PyroCMS v0.9.8-beta1 released for testing
Posted News at Jan 17, 2010
The first BETA for PyroCMS v0.9.8 has just been released. It is not ready for production just yet but it is getting very close.
The changelog so far is:
- Added custom CSS area for pages.
- Added GUI editable "Page layouts" to control shared layouts for grouped pages.
- "Check all" boxes and CTRL + Click selecting added to all listing pages.
- Switched module system from Matchbox to Modular Separation (minor performance boost).
- Switched template system from HelpfulParser to Dwoo (dramaticallty improved syntax support, if/else, loops, etc).
- Removed Layout library and replaced with the much cleaner Template library.
- Removed all PHP short-tags.
- Full support for PHP 5.3
- Standardized much of the model code, and removed deprecated CodeIgniter ActiveRecord methods like getwhere().
- Disabled GZIP compression by default. If you want it, re-enable in application/config/config.php.
- Enabled profile on local installaitons, but wont exist on Dev, QA or live.
- Settings library now loads all settings on instantiation, instead of one query-per-setting.
- Added "Preview" windows for pages and news, much more accurate than before.
- Draft/Live status added for pages, admins can see pages anyway.
- Swapped Facebox for Fancybox. Mainly iframe support, but it seems generally better.
- Re-enabled page slug editing
This list may not be extensive and there are a few features left to be completed - as well as several bugs no doubt. Two features that need to be finished but are waiting on some ideas are:
- Language selector - not sure where to put this. Should it stay as icons or be a dropdown menu.
- Dashboard - this page is still disgusting, what to do with it?
Captcha in v0.9.7.x (the version currently running on this site) is still broken so please email any suggestions to email[|at|]philsturgeon.co.uk.
Download: v0.9.8-beta1
Upgrading is a bit of a pain but the instructions should help you through it. I will work on an upgrade script before release, but the system requires some planning first.
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