Daizu-0.3

Changes for version 0.3 - 2006-11-26

Allow Perl modules to be loaded from the '_lib' directory in the content repository. r557
Publishing feature to bring live sites up to date:
- Do publishing work automatically, and change the 'daizu' commands for publishing in different ways to be easier to understand. r612
- Methods in generators to figure out what additional publishing work to do. r575, r587, r588, r589, r591, r597, r599, r600, r618
- Track changes to URLs. r596, r638
- Track changes to content. r597, r598, r600, r613
- Output files are atomically moved into place, and old ones are only overwritten if the content has changed, to preserve modification times. r614, r615
- Output files now have the execute permission if the file in the content repository is marked as executable. r593
Allow connection to remote content repository with 'svn:' URL. r626, r630, r639, r643
Plugin changes:
- Daizu::Plugin::PictureArticle correctly encodes 'alt'. r620
- PictureArticle output is prettier and more accessible. r606
- Articles are reloaded if any properties change, because plugins might depend on their values. r622
- Daizu::Plugin::HeaderAnchor, various small bug fixes. r635
New plugins:
- Article filter plugins can now add information as well as modifying the content. r577, r640
- Daizu::Plugin::DisplayPicture. r577, r620, r628, r646
- Daizu::Plugin::ImageMetadata. r631, r636
- Daizu::Plugin::RelatedLinks. r640
Blog generator:
- Refactoring to make it easier to subclass. r569
- Correctly ignore blog articles hidden in '_hide' directories. r562
- Number of articles shown on the homepage is configurable. r590
Correct use of 'xml:base' in blog feeds. This fixes relative links and images in blog articles, at least for Bloglines and Google Reader. See http://www.daizucms.org/blog/2006/10/xml-base/ for details. r605, r624
Google sitemaps:
- Use the new XML namespace. r629
- Rename URL method and configuration element to 'xml_sitemap' and 'xml-sitemap' respectively, since they are no longer specific to Google. r650
Do simple SSI processing when previewing output, in case your templates use SSIs to implement part of the site design. r560
Article loading:
- Preserve comments in loaded article content. r567
- Don't save unnecessary XML and DOCTYPE declarations. r633
Fix a bug which caused a database constraint breakage sometimes when an active URL changes from one file to another. Preserve redirects where the target URL is 'gone' in case it comes back. r581, r596
Bug fix for 'url-content' command. r558
Fix UTF-8 encoding bug in preview script. r568
Work around bug in Encode module in Perl 5.8.4. r627
Make the 'update-all-articles' command work if no working copy ID is specified. r632
Avoid unnecessary dependencies on other CPAN modules:
- Data::Validate::URI is no longer required (but the same checks are done internally now). r571
- IO::Scalar wasn't being used anyway. r585
Don't unnecessarily use a temporary file when parsing XHTML. r564
Rewrite maps:
- Fix bug affecting content of the map files. r579
- Factor out the code for generating them. r583
- Make it an error to use the same map filename more than once. r595
Template and style changes:
- Fix layout problem in IE 6. r578
- Navigation menu is more flexible about which of 'title' and 'short title' are available. r561
- Show a link to the homepage of a blog in its navigation menu. r563
- The links in the <head> of blog pages are now generated using the standard 'head/meta.tt' template, and they are passed to it in a more flexible format. Blog pages which aren't articles no longer have bad previous or next links in. r566
- New (by default empty) template for adding extra HTML at the end of the file, like Google Analytics code. r594
- Include description and tags ('keywords') metadata in <meta> elements in the output. r602, r611
- Only one set of next/previous links need to be provided on blog articles. r607
- Data tables in articles are centered, and table captions are styled better. r608
Upgrade and downgrade scripts:
- All now stored under the 'upgrade' directory. r603, r609
- The new upgrade script removes some unnecessary tables, and fixes an index. r604, r619
- http://www.daizucms.org/blog/2006/11/release-0.3/