bug in 0.8.0-beta1 for newly created projects. See #2048.

• Fixed the workflow unit tests. See #1832.

• Improved Yaco theme layout. See #1990.

• Fixed some Selenium tests which was broken. See #1938.

• Hot link action for every content (disabled by default). See #2032.

• Fix a bug when adding blocks in a specific scope. See #2011.

• Other errors: #2037, #2038, #2039, #2036, #2040, #2041, #2043, #2046, #2039, #2047.

Version 0.8.0-b1 (r4880)

• Django 1.3 compatibility. See #1568.

• Workflow system with management interface. See #990, #987, #988, #989.

• Added participants to contents and sections, in oposition of owners. See #1860.

• Documentation:

  • Improved English readability of documentation. See #377.

  • A new optimization section. See #1796.

• Activate a entire site cache with CACHE_SITE_FOR_ANONYMOUS setting. Also a invalidate cache panel. See #167.

• Block caching with management interface and cache invalidation in public view. See #1332, #1993, #1866 and #2007.

• More unit testing. See #1633,

• Improvements to autoreports UI. See #1850, #1816.

• Better and nicer notifications. See #1841.

• The portal links categories can be configurable in the settings file. See #1858.

• Better l10n support in datetime format for spanish. See #1875.

• Developer can define the slug uniqueness in every inherited model. See #1873.

• Access by role for the portal links. See #1883.

• Add filtering to the block admin changelist. See #1806.

• Adding and removing blocks in the user interface. See #1913, #1923 and #2011.

• Mark the block container when adding blocks. See #1965.

• Changed the “content management” tab in admin interface. See #1750.

• Remove the Johnny-Cache fork because Django 1.3 support customs cache key prefixes. See #1758 and #1757.

• Included a new size parameter in the multimedia_slide_link templatetags. See #1756.

• Implemented a changelog view in admin interface. See #1778.

• Included italian translations. See #1803.

• All the managed contents types are orderable. See #1812.

• Multiples levels of portal links. See #1858.

• Support for fixed blocks (declared fixed by its developer). See #1056.

• Improve the linking to content from a menu item. See #1928.

• Add status to menus items. See #888.

• Allow to change the section of a content. See #1839.

• Implemented a “browse by type” admin view. See #1752.

• Allow to change active tabs in admin depending on user. See #1988.

• Inplace edit for image fields. See #1973.

• Update the Django Debug Toolbar. See #2001.

• New CSS class param for the blocks to gain look&feel flexibility. See #1977.

• Implemented access control by roles in menus and portal links. See #1846 and #1883.

• nondraggable and noncontained options for render_*_blocks templatetags. See #1895 and #1957.

• Work in permissions system to make more flexible the authorization control. See #2010, #2016, #2017, .

• Improvements in plugins:

• New customportlet plugin to add customized chunks of HTML as you want. See #1761.

• New piwik plugin, to collect statistics of accessing contents and sections using Piwik. See #1573.

• New twitter plugin. See #1907.

• New maps plugin, with a MapBlock block. See #1933 and #1941.

• New googleanalytics plugin. See #1958.

• Google search:

  • Adapt the UI to the browser language. See #1871.

• Standing out plugin:

  • Create a new slide show block. See #1736.

  • Completed the schema of standing out object. See #1736.

• itags plugin: grouping list by content type. See #1879.

• contactform plugin: allow to autofill dinamically by GET parameters. See #1950.

• banner plugin: a new single banner block to add a banner wherever. See #1979.

• A lot of bugfixes. See #1728, #1775, #1870, #1872, #1877, #1885, #1891, #1729, #1748, #1755, #1760, #1763, #1784, #1788, #1791, #1610, #1792, #1795, #1805, #1808, #1809, #1787, #1822, #1407, #1829, #1215, #1838, #1845, #1834, #1849, #1981, #1956, #1985, #1992, #1991, #1947, #1901, #1862, #1864, #1872, #1875, #1877, #1873, #1885, #1890, #1891, #1899, #1720, #1939, #1942, #1943, #1945, #1940, #1953, #1948, #1959, #1954, #1963, #1966, #1968, #1974, #1975, #1980, #1960, #2002, #2013, #2019, #2009, #2023, #2025, #2021, #2026, #2027.

Version 0.7.1

• New italian translations. See #1803 and #1814.

• An email is sent to reviewers when a content came into pending status. See #1694.

• Add changelog view in admin to review all admin actions. See #1778.

• Implement single logout in saml2 plugin. See #1442.

• Reviewed the english grammar of some Merengue documents. See #377.

• Unit tests for get_real_instance logic. See #1633.

• More Selenium tests. See #1747.

• Removed french translations because Merengue miss translations. See #1825.

• And a lot of bugfixes:

• The models cache was not corretly re-populated when loading plugins. See #1712.

• Feed collection now read well the feed when created. See #1732.

• Fix an error that do not allow to edit an existing standingout object if the selected content not changes. See #1736.

• Error in prepopulated fields when are mixed with read only fields. See #1764.

• Fixed microsites errors when user try to add two microsites with the same slug. See #1774. See #1790.

• Fix bug about saving plugins registered on REQUIRED_PLUGINS. See #1786.

• Check that end date is greater than start date in event plugin. See #1723.

• Fixed some problems with django-inlinetrans and transhette. See #1800, #1799, #1801.

• Some look and feel issues, like #1743, #1744 and #1821.

• Plugin forums shows duplicated entries if the entries are anidated. See #1727.

• Fix readonly widget in many2many fields. See #1776.

• Other fixes: See #1789, #1811, #1823, #1731, #1797, #1783.

Version 0.7.0-final

• Fixed an error in Mysql south migrations. See #1583.

• Collections filters for date comparing. See #1621.

• Bugfixes for collection grouping and ordering. See #1608, #1670, #1677.

• Viewlets rendering bugfixes. See #1600.

• Other bugfixes in collections: #1626.

• IE7 layout bugfixes. See #1516.

• Thread creation action for public view. See #1628.

• Config params store validation fails to show in form with errors. See #1630.

• Improving get_real_instance() logic to work in all cases. See #1632.

• Users can manage its contents. All permissions are adapted to allow it. See #1634, #1658, #1688.

• filebrowser plugin bugfixes. See #1629, #1661.

• Improve permission checking throughout site. See #1644.

• Some breadcrumbs fixes. See #1646, #1662, #1686.

• Inline edit uses Merengue edit permission to decide if show the widget. See #1665.

• View to show past events. See #1664.

• New striptags filter in collection. See #1667.

• Allow defining the default status for all contents in settings. See #1674.

• Inline translation only appears to managers. See #1675.

• Creator became the owner of contents he created automatically. See #1654.

• Allow to set the same review task to more than one user. See #1679.

• When a content gets in pending status, a new review task is created. See #1679.

• Allow configure the page size in collections, make it a setting for that. See #1682.

• feedback plugin get the user full name when adding comments. See #1683.

• Model translation bugfixed when finding translatable fields if the superclass model is abstract. See #1685.

• Fixed bugs in translation tools (django-inlinetrans and transhette), which was failing in some cases. See #1693,

• Content location can be deleted now. See #1692.

• Allow tags with white spaces inside. See #1228.

• A new notify_pending_reviews command to notify users for pending tasks. See #1694.

• Thumbnails in main image for contents are correctly updated when adding/hanging/deleting the content photos. See #1700.

• Fixes some errors in SAML plugin. See #1442.

• The models cache is not corretly re-populated when loading plugins. See #1712.

• Better styling in public forms. See #1716.

• Calendar block do not show events when loading the page. See #1719.

• Other bugfixes: See #1701, #1706, #1561, #1711.

Version 0.7.0-rc1 (3988 revision)

• Permissions are now a related admin, placed into a different tab in admin UI. See #1570.

• Links can be open in new windows. See #1582.

• Unified login UI in all themes. See #1382.

• Removed multimedia slide when only one multimedia asset is shown. See #1460.

• A new reinstall_plugins command to reinstall enabled plugins. See #1594.

• Local roles and permissions can be deleted. See #1605.

• A lot of bugs fixed:

• Fixed broken comments in document sections for anonymous users. See #1614.

• Fixes menu reordering. See #1581.

• Errors in block reordering with drag-and-drop. See #1580, #1581.

• Fixes some admin UI look and feel errors: See #1563, #1584, #1588, #1585.

• Fixed Tag cloud block title look and feel in Merengue theme. See #1497.

• Fixed block overwriting when same block is placed twice. See #1575.

• Fixed error in ezdashboard plugin. See #1586.

• Limit only one contact form for every content. See #1196.

• Fixed oot error. See #1579.

• Fixed south migration when tables already exist. See #1592.

• Fixed migrate_plugins command in some circunstances. See #1595.

• Fixed two viewlet errors. See #1600 and #1616.

• Calendar block rendered using project locale. See #1609.

• Fixed 404 error in contactform plugin. See #1536.

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.