Midgard Weekly Summary #77: October 16th 2009

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• SElinux support is now available and will be installed by default in Midgard 8.09.6 packages. This will be very useful, especially with Red Hat Enterprise Linux installs
• Midgard's Python bindings now use standard setuptools instead of autoconf to fit the rest of the Python ecosystem better
• Multilingual Content Replication has been fixed in the Ragnaroek series. The fixes will be in 8.09.6
• Midgard cron service will be run for each Midgard host, not only for each sitegroup from now on
• Indexing of net.nehmer.blog entries can now be disabled per folder
• $_MIDGARD and $_MIDCOM superglobals are again registered by the Midgard PHP5 extension for compatibility purposes. By default they are not used, but are useful for Ragnaland
• Midgard attendance in Maemo Summit was pretty good. See the group picture!
• Midgard Gathering for fall 2009 will be held on October 23rd - 25th in Helsinki, Finland. See the Facebook event.

About Midgard
Midgard is a persistent storage framework built for the replicated world. It enables developers build applications that have their data in sync between the desktop, mobile devices and web services. It also allows for easy sharing of data between users.

Midgard does this all by building on top of technologies like GLib, libgda and D-Bus. It provides developers with object-oriented programming interfaces for C, PHP and Python. Web service developers also benefit from MidCOM, a modern MVC framework for PHP development that utilizes all the advantages of the Midgard storage framework. MidCOM helps web production also by shipping a set of content management tools.

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