Midgard Weekly Summary #80: November 18th 2009

Welcome to Midgard Weekly Summaries, the weekly newsletter of happenings in the Midgard Project. This MWS covers the last two weeks as Henri has been busy conferencing.

• Midgard 8.09.6.1 hotfix is now available. This fixes the segfault happening in end of PHP command-line scripts
• Midgard2 Runtime is now working on Linux with MidCOM3 on Midgard 9.09. A screenshot is available
• Midgard OBS nightly builds are now using the OBS REST API
• Qaiku benchmarked on Mjolnir. Same PHP MidCOM3 code runs 20-60% faster on Mjolnir than Ragnaroek
• New Midgard authentication API in Mjolnir is now being used by MidCOM3. This allows multiple authentication methods and access levels for same user, simplifying implementations like OpenID and OAuth
• $_MIDCOM and $_MIDGARD PHP superglobals are now available only if enabled via the midgard.superglobals_compat ini setting
• Object properties in Mjolnir are now returned in same order as defined in MgdSchema. This makes generating documentation and forms by reflection easier
• Mjolnir is nearing release. Most of blockers are now done, and the stable should be out soon
• Ragnaroek net.nemein.registrations can now send email to event attendees
• TinyMCE has been upgraded to version 3.2.7 in Ragnaroek. This will come in 8.09.7

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.

About MWS
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