Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 18:23:18 +0300 (EEST)
From: Henri.Bergius@iki.fi
Subject: Fwd: [midgard] Midgard 1.2 "Mad King" released
To: lwn@lwn.net

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        From: Jukka Zitting <hukka@greywolves.org>
     Subject: [midgard] Midgard 1.2 "Mad King" released
        Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 14:10:04 +0300
          To: Midgard Project <midgard@greywolves.org>

MIDGARD 1.2 "Mad King" RELEASED
Aug 23 1999

The Midgard Project
http://midgard.greywolves.org

OVERVIEW

The Midgard Project has has released a new version
of Midgard Application Server Suite. The new
release contains Midgard core libraries, a
PHP3-based web application server for the Apache
platform and the needed web-based administration
tools.

THIS RELEASE

The 1.2 "Mad King" release of Midgard contains
usability enhancements and new features. A number
of misfeatures and bugs have also been fixed since
the 1.1 series.

This release does not contain the ODBC support
that was originally planned. The way Midgard
currently uses the query results is quite
inefficient with ODBC but very fast with native
MySQL. That's why the ODBC support was branced to
the development series 1.3 "Broken Shinai" of
Midgard. These two series will evolve together
until the ODBC support becomes mature and fast
enough to be used in the public releases.

The "Mad King" release continues to improve the
system from the original "Land Rover" release, but
there's still things to be done. The documentation
project is slowly gaining speed but there is still
much documentation missing.

The following things have changed after the "Iron
River" series:

- User preferences are now supported
- Many parts of the Admin site have been improved
- Article locking now possible to prevent
  unauthorized changes
- Access control has been improved and the
  framework for adding new controls in future is
  now in place
- It is now possible to set the database name,
  username and password for the Midgard database
  connection in the Apache configuration file
- Authentication is now required from all PUT
  uploads
- PHP 3.0.12 is now used as the basis for the
  midgard-php package. Patches for other versions
  of PHP available upon request.
- Compatibility with Apache 1.3.9 confirmed

Because of lacking documentation, all new users of
Midgard are encouraged to subscribe the Midgard
mailing list at midgard@@greywolves.org for
installation and usage support.

The Midgard Project would also like to invite all
interested persons and organizations to take part
in the development process. The Midgard Project is
a challenging one with lots of promise and will
surely be rewarding to all who participate.

ABOUT MIDGARD

Midgard is freely-available platform for creating
powerful web applications. It is fully based on Open
Source software, giving you freedom to create your
solutions in an open environment. Midgard is the
tool for creating, modifying and maintaining
dynamic database-enabled web services.

Midgard already has a quite good set of features
for creating powerful web sites, and is being used
with successful results by some commercial and
un-commercial organizations. But this is not where
the development will end; rather, the development
team also has more ambitious goals about
revolutionizing the way people think about web
development.

LICENSING ISSUES

The Midgard core libraries are distributed under
the GNU Library General Public License, a license
which permits the software to be freely used so
long as it is dynamically linked or the user can
relink it to new versions of the libraries. This
is the same license used by, for example, the
Linux C libraries. Because of this licensing
scheme, Midgard can be considered to be free
software developed with an Open Source model.

The Midgard-based administration tools and usage
examples in the Midgard packages are distributed
under the X Consortium license, which doesn't
impose any conditions on modification or
redistribution of source code or binaries other
than requiring that copyright/license notices are
left intact.

THE MIDGARD PROJECT

The Midgard Project is a volunteer group that
manages the core Midgard distribution and helps to
coordinate and help development projects based on
the Midgard system.

The membership of The Midgard Project is open for
anyone interested in working on the Midgard
system. More information can be found at
http://midgard.greywolves.org/development/

CONTACT INFORMATION

-Henri Bergius <Henri.Bergius@iki.fi>
-Jukka Zitting <Jukka.Zitting@iki.fi>

The Midgard Project <midgard@greywolves.org>

Download:     http://www.midgard-project.org/download/
Instructions: http://www.midgard-project.org/article/1169.html
Release note: http://www.midgard-project.org/article/1171.html


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