Fixes include:

• Fix for strings being incorrectly escaped, when registered as view property. This fix is actually workaround for Libgda' routines which transform binary values to string ones.
• Minor fix for MidgardObject create() method, which in some particular cases (and very rarely) could create two objects identified by the same guid.

Hotfix is also available as binary packages.

Lodz, January 25th 2010 -- The Midgard Project has released maintenance release of Midgard2 9.09 "Mjolnir" - second release of the new generation of the Midgard content repository.

About 9.09 releases

Midgard2 9.09 is targeted at web framework and desktop application developers. It provides a comprehensive set of content repository APIs that can be used to build replicated information applications that share their information using a common storage layer and replication tools.

In this release we provide Content Repository API bindings for the following programming languages: C, Python, PHP and Objective-C. D-Bus signals are used to inform different Midgard2 applications about things happening in the repository, enabling for example a PHP website and a Python background process to communicate with each other.

Main changes from 9.09.1 release:

• Fixed class names in Pythin bindings (#1559)
• Fixed escaping and quoting problems (#1549, #1573)
• Added delete method to MidgardUser class
• Fixed crash in MgdSchema extended class (#1574)
• Added metadata support to MidgardView derived classes.

New functionalities in 9.09 releases:

• Database views
• MgdSchema classes are extendable or might be duplicated
• New authentication system with stack support and multiple authentication methods per user
• Optional metadata for MgdSchema classes
• User defined, reflectable fields in MgdSchema
• Database transactions

Main changes from Midgard 9.03.0:

• Removed sitegroups and multilang (#1340)
• New midgard_storage class for storage management (#1136)
• Fully functional D-Bus support (#986)

Midgard2

Midgard2 is a content repository. It provides an object-oriented and replicated environment for building data-intensive applications. This provides several advantages

• Common rules for data access mean that multiple applications can work with same content without breaking consistency of the data
• Signals about changes let applications know when another application using the repository modifies something, enabling collaborative data management between apps
• Objects instead of SQL mean that developers can deal with data using APIs more compatible with the rest of their desktop programming environment, and without having to fear issues like SQL injection
• Data model is scriptable when you use a content repository, meaning that users can easily write Python or PHP scripts to perform batch operations on their data without having to learn your storage format
• Synchronization and sharing features can be implemented on the content repository level meaning that you gain these features without having to worry about them

Midgard's philosophy includes building on top of a well-known and supported GNOME libraries like glib and libgda on the system end, and connecting with popular programming languages like PHP and Python. Data storage can utilize SQLite with desktop and mobile applications, or a database server like MySQL or Postgres for web application storage.

The Midgard2 platform enables developers to define a storage structure once and use it on both web and desktop applications, with the possibility of easy data replication between the two.

Read more about Midgard's content repository approach:

• http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/why_you_should_use_a_content_repository_for_your_application/
• http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/midgard2_at_fscons-your_data-everywhere/
• http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/midgard_and_jcr-a_look_at_two_content_repositories/
• http://teroheikkinen.iki.fi/blog/midgard_workshop_at_fscons/

New Midgard architecture

Language independence

Midgard is also language independent and due to its powerful architecture has proven as stable, secure and flexible solution implemented in various environments:

• PHP5 extension for web application and CMS development
• Python module for desktop application and background process development
• Objective-C package for Mac OS X and GNUstep developers

Database independence

The Midgard 1.x was heavily coupled with the MySQL database. The new Midgard2 architecture is instead built on top of libgda, the GNOME database abstraction layer. This enables Midgard to be used with various storage engines, including:

• MySQL
• Postgres
• SQLite
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Oracle
• DB2

Built-in replication and metadata

All Midgard objects are automatically equipped with a consistent set of metadata properties that can be used for access control and workflow.

In addition, Midgard provides an API for serializing and unserializing stored objects in XML format that can be used for replicating data between different systems. The replication architecture can be used for staging/live web environments or mobile applications that synchronize between each other or a web back-end.

Planned for next Midgard2 releases

• Midgard MVC, an elegant PHP MVC framework written for Midgard2
• New installer for database and web server deployment
• Midgard2 Runtime for integrating Midgard web applications to the desktop

Midgard resources

• Download page and changelog for latest release
• Bug reporting

User and developers support:

• Users' forum
• Developers' forum
• IRC: #midgard on irc.freenode.net
• #midgard on Qaiku
• MidgardProject on Twitter

About Midgard

The Midgard Framework development started in 1997 and it was initially released as free software in May 1999. Midgard Project has since gathered an active user and developer community, powering thousands of web sites ranging from simple organizational intranets to large community portals.

Midgard is being developed by an international team of professionals. Midgard's development team includes new media designers, system integrators and content management consultants. Midgard development has been supported by several commercial and governmental entities including the European Union and the Swedish Internet Foundation.

Midgard2 is free software available under the GNU LGPL license.

http://www.midgard2.org

Contacts

Piotr Pokora, Midgard release manager piotrek.pokora(at)gmail.com

Henri Bergius, Midgard spokesman henri.bergius(at)iki.fi

The Midgard Project http://www.midgard-project.org

Lodz, January 6th 2010 -- The Midgard Project has released the seventh maintenance release of Midgard 8.09 Ragnaroek LTS. Ragnaroek LTS is a Long Term Support version of the free software content management framework.

Stable 8.09.7 release is recommended for all users of Midgard.

Main changes from 8.09.6:

• Fixed crashes in content replication
• Fixed deleting Multilang objects (#1522)
• Fixed installer crashes (#1421)
• Admin and user UI fixes (#1141, #1415, #1447)
• Improved page symlinks feature (#1548)

More than 70 feature requests or bugs have been handled in this release. See the Midgard issue tracker for a full list.

This release requires database update to be done by datagard.

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/

Lodz, December 23rd 2009 -- The Midgard Project has released maintenance release of Midgard2 9.09 "Mjolnir" - second release of the new generation of the Midgard content repository.

About 9.09 releases

Midgard2 9.09 is targeted at web framework and desktop application developers. It provides a comprehensive set of content repository APIs that can be used to build replicated information applications that share their information using a common storage layer and replication tools.

In this release we provide Content Repository API bindings for the following programming languages: C, Python, PHP and Objective-C. D-Bus signals are used to inform different Midgard2 applications about things happening in the repository, enabling for example a PHP website and a Python background process to communicate with each other.

Main changes from 9.09.0 release:

• New connection routines (#1475)
• New MidgardQueryBuilder signals (#1486, #1487)
• Configuration supports remote host's port (#1248)
• MgdSchema files compatibility fix (#1503)
• Storage related fixes (#1533, #1543)
• Fixed crashes when running Midgard with Apache (#1520)
• Fixed D-Bus path issue (#1552)

New functionalities in 9.09 releases:

• Database views
• MgdSchema classes are extendable or might be duplicated
• New authentication system with stack support and multiple authentication methods per user
• Optional metadata for MgdSchema classes
• User defined, reflectable fields in MgdSchema
• Database transactions

Main changes from Midgard 9.03.0:

• Removed sitegroups and multilang (#1340)
• New midgard_storage class for storage management (#1136)
• Fully functional D-Bus support (#986)

Midgard2

Midgard2 is a content repository. It provides an object-oriented and replicated environment for building data-intensive applications. This provides several advantages

• Common rules for data access mean that multiple applications can work with same content without breaking consistency of the data
• Signals about changes let applications know when another application using the repository modifies something, enabling collaborative data management between apps
• Objects instead of SQL mean that developers can deal with data using APIs more compatible with the rest of their desktop programming environment, and without having to fear issues like SQL injection
• Data model is scriptable when you use a content repository, meaning that users can easily write Python or PHP scripts to perform batch operations on their data without having to learn your storage format
• Synchronization and sharing features can be implemented on the content repository level meaning that you gain these features without having to worry about them

Midgard's philosophy includes building on top of a well-known and supported GNOME libraries like glib and libgda on the system end, and connecting with popular programming languages like PHP and Python. Data storage can utilize SQLite with desktop and mobile applications, or a database server like MySQL or Postgres for web application storage.

The Midgard2 platform enables developers to define a storage structure once and use it on both web and desktop applications, with the possibility of easy data replication between the two.

Read more about Midgard's content repository approach:

* http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/why_you_should_use_a_content_repository_for_your_application/ * http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/midgard2_at_fscons-your_data-everywhere/ * http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/midgard_and_jcr-a_look_at_two_content_repositories/ * http://teroheikkinen.iki.fi/blog/midgard_workshop_at_fscons/

New Midgard architecture

Language independence

Midgard is also language independent and due to its powerful architecture has proven as stable, secure and flexible solution implemented in various environments:

• PHP5 extension for web application and CMS development
• Python module for desktop application and background process development
• Objective-C package for Mac OS X and GNUstep developers

Database independence

The Midgard 1.x was heavily coupled with the MySQL database. The new Midgard2 architecture is instead built on top of libgda, the GNOME database abstraction layer. This enables Midgard to be used with various storage engines, including:

• MySQL
• Postgres
• SQLite
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Oracle
• DB2

Built-in replication and metadata

All Midgard objects are automatically equipped with a consistent set of metadata properties that can be used for access control and workflow.

In addition, Midgard provides an API for serializing and unserializing stored objects in XML format that can be used for replicating data between different systems. The replication architecture can be used for staging/live web environments or mobile applications that synchronize between each other or a web back-end.

Planned for next Midgard2 releases

• Midgard MVC, an elegant PHP MVC framework written for Midgard2
• New installer for database and web server deployment
• Midgard2 Runtime for integrating Midgard web applications to the desktop

Midgard resources

• Download page and changelog for latest release
• Bug reporting

User and developers support:

• Users' forum
• Developers' forum
• IRC: #midgard on irc.freenode.net
• #midgard on Qaiku
• MidgardProject on Twitter

About Midgard

The Midgard Framework development started in 1997 and it was initially released as free software in May 1999. Midgard Project has since gathered an active user and developer community, powering thousands of web sites ranging from simple organizational intranets to large community portals.

Midgard is being developed by an international team of professionals. Midgard's development team includes new media designers, system integrators and content management consultants. Midgard development has been supported by several commercial and governmental entities including the European Union and the Swedish Internet Foundation.

Midgard2 is free software available under the GNU LGPL license.

http://www.midgard2.org

Contacts

Piotr Pokora, Midgard release manager piotrek.pokora(at)gmail.com

Henri Bergius, Midgard spokesman henri.bergius(at)iki.fi

The Midgard Project http://www.midgard-project.org

Lodz, November 18th 2009 -- The Midgard Project has released stable release of Midgard2 9.09 "Mjolnir" - second release of the new generation of the Midgard content repository.

About this release

Midgard2 9.09 is targeted at web framework and desktop application developers. It provides a comprehensive set of content repository APIs that can be used to build replicated information applications that share their information using a common storage layer and replication tools.

In this release we provide Content Repository API bindings for the following programming languages: C, Python, PHP and Objective-C. D-Bus signals are used to inform different Midgard2 applications about things happening in the repository, enabling for example a PHP website and a Python background process to communicate with each other.

New functionalities in this release:

• Database views
• MgdSchema classes are extendable or might be duplicated
• New authentication system with stack support and multiple authentication methods per user
• Optional metadata for MgdSchema classes
• User defined, reflectable fields in MgdSchema
• Database transactions

Main changes from Midgard 9.03:

• Removed sitegroups and multilang (#1340)
• New midgard_storage class for storage management (#1136)
• Fully functional D-Bus support (#986)

Midgard2

Midgard2 is a content repository. It provides an object-oriented and replicated environment for building data-intensive applications. This provides several advantages

• Common rules for data access mean that multiple applications can work with same content without breaking consistency of the data
• Signals about changes let applications know when another application using the repository modifies something, enabling collaborative data management between apps
• Objects instead of SQL mean that developers can deal with data using APIs more compatible with the rest of their desktop programming environment, and without having to fear issues like SQL injection
• Data model is scriptable when you use a content repository, meaning that users can easily write Python or PHP scripts to perform batch operations on their data without having to learn your storage format
• Synchronization and sharing features can be implemented on the content repository level meaning that you gain these features without having to worry about them

Midgard's philosophy includes building on top of a well-known and supported GNOME libraries like glib and libgda on the system end, and connecting with popular programming languages like PHP and Python. Data storage can utilize SQLite with desktop and mobile applications, or a database server like MySQL or Postgres for web application storage.

The Midgard2 platform enables developers to define a storage structure once and use it on both web and desktop applications, with the possibility of easy data replication between the two.

Read more about Midgard's content repository approach:

• http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/why_you_should_use_a_content_repository_for_your_application/
• http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/midgard2_at_fscons-your_data-everywhere/
• http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/midgard_and_jcr-a_look_at_two_content_repositories/
• http://teroheikkinen.iki.fi/blog/midgard_workshop_at_fscons/

New Midgard architecture

Language independence

Midgard is also language independent and due to its powerful architecture has proven as stable, secure and flexible solution implemented in various environments:

• PHP5 extension for web application and CMS development
• Python module for desktop application and background process development
• Objective-C package for Mac OS X and GNUstep developers

Database independence

The Midgard 1.x was heavily coupled with the MySQL database. The new Midgard2 architecture is instead built on top of libgda, the GNOME database abstraction layer. This enables Midgard to be used with various storage engines, including:

• MySQL
• Postgres
• SQLite
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Oracle
• DB2

Built-in replication and metadata

All Midgard objects are automatically equipped with a consistent set of metadata properties that can be used for access control and workflow.

In addition, Midgard provides an API for serializing and unserializing stored objects in XML format that can be used for replicating data between different systems. The replication architecture can be used for staging/live web environments or mobile applications that synchronize between each other or a web back-end.

Planned for next Midgard2 releases

• Midgard MVC, an elegant PHP MVC framework written for Midgard2
• New installer for database and web server deployment
• Midgard2 Runtime for integrating Midgard web applications to the desktop

Midgard resources

• Download page and changelog for latest release
• Bug reporting

User and developers support:

• Users' forum
• Developers' forum
• IRC: #midgard on irc.freenode.net
• #midgard on Qaiku
• MidgardProject on Twitter

About Midgard

The Midgard Framework development started in 1997 and it was initially released as free software in May 1999. Midgard Project has since gathered an active user and developer community, powering thousands of web sites ranging from simple organizational intranets to large community portals.

Midgard is being developed by an international team of professionals. Midgard's development team includes new media designers, system integrators and content management consultants. Midgard development has been supported by several commercial and governmental entities including the European Union and the Swedish Internet Foundation.

Midgard2 is free software available under the GNU LGPL license.

http://www.midgard2.org

Contacts

Piotr Pokora, Midgard release manager piotrek.pokora(at)gmail.com

Henri Bergius, Midgard spokesman henri.bergius(at)iki.fi

The Midgard Project http://www.midgard-project.org

Midgard download page:

http://www.midgard-project.org/midcom-serveattachmentguid-19a2c770ce0811dea4b9233b51a481a081a0/midgard-core-8.09.6.1.tar.gz

OBS build system with binary packages:

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

More information from the agenda.

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/

• Midgard Weekly Summary #75: October 2nd 2009

MWS has been running before, with 66 issues released between 1999 and 2002, and 8 issues in 2007. This time we follow the idea of a Collaborative MWS.

Notices about new published summaries will be sent to the Midgard user mailing list, Qaiku #midgard channel, Twitter @MidgardProject and are available via RSS. Enjoy!

The Midgard Project is celebrating its 10th Anniversary on May 8th 2009. Midgard 1.0.0 was released in 1999, starting the free software project:

The Midgard Project has finally released the first public version of Midgard Application Server Suite. The new release contains Midgard core libraries, a PHP3-based web application server for the Apache platform and the needed web-based administration tools.

Midgard is freely-available platform for creating powerful web applications. It is fully based on Open Source software, giving you freedom to create your solutions in an open environment. Midgard is the tool for creating, modifying and maintaining dynamic database-enabled web services.

Midgard already has a quite good set of features for creating powerful web sites, and is being used with successful results by some commercial and uncommercial organizations. But this is not where the development will end; rather, the development team also has more ambitious goals about revolutionizing the way people think about web development.

Midgard developer Henri Bergius has posted a blog entry about the occasion.

You can join the celebrations either in Helsinki, Finland, or by telling about your first Midgard experiences on Qaiku.

About this release

Midgard2 9.03 is targeted at web framework and desktop application
developers. It provides a comprehensive set of content repository APIs
that can be used to build replicated information applications that
share their information using a common storage layer and replication
tools.

Vinland series of Midgard2 is not intended to act as a content
management system, and so no CMS tools are shipped with the release.
Midgard2 Vinland however can be used to build a CMS, or to refactor
existing CMS tools to work with a repository-centric model.

In this release we provide Content Repository API bindings for the
following programming languages: C, Python, PHP and Objective-C. D-Bus
signals are used to inform different Midgard2 applications about
things happening in the repository, enabling for example a PHP website
and a Python background process to communicate with each other.

Midgard2

Midgard2 is a content reporitory. It provides an object-oriented and
replicated environment for building data-intensive applications.

Midgard's philosophy includes building on top of a well-known and
supported GNOME libraries like glib and libgda on the system end, and
connecting with popular programming languages like PHP and Python.
Data storage can utilize SQLite with desktop and mobile applications,
or a database server like MySQL or Postgres for web application
storage.

The Midgard2 platform enables developers to define a storage structure
once and use it on both web and desktop applications, with the
possibility of easy data replication between the two.

Read more about Midgard's content repository approach:

• http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/midgard2_at_fscons-your_data-everywhere
• http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/midgard_and_jcr-a_look_at_two_content_repositories
• http://teroheikkinen.iki.fi/blog/midgard_workshop_at_fscons

New Midgard architecture

Language independence

Midgard is also language independent and due to its powerful
architecture has proven as stable, secure and flexible solution
implemented in various environments:

• PHP5 extension for web application and CMS development
• Python module for desktop application and background process development
• Objective-C package for Mac OS X and GNUstep developers

Database independence

The Midgard 1.x was heavily coupled with the MySQL database. The new
Midgard2 architecture is instead built on top of libgda, the GNOME
database abstraction layer. This enables Midgard to be used with
various storage engines, including:

• MySQL
• Postgres
• SQLite
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Oracle
• DB2

Built-in replication and metadata

All Midgard objects are automatically equipped with a consistent set
of metadata properties that can be used for access control and
workflow.

In addition, Midgard provides an API for serializing and unserializing
stored objects in XML format that can be used for replicating data
between different systems. The replication architecture can be used
for staging/live web environments or mobile applications that
synchronize between each other or a web back-end.

Planned for next Midgard2 releases

• Midgard MVC, an elegant PHP MVC framework written for Midgard2

Midgard resources

• Download page and changelog for latest release
• Bug reporting

User and developers support:

• Users' forum
• Developers' forum
• IRC: #midgard on irc.freenode.net
• #midgard on Qaiku

About Midgard

The Midgard Framework development started in 1997 and it was initially
released as free software in May 1999. Midgard Project has since
gathered an active user and developer community, powering thousands of
web sites ranging from simple organizational intranets to large
community portals.

Midgard is being developed by an international team of professionals.
Midgard's development team includes new media designers, system
integrators and content management consultants. Midgard development
has been supported by several commercial and governmental entities
including the European Union and the Swedish Internet Foundation.

Midgard2 is free software available under the GNU LGPL license.

http://www.midgard2.org

Contacts

Piotr Pokora, Midgard release manager
piotrek.pokora(at)gmail.com

Henri Bergius, Midgard spokesman
henri.bergius(at)iki.fi

The Midgard Project
http://www.midgard-project.org

• 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/

Due to move of the physical server all PEAR channels will be offline today (2009.04.24) from 5pm (GTM+3) untill later in the evening.

We're sorry for any inconvinience.

UPDATE 2009.04.25 00:10 GMT+3

The servers are now running with proxy set up so you don't have to wait for DNS to update. Getting the servers on-line took a bit longer than expected, sorry about that.

About this release

Midgard2 9.03 is targeted at web framework and desktop developers. It provides a comprehensive set of content repository APIs that can be used to build replicated information applications that share their information using a common storage layer and replication tools.

Vinland series of Midgard2 is not intended to act as a content management system, and so no CMS tools are shipped with the release. Midgard2 Vinland however can be used to build a CMS, or to refactor existing CMS tools to work with a repository-centric model.

In this release we provide Content Repository API bindings for the following programming languages: C, Python, PHP and Objective-C. D-Bus signals are used to inform different Midgard2 applications about things happening in the repository, enabling for example a PHP website and a Python background process to communicate with each other.

Midgard2

Midgard2 is a content reporitory. It provides an object-oriented and replicated environment for building data-intensive applications.

Midgard's philosophy includes building on top of a well-known and supported GNOME libraries like glib and libgda on the system end, and connecting with popular programming languages like PHP and Python. Data storage can utilize SQLite with desktop and mobile applications, or a database server like MySQL or Postgres for web application storage.

The Midgard2 platform enables developers to define a storage structure once and use it on both web and desktop applications, with the possibility of easy data replication between the two.

Read more about Midgard's content repository approach:

• http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/midgard2_at_fscons-your_data-everywhere
• http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/midgard_and_jcr-a_look_at_two_content_repositories
• http://teroheikkinen.iki.fi/blog/midgard_workshop_at_fscons

New Midgard architecture

Language independence

Midgard is also language independent and due to its powerful architecture has proven as stable, secure and flexible solution implemented in various environments:

• PHP5 extension for web application and CMS development
• Python module for desktop application and background process development
• Mono module for desktop application and background process development in C#

Database independence

The Midgard 1.x was heavily coupled with the MySQL database. The new Midgard2 architecture is instead built on top of libgda, the GNOME database abstraction layer. This enables Midgard to be used with various storage engines, including:

• MySQL
• Postgres
• SQLite
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Oracle
• DB2

Built-in replication and metadata

All Midgard objects are automatically equipped with a consistent set of metadata properties that can be used for access control and workflow.

In addition, Midgard provides an API for serializing and unserializing stored objects in XML format that can be used for replicating data between different systems. The replication architecture can be used for staging/live web environments or mobile applications that synchronize between each other or a web back-end.

Planned for next Midgard2 releases

• MidCOM, an elegant PHP MVC framework written for Midgard2
• Mono (C#) bindings

Midgard resources

• Download page and changelog for latest release
• Bug reporting

User and developers support:

• Users' forum
• Developers' forum
• IRC: #midgard on irc.freenode.net

About Midgard

The Midgard Framework development started in 1997 and it was initially released as free software in May 1999. Midgard Project has since gathered an active user and developer community, powering thousands of web sites ranging from simple organizational intranets to large community portals.

Midgard is being developed by an international team of professionals. Midgard's development team includes new media designers, system integrators and content management consultants. Midgard development has been supported by several commercial and governmental entities including the European Union and the Swedish Internet Foundation.

Midgard is free software available under the GNU LGPL license.

Contacts

Piotr Pokora, Midgard release manager
piotrek.pokora(at)gmail.com

Henri Bergius, Midgard spokesman
henri.bergius(at)iki.fi

The Midgard Project
http://www.midgard-project.org

About this release

Midgard2 9.03 is targeted at web framework and desktop developers. It provides a comprehensive set of content repository APIs that can be used to build replicated information applications that share their information using a common storage layer and replication tools.

Vinland series of Midgard2 is not intended to act as a content management system, and so no CMS tools are shipped with the release. Midgard2 Vinland however can be used to build a CMS, or to refactor existing CMS tools to work with a repository-centric model.

In this release we provide Content Repository API bindings for the following programming languages: C, Python, PHP and Objective-C. D-Bus signals are used to inform different Midgard2 applications about things happening in the repository, enabling for example a PHP website and a Python background process to communicate with each other.

Midgard2

Midgard2 is a content reporitory. It provides an object-oriented and replicated environment for building data-intensive applications.

Midgard's philosophy includes building on top of a well-known and supported GNOME libraries like glib and libgda on the system end, and connecting with popular programming languages like PHP and Python. Data storage can utilize SQLite with desktop and mobile applications, or a database server like MySQL or Postgres for web application storage.

The Midgard2 platform enables developers to define a storage structure once and use it on both web and desktop applications, with the possibility of easy data replication between the two.

Read more about Midgard's content repository approach:

• http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/midgard2_at_fscons-your_data-everywhere
• http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/midgard_and_jcr-a_look_at_two_content_repositories
• http://teroheikkinen.iki.fi/blog/midgard_workshop_at_fscons

New Midgard architecture

Language independence

Midgard is also language independent and due to its powerful architecture has proven as stable, secure and flexible solution implemented in various environments:

• PHP5 extension for web application and CMS development
• Python module for desktop application and background process development
• Mono module for desktop application and background process development in C#

Database independence

The Midgard 1.x was heavily coupled with the MySQL database. The new Midgard2 architecture is instead built on top of libgda, the GNOME database abstraction layer. This enables Midgard to be used with various storage engines, including:

• MySQL
• Postgres
• SQLite
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Oracle
• DB2

Built-in replication and metadata

All Midgard objects are automatically equipped with a consistent set of metadata properties that can be used for access control and workflow.

In addition, Midgard provides an API for serializing and unserializing stored objects in XML format that can be used for replicating data between different systems. The replication architecture can be used for staging/live web environments or mobile applications that synchronize between each other or a web back-end.

Planned for next Midgard2 releases

• MidCOM, an elegant PHP MVC framework written for Midgard2
• Mono (C#) bindings

Midgard resources

• Download page and changelog for latest release
• Bug reporting

User and developers support:

• Users' forum
• Developers' forum
• IRC: #midgard on irc.freenode.net

About Midgard

The Midgard Framework development started in 1997 and it was initially released as free software in May 1999. Midgard Project has since gathered an active user and developer community, powering thousands of web sites ranging from simple organizational intranets to large community portals.

Midgard is being developed by an international team of professionals. Midgard's development team includes new media designers, system integrators and content management consultants. Midgard development has been supported by several commercial and governmental entities including the European Union and the Swedish Internet Foundation.

Midgard is free software available under the GNU LGPL license.

Contacts

Piotr Pokora, Midgard release manager
piotrek.pokora(at)gmail.com

Henri Bergius, Midgard spokesman
henri.bergius(at)iki.fi

The Midgard Project
http://www.midgard-project.org

About this release

The second beta of Midgard2 9.03 is targeted at web framework and desktop developers. It provides a comprehensive set of content repository APIs that can be used to build replicated information applications that share their information using a common storage layer and replication tools.

Vinland series of Midgard2 is not intended to act as a content management system, and so no CMS tools are shipped with the release. Midgard2 Vinland however can be used to build a CMS, or to refactor existing CMS tools to work with a repository-centric model.

In this release we provide Content Repository API bindings for the following programming languages: C, Python, PHP. D-Bus signals are used to inform different Midgard2 applications about things happening in the repository, enabling for example a PHP website and a Python background process to communicate with each other.

Midgard2

Midgard2 is a content reporitory. It provides an object-oriented and replicated environment for building data-intensive applications.

Midgard's philosophy includes building on top of a well-known and supported GNOME libraries like glib and libgda on the system end, and connecting with popular programming languages like PHP and Python. Data storage can utilize SQLite with desktop and mobile applications, or a database server like MySQL or Postgres for web application storage.

The Midgard2 platform enables developers to define a storage structure once and use it on both web and desktop applications, with the possibility of easy data replication between the two.

Read more about Midgard's content repository approach:

• http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/midgard2_at_fscons-your_data-everywhere
• http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/midgard_and_jcr-a_look_at_two_content_repositories
• http://teroheikkinen.iki.fi/blog/midgard_workshop_at_fscons

New Midgard architecture

Language independence

Midgard is also language independent and due to its powerful architecture has proven as stable, secure and flexible solution implemented in various environments:

• PHP5 extension for web application and CMS development
• Python module for desktop application and background process development
• Mono module for desktop application and background process development in C#

Database independence

The Midgard 1.x was heavily coupled with the MySQL database. The new Midgard2 architecture is instead built on top of libgda, the GNOME database abstraction layer. This enables Midgard to be used with various storage engines, including:

• MySQL
• Postgres
• SQLite
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Oracle
• DB2

Built-in replication and metadata

All Midgard objects are automatically equipped with a consistent set of metadata properties that can be used for access control and workflow.

In addition, Midgard provides an API for serializing and unserializing stored objects in XML format that can be used for replicating data between different systems. The replication architecture can be used for staging/live web environments or mobile applications that synchronize between each other or a web back-end.

Planned for next Midgard2 releases

• MidCOM, an elegant PHP MVC framework written for Midgard2
• Objective-C bindings and native Mac packages
• Mono (C#) bindings

Midgard resources

• Download page and changelog for latest release
• Bug reporting

User and developers support:

• Users' forum
• Developers' forum
• IRC: #midgard on irc.freenode.net

About Midgard

The Midgard Framework development started in 1997 and it was initially released as free software in May 1999. Midgard Project has since gathered an active user and developer community, powering thousands of web sites ranging from simple organizational intranets to large community portals.

Midgard is being developed by an international team of professionals. Midgard's development team includes new media designers, system integrators and content management consultants. Midgard development has been supported by several commercial and governmental entities including the European Union and the Swedish Internet Foundation.

Midgard is free software available under the GNU LGPL license.

Contacts

Piotr Pokora, Midgard release manager
piotrek.pokora(at)gmail.com

Henri Bergius, Midgard spokesman
henri.bergius(at)iki.fi

The Midgard Project
http://www.midgard-project.org

The Midgard Project has finally released the first public version of Midgard Application Server Suite. The new release contains Midgard core libraries, a PHP3-based web application server for the Apache platform and the needed web-based administration tools.

May 8th 2009:

It's time for celebration - Midgard CMS turns ten in May! The decade of Midgard will be celebrated with a guest gala that is to be held at restaurant Ostrobotnia in Helsinki, Finland.

Looking forward to seeing as many of you in the party as possible! Please register ASAP as we need to tell the restaurant how many tables are needed.

• Midgard installer doesn't depend on pearified.com channel (#747)
• Memory corruption in midgard-php extension has been fixed (#804)
• Query Builder and Collector constructors has been improved (#556)
• Several crashes has been fixed (#712, #734, #801, #870)
• Internal PHP classes can be introspected by PHP Reflection (#479)
• midgard_cron has been improved (#813, #816)
• URL name handling and generation has been rewritten (#809)
• TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor has been upgraded to version 3.2.2
• Issues with handling multilingual content have been fixed (#870, #825, #935, #865, #910)
• Code editor in Asgard has been changed from CodePress to EditArea
• Configuration editor in Asgard now always creates valid configuration snippets (#771)
• MidCOM now uses only the modern Midgard2 API (#611)
• PAM authentication has been fixed (#750)
• Midgard now ships with SELinux policy files (#538)

About this release

The first beta of Midgard2 9.03 is targeted at web framework and desktop developers. It provides a comprehensive set of content repository APIs that can be used to build replicated information applications that share their information using a common storage layer and replication tools.

Vinland series of Midgard2 is not intended to act as a content management system, and so no CMS tools are shipped with the release. Midgard2 Vinland however can be used to build a CMS, or to refactor existing CMS tools to work with a repository-centric model.

In this release we provide Content Repository API bindings for the following programming languages: C, Python, PHP. D-Bus signals are used to inform different Midgard2 applications about things happening in the repository, enabling for example a PHP website and a Python background process to communicate with each other.

Midgard2

Midgard2 is a content reporitory. It provides an object-oriented and replicated environment for building data-intensive applications.

Midgard's philosophy includes building on top of a well-known and supported GNOME libraries like glib and libgda on the system end, and connecting with popular programming languages like PHP and Python. Data storage can utilize SQLite with desktop and mobile applications, or a database server like MySQL or Postgres for web application storage.

The Midgard2 platform enables developers to define a storage structure once and use it on both web and desktop applications, with the possibility of easy data replication between the two.

Read more about Midgard's content repository approach:

• http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/midgard2_at_fscons-your_data-everywhere
• http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/midgard_and_jcr-a_look_at_two_content_repositories
• http://teroheikkinen.iki.fi/blog/midgard_workshop_at_fscons

New Midgard architecture

Language independence

Midgard is also language independent and due to its powerful architecture has proven as stable, secure and flexible solution implemented in various environments:

• PHP5 extension for web application and CMS development
• Python module for desktop application and background process development
• Mono module for desktop application and background process development in C#

Database independence

The Midgard 1.x was heavily coupled with the MySQL database. The new Midgard2 architecture is instead built on top of libgda, the GNOME database abstraction layer. This enables Midgard to be used with various storage engines, including:

• MySQL
• Postgres
• SQLite
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Oracle
• DB2

Built-in replication and metadata

All Midgard objects are automatically equipped with a consistent set of metadata properties that can be used for access control and workflow.

In addition, Midgard provides an API for serializing and unserializing stored objects in XML format that can be used for replicating data between different systems. The replication architecture can be used for staging/live web environments or mobile applications that synchronize between each other or a web back-end.

Planned for next Midgard2 releases

• MidCOM, an elegant PHP MVC framework written for Midgard2
• Objective-C bindings and native Mac packages
• Mono (C#) bindings

Midgard resources

• Download page and changelog for latest release
• Bug reporting

User and developers support:

• Users' forum
• Developers' forum
• IRC: #midgard on irc.freenode.net

About Midgard

The Midgard Framework development started in 1997 and it was initially released as free software in May 1999. Midgard Project has since gathered an active user and developer community, powering thousands of web sites ranging from simple organizational intranets to large community portals.

Midgard is being developed by an international team of professionals. Midgard's development team includes new media designers, system integrators and content management consultants. Midgard development has been supported by several commercial and governmental entities including the European Union and the Swedish Internet Foundation.

Midgard is free software available under the GNU LGPL license.

Contacts

Piotr Pokora, Midgard release manager
piotrek.pokora(at)gmail.com

Henri Bergius, Midgard spokesman
henri.bergius(at)iki.fi

The Midgard Project
http://www.midgard-project.org

New package is available from download page.

Binary packages should be ready in next few hours.