The glFusion Community is pleased to announce that glFusion v1.0.1 is now available for download. This new release squashes several bugs, makes some cosmetic improvements, and includes other enhancements by the glFusion team.

In addition to the standard full install tarball, we have included a zipped version, and incremental archives (available in both .tar.gz and .zip formats as well) that only contain new or changed files from glFusion v1.0.0. Grab the archive that's right for you at glfusion.org.  Visit the glFusion Wiki for full details on installing or upgrading.

Our intent is to make the upgrade as simple and pleasant as possible for the community, but we know we're not perfect. Should you find yourself needing a little help, feel free to visit our Known Issues wiki page, our Troubleshooting Tips, and post your questions in our active support forum.

glFusion v1.0.1 also marks the last release that will echo the Geeklog codebase. In just a short period of time, the enhancements made by the glFusion Community have proven that trying to keep the code in sync with the Geeklog base is not a realistic goal. We also want to ensure there is no confusion to the community regarding the Geeklog and glFusion projects. As a result, all future releases of glFusion will be developed independently from Geeklog v1.5.0+. We plan to continue in the spirit of collaboration with the Geeklog project, and leverage some of their ongoing code enhancements, and extend the invitation for them to do the same if they wish.

We have transitioned the gl Labs website to the glFusion web site to support this new direction. Mark and I are still happy to continue supporting any of the plugins or themes we've published thus far for Geeklog, but we do not plan on releasing any new updates to those plugins or themes for the Geeklog environment. If you are interested in picking up development of any of these legacy plugins or themes for Geeklog, please feel free to contact us.

While we are extremely pleased with this release, we are even more excited about our next milestone release v1.1.0! For a sneak peek of what's around the corner, visit our detailed glFusion Roadmap. If you would like to submit a feature request or suggestion, please feel free to do so in our Tracker. Our goal is to continue to make glFusion the best that it can be, and to do that we need your ideas, input, and collaboration! Even if you can't write a line of code, we can always use your talents! What are you waiting for, let's make something great together! Join the Dev Community today!

glFusion v1.0.1 implements Instance Caching for stories. What this does is that once a story is displayed, a cached copy is stored. This means that each time the story is displayed in the future, glFusion does not have to rebuild the contents, it will simply use the cached version. This should provide another nice performance improvement and also decrease the load on your server.

The online configuration system has seen a few improvements based on lessons learned and feedback from the community. You can now disable a feature if you accidentally enable it, for example, the multi-language support. URLs and paths are now checked to ensure they have the necessary trailing backslash (or don't have it in some cases) and that no stray spaces are picked up during the edit.

The Advanced Editor has been upgraded to FCKEditor v2.6.2 which brings some FireFox3 and Opera 9.50 fixes.

We have added a new plugin to the Advanced Editor to allow you to easily insert embedded videos in your story.

We have also added a new toolbar that is used for user contributed stories. This new toolbar gives the user a little more control over the look of their story. We did not include the ability to upload images in this toolbar.

The style sheet has been tweaked a little to better support dynamic sizing (changing the zoom or font size on the local browser). We've also improved the Comment Bar layout to make better use of the space.

You will also see some nice new transparent icons in the Command n' Control screen. These updated icons make things look just a little better and they work well with themes that have a dark background.

We updated the HTML filter to the latest production version (htmLawed v1.1) and also added some additional filtering to the Forum and Media Gallery search inputs.

We also fixed a bug that allowed a user with the story.edit permission to post stories to topics they did not have permission to write to. Now the user will only be presented with a list of available topics where they have both read and write permissions.

For details on all the changes, please see the glFusion Wiki - What's New section

SpringSource Enterprise is now generally available. The product is designed to provide the best tools and support possible for building and running Spring-powered application in enterprise environments. SpringSource Enterprise consists of the following items:

• SpringSource Performance Suite, a collection of tools for development, management and performance:
• SpringSource Tool Suite is an Eclipse-powered development environment for building enterprise applications using the Spring Portfolio. The tool incorporates a task-focused user interface, architecture review tools, best practices recommendations, and built-in runtime error analysis.
• SpringSource Application Management Suite is a comprehensive enterprise application management tool designed to manage and monitor all of your Spring-powered applications, the Spring runtime, and a variety of platforms and application servers.
• SpringSource Advanced Pack for Oracle Database allows enterprise Java applications using the Spring Portfolio to leverage powerful features only available in the Oracle database.
• SpringSource Support gives developers and operations staff the ability to get their questions answered by experts who wrote Spring.
• Spring Enterprise Edition is certified and indemnified version of Spring that incorporates monitoring instrumentation designed for use in mission-critical production environments.

Also, Peter Cooper-Ellis blogged about the use of SpringSource Enterprise by important industry leaders like LinkedIn and Aetna. Be sure to download the new tools and try them out.

Angela Byron was announced as best contributor at the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Hall of Fame awards July 22nd, 2008. Please comment below if you've received help or have helped webchick help others as a way of demonstrating your congratulations.

Just a few years ago Angela Byron made the fateful decision to wander into #drupal and ask a question. Several years later, her helpful personality has tamed the #drupal developers and made the Drupal community more understanding and compassionate to its users and new developers.

Angela joined the Drupal project in 2005 as a Google Summer of Code student. If there is a way to contribute to Drupal, she does it:

Recruiting

She goes to various conferences and recruits people to join the Drupal community. Especially women. See
Speaking at Women in Open Source event in Los Angeles and women in open source on linux for slides examples and Google Podcast: Women in Open Source.

Documentation

Angie wrote the form API reference just to mention one of her bigger achievements. She is one of the best recruiters for the Drupal documentation team.

Secretary of the Drupal Association

Angie is the acting secretary of the Drupal Association, the non-profit organization responsible for overseeing the success of the Drupal project through raising funds, maintaining infrastructure, and running Drupal events.

GHOP and GSoC

She now leads the Drupal project in Google Highly Open Participation and Summer of Code events.

Coding

Her first patch was a huge one, revamping all our help texts. Subsequent code contributions to Drupal have included numerous extension modules, a theme, and significant core patches for Drupal 5, 6 and 7.

Patch reviewing

Angie is among the most active patch reviewers, meaning she interacts in a constructive way with most of the other people contributing to Drupal.

Training

As a part of her day job at Lullabot, she flys around the world delivering training to groups of people learning how to be Drupal developers and themers.

In the words of others:

Angie is a role model for everyone and an inspiration to work with. Her dedication to quality is contagious, and her passion for inclusion sets the standard for how people should work with each other.

- Robert Douglass, Senior Drupal Advisor, Acquia.

Angie has been a joy to work with, and I appreciate her dedication to the Drupal project. She makes Drupal shine.

-Dries Buytaert, founder of the Drupal project, Drupal Association, Acquia

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SpringSource is pleased to offer the new Developing Rich Web Applications with Spring course. The first presentation of this course, offered in Washington D.C. August 5 through August 8, will be presented by the Spring Web Team Lead, Keith Donald. See Keith's blog.

All courses are delivered by the people who build and sustain the Spring Framework. For full details, please visit the main training information page. Here is a summary of some of the upcoming courses and venues:

• USA and Canada
  • Core Spring: July 29th - August 1st, Seattle, WA
  • Core Spring: August 5th - 8th, Salt Lake City, UT
  • Developing Rich Web Apps with Spring: August 5th - 7th, Washington, DC
  • Core Spring: August 12th - 15th, San Francisco, CA
  • Core Spring: August 19th - 22nd, Raleigh, NC
  • Core Spring: September 2nd - 5th, Toronto, Canada
  • Core Spring: September 2nd - 5th - Philadelphia, PA
  • Developing Rich Web Applications with Spring: September 3rd - 5th - New York, NY
  • Core Spring: September 9th - 12th - Chicago, IL
  • Core Spring: September 9th - 12th - Dallas, TX
  • Core Spring: September 16th - 19th - Washington, DC
  • Core Spring: September 16th - 19th - Los Angeles, CA
  • Core Spring: September 30th - October 3rd - Boston, MA
  • Core Spring: October 7th - 10th - New York, NY
  • Core Spring: October 14th - 17th - Minneapolis, MN
  • Core Spring: October 29th - 31st - Austin, TX
  • Core Spring: November 4th - 7th -San Francisco, CA
  • Core Spring: November 11th - 14th - Raleigh, NC

• Europe & Middle East
  • Core Web Services: July 24th - 25th, London, UK
  • Core Spring .NET: July 30th - August 1st, London, UK
  • Core Spring: August 12th - 15th, London, UK
  • Core Spring: August 26th - 29th, Athens, Greece
  • Core Spring: September 16th -19th - Hamburg, Germany (presented in German)
  • Core Spring: 16th - 19th September - Paris, France (in French)
  • Core Spring: September 23rd - 26th - London, UK
  • Developing Rich Web Applications with Spring: September 24th - 26th - Antwerp, Belgium
  • Core Spring: September 30th - October 3rd - Amsterdam, NL
  • Core Spring: October 14th - 17th - Helsinki, Finland
  • Core Hibernate: 1st - 3rd October - Paris, France (in French)
  • Core Spring: 14th - 17th October - Luxembourg
  • Core Spring: 21st - 24th October - Paris, France
  • Core Spring: October 21st - 24th - London, UK
  • Core Spring: October 28th - 30th - Antwerp, Belgium
  • Developing Rich Web Applications with Spring: 28th - 30th - München, Germany
  • Core Spring: November 11th - 14th - London, UK
  • Developing Rich Web Applications with Spring: 12th - 14th November - Paris, France
  • Core Spring: November 18th - 21th - Stuttgart, Germany (presented in German)
  • Core Spring: 25th - 28th November - Paris, France (in French)
  • Core Spring: November 25th - 28th - Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Core Spring: November 25th - 28th - London, UK
  • Core Spring: December 9th - 12th - London, UK

• Australia/Asia/Other
  • Core Spring: August 5th - 8th, Melbourne, Australia
  • Core Spring: September 9th - 12th, Sydney, Australia
  • Core Spring: October 7th - 10th, Brisbane, Australia

... plus others

After a couple of late nights reloading repository dumps and learning new and wonderful unexpected “features” of mixing svn:externals and svnsync, I’m happy to announce that publicsvn.songbirdnest.com is finally available again.

Timelines are back up as well.

All external developers will need to repull their trees; these repositories—multiple—are entirely new SVN repos, with different UUIDs. Some Subversion clients will ignore this (minor?) detail, and you can still update repos, but it’s likely to cause grief later.

Also, the repository paths have changed; please see our developer documentation on Checking out the Code for details on the changes and to figure out what you will want to repull.

We apologize for the inconvenience caused by having to repull trees, but we were long due for a repository reorganization.

An overview of some of the changes:

• Different kinds of code are split out into different repositories
• Branching and tagging will now follow standard Subversion practice, i.e. no more $tagName/trunk directories.
• Brand new, faster publicsvn server (thanks Tyler!)
• https is no longer supported on publicsvn, since it’s not necessary. This reduces load on the server, meaning faster pulls for you!
• Backups are more manageable; backups of our main repository now take five minutes instead of three hours; restores take twenty minutes instead of twelve hours); this means other processes, like mirroring changesets to publicsvn, is faster!
• We’ve pruned code that wasn’t necessary for a standard Songbird build, meaning faster pull and update times!

Thanks to everyone for being patient while we worked all the details out, and thank you to Mitch on IRC, whose pestering kept me honest while we did this; I needed it.

Dear Spring community,
We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 1.1.0.RELEASE has been released!

Downloads | Web Site | Changelog | Announcement

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In the last couple of weeks we received a lot of positive feedback on the usefulness of our consolidated registration system. People found it really easy that they didn't have to go contact receptionists to see in what hotels rooms were still available. On July 24th we are closing our accommodation service, so if you want to have us organize a hotel for you, you should register for the conference the coming week! You will still be able to see the hotel listing online, but you will have to organize everything yourself.

Drupalcon Szeged is again pulling a very international public. So far we have registered attendees from 35 countries. Hungary has a narrow lead with 43 participants, but is closely followed by the US with 40 and Germany with 35 registered participants. Next in line are Great-Britain, The Netherlands, Belgium and Sweden with 28, 20, 18 and 15 participants respectively (these statistics do not include people who didn't fill in their bio). There are 6 weeks left until the conference so there is still time to put a banner on your blog and get more people in your country to attend Drupalcon.

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OpenLaszlo 4.1.1 is a major release bringing full support for both the DHTML/Ajax and the SWF/Flash platforms. It also includes over 800 bug fixes and a significantly improved documentation suite.

OpenLaszlo 4.1.1 has been fully-qualified across the following browser/platform combinations: Safari3/OSX, Firefox2/OSX, Internet Explorer 7/WinXP, Firefox 2/WinXP, and Firefox 2/Linux. We have tested the full suite of demos, samplers, and example applications with the requirement that, when possible, DHTML applications behave the same as their SWF counterparts.

OpenLaszlo 4.1.1 is now the recommended release for all developers on all platforms, and current users of OL 3.x and 4.0 should investigate upgrading to this new release.

OpenLaszlo 4.1.1 fixes many bugs in the initial 4.1.0 release. A list of the bugs fixed in OpenLaszlo 4.1.1 and details about each can be found here: Fixed bugs in 4.1.1

We recommend that all users who downloaded OpenLaszlo 4.1.0 upgrade to release 4.1.1.

Preliminary support for SWF9 is included in this release but has not been enabled in the developer console. If you want to try this new functionality, you can find more information on using the SWF9 support in the Release Notes

Please be aware of the following known issue in OpenLaszlo 4.1.1:

LPP-6633: For SWF9 development on Unix, you will need to manually chmod 755 all the binaries in WEB-INF/server/bin/ before you can compile. This is true for both the .war and .gz distributions.