MidCOM 2.8.0 released

Posted on 2008-02-16 16:02:58 CET.

Linköping, February 16th 2008 -- The Midgard Project has released version 2.8.0 of MidCOM - the Midgard Components Framework. MidCOM 2.8 provides PHP5 support and includes new features like content caching and replication.

MidCOM is the default Content Management interface in Midgard CMS, and provides developers a production-proven architecture for building new web applications. With the MidCOM framework PHP applications have powerful localization, configuration, style handling and data abstraction features.

Changes in MidCOM 2.8 series

This release brings performance and new features to the MidCOM framework:

Asgard administration interface
- New administrative interface for all content in Midgard database
- Centralized component configuration tools
- Trash browsing and undeletion support
- Automatic validation of edited PHP templates
- Full replacement for Aegir and SpiderAdmin
MidCOM replication system
- Support for server-to-server replication, archival and staging-live setups
- Nearly instant replication triggered via MidCOM DBA watchers
- HTTP, email and tarball transports
Content caching infrastructure
- Generated pages can be cached via SQLite, memcached or static file cache
- Intelligent, automatic cache invalidation
- Support for HTTP conditional GET
OpenID authentication
- Authentication and autoregistration via external OpenID identities
Tango icons and colors
- MidCOM now uses Tango icons and colors to provide a more graphical experience
New libraries available
- net.nemein.attention - APML handling and attention profiling library
- org.maemo.socialnews - Social news filtering and aggregation system
- org.openpsa.httplib - web querying and Microformat handling library
- org.routamc.statusmessage - Twitter and Jaiku microblogging and presence integration
- ...and many more. There are over 120 MidCOM components available in public