Release of Typo 6.0.3 – Important bugfix

If you’re using any of the Typo 6.0 series, you really should upgrade to 6.0.3 as it fixes a lot of AJAX related bugs. Having a good unit tests coverage is not always enough, and human test are always worth spending the time we didn’t have. Hopefully, Fabiano Francesconi has been doing a great work reporting bugs he was falling on tonight while I was fixing them.

The culprit is an outdated, buggy Rails Prototype Legacy Helper plugin. This plugin gathers all the fancy AJAX helpers that were removed from Rails 3. We probably should have done some unobtrusive Javascript instead of using that one, but… Typo 6.0 would probably had never been released at all.

As usual, you can download Typo at http://typosphere.org/stable.tgz or http://typosphere.org/stable.zip.

A few things fixed by Typo 6.0.3:

• Sidebar settings being saved since nothing seemed to happen and the sidebar form would eventually look dead afterwards.
• Comments preview breaking on most legacy themes, including built in Typographic, Scribbish, Dirtylicious and Standard Issue.
• Category drag and drop reorder would not do anything.
• Admin content filtering would render an error.

5 comments »

• By Marcio Gouvea Silva 08/02/2011 at 16h53

  Here it seem’s like this bugs continues to happen:

  • Sidebar settings being saved since nothing seemed to happen and the sidebar form would eventually look dead afterwards.

  • Admin content filtering would render an error.

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• By JohnP 08/02/2011 at 23h36

  Is there a good way to know which specific versions of Typo, Ruby, Rails, etc work best together?

  Our servers are either stock Ubuntu x64 8.04 LTS or 10.04 LTS. We do not manually install any version of ruby or rails that is not in the Ubuntu package manager to ensure the greatest stability and ease of server management.

  Any help would be appreciated.

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• By Matijs van Zuijlen 11/02/2011 at 10h14

  @JohnP, if you really want to use the version of Rails that comes with Ubuntu, you can compare its version number to the gem specification in Typo. For Typo versions before 6.0, you can find it in the file config/environment.rb, and since version 6.0, in the file Gemfile.

  As an alternative, you could investigate vendoring the gems into the typo directory tree. That way, you avoid globally installing any gems, but Typo can still use the gems it needs. See bundle install --deployment for Typo versions since 6.0.

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• By cucu ionut 19/02/2011 at 11h53

  Same here with sidebar. No matter what I write there nothing gets changed in page

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• By Frédéric de Villamil 22/02/2011 at 19h03

  @Marcio @cucu we’re aware of this bug and have fixed it in our development version. Expect a bugfix release very very soon (like tonight)

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