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Indico 0.98.1 released
We are happy to announce Indico 0.98.1.
http://indico-software.org/wiki/Releases/Indico0.98.1#Download
(git tag v0.98.1)
The release can be obtained from PyPI:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/indico/
Please go ahead and easy_install it.
Some of the new features in comparison with 0.98:
New options
- Timetable Drag & Drop: drag time blocks freely, resize them, drop contributions and breaks inside sessions, and undo last operation
- iCalendar: generates URLs that we can use from our favourite calendar (Outlook, Google calendar, etc), both for public and private information (using pub/priv keys).
Interface improvements
- Participants module has been redesigned
- User search pop-ups everywhere (no more old-style HTML forms)
- New face for Video Services Overview
Performance Improvements
- Room booking: calendar: 25x faster, (PRE-)Booking in my rooms: 35x, My rooms: 15x.
- Event list: loading past events by batches (infinite scroll).
- Book of Abstract is now cached
- Faster loading of event home page
Server-side
- Analytics compatibility. Administrators can include the necessary Javascript to use any web analytics tool like Piwik, Google Analytics, etc.
Indico 0.98 released
We are proud to announce the release of Indico 0.98, the final version of the 0.98 branch.
http://indico-software.org/wiki/Releases/Indico0.98
(git tag v0.98.0)
As usual, the release can be obtained from PyPI:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/indico/
Please go ahead and easy_install it.
Here are some of the new features in comparison with 0.97:
New options
- Paper reviewing;
- Contribution Import interface (for Invenio);
- Social Share button - share Indico events in social networks;
Interface improvements
- User search pop-ups everywhere (no more old-style HTML forms);
- jQueryUI-based interface dialogs;
- Multi-file upload;
Performance Improvements
- Abstracts - acceptance (50x faster), listing (10% faster) and PDF creation;
- Room booking - calendar (3x), booking a room (10x);
- Registrant listing (4x);
- Contribution listing (2x);
- Event (5x) and Calendar (4x) overview;
- Category browsing (2x);
- Reduction of number of database writes;
- Memcache support;
Server-side
- WSGI support (no more mod_python);
- New search engine "push" synchronization tools - LiveSync? (replaces OAI-PMH gateway);
- New scheduling daemon - replaces taskDaemon;
- New HTTP export API - replaces export.py;
- Babel-based i18n;
- Unit/functional tests;
3rd party tools
- Integration with XMPP/Jabber chat servers;
- Integration with Google Maps (Room Booking);
- Experimental LDAP authentication support (thanks to Martin Kuba);
We've been working very hard to deliver this version. Indico is now faster than it has ever been, due to all the performance improvements we've made. At the same time, this version brings a multitude of new features as well as technology improvements that will be very important in the future development of the project.
Your feedback is, as always, very important. We hope you will let us know what you think of this new release and report any problems you may have.
As you have seen this release took quite a bit to come out. This has been in part due to the fact that we were already working in parallel on 0.98.1 while we fixed bugs. This next version is already pretty stable and should come out in about 3 weeks (and this time we mean it .
Indico 0.98-rc1 released
We are very happy to announce the release of our first release candidate for 0.98-rc1. This is the version that is already in use at CERN and that we now consider to be ready for use in other environments.
http://indico-software.org/wiki/Releases/Indico0.98-rc1
(git tag v0.98-rc1)
Please note that the Python package has changed name from cds-indico to indico:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/indico/
(Don't forget to delete any existing cds-indico package before installing)
The easiest method to install Indico is still easy_install (pip not yet supported).
Here are some of the new features:
- WSGI Support - mod_python _no longer supported_;
- New search engine "push" synchronization tools - LiveSync? (replaces OAI-PMH gateway);
- New scheduling daemon - replaces taskDaemon;
- New HTTP export API - replaces export.py;
- Paper reviewing;
- Contribution Import interface (for Invenio);
- Social Share button - share Indico events in social networks;
- Multi-file upload;
- Integration with XMPP/Jabber chat servers;
- Integration with Google Maps (Room Booking);
- Experimental LDAP authentication support (thanks to Martin Kuba);
- Babel-based i18n;
- Performance optimizations:
- Abstracts - acceptance (50x faster), listing (10% faster) and PDF creation;
- Room booking - calendar (3x) and booking a room (10x);
- Registrant listing (4x);
- Contribution listing (2x);
- Event (5x) and Calendar (4x) overview;
- Category browsing (2x);
- Reduction of number of database writes;
- Memcache support;
- Unit/functional tests;
Please note that if you are currently using the OAI interface to export events to a search engine, your current setup may need changes.
As you can see at:
http://indico-software.org/milestone/v0.98
Some tickets remain open. A small number of them will be integrated into the final 0.98 version, but the most significant ones will be shipped with 0.98.1. This will include:
- Timetable Drag&Drop interface;
- jQueryUI-based interface dialogs (as well as some widgets);
- Replacing all old user search dialogs with pop-ups;
- Further performance improvements:
- Loading past events (loading in chunks);
- "Bookings in my rooms" - improvements;
- Caching "Book of Abstracts" and Room Booking Calendar;
Event though this is still the RC1 version (not final), we encourage everyone to give it a try and let us know about possible bugs and migration problems. We want to release a final version as soon as possible and your collaboration is essential for that.
Thanks in advance for your collaboration and a special acknowledgment to all the developers who have worked to make this release possible.