OpenScholar for Drupal 6 2.0:RC1

Software Project: 

OpenScholar for Drupal 6

Version: 

2.0:RC1

New Features

  • Speed and caching improvements
  • Implemented Elysa Cron for better cron control
  • Flexible slideshow sizes.  You will be able to create slideshow of any sizes
  • Usability improvements on contextual links
  • Add a new image / thumbnail to Announcements content type
  • Customized "Page not found" page
  • Publications within a certain type will be sorted by date (by default)
  • Change the 2nd level of ordered lists from roman numerals to a,b,c ...
  • Change drupal Core over to pressflow to allow use of varnish or equivalent
  • Menus have editable tooltips
  • cp/content comments approval added bulk update options

Major Bug Fixes

  • Respect the width of the iframe in WYSIWYG editor
  • Fix the issue when authors are imported from bibtex in the reverse order
  • Fix the bug when inserting inline images in long pages
  • Remove the Bio feature from the "projects" version of OS
  • Node Save no longer clears all block and page caches
  • Back button for OS Books changes URL
  • Embedded videos are lost when a node is updated
  • Twitter block refreshes content via cron
  • Biblio imports authors backwards
  • Cannot drag layout widgets in IE9
  • Fixed log in sequence when private site as admin
  • Taxonomy form does not show private content types

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 available 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"
  • 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.
  • Clear the cache to remove any cached pages
  • It is now safe to remove maintenance mode if your site looks ok
  • For best results increase cron frequency (~5 minutes), cron actions are now scheduled and none are required nothing will happen
  • Have trouble? Post to (#openscholar) on irc.freenode.net or (http://groups.drupal.org/openscholar)

    • Developer Upgrade Notes

    • Drupal core has been upgraded to pressflow version 6.25 https://github.com/pressflow/6
    • All major contrib modules and drupal core have been updated to newer versions if available.

    Package: 

    openscholar_2.0-rc1.tgz
    Size: 27.72 MB