Midgard 8.09.6 "AmsterGard" released!

Lodz, October 20th 2009 -- The Midgard Project has released the sixth maintenance release of Midgard 8.09 Ragnaroek LTS. Ragnaroek LTS is a Long Term Support version of the free software content management framework.

The 8.09.6 "AmsterGard" release focuses on API stability and provides improved Midgard installer.

Stable 8.09.6 release is recommended for all users of Midgard.

Main changes from 8.09.5:

• Fixed multilang content replication (#1392)
• Improved performance of some multilang SQL queries
• New datagard options to install Midgard or PEAR packages (#1204, #1352)
• New datagard option to install full OpenPSA application instead of a Midgard CMS site (#1204)
• Midgard now ships with SElinux setup files
• Fixed SG0 authentication issue (#1390)
• Several optimizations when querying multilingual objects
• There is a new optional object cache (#1256)
• There is a new view for displaying a deleted object in Asgard

More than 180 feature requests or bugs have been handled in this release. See the Midgard issue tracker for a full list.

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

See the full list.

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/