Midgard 8.09.5 "First Decade" released

Lodz, April 27th 2009 -- The Midgard Project has released the fifth maintenance release of Midgard 8.09 Ragnaroek LTS. Ragnaroek LTS is a Long Term Support version of the free software
content management framework.

The 8.09.5 "First Decade" release focuses on API and architecture cleanups in order to ease transition from Midgard 1.x series API to Midgard 2.x APIs.

"First Decade" means Midgard CMS turns ten. Come to celebrate!
Stable 8.09.5 release is recommended for all users of Midgard.

Main changes from 8.09.4:

• Authentication routines fixes (#485, #765).
• Fixed major memory corruption in php5-midgard (#1054, #1058).
• Midgard installer improvements.

More than 70 tickets have been closed for this release. See the Midgard
issue tracker for a full list:
http://trac.midgard-project.org/query?status=closed&milestone=8.09.5+Ragnaroek

Planned for next maintenance release:

• More performance tuning
• Unit tests for midgard-php and MidCOM DBA layers
• New Midgard visual guidelines deployed more widely
• Filesync git integration for collaborative site development
• MidCOM packages distributed by a Midgard-powered PEAR channel

See the full list in:
http://trac.midgard-project.org/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&status=closed&milestone=8.09.6+Ragnaroek&order=priority

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

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

Getting started
http://www.midgard-project.org/documentation/getting-started/

Issue tracker
http://trac.midgard-project.org/roadmap

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/