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NEWS of Midgard library
History of user-visible changes. March 12 2001

Copyright (C) 1999 Jukka Zitting <jukka.zitting@iki.fi>
Copyright (C) 2000 The Midgard Project ry
Copyright (C) 2001 Emiliano Heyns, Aurora SA
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Please contact user@midgard-project.org for more information.

Version 1.4.2
* Repligard
   Preliminary support for export hooks (non-configurable from the user side yet)
   Fixes in sitegroup management
* Midgard library
   Preliminary support for request parser and mod_midgard2 (experimental)
   Configuration options are distributed across Midgard components using midgard-config tool
* PHP3 module
   PHP3 support rendered obsolete
* PHP4 module
   Major fixes in article's handling including sorting and event management
   Reworked preparser code
   Better handling of attachments
* Apache module
   New Apache module (mod_midgard2) which supports caching of PHP pages (experimental)

Version 1.4.1-dev (Release candidate)
* Repligard
   Better sitegroup support
* PHP4 module
   Midgard now works with PHP4 and PHP3
* Object management in portable way
   Midgard's PHP binding now has support to fetch objects indexed 
   by Globally Unique IDentifiers insted of local database IDs.
   It opens era of truly portable applications in Midgard
* mod_midgard
   Cleanly closes database connections at exit.

Version 1.4
* Asgard
   Asgard is new Administrative interface for Midgard databases

Version 1.4-beta7
* Repligard
   Repligard supports BLOBs, attachments, and removal of
   deleted resources.
   
Version 1.4-beta6
* Repligard
   Repligard is replication utility for Midgard. It uses XML-based
   file format to transfer changes between master and slave databases
   easing server maintainance and development.
   
   Repligard isn't completed yet, so far it can export/import almost all
   Midgard resource types except for BLOBs. It also support transparent
   charset translation via UNICODE.
   
Version 1.4-beta5

* Filetemplates
   Filetemplates enables the development of file-based Midgard
   applications. Page & style info is put in XML files. All midgard
   stuff works but you'll be missing some information like
   $midgard->page.

   Filetemplates can work in connected or disconnected mode. Connected
   is if a non-prefixed host record is found for the host you're
   accessing. A connection to the database will be available and all
   midgard functions will work. If not all midgard functions can be
   called but will fail. The template & inline variable expansion
   syntax does work in disconnected mode.

Version 1.4-beta4

*  Sitegroups logon 'su' support.
   You can now log in as priviligeduser=otheruser[+!]sitegroupname.
   This logs you in as otheruser whith priviligedusers' password.
   root users can change to anyone, SG admins are of course restricted
   to users withing sitegroups they're admin of

*  Repligard

Version 1.4-beta3

* Moved copyrights to The Midgard Project Ry

* Sitegroups support beta

* Calendering/events in the core libraries.

* Database generalization should make porting to other databases easier

Version 1.2.6

* Maintainer of 1.2 branch is changed to Alexander Bokovoy <bokovoy@minsk.lug.net>
* Support for selecting records by names instead of IDs added.
* API for text formating engine changed, --with-midgard-lang compilation
  option removed in favor of MidgardParser runtime Mod_Midgard's directive.
* SiteGroups support added (alpha)

Version 1.2.5

* Support for Russian Midgard integrated.

Version 1.2.4

* Bug fixes in access control. Group membership is now handled better.

Version 1.2.3

* Better search for MySQL development environment in the configure script.
  The configure options --with-mysql-lib and --with-mysql-include are no
  longer available as they should not be needed.

* The problem with the mysql_fetch_field_direct function is now fixed.

Version 1.2.2

* More verbose error messages of connection failure now available

* New configure options --with-mysql-lib and --with-mysql-include added

* Removed unused code in web.c

Version 1.2.1

* Support for plain text passwords was added.

* Library now uses mysql_real_connect to connect faster to the database.

Version 1.2

* Runtime configuration of the connection parameters now possible.

* The configure script now requires the MySQL client library to be available.

Version 1.1

* Broke up the installation system. The Midgard library now installs as
  an independent package.

* Upgraded to libtool 1.3. No more problems with inter-library dependencies.

Version 1.0.2

* Midgard library now installs as a part of a more complete Midgard system.
  The system also contains the Midgard-PHP module.

Version 1.0

* First stable release. The base API should be quite stable at least to
  version 2.0.

Version 0.5

* Migrated the installation system to use Libtool, Autoconf and Automake.
  You should now be able to do ./configure; make; make install to install
  the Midgard library.

* Added files NEWS, AUTHORS and ChangeLog to comply with the GNU coding
  standards.

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Copyright (C) 2000 The Midgard Project ry

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