En/Release Notes/0.9.0beta1

Released: 24 November 2007

This is a beta release of Mahara 0.9 Accio. Things will be broken! However, we are now soliciting bug reports, should you find a bug. You can report bugs to the tracker:

https://eduforge.org/tracker/?func=add&group_id=176&atid=739

Please choose 'HEAD/trunk' as the version of your bug.

This release is the first release in which upgrading from the 0.8 stable version is possible. This does not mean that this should be done on a live website! Furthermore, upgrading from this release to any future release will not be supported either, so please perform any testing you might want to make on either a new install of this release or a copy of your 0.8 site.

This release includes:

• An upgrade path from 0.8 to this release, including migrating views from the old template format to the new views interface. Please read the notes below about this
• Greatly improved debian packaging, thanks to Francois Marier
• A new 'folder' blocktype that shows the contents of a folder you have chosen
• A new 'entireresume' blocktype that shows almost all resume fields you have, to allow quick creation of a resume
• Various bug fixes and improvements
• NO lolcats. Sorry!

The view migration will convert any views stored in the system to the new views format, except for:

• Views using the 'test' template - these views will be removed
• Views using a custom template - these views will be removed

If you have any custom views, or wish to migrate test views, you could write a patch for the view migration code in htdocs/lib/db/templatemigration.php

As mentioned above, the upgrade should not be attempted on a live site yet. Instead, make a copy of your database and dataroot, set up a new Mahara using them, and test upgrading on that.

Also as mentioned above, upgrading from this release will not be supported.