[Announcement] Midgard 8.09.9 released!

1. Piotr Pokora

   [Announcement] Midgard 8.09.9 released!

   Tue June 22 2010 09:00:56 UTC

   Lodz, June 22nd 2010 -- The Midgard Project has released the ninth maintenance release of Midgard 8.09 Ragnaroek LTS. Ragnaroek LTS is a Long Term Support version of the free software Content Management Framework.

   Midgard is an industrial CMS built on top of a Content Repository and the LAMP stack. It provides object-oriented PHP APIs for developing and modifying website functionalities, and a PEAR-based system for installing new web components from a growing online library. Midgard has been running since 1999 on systems ranging from simple organizational websites to complex web communities and corporate management tools, in organizations like Aalto University, Nokia, Lufthansa, HP, Poland International Fairs and CMS Watch.

   The stable 8.09.9 release is recommended for all users of Midgard.

   Main changes from 8.09.8:

   • Rewritten Multilang queries (#1776)
   • Fixed crashes (#1547, #1684)
   • Fixed major MidCOM admin and style issues (#1779, #1788)
   • Midgard internal features are now optional for better performance tunning (#1851)
   • Many bugfixes and feature enhancements

   In total more than 90 feature requests or bugs have been handled in this release. See the Midgard issue tracker for a full list.

   Binary packages

   The Midgard Project provides binary packages that are ready to install for most popular Linux distributions. This includes various versions of Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, RHEL and openSUSE. See the full list:

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

   Distribution-specific installation instructions can be found from the Midgard documentation site.

   Source downloads

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

   Instructions for building Midgard from the sources can be found from the Midgard documentation site.

   Getting started

   On a typical Linux distribution setting up Midgard is quite trivial. Simply add the Midgard repository to your configuration, and then run: # apt-get update # apt-get install midgard-data # datagard

   After this you should have a running Midgard server. Simply access it with the browser and follow the instructions provided on the Midgard Getting Started guide

   Issue tracker & getting help

   See the Midgard issue tracker for currently open issues and planned enhancements. http://trac.midgard-project.org/roadmap

   If you need help with your Midgard setup, the #midgard IRC channel on freenode is the best place to start. There is also an user mailing list.

   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/

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