2.9 1.4 to 1.5-M1 upgrade

Daisy 1.5-M1 was released on March 22, 2006.

2.9.1 Changes

2.9.1.1 Features

• Various query language improvements. See this mail and the updated query documentation.
• The content of the blobstore directory is now organised hierarchically. This should scale better on most file systems.
• A new field type, link, to allow structured linking between documents. See this mail for an overview.
• Query-based selection lists. See this mail.
• Publisher:
• preparedDocuments will now execute a separate publisher request for the document and each document it includes. The publisher request to be used is determined based on a mapping definition which can test on things like the documentType (using the same expressions as in the ACL). This allows to retrieve additional information for certain sets of documents, e.g. related documents & queries. Together with things like the link field type or the ContextDoc function in the query language, this opens many new possibilities. See this documentation and the upgraded publisher docs.
• The publisher request model has been made more flexible and supports a some new tags. See also the third star in this mail.
• Document styling:
• The input XML for the stylesheets now has a "isIncluded" attribute on the root <document> element. This attribute allows to render the document differently depending on whether it is included it another document.
• The input XML for the stylesheets now includes the full Daisy Wiki page context (the <context> element) instead of just the user information.
• Links to Attachment-documents now link directly to the attachment data. This behaviour is easily controllable via XSL. See this mail for more information.
• The content of non-Daisy-HTML-parts can now be inlined during publishing, so that it is available to the document-styling XSLT. See this mail.
• Image thumbnails and metadata extraction: details see this mail.
• Auto-redirecting between sites: when requesting a document that does not occur in the navigation tree of the current site, the other sites are now considered to see if they are better suited (either because of a match in the navigation tree, or because the document belongs to the collection associated with the site). This behaviour can be disabled (see the compatibility section). See also the docs.
• Added version info: the Daisy Wiki and the Daisy repository server now add an X-Daisy-Version header, the <context> element available in the Daisy Wiki skinning now includes version info, and most command line utilities support a -v and --version option.

2.9.1.2 Non-features

• Upgraded to Jetty 5.1.10 (was 4.2.20), both for the repository server and the Daisy Wiki
• Upgraded to XMLBeans 2.1.0
• On startup, the repository server checks that the database schema is of the correct version.
• This version ships with a Cocoon 2.1.9-dev snapshot, revision 387850

2.9.1.3 Bug fixes

• Editor improvement: table column width settings are now also applied while editing (previously this was only done when rendering the document)
• Fixed a bug whereby you could still see the old name of a collection after renaming it.
• Editor in Internet Explorer: fixed entering of special characters using the "Alt Gr" key.
• Editor in Internet Explorer: the edit table class dialog now actually works.
• Small PDF layout improvements: if the first row of a table contains header cells, always keep it on the same page as the next row so that the header row cannot appear by itself at the bottom of a page. Also, improved the spacing around the comment, warn, etc. boxes.
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