Simple Groupware 0.2 beta 1 released - October 2, 2005

Simple Groupware 0.2 beta 1 released - October 2, 2005

Simple Groupware 0.2 beta 1 has been released and is available for download. Lots of new features are building the basis for new features, better performance and many more releases. New features/changes (very short): Added folder quotas, rights system, cut/copy/paste, server-based auto-complete, data export to html, csv, xml, xls, unit-testing, slow query logging, faq-module, online/offline status for users, new external searches in sidebar, save/restore tree-position, calendar improvements, option for multiple-files per field, lots of performance improvements, bug fixes.

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Simple Groupware 0.2 beta 1


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Release notes:

This release can be used in a production environment but there will be no integrated upgrade methods to the next release


Changelog:

New features:

  • Added save/restore tree scroll-position
  • Added cut / copy / paste function
  • Added folder quotas
  • Improved calendar to handle recurrences
  • Added new server-based auto-complete component (replacement for popups)
  • Added functionality to export data to html / csv / xml
  • Added alphabar (show only assets beginning with a chosen character)
  • Added unit testing with PHPUnit and xmlrpc (disabled by default, rename *.php.txt to *.php)
  • New packaging system to deploy only one file (currently not used and disabled)
  • Added "Clean Cache" function to remove old cache files
  • Added Wikipedia, Yahoo and MSN to search sidebar
  • Added new Simple-Type "files" (upload multiple files) as replacement for "file"
  • Expanded slow query logging with "explain" information
  • Added view to show database status variables
  • Added view to show database variables
  • Added system/modules folder and module schema-handler
  • Added faq module
  • Added possibility to reset folder view
  • Added online/offline status to users module

Bugs:

  • Fix compatibility with Php 4.3.10, MySQL 5.0.x in setup
  • Fixing view with extra large texts

Other changes:

  • Updated libraries and components to latest versions
  • Displaying of assets gets a limit of 100
  • New directory structure: simple_cache and simple_store are now outside the code
  • Using gzip output compression per default
  • Removed database caching (inefficient with huge resultsets)
  • Removed AdoDB (better performance, better schema handling)
  • Removed doiMenu (better performance)