Typo 5.1 “Cartier-Bresson” was released on monday July the 21st at around 8PM GMT and can be considered as a major Typo Version.
It contains :
Multiple users and roles
This point actually makes Typo 5.1 a major version. This release introduces 3 roles, coming along with various privileges :
- Administrator, who owns full administrative and publishing power.
- Publisher, who owns full publishing power on his own contents.
- Contributors, who only have the right to login and edit their profile.
There is now an option to allow new users to register by themselves or not. If not, the administrator will just have to add them himself in the admin.
Improved admin
The admin has been heavily refactored to be lighter, easier to use, and offer more capabilities.
- You can now save your posts as drafts. Drafts now appear in a separate area of your administration to separarte them from offline posts.
- New editing interface.
- Tag autocompletion.
- A new dashboard that makes daily administration easier.
- Save as draft capabilities
- Autosave capabilities (only with simple visual editor)
- Revamped UI
- Many more…
New default theme
After leaving the too much long used Azure theme for some templates found on open source design websites, we realized Typo needed a new default theme. We asked O2Source a French web Agency involved in many free and open source templates, and they came up with Typographic.
We wanted something new, far from the classic white and blue fixed width wordpressish thing, something with its own personnality, that would take the whole screen and adapt many resolutions, and we’ve been quite delighted with what Hélène produced.
Come back of the gem and the installer
After fixing numerous bugs happening with Typo installed through our installer, we were able to provide the gem again, making Typo installation easier than ever.
MySQL is now the default database and SQLITE dependency has been removed.
Lots of code improvement and refactoring
The code have been improved and refactored, maing Typo lighter than ever. This is a guarantee of less errors.
New migrators
We’ve included new migrators, allowing easy import from Wordpress and Dotclear 1.2 and 2. Typepad and Textpattern may follow soon.
New site with up to date documentation
The bugtracker has been moved from Trac to Redmine, so has the documentation, which has been rewriten in many ways. Access to the doc has also been made easier by merging redmine.typosphere.org with trac.typosphere.org.
Lots of bugfixes, too much to say here.
We’re delighted to announce the release of Typo 4.1.1 as part of our ongoing program of shortening Typo’s iterations. Most of the changes this month are bugfixes, but there are a few new features:
h4. Article previews
As anyone who has run Typo with a hosting service can testify, our AJAX based live preview, though lovely, can be a bit of a CPU hog. So, you can now choose between the old preview behaviour, no previews at all, or you can use the TinyMCE visual editor. Which is nice.
h4. Statistics
We’ve added the Sitealizer statistics plugin. This is by way of an experiment, we’d appreciate feedback on how useful you find it. We expect to add configurability (if only at the level of whether or not to gather statistics) in a future release.
h4. German and Romanian translations
The Typo internationalization effort continues apace. Thanks to “Alex Deva”:http://alxx.dv8.ro/ for the Romanian and “Frithjof Eckhardt”:http://www.rubykids.de/ for the German.
h4. Easier rendering of multiple sidebars
You can now do things like:
<%= render_sidebars \
AmazonSidebar.new \
:title => 'Citations',
:associate_id => 'justasummary-20', \
:maxlinks => 10 %>In your layouts. The hope is that this will make 3 column layouts easier to design. Check out “my blog”:http://www.bofh.org.uk/ for an example of this in use.
h4. Sidebar warnings
If you’ve been following the trunk, you’ll have noticed a bit of a dance as sidebars got moved in and out of the main repository. The policy now is that some sidebars are now deprecated and you should get a warning to this effect the first time you log in to your admin pages. They will be going away in Typo 4.2 whenever that happens.
The first step will probably be to move the sidebars out of the trunk and then include them back using the magic of @svn:externals@. Hopefully we’ll find a good way of flagging up which sidebars are deprecated so you’ll have some route for easily reincluding the ones you use before the ‘big bang’.
Hopefully we’ll find a way of doing it automagically and seamlessly. Watch this space.