Typo 5.5 Richard Avedon for Rails 2.3.8
On July 22th, 2010, Typo version 5.5 named for famous photographer Richard Avedon was released to the public. Typo 5.5 is the result of the work of the Typo community, just like you, on adding or suggesting feature, reporting and fixing bugs.
With its new admin and setup, Typo 5.4.4 was supposed to be the latest minor version running on Ruby on Rails 2.3, and we spent a few months exploring 2 new ways.
The first one was being able to upgrade to Ruby on Rails 3.0 as soon as it would be released as production ready. Despite porting our own code without problems, we promptly discovered that too many plugins needed to be ported to Rails 3.0 before we could release.
The second one was making Typo multiblog aware. Despite some interesting results, making it production ready was not the work of a single release. Our architecture is definitely mono blog oriented, and making it multi blog would force us to rewrite most of the code.
So, we decided to make one more release on Ruby on Rails 2.3, upgrading to Rails 2.3.8. This release is Typo 5.5. It comes with a few new feature, bug fixes, and internal improvements.
Highlights
Typo now runs on Ruby on Rails 2.3.8, which means it won’t run with an older Rails version.
Being a long time wanted feature, Typo now handles password protected posts.
Typo visual editor had no way to upload, browse, and use images. Thanks to htty, we now have a very nice resource browser CKEditor compliant.
As I wrote on Typo Weblog (http://res.to/aQz6), we’ve added a way to display users plugins setup into Typo admin. This is a first step on the way to a real plugin API.
Typo now comes with a new cache system, way simpler than the database based cache we used to do. Files are stored into public/cache and Typo knows how to served cached file. You may need to update your configuration, please read doc/CACHE.SETUP.README
For more information on Typo 5.5, please read the CHANGELOG file.
As usual, we want to thank the Typo community, and in particular, by reverse commit order: Daniel Schweighoefer, htty, Yannick Francois,Szymon ‘jeznet’ Jeż, Diego Elio ‘Flameeyes’ Pettenò, Kristopher Murata and Michael Reinsch.
Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:10 Posted in Releases
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By doug schlenker 12 days later:
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By Frédéric de Villamil 12 days later:
Hello Doug,
I honestly don’t know when we’ll finish porting Typo to Rails 3.
I’ve spent part of the past 15 days pulling my hair on the Rails 3 version of Typo and I’m quite upset about this. It seems the RC cycle is buggier than the beta.
With a broken RC bundler I can’t even load my dependencies, and some critical stuff have been changed and brocken between beta 4 and RC (like the autoload).
I’m leaving the Rails 3 branch aside until they release the final stable version. Then, I’ll get back on it. Until then, we’ll be working on prepairing the migration by making our existing code the more Rails3 compliant possible without breaking Rails 2 compatibility.
Best regards.
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By nn about 1 month later:
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By wxianfeng about 1 month later:
i’m expecting typo of rails3 ……..
With Rails 3 RC out now we’re in the process of looking at upgrading a few of our applications to make them Rails 3 ready. Do you have any estimates or timelines for Typo and Rails 3?