Shortly after the release of CubicWeb under the GPL licence, we've release a quickfix version to correct a few bugs :
The new version is 3.0.1, you can see the corrected tickets here.
We're still busy with the CubicWeb 3.0 releases. We did two releases of cubicweb last week : 3.0.2 and 3.0.3.
These were mainly for bugfixes, particularly about how the multisource functionality was working.
In april a bunch of bugs have been corrected on the stable branch of cubicweb (3.1 series) and we've been working on the next generation series : 3.2. Here's a quick summary of what's been going on :
Next up, we are working on the 3.2.0 version of cubicweb with some particular focus on :
Do not hesitate to try the development branch (named tls-sprint at the moment) or read the changes at http://www.logilab.org/hg/cubicweb
After the CubicWeb 3.2 blackout, the release early, release often mantra strikes back and CubicWeb 3.3 is out ! A few bugs were fixed, mainly migration scripts bug, and some new functionalities were added among which the long awaited standard plotting feature. We've added piechart support (with gchartwrapper) and standard plots with flot.
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And that's great news, after several months of development (things started moving in the beginning of august 2009...), it should be available on our Debian repositories and ftp site in the next few hours.
So, we can say this release contains a (too) large set of improvements and refactorings. I'll talk about the most important ones here.
First of all, the namespace cleanup... 3.6 is a step towards cleaning the entity classes (hence more generally appobject), which are used for a lot of things, making it impossible to tell for sure what could be used or not as an attribute or relation name. We decided to declare identifiers starting with \_cw or cw\_ reserved for the core classes. A lot of methods have been deprecated to cleanup the base appobject class namespace. The remaining methods on entity classes will be removed in future version, by the introduction of an ORM for database related methods, and by the (most probable) introduction of ZCA adapters for other aspects. The most notable renaming are:
This is probably what you'll see first when upgrading to 3.6: a huge stack of deprecation warnings on your screen :)
cleaner reponsibilities separation between form, field and widget
fields and widgets are now responsible for handling POSTed values (the editcontroller was handling this, making things really unflexible). The editcontroller has been rewritten and now properly gets values from fields. Another benefit is that you can now easily have a widget handling multiple inputs (see the new datetime picker for instance, or the custom widget for Bookmark.path)
refactored automatic forms:
so you get much more control on these parts of automatic forms by using mechanism provided generally by fields
Hooks are now regular appobjects, with selectors (don't forget to reuse Hook.__select__, remember that !). They should simply implement __call__ with no argument (well, only self) and will get info previously passed as argument as instance attributes, according to the matching event.
EnvBasedTC, ControllerTC, WebTest, RepoBasedTC are all gone. Simply use CubicWebTC, with an unified API similar to what you use in cubicweb-ctl shell and in usual development.
You can now specify a custom storage for attributes of entities stored in the system source. This mechanism is used to provide a way to store Bytes attributes (such as File.data for instance) as files on the file-system instead of BLOBs in the database. You can configure which attributes should use this storage for your instance and then everything is transparent.
In your schema definition file:
Also, permissions for relations are now supported per definition, not per type, at the cost of a visible impact when writing/reading the schema.
We worked hard to keep backward compatibility, but you shouldn't upgrade to 3.6 without checking that everything is fine... Check notably:
Hi there !
I'm pleased to announce the 3.7 release of CubicWeb, after a much shorter development cycle than for the 3.6...
But it still have some interesting changes:
Notice the 3.6 branch will still be maintained for some time.
Enjoy!