[EP-underground] EPrints 2.2

I've scheduled the release date for eprints 2.2 as 31st October (Halloween)
(well we already had Feb 14 & July 4).

I'm hoping to get all the upgrade docs ready by then, but maybe I won't
have quite had time to document the new features.

Any body who feels generous of spirit may have a pre-release copy and
let us know if there are any bugs we missed!

Here is the provisional "NEWS" for what's been added.

People with non-english phrase files should probably wait to upgrade.
I'm working on a script to assist translating the changes to the phrase
files, but it's not done yet.

Any (small) issues you want in 2.2, you should shout now!


EPRINTS 2.2.0                                                  2002-10-31???
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*       Fixed several minor issues in OAI2 support.

*       Several changes to defaul configuration (eg. default results
        page number of records now 100, not 10).

*       New field for subscriptions: mailempty? which makes mailing
        empty subscriptions optional.

*       Added option to have "subject editors" who may only edit certain
        eprints, ie. all in one subject, or only books & posters.

*       Added editor alerts to mail editors, similar to subscriptions.
 
*       Added a hook for doing something "clever" with certain 404's. This
        is useful if you are migrating from a different system, eg. eprints 
        v1 and want the old links to be forwarded to relevant new locations.

*       New metadata parameters
             - can_clone
             - sql_index
             - id_editors_only 
             - allow_set_order 
        See the relevant documentation for more information.

*       Added support for XML::GDOME which is a faster XML module, but does
        require some more software. This is strongly recommended for non-demo
        systems as it's faster and uses less memory.

*       Improvemnts to generate_views including
              - optional timestamps (when they were generated)
              - option to hide subjects with no eprints in yet

*       Automatic hash checksum logging. Every time a document file is 
        changed, a MD5 hash value is stored. See the documentation for why
        this is useful. A command "rehash" will generate and log hashes for
        all documents (handy to do initially). The command line tool 
        export_hashes will create a hash of each hash file for logging away
        safely.

*       Searches may now have default values.

*       Improved layout and information of "status" page. Now mentions last
        time subscriptions were mailed.

*       New command line tool which causes archives to reload their 
        configuration without restarting apache. This is NOT very efficient 
        and will waste memory, but is handy for development.

*       ### Nearly Done ### citations now use @year@ instead of &year; to 
        make XML parsing easier. Also there is a new feature <ep:ifmatch>  
        which gives access to the eprints search syntax to make citation 
        elements conditional. Also improvements have been made to the citation 
        rendering code so that elements may now be safely nested. (eg. 
        <ep:isset>.

*       No GIFs (Due to patent issues, and EPrints being part of GNU),
        PNGs used instead.

*       Improved configurability of subscription mails layout.

*       Improved configurability of search result pages layout.
 
*       There is now a "Submit Later" button on the deposit page.

*       Added experimental support for the secure part of the site to
        be served via https.








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 Christopher Gutteridge                   [email protected]
 ePrints2 Coder, Support and Stuff        +44 23 8059 4833