Changes from 1.7

Midgard-core

• Metadata for all MgdSchema objects
• Support for ISO metadata datetimes
• New Quota for MgdSchema objects
• Rewritten database SELECTs with performance in mind
• Metadata and joined objects supported by MidgardQueryBuilder
• Guids support for objects and metadata
• New midgard-schema command line tool for testing schemas and creating database tables

Midgard-data

• Repligard as part of midgard-data package
• Improved support for pear packages
• New Midgard sitewizard

Midgard-php

• Extension is not built against MySQL or Apache

MidCOM

• New on-site editing interface
• Floating menu bar for accessing all site management features
• AJAX "click to edit" WYSIWYG editing of content
• Integrated contextual help screens
• User interface messages powered by ProtoGrowl
• Drag and drop navigation organization
• Datamanager2 - rewritten data rendering and editing system
• TinyMCE for WYSIWYG editing
• Integrated image and file insertion pop-up
• New widgets like an AJAX "chooser" and CAPTCHA entry
• Schemas can be used as page types used in style template loading and CSS body classes
• Database Abstraction Layer for all MgdSchema types
• Access Control Lists (ACLs) for managing permissions
• Integrated Revision Control System (RCS) enabling browsing and reverting changes in all content
• Event handlers and triggers for different database activities
• Components can register their own MgdSchema types
• Components can register watchers to get notified about changes in database
• Automatic handling of access control and content visibility checks when fetching objects
• PEAR packaging
• MidCOM is now fully PEAR packaged and available in the pear.midcom-project.org channel
• Components can be installed and upgraded as separate PEAR packages
• Support for inter-package dependencies
• Style packages support for installing new style templates
• Prototype and Script.aculo.us javascript libraries come bundled with MidCOM
• Performance improvements
• Largely refactored Navigation Access Point (NAP) system for better performance
• Possibility to use memcached for caching ACL and object tree information
• Possibility to use Squid for caching generated pages
• New faster initialization system instead of midcom-template
• New libraries available
• midcom.services.at - Scheduled execution of operations
• fi.protie.navigation - Flexible site navigation renderer
• org.openpsa.notifications - User notification library supporting email, SMS and other means of notifying
• net.nemein.ping - Weblog update ping notifier
• org.routamc.positioning - Geographical positioning of users and content, making MidCOM a Geospatial Content Management System (GeoCMS)
• net.nemein.tag - Content tagging and retrieval using folksonomies
• org.openpsa.qbpager - Paged browsing interface for Query Builder results
• ...and many more. There are over 70 MidCOM components available in public