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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 (645.6 kB)
MD5: aa422f728451299f5a51735830c6aac0
SHA1: fabf1df0ef9ea46912ced9b484139c94bee644a0

Zikula-1.2.1_Zikula-1.2.2-patch.zip (370.43 kB)
MD5: 36efbd96c58957d94924ec895b8ad3fa
SHA1: 616490eb5cfa081b1fdb2aefe418d2f75874b62a

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

Announcing the release of PostCalendar v6.0.0, the "Lazarus" release. This release brings PostCalendar completely into the Zikula era. PostCalendar v6.0.0 requries Zikula v1.2.1 and will not work with previous Zikula versions.

PostCalendar has remained an important and favorite module for Zikula users for many years, but was abandoned after developers became frustrated with its convoluted codebase and meandering development. In early 2009, Craig Heydenburg (craigh) of Sound Web Development adopted the module and began redevelopment while maintaining compatibility. PostCalendar v6.0.0 is the culmination of that work and features a completely refactored codebase that adheres to Zikula's code standards, is completely Zikula-API compliant with internally well documented code. PostCalendar 5 was a product of Robert Gasch (rgasch) in his Openstar project and utilized many of his Util libraries which were eventually adopted by Zikula as its foundation. This 'fork' was the basis used for the development of version 6.0.0. Craig was assisted in the transition from version 5 to 6 by Arjen Tebbenhof (teb) and Karma Dordrak (drak). Many thanks to all three for their help. (PostCalendar History and Credits) Thanks also to Michael Halbrook (HalbrookTech) for testing during 6.0.0 development.

The MediaAttach Team is proud to Announce the 1.1 Release of MediaAttach. This Release is a "it should work" Release, its main goals are to replace all SVN Installation in the Wild, to make bug reporting and supporting easier. There are several known bugs which have been scheduled for the next release (See Roadmap [1]).

scribite! is a 3rd party extension for Zikula that supports integration of various wysiwyg editors to edit your page contents. It contains external file manager libraries for FCKeditor and TinyMCE (TinyMCPUK version until scribite! 3.1) with uploading features. There are vulnerabilities in these file managers that allow write access to your file system and pose a severe risk to security.

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".

We have now finalised the language management documentation for Zikula 1.2.0. There are two documents of special interest to both module developers in how to migrate their modules to use Gettext in Zikula 1.2.0, and further a general document that explains the workflow of how translations are made from modules.

Translation Workflow and Convert to Gettext can be found at the Translation Wiki

Since there have been reports of spam posts in several projects at code.zikula.org, Chris changed the basic settings so that e-mail addresses have to be confirmed. You should have received a mail asking you to do that. For those who still can't work with their project, Jusuff provided a brief manual of what you can do.

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

I just finished reviewing the English language strings you'll be seeing in Zikula 1.2 (many thanks to Olaf Fichtner for plenty of useful suggestions). All the work was done on the Zikula project’s Pootle translation portal. Interested in what was done?

Hi all! We are happy to announce the first official release of BlankTheme! After a stand-by season, the 0.9 series finally reaches the public. We are proud of the maturity, flexibility and potential of this (two-year) project. Now it's time to build a community of users and developers to collectively build themes, fix and enhance the framework that can be pretty useful for many of us. Thanks to everyone who made this release possible!.
Brief project history in the article's content

After discussing new possibilities for a new Mailer module development went on and there was a new module released in version 1.0 today: advMailer. advMailer is a 3rd party module from ifs-net working as an extension for the zikula core Mailer module. It offers new possibilities for module developers and for administrators. Templates for emails are possible, time based email delivery, mail queue handling, setting up priorities for emails and much more.

The ground work is being laid for a North American Zikula Users Bar Camp to be held somewhere in the Portland, Oregon area.  We have launched the site http://zikulanw.net to gather feedback on timing, topics to cover, etc.  If you are interested in helping plan the event, or would like to try and join us, register at the site and join in the disucssion.   As a side benefit, we’re running 1.2.0-RC1 so you can also help track down bugs by using the site :).

With the pending release of Zikula 1.2, we need to quickly review all of the language strings in the en_GB and en_US languages.  These reviewed translations will assist other communities who are translating Zikula’s upcoming gettext feature into their language.  True Internationalization is near for the project!

Head on over to http://translate.zikula.org and register so that you can lend a hand with this very important pre-release task.  Thanks!

Here’s a video drak made for inspiration: http://zikula.org/tutorials/thecat/thecat.html

Social networks are growing quite fast and the last months and years I presented many new social network modules at ifs-net for free download. Now there is a new, complex module for building groups in social networks available that gives your users the possibility to create own groups with own forums, news articles, newsletters etc. The module Lobby is now available in version 1.0.

Those closely watching core development will have noticed that Drak has recently been doing a great deal of work on the translations system, the primary feature of 1.2.0. His work is nearing completion, and we would like to encourage community members to download the latest SVN from the Cozi and experiment with the new gettext based system.

With 1.2.0 well on it's way to release day, we're looking for help from community members. There's not much time left, and we'd like to fix as many bugs as possible in the 1.2.0 codebase - so we're asking every community developer to look through the bugs assigned to the 1.2.0 milestone and consider providing patches for one bug (or five!).

The developers will be watching the bug reports over the next couple of weeks and merging in patches where possible. So, if there's a bug that's been bothering you for a while, or something which you think could be fixed with just a small donation of time and effort we encourage you to get involved.

Of course, the ultimate benefit applies to everyone - Zikula 1.2.0 will be the most stable and fully featured Zikula release yet. We ask for your help to make that a reality.

I’m please to announce the release of Wii Friends 1.0,  a module that provides a simple way to exchange Wii Console and Friend codes. Through Zikula security you can chose to have your site public or completely private.

ZkUnit allows developers to write Unit and UI tests, while DebugToolbar shows a small toolbar (like the Symfony one) on the upper right side of the web page.

Yesterday the first version (as usual, everything is subject to change) of the agenda for this years Camp Zikula has been finalized. We think we found a good mixture of development, commercial and community topics including an unconference for everyone to participate.

As you all know the meeting will take place in Georgsmarienhuette, Germany, from Aug 14th to 16th. The preliminary list of participants from all over Europe can be found here. We will record the meeting and upload the videos to Youtube soon after. During the Camp we will twitter about what is going on so you can almost be there without leaving your chair. Of course a personal attendance is prefered .

There is still time to register if you want and there are some free rooms available directly at the meeting place.

The Zikula Development Team is pleased to announce the release of Zikula 1.1.2. Zikula 1.1.2 is the second bugfix release for the 1.1 series, and fixes 69 bugs found in 1.1.1. You can see the full list at the CoZi.

Also, despite previous announcements ([1] and [2]) that development of the migration distribution has halted, the development team has decided to update and improve this special distribution. You may now download the improved Postnuke Migration Distribution (PN.764-->Zikula 1.1.2) from the links below. Please carefully read and follow the instructions for this migration. This will be the final update of the migration distribution.

In addition, development on 1.2.0 and 2.0.0 continues. For those not aware 1.2.0 introduces gettext as it’s major feature (“gettext provides an easy to use library and tools for creating, using, and modifying natural language catalogs and is a powerful and simple method for internationalizing programs” -About.com).  Zikula version 2.0.0 brings the latest architectural changes as we move towards a leaner codebase with more added features for developers and users alike.

Those running 1.1.1 can use the patch provided below, while those running 1.0.x should download the full distribution and read the upgrade instructions in the docs directory.

In the near future, the Distributions in the extension database will be modified to include the updated core and upgrade available modules. Distributions, however, are intended for new installations. Upgrades, therefore, should be accomplished through single module upgrades and Core upgrades like this one. If you have any Distribution installed, you can safely upgrade your core installation with this package.

A gigantic THANK YOU to all the developers that have worked so hard to produce this release! Many individuals contributed greatly!

Download links in the extended text.

Due to a Database problem, the Cozi was down for several hours on 8 July 2009. The database was restored to its state as of 05:17:00 7 July 2009, so any tickets filed with any Cozi projects between then and approximately 15:00 GMT 8 July 2009 will need to be re-submitted. Additionally, any Wiki changes in Cozi projects and admin modifications in Cozi projects will need to be done again. All SVN changes were unaffected. We apologize for this downtime and continue to work to provide the highest level of service possible to Zikula development for all developers and the core project.

The Zikula Team

As of July 1, 2009, PostNuke, is officially discontinued (End Of Life). There will be no further development, security-related or otherwise, of the product. All users are asked to migrate to Zikula, where further development continues.

This decision was made by the Zikula Steering Committee in the second quarter of 2008 and announced on June 6, 2008. As of this writing, the Zikula development team will begin implementing the tasks outlined therein. Specifically, the support forums for PostNuke will be archived for reference only and will be unavailable for posting (posting PostNuke-related questions in other forums will result in a polite request to upgrade ).

On February 2, 2009, the Zikula Development Team introduced a Migration Distribution which allows Site Admins to more easily migrate their PostNuke .764 installation to Zikula 1.1.1. (Note that the migration distribution will not be updated to current versions of Zikula.) This distribution will continue to remain available in the cozi download area. Additions and improvements to that distribution are added to the documentation in the Wiki (Migrating to Zikula from PostNuke .764) and support for such migrations will continue in the Support Forum. In addition, webmasters needing expert assistance in their migration may hire a professional. Please contact them through http://zikulapro.com/.

I’d like to thank Brian from Neosurge for donating the use of a powerful quad core server for the Zikula Community website.  As you know we’ve been a little strained recently under the load.  Brian (aka paradoxic) was with the project right at the beginning but moved on to run his own hosting and web-consultancy business since 2002 so he certainly knows his stuff.

The Camp of 2009 will take place from 14.08 to 16.08.2009. Our location is an education center at Georgsmarienhütte, a village near Osnabrueck in the north of Germany. This gives us new possibilities. We will have our meeting at the same place as the hotel.

The location is equipped very well. We can use the built in projector, use the wlan and DSL6000 connection at our meeting room. For Friday we rented the barbeque place. The kitchen told me, special wishes like diet or vegetarian are no problem. Just let us know at registration.

A few weeks ago, the localization working group was founded. This working group is responsible for package translation and I tracked the development of Internationalization of Zikula. We have a good percentage of the german, dutch and french translations. But there are still a lot of other languages missing. If you already have created a translation, so please store it in our extdb.

Another request: I am still looking for a second leader. Ideally from another international community with a good grasp of English.