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Midgard 8.09.2 "Bosporus queries" released.

Posted about 1 year ago by piotrek...@gmail.com (Piotr Pokora)

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 ... [More] 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/ [Less]

On synchronized releases

Posted about 1 year ago by henri....@iki.fi (Henri Bergius)

The Midgard Project switched to a new synchronized release model with the 8.09 "Ragnaroek LTS" release. Synchronized release model means that a major release of Midgard will happen every six months, tuned to be part of the larger Linux software ... [More] ecosystem as described by Mark Shuttleworth:

WHAT IF you knew that the next long-term supported releases of Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat and Novell Linux would all have the same major versions of kernel, GCC, X, GNOME, KDE, OO.o and Mozilla. Would that make a major difference for you? I’m willing to bet not - that from a customer view, folks who prefer X will still prefer X. A person who prefers Red Hat will stick with Red Hat. But from a developer view, would that make it easier to collaborate? Dramatically so.

Another member of the audience came up to talk about the fashion industry. That’s also converged on a highly coordinated model - fabrics and technologies “release” first, then designers introduce their work simultaneously at fashion shows around the world. “Spring 2009″ sees new collections from all the major houses, many re-using similar ideas or components. That hasn’t hurt their industry, rather it helps to build awareness amongst the potential audience.

The same model has been employed very successfully by major projects like GNOME, Eclipse and the Ubuntu distribution. As Midgard relies on many GNOME technologies, being in the same release cycle with them helps our development immensely, and makes Midgard more easy to install because we have a more stable set of dependencies.

This coming weekend Midgard developers will convene in Otaniemi, Espoo, Finland to discuss the plans for the next release, 9.03 "Vinland", the first release to be fully legacy free.

The Coccinella IM project which also utilizes the synchronized release model has posted a list of release synchronicity myths and facts. [Less]

Binary packages for Midgard 8.09 "Ragnaroek"

Posted about 1 year ago by

 

Binary packages (including i586 and amd64) are available for downloads and installs.

Midgard 8.09 repository is hosted on OpenSuse Build System.

www.midgard-project.org provides apt-get friendly mirror for Debian ... [More] administrators. Please follow debian related documents which also contain repository addresses.

 

  [Less]

MidCOM hotfix packages

Posted about 1 year ago by

 

We just made MidCOM 8.09.1 hotfix release. It fixes important privilege inheritance bug.
Additionall, there's also new org_routamc_photostream package, which fixes random problems with image uploads. Small fixes included in ... [More] midgard_admin_asgard and midcom_helper_reflector.

If you have "Ragnaroek" installed, update those packages with pear:

pear install ragnaroek/midcom
pear install ragnaroek/org_routamc_photostream
pear install ragnaroek/midgard_admin_asgard
pear install ragnaroek/midcom_helper_reflector

You can also update them with datagard:

datagard -a pear

Note that datagard perform every single package update, so it may take some.

 

 

 

 

  [Less]

Midgard 8.09.0 "Ragnaroek" released

Posted about 1 year ago by

Lodz, October 7th 2008 -- The
Midgard Project has released stable release of 8.09 "Ragnaroek LTS"
generation of the Midgard Content Management System. Midgard is a
mature Free Software CMS package targeted for mid-to-high-end ... [More] web
services.

About this release.

Midgard 8.09.0 "Ragnaroek LTS" release is another release of Midgard
following the new time-based release process. Because of this,
versioning numbering of both Midgard and MidCOM have been synchronized
to follow a date-based pattern. Using old version numbering the
software included in this release would have been Midgard 1.9 and
MidCOM 2.9. The new release process has been created to align Midgard
with the release synchronicity model followed by free software projects
like GNOME and Ubuntu.

Midgard 8.09.0 "Ragnaroek LTS"
is a Long Term Support version of Midgard for which bug fixes and minor
feature improvements will be supplied by the Midgard community for
several years. It is recommended that all Midgard users upgrade their
installations to the Midgard 8.09 series for stability, performance and
maintainance reasons. Upgrade from MidCOM 2.8 installations running
with PHP5 has been made as seamless as possible.

The version is targeted to ease transition from web services using
the deprecated Midgard 1.x APIs to the new Midgard2 architecture.
Because of this, the release provides both API versions. This means
that the release can be used to run both Midgard 1 applications like
the version 2.9 of the MidCOM component framework, and Midgard2
applications like MidCOM3.

Changes from Midgard 1.8 and MidCOM 2.8:

Midgard and MidCOM now follow an unified release schedule and roadmap
There is a new command-line database and website setup utility
There is a new Site Wizard web interface for website creation
PHP4 support has been removed in favor of PHP5
GObject attributes of Midgard objects are directly mapped to PHP objects for performance reasons
Repligard package has been removed and replaced by new built in replication API
The MidCOM framework uses autoloading to reduce memory usage and processing time
Prototype Javascript framework has been removed in favor of jQuery
New Midgard logo and graphical guidelines have been deployed across the system
Packages are built for several Linux distributions using the openSuse Build Service
Classic Midgard API has been deprecated in favor of MgdSchema and
Query Builder, but is available via --with-legacy-api configuration
switch in midgard-php5
midgard-config command-line tool replaced with Midgard configuration supported by pkg-config

In addition Midgard 8.09 provides new experimental ("Midgard2") features for developers:

D-Bus signals from I/O events, and ability to pass D-Bus messages through Midgard API
Event handling also available for languages without event support (like PHP5)
New authentication and user management API
New API for objects' attachments and parameters
New API for binary blobs

Planned for next releases

Long Term Supported Midgard 8.09 "Ragnaroek" version
First Midgard 9.03 ("Midgard2") stable release: March 2009

Targeted as general, replicated persistent storage framework reaching further than just the web
Automated database MgdSchema management and table initialization
Language bindings for Python and Mono (.Net)
Support for different database back-ends like PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle and MS SQL
Completely rewritten high-performance MidCOM model-view-controller framework for PHP ("MidCOM3")
XMPP Peer-to-Peer replication
Removed Apache module
Redesigned and web server independent PHP extension (Apache and Lighttpd support)
Development coordinated via Git instead of Subversion

About Midgard
Midgard is a capable open source content management package targeted
for mid-to-high-end websites. The Midgard community has always focused
on clean and manageable code, high security and multilingual support in
the toolkit.

Some feature highlights:

Modular system that allows construction of a site by creating a directory hierarchy powered by different components
Powerful templating of all output in the system
Highly configurable content entry views
Full caching of generated pages and uploaded file attachments
"Double click to edit" on-site WYSIWYG editing
Comprehensive access controls
Content replication for clustered setups and staging/live publishing
Hosting multiple sites and organizations within one Midgard installation
Full-text search powered by SOLR

The components available for Midgard provide functionality ranging
from typical content-oriented websites to highly personalized web
services supporting features like geographical positioning and
recommendation mining. Several Midgard components include integration
features for synchronizing content from popular Social Web services
like Flickr, Jaiku and Twitter.

Midgard includes:

System library for persistent storage, replication and interprocess communication
Apache module for HTTP request mapping
PHP5 extension for object-oriented data handling API
MidCOM MVC framework for PHP5
Content management tools and user interfaces
Additional components that may be installed using the PEAR package management tool

Get started with Midgard today!
Licensing

Midgard and MidCOM are available under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Some tools bundled in Midgard distribution are available under other open source licenses like GPL and Apache Software License

System requirements

Linux, Unix or any POSIX server
Apache 2.x HTTP server
GLib 2 C library
PHP 5.x programming language
MySQL 5.x database
APC or other PHP byte code cache recommended
1GB of RAM or more recommended (with MidCOM3 256MB is enough)

Find out more about Midgard

Download page and changelog of latest release
Documentation wiki
Unofficial Midgard wiki
Trac bug and project tracker
Ohloh analysis on Midgard sources

Midgard Community
Since 1999, Midgard has been worked on by an international team of free
software developers. Unlike many other open source CMS projects,
Midgard is not controlled by a single corporation, but instead the
development work is coordinated and shared by a cluster of
organizations mainly located in north Europe. All decisions and
development directions in the community are discussed openly, and the
decisions are made in Midgard Gatherings - events that are arranged
twice a year.

Midgard is a large and mature code base that is being actively
developed. Copyrights to the Midgard software are owned by the
community members.
Contact the community

Mailing lists

Users' forum
Developers' forum

IRC: #midgard on irc.freenode.net
#Midgard on Jaiku

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

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

The Midgard Project website
www.midgard-project.org [Less]

Midgard 8.09.0RC2 "Ragnaroek" released

Posted about 1 year ago by

Lodz, October 2nd 2008 -- The
Midgard Project has released second 'Release Canditate' release of 8.09
"Ragnaroek LTS" generation of the Midgard Content Management System.
Midgard is a mature Free Software CMS package targeted ... [More] for
mid-to-high-end web services.
About this release
Midgard 8.09.0RC "Ragnaroek LTS" release is the fourth release of
Midgard following the new time-based release process. Because of this,
versioning numbering of both Midgard and MidCOM have been synchronized
to follow a date-based pattern. Using old version numbering the
software included in this release would have been Midgard 1.9 and
MidCOM 2.9. The new release process has been created to align Midgard
with the release synchronicity model followed by free software projects
like GNOME and Ubuntu.

When finalized, the 8.09 "Ragnaroek LTS" will be a Long Term Support
version of Midgard for which bug fixes and minor feature improvements
will be supplied by the Midgard community for several years. It is
recommended that all Midgard users upgrade their installations to the
Midgard 8.09 series for stability, performance and maintainance
reasons. Upgrade from MidCOM 2.8 installations running with PHP5 has
been made as seamless as possible.

The version is targeted to ease transition from web services using
the deprecated Midgard 1.x APIs to the new Midgard2 architecture.
Because of this, the release provides both API versions. This means
that the release can be used to run both Midgard 1 applications like
the version 2.9 of the MidCOM component framework, and Midgard2
applications like MidCOM3.

Changes from Midgard 1.8 and MidCOM 2.8:

Midgard and MidCOM now follow an unified release schedule and roadmap
There is a new command-line database and website setup utility
There is a new Site Wizard web interface for website creation
PHP4 support has been removed in favor of PHP5
GObject attributes of Midgard objects are directly mapped to PHP objects for performance reasons
Repligard package has been removed and replaced by new built in replication API
The MidCOM framework uses autoloading to reduce memory usage and processing time
Prototype Javascript framework has been removed in favor of jQuery
New Midgard logo and graphical guidelines have been deployed across the system
Packages are built for several Linux distributions using the openSuse Build Service
Classic Midgard API has been deprecated in favor of MgdSchema and
Query Builder, but is available via --with-legacy-api configuration
switch in midgard-php5
midgard-config command-line tool replaced with Midgard configuration supported by pkg-config

In addition Midgard 8.09 provides new experimental ("Midgard2") features for developers:

D-Bus signals from I/O events, and ability to pass D-Bus messages through Midgard API
Event handling also available for languages without event support (like PHP5)
New authentication and user management API
New API for objects' attachments and parameters
New API for binary blobs

Planned for next releases

First stable release of 8.09 ("Ragnaroek LTS"): October 6th, 2008

Long Term Supported Midgard version

First Midgard 9.03 ("Midgard2") stable release: March 2009

Targeted as general, replicated persistent storage framework reaching further than just the web
Automated database MgdSchema management and table initialization
Language bindings for Python and Mono (.Net)
Support for different database back-ends like PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle and MS SQL
Completely rewritten high-performance MidCOM model-view-controller framework for PHP ("MidCOM3")
XMPP Peer-to-Peer replication
Removed Apache module
Redesigned and web server independent PHP extension (Apache and Lighttpd support)
Development coordinated via Git instead of Subversion

About Midgard
Midgard is a capable open source content management package targeted
for mid-to-high-end websites. The Midgard community has always focused
on clean and manageable code, high security and multilingual support in
the toolkit.

Some feature highlights:

Modular system that allows construction of a site by creating a directory hierarchy powered by different components
Powerful templating of all output in the system
Highly configurable content entry views
Full caching of generated pages and uploaded file attachments
"Double click to edit" on-site WYSIWYG editing
Comprehensive access controls
Content replication for clustered setups and staging/live publishing
Hosting multiple sites and organizations within one Midgard installation
Full-text search powered by SOLR

The components available for Midgard provide functionality ranging
from typical content-oriented websites to highly personalized web
services supporting features like geographical positioning and
recommendation mining. Several Midgard components include integration
features for synchronizing content from popular Social Web services
like Flickr, Jaiku and Twitter.

Midgard includes:

System library for persistent storage, replication and interprocess communication
Apache module for HTTP request mapping
PHP5 extension for object-oriented data handling API
MidCOM MVC framework for PHP5
Content management tools and user interfaces
Additional components that may be installed using the PEAR package management tool

Get started with Midgard today!
Licensing

Midgard and MidCOM are available under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Some tools bundled in Midgard distribution are available under other open source licenses like GPL and Apache Software License

System requirements

Linux, Unix or any POSIX server
Apache 2.x HTTP server
GLib 2 C library
PHP 5.x programming language
MySQL 5.x database
APC or other PHP byte code cache recommended
1GB of RAM or more recommended (with MidCOM3 256MB is enough)

Find out more about Midgard

Download page and changelog of latest release
Documentation wiki
Unofficial Midgard wiki
Trac bug and project tracker
Ohloh analysis on Midgard sources

Midgard Community
Since 1999, Midgard has been worked on by an international team of free
software developers. Unlike many other open source CMS projects,
Midgard is not controlled by a single corporation, but instead the
development work is coordinated and shared by a cluster of
organizations mainly located in north Europe. All decisions and
development directions in the community are discussed openly, and the
decisions are made in Midgard Gatherings - events that are arranged
twice a year.

Midgard is a large and mature code base that is being actively
developed. Copyrights to the Midgard software are owned by the
community members.
Contact the community

Mailing lists

Users' forum
Developers' forum

IRC: #midgard on irc.freenode.net
#Midgard on Jaiku

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

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

The Midgard Project website
www.midgard-project.org [Less]

Midgard 8.09.0RC "Ragnaroek" released

Posted about 1 year ago by

Lodz, September 29th 2008 -- The
Midgard Project has released first 'Release Canditate' release of 8.09
"Ragnaroek LTS" generation of the Midgard Content Management System.
Midgard is a mature Free Software CMS package targeted ... [More] for
mid-to-high-end web services.
About this release
Midgard 8.09.0RC "Ragnaroek LTS" release is the third release of
Midgard following the new time-based release process. Because of this,
versioning numbering of both Midgard and MidCOM have been synchronized
to follow a date-based pattern. Using old version numbering the
software included in this release would have been Midgard 1.9 and
MidCOM 2.9. The new release process has been created to align Midgard
with the release synchronicity model followed by free software projects
like GNOME and Ubuntu.

When finalized, the 8.09 "Ragnaroek LTS" will be a Long Term Support
version of Midgard for which bug fixes and minor feature improvements
will be supplied by the Midgard community for several years. It is
recommended that all Midgard users upgrade their installations to the
Midgard 8.09 series for stability, performance and maintainance
reasons. Upgrade from MidCOM 2.8 installations running with PHP5 has
been made as seamless as possible.

The version is targeted to ease transition from web services using
the deprecated Midgard 1.x APIs to the new Midgard2 architecture.
Because of this, the release provides both API versions. This means
that the release can be used to run both Midgard 1 applications like
the version 2.9 of the MidCOM component framework, and Midgard2
applications like MidCOM3.

Changes from Midgard 1.8 and MidCOM 2.8:

Midgard and MidCOM now follow an unified release schedule and roadmap
There is a new command-line database and website setup utility
There is a new Site Wizard web interface for website creation
PHP4 support has been removed in favor of PHP5
GObject attributes of Midgard objects are directly mapped to PHP objects for performance reasons
Repligard package has been removed and replaced by new built in replication API
The MidCOM framework uses autoloading to reduce memory usage and processing time
Prototype Javascript framework has been removed in favor of jQuery
New Midgard logo and graphical guidelines have been deployed across the system
Packages are built for several Linux distributions using the openSuse Build Service
Classic Midgard API has been deprecated in favor of MgdSchema and
Query Builder, but is available via --with-legacy-api configuration
switch in midgard-php5
midgard-config command-line tool replaced with Midgard configuration supported by pkg-config

In addition Midgard 8.09 provides new experimental ("Midgard2") features for developers:

D-Bus signals from I/O events, and ability to pass D-Bus messages through Midgard API
Event handling also available for languages without event support (like PHP5)
New authentication and user management API
New API for objects' attachments and parameters
New API for binary blobs

Planned for next releases

First stable release of 8.09 ("Ragnaroek LTS"): October 6th, 2008

Long Term Supported Midgard version

First Midgard 9.03 ("Midgard2") stable release: March 2009

Targeted as general, replicated persistent storage framework reaching further than just the web
Automated database MgdSchema management and table initialization
Language bindings for Python and Mono (.Net)
Support for different database back-ends like PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle and MS SQL
Completely rewritten high-performance MidCOM model-view-controller framework for PHP ("MidCOM3")
XMPP Peer-to-Peer replication
Removed Apache module
Redesigned and web server independent PHP extension (Apache and Lighttpd support)
Development coordinated via Git instead of Subversion

About Midgard
Midgard is a capable open source content management package targeted
for mid-to-high-end websites. The Midgard community has always focused
on clean and manageable code, high security and multilingual support in
the toolkit.

Some feature highlights:

Modular system that allows construction of a site by creating a directory hierarchy powered by different components
Powerful templating of all output in the system
Highly configurable content entry views
Full caching of generated pages and uploaded file attachments
"Double click to edit" on-site WYSIWYG editing
Comprehensive access controls
Content replication for clustered setups and staging/live publishing
Hosting multiple sites and organizations within one Midgard installation
Full-text search powered by SOLR

The components available for Midgard provide functionality ranging
from typical content-oriented websites to highly personalized web
services supporting features like geographical positioning and
recommendation mining. Several Midgard components include integration
features for synchronizing content from popular Social Web services
like Flickr, Jaiku and Twitter.

Midgard includes:

System library for persistent storage, replication and interprocess communication
Apache module for HTTP request mapping
PHP5 extension for object-oriented data handling API
MidCOM MVC framework for PHP5
Content management tools and user interfaces
Additional components that may be installed using the PEAR package management tool

Get started with Midgard today!
Licensing

Midgard and MidCOM are available under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Some tools bundled in Midgard distribution are available under other open source licenses like GPL and Apache Software License

System requirements

Linux, Unix or any POSIX server
Apache 2.x HTTP server
GLib 2 C library
PHP 5.x programming language
MySQL 5.x database
APC or other PHP byte code cache recommended
1GB of RAM or more recommended (with MidCOM3 256MB is enough)

Find out more about Midgard

Download page and changelog of latest release
Documentation wiki
Unofficial Midgard wiki
Trac bug and project tracker
Ohloh analysis on Midgard sources

Midgard Community
Since 1999, Midgard has been worked on by an international team of free
software developers. Unlike many other open source CMS projects,
Midgard is not controlled by a single corporation, but instead the
development work is coordinated and shared by a cluster of
organizations mainly located in north Europe. All decisions and
development directions in the community are discussed openly, and the
decisions are made in Midgard Gatherings - events that are arranged
twice a year.

Midgard is a large and mature code base that is being actively
developed. Copyrights to the Midgard software are owned by the
community members.
Contact the community

Mailing lists

Users' forum
Developers' forum

IRC: #midgard on irc.freenode.net
#Midgard on Jaiku

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

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

The Midgard Project website
www.midgard-project.org [Less]

Midgard 8.09.0beta2 "Ragnaroek" released

Posted about 1 year ago by

Lodz, September 8th 2008 -- The
Midgard Project has released second beta release of 8.09 "Ragnaroek
LTS" generation of the Midgard Content Management System. Midgard is a
mature Free Software CMS package targeted for ... [More] mid-to-high-end web
services.

About this release

Midgard 8.09.0beta2 "Ragnaroek LTS" beta release is the second release
of Midgard following the new time-based release process. Because of
this, versioning numbering of both Midgard and MidCOM have been
synchronized to follow a date-based pattern. Using old version
numbering the software included in this release would have been Midgard
1.9 and MidCOM 2.9. The new release process has been created to align
Midgard with the release synchronicity model followed by free software
projects like GNOME and Ubuntu.

When finalized, the 8.09 "Ragnaroek LTS" will be a Long Term Support
version of Midgard for which bug fixes and minor feature improvements
will be supplied by the Midgard community for several years. It is
recommended that all Midgard users upgrade their installations to the
Midgard 8.09 series for stability, performance and maintainance
reasons. Upgrade from MidCOM 2.8 installations running with PHP5 has
been made as seamless as possible.

The version is targeted to ease transition from web services using the
deprecated Midgard 1.x APIs to the new Midgard2 architecture. Because
of this, the release provides both API versions. This means that the
release can be used to run both Midgard 1 applications like the version
2.9 of the MidCOM component framework, and Midgard2 applications like
MidCOM3.

Changes from Midgard 1.8 and MidCOM 2.8:

Midgard and MidCOM now follow an unified release schedule and roadmap

There is a new command-line database and website setup utility

There is a new Site Wizard web interface for website creation

PHP4 support has been removed in favor of PHP5

GObject attributes of Midgard objects are directly mapped to PHP objects for performance reasons

Repligard package has been removed and replaced by new built in replication API

The MidCOM framework uses autoloading to reduce memory usage and processing time

Prototype Javascript framework has been removed in favor of jQuery

New Midgard logo and graphical guidelines have been deployed across the system

Packages are built for several Linux distributions using the openSuse Build Service

Classic Midgard API has been deprecated in favor of MgdSchema and Query Builder, but is available via --with-legacy-api configuration switch in midgard-php5

midgard-config command-line tool replaced with Midgard configuration supported by pkg-config

In addition Midgard 8.09 provides new experimental ("Midgard2") features for developers:

D-Bus signals from I/O events, and ability to pass D-Bus messages through Midgard API

Event handling also available for languages without event support (like PHP5)

New authentication and user management API

New API for objects' attachments and parameters

New API for binary blobs

Planned for next releases

First stable release of 8.09 ("Ragnaroek LTS"): September 2008

Long Term Supported Midgard version

First Midgard 9.03 ("Midgard2") stable release: March 2009

Targeted as general, replicated persistent storage framework reaching further than just the web

Automated database MgdSchema management and table initialization

Language bindings for Python and Mono (.Net)

Support for different database back-ends like PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle and MS SQL

Completely rewritten high-performance MidCOM model-view-controller framework for PHP ("MidCOM3")

XMPP Peer-to-Peer replication

Removed Apache module

Redesigned and web server independent PHP extension (Apache and Lighttpd support)
Development coordinated via Git instead of Subversion

About Midgard
Midgard is
a capable open source content management package targeted for
mid-to-high-end websites. The Midgard community has always focused on
clean and manageable code, high security and multilingual support in
the toolkit.

Some feature highlights:

Modular system that allows construction of a site by creating a directory hierarchy powered by different components
Powerful templating of all output in the system
Highly configurable content entry views
Full caching of generated pages and uploaded file attachments
"Double click to edit" on-site WYSIWYG editing
Comprehensive access controls
Content replication for clustered setups and staging/live publishing
Hosting multiple sites and organizations within one Midgard installation
Full-text search powered by SOLR

The
components available for Midgard provide functionality ranging from
typical content-oriented websites to highly personalized web services
supporting features like geographical positioning and recommendation
mining. Several Midgard components include integration features for
synchronizing content from popular Social Web services like Flickr,
Jaiku and Twitter.

Midgard includes:

System library for persistent storage, replication and interprocess communication

Apache module for HTTP request mapping

PHP5 extension for object-oriented data handling API

MidCOM MVC framework for PHP5

Content management tools and user interfaces
Additional components that may be installed using the PEAR package management tool

Get started with Midgard today!

Licensing

Midgard and MidCOM are available under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

Some tools bundled in Midgard distribution are available under other
open source licenses like GPL and Apache Software License

System requirements

Linux, Unix or any POSIX server

Apache 2.x HTTP server

GLib 2 C library

PHP 5.x programming language

MySQL 5.x database
APC or other PHP byte code cache recommended

1GB of RAM or more recommended (with MidCOM3 256MB is enough)

Find out more about Midgard

Download page and changelog of latest release

Documentation wiki

Unofficial Midgard wiki

Trac bug and project tracker

Ohloh analysis on Midgard sources

Midgard Community

Since 1999, Midgard has been worked on by an international team of free
software developers. Unlike many other open source CMS projects,
Midgard is not controlled by a single corporation, but instead the
development work is coordinated and shared by a cluster of
organizations mainly located in north Europe. All decisions and
development directions in the community are discussed openly, and the
decisions are made in Midgard Gatherings - events that are arranged
twice a year.

Midgard is a large and mature code base that is being actively
developed. Copyrights to the Midgard software are owned by the
community members.

Contact the community

Mailing lists

Users' forum

Developers' forum

IRC: #midgard on irc.freenode.net

#Midgard on Jaiku

More information

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

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

The Midgard Project website
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Midgard Gathering in Finland on November 6th - 9th 2008

Posted about 1 year ago by

Midgard Gathering is an event open to all Midgard users and developers. This event's agenda is quite exciting, and includes:

Unit testing workshop (Thu November 6th, held by Sebastian Bergmann)
Ragnaroek 1 feature planning
Midgard ... [More] and Vala discussion
Neutron and future Midgard user interface
MidCOM 3 hacking
Midgard organization and IPRs: as-is, foundation, ASF, FSFe, ...
Midgard and authentication: Kerberos, OAuth and friends
Midgard-on-mobile: packaging, Jabber replication
...and of course beer and sauna!

More information in:

http://www.midgard-project.org/community/events/midgard_gathering_2008.html

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Midgard 8.09.0beta1 "Ragnaroek" released

Posted about 1 year ago by

Lodz, August 27th 2008 -- The Midgard Project has released first beta release
of 8.09 stable generation of the Midgard Open Source Content Management System.

About the release

Midgard 8.09.0beta1 "Ragnaroek" beta ... [More] release is the first one released with new
releasing policy which focuses on scheduled Midgard releases. Also it's the first
one which changes versioning rules used for previous releases.

Midgard 8.0.9 "Ragnaroek" has been designed as a version easing the transition from
Midgard 1.x to Midgard 2. To aid developers, the release includes both the classic
Midgard APIs that are now deprecated, and the new schema-based Midgard 2 APIs.
This means that the release can be used to run both Midgard 1 applications like
the version 2.8 of the MidCOM component framework, and Midgard 2 applications like
MidCOM 3.

Some new and experimental features of Midgard 2 series like D-Bus signaling on
I/O events is also available on Midgard 8.09.

Read more about changes.

Midgard

Midgard is a capable open source content management system for running mid-to-high-end
websites. In addition to the built-in content management features, Midgard also
provides a highly object-oriented component architecture for building interactive
web applications that integrate seamlessly with the website.

Midgard provides unique technology so can be easily integrated with any kind of
environment. From web applications ( Midgard CMS with its component framework - MidCOM )
to typical desktop ones ( Midgard Framework ).
From personal blog to corporate portals and intranets.

Midgard is also language independent and due to its powerful architecture is
proved as stable, secure and flexible solution implemented in high range of
environmental targets:

PHP, Python or Java applications
PHP extension
Python module
Apache module
GTK desktop applications

Get started with Midgard 8.09 today!

Midgard CMS provides a powerful toolkit for web publishing and building interactive web applications. The features include:

Comprehensive authoring tools
Website management
Multilingual support
User management and access control
Web development

Read more about features and learn how to create content.

Planned for next releases

First stable release of 8.09 branch (Ragnaroek): September 2008
First Midgard2 9.03 stable release : March 2009
Automated database MgdSchema management and table initialization
Deprecation of the classic functional Midgard API in favor of MgdSchema and
Query Builder
Integrated midgard-python and mono package
PostgreSQL, SQLite and MS SQL support

Midgard resources

Download page and changelog for latest release
Documentation
Bugs reporting

User and developers support:

Mailing list
Users' forum
Developers' forum
IRC: #midgard on irc.freenode.net

About Midgard

The Midgard Content Management Framework was initially released in May 1999,
and has since gathered a sizable user and developer community. Midgard powers
thousands of web sites ranging from simple organizational websites to major
portals like maemo.org, New Zealand eGovernment site and Playbill.

Midgard is being developed by an international team of professionals. Midgard's
development team includes new media designers, system integrators and content
management consultants. Midgard development is being supported by several
commercial and governmental entities including the European Union.

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

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

The Midgard Project
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