Release 2.5

Highlights

• New packages (listed below).

• Permissions system made more flexible to enable edit sharing across any content type - not just wiki - feature is intended for collaborative sites.

• Boards package supports integration with mailman for bi-directional email <=> forum syncronization

• General bug fixes throughout code base

New Packages

Package	Description	Who
GmapPackage	Implements Google Maps API for creating maps and viewing geo-located content	/wjames5
ShareThis	Simplifies adding the sharethis.com link sharing service	/wjames5
!Release 2.0 Completed
!! New Packages

~ Package | Description | Who
GeoPackage | Geo Location Data Storage Service | /wjames5
ProtectorPackage | Content Access Control system, alternative to GatekeeperPackage (Operational - but still needs a little tidying up)| /lsces
StarsPackage | Content Rating System | /xing
TagsPackage | Content Key Word Tagging | /wjames5 /WaterDragon
RecommendsPackage | Content Recommending System - For Short Term Ratings Similar but different in purpose to Stars | /WaterDragon /wjames5
SitehomePackage | A package just for creating home pages | /lugie
BoardsPackage | Native bitweaver forum to replace phpBB | /spiderr

!! Package Improvements

~ Package | Status | Who
KernelPackage
PearDB support | DB abstraction layer is now interchangable to use different layers. PEAR::DB has been added, wtih the option of adding PDO in the future. See /articles/6 for details | /spider
LibertyPackage
Universal Content History | The page history mechanism from the WikiPacakge has been generalized for all content that opt to use it. | /spider
Content Translation | Linking together content translated into different languages. Tables are in, a stab at implementation is in, however needs more work. | /spider
FAST Comments | Comments now use a materialized path mechanism to allow fetch of hierarchical comments in a single query | /jht001
Update Backlinks | Lookup of related pages has been improved to update backlinks to pages with undefined links | /jht001
LibertyMetaData | Generic set of meta tables that can be used for tags, EXIF, data and more! Tables only right now, no code yet. | /exif
Content Preferences | Each individual piece of content can have indvidual preferences of any name/value pair. This is just like the old users_preferences table, that in fact was generalized, and users (which are content) now store their values in the general content_preferences table.
Create a log of all things content | basic logging functionality added. allows admins to track basic movements on the website | /xing
Parsed content caching | All parsed content can be cached by defining a maximum cache time in the liberty admin screen | /xing
Comment Administration | Perm to control administrative access to editing comments | /spider
Content aliases | Alternate titles for all content. Will be namespace restrictive too. Tables are in, however logic needs to be written still | /spider
UsersPackage
Configurable Users Class | User a custom package to override the default User class so you can do custom authentication with pristine source, and more... | /spider
Themes Package
Add the Layout Gala | Allow specific themes to choose from a variety of different layouts using the same style | /xing
FisheyePackage

per gallery pagination style | user can select three different pagination / layout methods (matrix, auto-flow, or image position) on a per-gallery basis | /spider
Fractional Image ordering | Used with new pagination style, image order is now a float (10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3) to control number of images per page arbitrarily | /spider
Public image galleries | Per gallery choice to allow group contribution to galleries | /xing
Comments on images and galleries | | /sylveig
Stars on images and galleries | | ?
User choosable original display | Per gallery option to select if original image sizes are available or not | /spider
BlogsPackage
Convert Blogs to LibertyContent | Blogs are now full fledged content as they always should have been. Oops, fixed now at least. | /spider
More Flexible | The structure of blogs has been greatly overhauled to enable automatic user blogs and better modularity for creation group blogs and cross posting a post between blogs on the same site. These upgrades are completely backward compatible with sites already running blogs | /spiderr /wjames5
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Design and Layout

• ThemeStructureIdea2
• FutureTemplate