Midgard 8.09.8 released | Linux Today

Midgard 8.09.8 released

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 30, 2010

[ Thanks to Piotr
Pokora
for this link. ]

“The Midgard Project has released the eighth
maintenance release of Midgard 8.09 Ragnaroek LTS. Ragnaroek LTS is
a Long Term Support version of the free software Content Management
Framework.

“Midgard is an industrial CMS built on top of a Content
Repository and the LAMP stack. It provides object-oriented PHP APIs
for developing and modifying website functionalities, and a
PEAR-based system for installing new web components from a growing
online library. Midgard has been running since 1999 on systems
ranging from simple organizational websites to complex web
communities and corporate management tools, in organizations like
Aalto University, Nokia, Lufthansa, Poland International Fairs and
CMS Watch.

“The stable 8.09.8 release is recommended for all users of
Midgard.

“Main changes from 8.09.7:

Usability of the on-site Midgard toolbar has been enhanced
(#877, #1624)

Performance when using the MidCOM content cache has been
improved (#1599, #1531, #1048, #1577 and #1584) bundled jQuery
javascript library has been upgraded to version 1.4.2 (#1596) and
jQuery UI to 1.7.2 (#696) PHP 5.3 compatibility on both
php5-midgard (#1433) and MidCOM levels

Asgard now shows contextual helpers when creating

Midgard templates (#1595)

Midgard is able to act as both OpenID provider (#1664) and
consumer (#1709)

Fixed SQL errors in complex Query Builder queries (#1625)

Fixed midgard_connection environment settings in Apache
environment (#1689)”


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