Midgard Weekly Summary #79: November 2nd 2009

Welcome to Midgard Weekly Summaries, the weekly newsletter of happenings in the Midgard Project. This issue comes a bit late as Bergie has been busy in The Open Web of Ede, the Netherlands.

• Midgard 9.09 nightly builds are now also available for RPM-based distributions like Fedora, RHEL and OpenSUSE thanks to jval. It is now a good time to test them before Mjolnir goes stable!
• MidCOM3 is switching to Pake as the automation tool. Pake can be used for things like packaging, static file installation and scaffolding new components
• Midgard2 URL parsing will be moved to be completely handled in PHP code in MidCOM3. This will enable greater flexibility with host setup and better caching. There is an experimental Mjolnir dispatcher to use this
• Midgard 8.09.6.1 MidCOM hotfix was released, fixing issues like object labels in Asgard Trash and undeleting object attachments
• zend_mm_heap corruption in Mjolnir PHP extension has been fixed
• Midgard deletion vote on Wikipedia. A big discussion last week was the deletion vote on the Midgard page on Wikipedia. The vote result was to keep the page, with some suggestions to improve the article

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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