New Features

• New widget system that allows users to create custom widgets and add them to different sections of their sites. Implemented several types of widgets including:
• Custom text / html : A static widget that contain custom text or html.
• List of posts : Lists of posts that can be filtered by type, with options for sorting, etc.
• Media embed: Embed videos, images, or external widgets from other web sites.
• Post in a box: Put any of your posts in a widget.
• Slideshow gallery: Display an image gallery as a slideshow.
• Taxonomy widget: Filter and group your posts by term.
• Book TOC : A widget that contains the table of content of any book
• Social widgets: A set of social widgets (facebook , twitter, rss feed etc.)
• Publications widgets: A set of widgets created to filter publications by contributor, year or type

• Flexible front page layout allowing users to drag widgets of any type into any of the eleven regions now available.
• Contextual administration links now includes:
• Configure / remove widget
• Edit / delete post
• The section layout
• Feature settings / customization

• Control Panel reorganization.
• Underused CP News removed and replaced with quick view of changes since last login.
• Separated user acount from site’s user management section
• Cleaned-up settings section of the control panel. Grouped settings by category

• Super fast booklet navigation.
• Improved the contact form and the format of the e-mail content
• Added search for files

For more details about these new features please click here (pdf)

Major Bugs Fixed

• Ability to edit/add all non-group content types outside a space
• Users can edit posts they have marked unpublished
• Admin cant add sitewide pages

A full list of bugs fixed can be found here: https://redmine.hmdc.harvard.edu/projects/openscholar/versions/23

Upgrade from previous version

1. Create a backup of your database prior to updating
2. Put your site into "Maintenance mode" the update may take a few minutes (/admin/settings/site-maintenance)
3. un-tar and replace the file tree (stash the custom modules you have added in another part of the filesystem, then move them back after the new version is in place)
4. Run (/update.php)
   • Run all avalible updates
   • In the rare case that your upgrade fails due to timeout the update have been written to recover themselves so you can refresh the page or hit start again
   • When updates complete verify that there are no red "failure: message"
5. Revert Features, the easiest way is with drush by running (drush features-revert-all) or you can use the ui at (/admin/build/features).  The UI may still indicate that overrides exist, this is expected.
6. Clear the cache to remove any cached pages
7. It is now safe to remove maintenance mode if your site looks ok
8. Have trouble? Post to (#openscholar) on irc.freenode.net or (http://groups.drupal.org/openscholar)

Developer Upgrade Notes

• Drupal Core Patched to allow editing of unpublished nodes http://goo.gl/Y9Dz4
• Tested and now compatible with PHP 5.3
• Changes in OS theme info files
• Old namespace of “scholar” replaced with “os”
• New Regions added to base template.  content-top, content-bottom, content-left, content-right.  Currently these are only used on the front page.
• Boxes (drupal.org/project/boxes) can be used in addition to blocks, they make use of the standard widget definition a list of new widgets and the added features provided by the os_boxes module can be found here.
• Some Block id were removed/replaced (old block id’s are on the left and the new block id’s are on the right.  It is not common for a theme to access them directly but a list is included here for theme developers)
• https://redmine.hmdc.harvard.edu/projects/openscholar/wiki/Beta13_widgets

• Several Drupal contrib modules received upgrades
• https://redmine.hmdc.harvard.edu/issues/1191