Midgard 8.09.2 “Bosporus queries” Released

[ Thanks to Piotr
Pokora for this link. ]

Lodz, November 3rd 2008 — The Midgard Project has
released the second
maintenance release of Midgard 8.09 Ragnaroek LTS. Ragnaroek LTS is
a
Long Term Support version of the free software content
management
framework.

The 8.09.2 release focuses on major performance improvements and
ease
of upgrade from earlier Midgard 1.8 installations. It is the
first
maintenance release in the Ragnaroek series that combines both
Midgard
and MidCOM.

The version 8.09.2 is recommended to all users of Midgard 1.8 and
8.09.

Main changes from 8.09.0:

• MySQL errors when upgrading old databases have been fixed
  (#355)
• SQL queries generated by MidCOM’s DBA layer have been optimized
  (#412)
• Midgard now sets up a standalone Asgard administrative
  interface for
• all new site setups (#36 and #329)
• MidCOM has a new handler for catching PHP Exceptions
  (#352)
• MidCOM DBA is bypassed for configuration and element loading
  (#414 and #415)
• Midgard Collector is now able to query metadata properties
  (#417)
• MultiLang support has been improved with index articles
  and
• attachments (#288 and #420)
• Debian and Ubuntu packages now automatically install memcached
  and
• SOLR (#380 and #381)
• Datagard upgrade from 1.8 now installs same MidCOM packages
  to
• Ragnaroek (#363)
• Swedish translations are now included

In total 98 tickets have been closed for this release. See the
Midgard
issue tracker for a full list:

http://trac.midgard-project.org/query?status=closed&milestone=8.09.2+Ragnaroek

Planned for next maintenance release:

• More performance tuning
• Changing MidCOM DBA from subclasses to decorators
• Unit tests for midgard-php and MidCOM DBA layers
• New Midgard visual guidelines deployed more widely
• Filesync git integration for collaborative site
  development

See the full list in:

http://trac.midgard-project.org/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&milestone=8.09.3+Ragnaroek

Source downloads

http://www.midgard-project.org/download/

Binary packages

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/midgardproject:/ragnaroek/

Getting started

http://www.midgard-project.org/documentation/getting-started/

Issue tracker

http://trac.midgard-project.org/roadmap

More information

Piotr Pokora, Midgard release manager
piotrek.pokora(at)gmail.com

Henri Bergius, Midgard bug master
henri.bergius(at)iki.fi

The Midgard Project
http://www.midgard-project.org/