We have soft-released the new codebase for conntoea. It has been over a year since the last release of the stable version, and so there have a few changes.

You can download the code from the sourceforge connotea page.

This is a bets release because we have not tested the install on a clean system yet, and when we do we may make a few changes, so you can possibly expect an updated release in two weeks.

What’s changed? I’ve listed info from the release notes below, but one main change is that we have re-arranged things so that the full 1.8 release will be available via a darcs repository into which we envision people can directly submit patches.

And on that note I’m off bouldering in France for a week.

• Web API in regular use.
  • Template Toolkit based templates in regular use.
  • More optimized SQL queries for common requests.
  • Greater use of transactions in MySQL.
  • Greater flexbility for citation source modules.
  • New citation source modules, plus improvements to existing modules.
  • Blog component to create news page from external blog.
  • Wiki component to create custom wiki.
  • Admin component with user search.
  • Integration with Bibutils library for BibTeX and MODS output.
  • Antispam system with captcha and quarantine responses.
  • Click tracker for all posts.
  • Alpha-version proxy module system to handle known proxied post URL’s.
  • Alpha-version stand-alone citation server capability.
  • Additional tools such as command-line post by API, user recovery, and test suite launch.
  • Automated deployment scripts, now supporting Darcs instead of CVS.
  • Updated code to support newer versions of CPAN modules.
  • More test suite scripts.