Stable release 3.2.3

Well, it was more than a year since last time, but finally there is a new 
stable release available. It can be downloaded from the new homepage at

   http://www.modsurvey.org


The major changes as compared with 3.2.2 are:
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* Better platform/settings detection in installer for suse, gentoo and mandriva
* New export "grouped frequency table"
* New auth method TOKENAUTH
* SECURITY is modularized into subtags (see below)
* Access/hot keys (so you can navigate a survey only using keyboard)
* PASSWORD should now work in data module
* Completely new layout engine based on templates (this shouldn't normally be visible at all, but makes things saner behind the scenes)
* Dutch translation
* Major overhaul of compatibility between different versions of mod_perl (should not support the whole range from mod_perl 1.2x to mod_perl 2.x.x)


Concerning upgrading from 3.2.2 to 3.2.3:
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The only syntactical major difference is the SECURITY tag, which has 
been modularized. In 3.2.2 you would do something like this:

   <SECURITY REQAUTH="yes" USERFILE="..." ..>
     <ANSWER ... />
   </SECURITY>

In 3.2.3, the different auth mechanisms live in sub-tags:

   <SECURITY REQAUTH="yes">
     <FILEAUTH USERFILE="..." />
     <ANSWER ... />
   </SECURITY>

Available auth mechanisms are FILEAUTH, DBIAUTH and TOKENAUTH. Read more 
about these in the now-updated syntax reference.

There are also minor syntactical changes, which will render you warnings, 
but which should be pretty obvious how to fix.

Another change, which most users will not notice, but which can be nasty 
for some, is that the layout engine has changed. Custom-made stylesheets 
are no longer valid, since the css markup has changed significantly. If 
you are using custom stylesheets you might want to test a bit before 
upgrading a production server. (If you only use the shipped themes, things 
should look more or less exactly as before)


Credits
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An extra bottle of beer to

* BugAnt (he claims to have that name :-) ) for, as always, doing lots of the work.
* Martin Ertl for the new layout engine and lots of various work
* Gerhard Stadler, for updating the documentation, doing lots of testing and bug reporting
* Michael Waider (Eveca) for general support, sponsorship of interns, and providing the modsurvey.org domain
* Sandra Dietze for pouring half a liter of weissbier over me when the survey gang met in germany during the fall. :-) (Ok, she's the other half of Eveca too, so see Michael above)
* Vladi for being Vladi

Happy surveying!

   // Joel

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