Zikula Community

Zikula Core 1.2.8 (build 17) is available for general release from today.

This update resolves some minor issues.

You are recommended to upgrade to Zikula Core 1.2.8. Please download the latest version from http://zikula.org/infopages/CMS/Download.1

Bug fix highlights:
Fixed XSS issue in Theme module administration with 'themename' variable.
Fixed invalid HTML a template in the Groups module, issue #2994.
Fixed an issue where an incorrect group type was displayed when editing a group through the administration panel, issue #2993.

Full details are available in the changelog.

Many thanks to the Zikula Core Development Team and the users who reported these issues.

Enjoy it,
Zikula Team

It's time for everyone to consider migrating away from the Cozi for module project hosting. Github provides absolutely everything and more than what we have at code.zikula.org. The integration between github and the Cozi is also clumsy from a technical standpoint and very processor intensive since we need to clone and sync each GIT repository hosted at github with the Trac in separate databases. The service is extremely resource intensive and requires a lot of baby sitting from a maintenance point of view.

Even though a few people might prefer like subversion over GIT, even github provides SVN hosting through a seamless bridge system at Github, where you can access git repositories using your normal subversion client.

We are getting closer to a final release of 1.3.0. I am happy to announce the Zikula 1.3.0 Release Candidate 6 is available for immediate testing. Please help us by testing this release, instructions and download can be found at http://code.zikula.org/core/ticket/3134

We are getting closer to a final release of 1.3.0. I am happy to announce the Zikula 1.3.0 Release Candidate 5 is available for immediate testing. Please help us by testing this release, instructions and download can be found at http://code.zikula.org/core/ticket/3128

Zikula 1.3.0 Release Candidate 4 is available for immediate testing. Please help us by testing this release, instructions and download can be found at http://code.zikula.org/core/ticket/3126

Zikula 1.3.0 Release Candidate 3 is available for immediate testing. Please help us by testing this release, instructions and download can be found at http://code.zikula.org/core/ticket/3122

Zikula 1.3.0 Release Candidate 2 is available for immediate testing. Please help us by testing this release, instructions and download can be found at http://code.zikula.org/core/ticket/3117

Zikula 1.3.0 Release Candidate is available for immediate testing. If you wish to participate in the QA phase, please take a look at http://code.zikula.org/core/ticket/3116

We have declared a feature freeze on Zikula 1.3.0 development (with exception of FilterUtil which still needs a couple of tweaks). We are therefore in a position to release the last public beta before we move to the release candidate phase. Download now and test Zikula 1.3.0-BETA3 - http://go.zikula.org/cb3

Please report any issues in the bug tracker as normal at http://code.zikula.org/core/

It's been a long time in the making, but, Zikula 1.3.0 is pretty much ready. Before we move to a full freeze and release candidate we'd like to issue a preview release. Please download and test Zikula 1.3.0-PR1 from http://go.zikula.org/cpr1

Depending on the feedback we get from this PR1 release, will determine how quickly we progress to a full freeze and release candidate, so, please help us by testing Zikula 1.3.0-PR1 today.

Download now - http://go.zikula.org/cpr1

Any issues should be reported to the bug tracker as normal at http://code.zikula.org/core/newticket

The Zikula project now has an official Twitter channel @zikula. Follow us now on at http://twitter.com/zikula.

Zikula Core 1.2.7 (build 17) is available for general release from today.

This update resolves some minor issues.

You are recommended to upgrade to Zikula Core 1.2.7. Please download the latest version from http://zikula.org/infopages/CMS/Download.1.

Bug fix highlights

• Fix for Scribite - FormUtil::getPassedValue() drops style information issue #2902.
• Fixed special characters not replaced with their given equivalents, refs issue #2580.
• Fixed styling issue with the updated notification in admin.css - issue #2900.
• Fixed URL generation issues with language parameter issue #2997.
• Fixed short URLs with directories not built correctly in language block issue #3000.

Full details are available in the changelog.

Many thanks to the Zikula Core Development Team and the users who reported these issues.

Enjoy it,
Zikula Team

A few months ago, the core development team made a group decision which changes the dynamics of Zikula development to create a more open and community friendly development process. Until now, the title core developers were meant someone with commit access to our source repositories. This is a historical fact born from having used Subversion for source control.

Traditionally, projects that use centralised permission based source control like Subversion or CVS, if you want to contribute you either have to make manual patches or request commit access to the source control repository. Both of these ways are barriers because manual patches are slow to verify, and to get commit access usually requires a great deal of trust which has to be earned. Not only that, commit access is usually reserved for those who make a commitment to the project. This makes casual participation difficult.

Now that we use GIT source control we thought it was time to really take advantage of the open and collaborative qualities GIT brings to us by adopting the "contributor/collaborator workflow".

The "Cozi", code.zikula.org is a free service the Zikula Project provides to anyone wanting to develop extensions for Zikula. It provides a tools-set of issue tracker, Wiki, download area, subversion/GIT repository hosting, repository browser and so on. However, of late, this service has been under attack from both automated and manual content spammers who use issue tracking to report 250-500 word articles loaded with links. If you are a project owner, you need to read this article because you need to take some action in your project administration.

Zikula Core 1.2.5 (build 230) is available for general release from today. In keeping with our promise to produce a maintenance release 3 to 4 times per year, this release resolves around 30 issues including one potential security flaw surrounding the Users module (thanks to YEHG for reporting). You are recommended to upgrade to Zikula Core 1.2.5 as soon as possible. Please download the latest version from http://zikula.org/infopages/CMS/Download.1.

Bug fix highlights

• Fixed file type shorturls not working - issue #2520.
• Fixed special characters not replaced in permalink replacements - issue #2580, #2651, #1924 and #2101.
• Fixed potential XSS in Users module.
• Password reset email contains broken link when requested through SSL (issue #2506).
• Regression - Login function bug for users with special characters since 1.2.x (issue #2273).
• Problem when editing category registries (issue #2508).
• Fixed issue with pager calculations (issue #1845).
• Fixed issues with ImageViewer where JS only works once, improved layout and zoom effect (issue #2681).

Full details are available in the changelog.

Those requiring the patch release, may find it here.

Many thanks to the Zikula Core Development Team and the users who reported these issues.

Enjoy it,
Zikula Team

We are proud to announce the release of Zikula 1.2.4. This is a bug fix release for the Zikula 1.2 series. Version 1.2.4 corrects some specific issues with shorturls and sessions management as well as several other small issues. If you have not yet upgraded from Zikula 1.1.x to 1.2.x, you may do so directly with this version.

Please visit the download page to get the latest version.
The patch release is available at the Cozi.

References
View the changelog
View the list of closed tickets.

We are conducting a survey to determine which modules are used the most, please can you spend 2 minutes completing this survey and it will help development efforts for Zikula 1.3.0. Take the Survey at Google Wave.

Program Info

As the participants of last year will remember, we have had a great kick off presentation about gettext by Drak. Today gettext is quite normal to most of us. Same we will have this year with other interesting topics. ZOO, and Doctrine are two examples. Drak will be available by chat for his topics as last year. The major topic will be the LTS1.3.x with all his new aspects.

Deadline

We made a reservation for the potential participants. Around 6 weeks before the camp starts we have to give back the free reservations. Otherwise we have to pay them all. We ask you to sign in shortly if you are planning to join the Camp. Roughly 10 places are still available.

Questions?

Informations are available at http://camp-zikula.info. Alternatively you can contact ralf(at)zikula.org as well.

We, the german postnuke foundation (in future renamed in Zikula e.V.), are proud to invite the Zikula Community for the 7th meeting. Of course, not only the european Zikulaans are wellcome, whole the world is invited to participate!

All details can be found in our brand new campmanager on camp-zikula.info (thanks to Axel). Everybody who want to participate can sign in right now. The program is not fixed today. You can give us your proposals and we try to bring this onto the agenda.

One main topic will be the future of zikula (1.3.0, doctrine, standard distribution, and so on). But also „networking“ will take place as the years before. Traditional we start with our barbeque on Friday. For Saturday we are looking for an special evening event. And in all breaks we will have time to discus with core and module developers.

So don‘t wait and sign in! The places are limited!

Zikula 1.2.3 is a bug fix release for the Zikula 1.2 series. This version contains an important fixes for potential XSS and CSRF vulnerabilities (credit to htbridge.ch). You can obtain the full changelog here.

Please visit the download page to get the latest update. A patch release is available at the Cozi.

I would like to announce we have implemented continuous integration into our development processes. "Continuous Integration", or CI for short, enables us to automate many quality assurance tasks and is used in all large corporate software development workflows. CI allows us to achieve much more in a short space of time and ultimately deliver better quality releases more often.

The continuous integration server packages and tests each Zikula milestone automatically every time a developer commit new code to the repository. The tests range from coding standards, unit tests and gathering of various metrics. We have not implemented all these testing processes yet, but they are coming. You may visit the CI server at ci.zikula.org.

Those interested to know more about continuous integration should read the article at Wikipedia here, or the works of Martin Fowler on Continuous Integration who has written in depth about the process.

Zikula 1.2.2 Release announcement

We are proud to announce the release of Zikula 1.2.2 which solves a few small issues. For full details see the changelog. If you haven't already upgraded to Zikula 1.2.0 you can also upgrade straight to this version from 1.1.x.

Download links:

Zikula 1.2.2
Zikula-1.2.2.zip (5.51 MB)
MD5: ed7e9bd5634540fc7bebebc7f9b7db25
SHA1: 1480443d43934baffa9c51ff23a65d4168b2b71c

Zikula-1.2.2.tar.gz (4.31 MB)
MD5: 726eda3576d1f495a5e693c9e302fc6a
SHA1: 12605f12ca4ac16c371952f1c69e2be32519a4d2

Patch Files
Zikula-1.2.0_Zikula-1.2.2-patch.zip (707.08 kB)
MD5: 557dbb4d4c10502f1b6a466f124a8134
SHA1: 4276c8cf8458970d6e5785e4f3167a5cfb36c85d

Zikula-1.2.1_Zikula-1.2.2-patch.zip (431.9 kB)
MD5: 5b9a21191a99e08ee418e6622b1555d0
SHA1: 57852525b0c99f462c48d47ca38b6b59c7ba5dde

Changelog link:

http://code.zikula.org/core/browser/tags/Zikula-1.2.2/docs/CHANGELOG.txt?format=txt

We are proud to announce the release of Zikula 1.2.1 which solves a few small issues especially for time/date display in non-English language sites. For full details see the changelog. If you haven't already upgraded to Zikula 1.2.0 you can also upgrade straight to this version from 1.1.x.

Download links:
Zikula-1.2.1 zip format (5.47 MB)
MD5: 11b3410fb6da99d46dba7e9430721d71
SHA1: e29820cdf5514938a2e17d99564040c26d4613d7

Zikula-1.2.1 tarball format (4.27 MB)
MD5: 7563d2464c7c74424b1f190efe1a77af
SHA1: 2d52f5f828f87b4d57ff345673a6add45cbe23bd

Changelog

Shortly after the release of Zikula 1.2.0 we announced a major change to the Zikula development roadmap. This completely redefines the Zikula project, it's goals and responsibility. The initial announcement was a soft announcement via the community forums and mailing list. The response was overwhelmingly positive but at the time we were all too busy with completing the backend processes to support the new translation management system for Zikula 1.2.0. It's now time to make an official announcement for the community at large. If you are a developer in particular, please pay special attention.

Our main message to developers is, "Zikula goes modern".

The Zikula 1.2.0 is a feature packed release that brings the new easy to manage translation system for multi-lingual sites. The overall look and feel of Zikula has been vastly improved and cleaned and the release is noticeably faster for components using the new translation engine.

Main points of the release

• New language management system utilising gettext
• UTF-8 support
• Support for internationalisation (correct date and currency display)
• Fully indexable multi-lingual content
• Right to left display support
• Full review of language strings
• CSS and Templates improvements
• Centralization of CSS classes for Zikula forms
• Usability and consistency
• Reworked SeaBreeze theme
• Dozens of bug fixes
• CSS/JS on-the-fly optimisation
• Simplified upgrade process from Zikula 1.1.0+ to 1.2.0
• Improved UI of installer and upgrade scripts
• General facelift to the user interface
• Auto update checker for the core
• Users module introduces an API to let the site's Profile module to handle the dynamic user data in the Users' forms.
• Outsource further VA modules
• Optimized module installation workflow

Download links:
Zikula-1.2.0.zip (5.45 MB)
MD5: 180425f0a9c3eeab8cdd742a608e9ee2
SHA1: a079331f622020150ab6333cca79b1855b11a4b7

Zikula-1.2.0.tar.gz (4.26 MB)
MD5: a019ea98a85b8d05afb19d2af23fbd5a
SHA1: 451cd39c816ac463f0e96ea31c4d68a6e625f387

Changelog: changelog.txt
Developer docs and videos: TranslationIndex