Typo 5.0.3 “Don Mc Cullin” released on February 2008 the 24th is mostly a bugfix and refactoring release, going along with some improvements, everything leading slowly but surely to 5.1.
Less bugs, more speed
Honnestly, Typo has never been so fast and so bugless as well. We’ve rewriten most of the caching engine, and it’s now running flawlessly. Our effort to speed up the code has also been pursued and we can be proud of what we’re releasing.
Brand new editor
The blog editor has been rewriten too, to be more functionnal and user friendly. We’ve also switched the rich text editor from TinyMCE to FCKEditor for 4 important features :
- Fullscreen edition (kicks ass baby)
- Spellchecking
- Safari compatibility
- Impressive localization
More localisation
We’re continuing the localization effort to port Typo in your language. Default themes has been localized, and we now provide up to 8 languages :
- English (default)
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Mexican Spanish
- Polish
- Romanian
Many thanks to all the translators. Currently, only French translation is really complete.
No gem?
We won’t provide you the habitual gem we used to. Rails app installer – formerly known as Typo installer – is brocken with Rails 2.0.2 and Typo instances installed this way just don’t work.
We hope you’ll enjoy Typo 5.0.3 as much as we enjoyed bringing it to you.
Thanks for the nice job. I’ve just downloaded, extracted and configured typo 5.0.3 and it looks great but I have some notes/questions:
1) I chose “Use static HTML page caching” as the caching method. When I add an article it doesn’t show in the site until I click “Rebuild cached HTML”. Also, the number of comments didn’t update until I added a second article.
2) What does “Use semi static caching” mean?
3) Sometimes when I click a link, I get an error that disapears when I refresh the page. The error is: Application error Typo failed to start properly
4) While in the admin site, in the block of “What can you do ?”, the second item “Write a page” links to a page that doesn’t exist. It should be “/admin/pages/new” instead of “/admin/page/new”
5) When managing comments of an article, there is a word that says “Ham?” besides the edit and delete icons. What does that mean?
6) How can I add a menu item to the top menu (home, articles, about)?
7) How can I change the footer content?
Thank you.
I just installed this version and the quality is pretty bad I’m sorry to say.
Install process, why on earth do you have sqlite as a dependancy? Who has sqlite installed on their live server, and even by your own admission you say using sqlite is not recommended!
Caching sucks, and rebuilding the cache doesn’t work, also switching between the different caching types completely screws up the site.
One the writing a new article page you can’t even open any of the options, tags, or categories panels because there are bugs in the javascript.
Come on guys, how can you say this is the most bug free release when it has so many major bugs!
Testing for sanskrit support…
संस्कृता वाक्
Hey, thanks for this release!
Any idea when 5.1 will be out?
After changing the theme to Apple like blue, and press “About” 500 Internal Server Error
In routes.rb, date_options doesn’t recognize october correctly.
date_options = { :year => /\d{4}/, :month => /(?:0?[1-9]|1[12])/, :day => /(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])/ }
So, What’s the best way to update a site using 5.0.2 to 5.0.3 then?
Don’t install this version! It is absolutely bugged.. macro textfilters doesn’t work, problems with cache, lots of issues with UI in writing posts. Not production ready.
I guess I didn’t read the comments before I tried to put this site up as an experiment. Since I not not use the old version, I tried to figure out why things didn’t work. (categories show up randomly, pages link show up with IP link versus blog url, ignores posted boolean, etc, etc)
Looking through the code has reconfirmed my feeling that RoR is not the Holy Grail. You can write code that only the developer can follow. You can have so many plugin, libraries, etc. that is not only impossible to follow (especially without documentation), makes learning RoR a task that I’m not sure I want to continue.
What’s the migration path from Typo 4.1.1? I have a substantially sized blog (on a corporate network) and not sure how to migrate?
Hello Typoers :p
I can help with te Spanish MX translation.
Regards.