Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 22:01:14 +0300 (EEST)
From: Henri Bergius <Henri.Bergius@iki.fi>
Subject: MWS for 27th of October, 1999 (#21)
To: midgard@greywolves.org, lwn@lwn.net, chris@linuxdev.net, deb@linuxchix.org

Greetings!

I'm now back from the US so we can try to 
catch up with what has happened since the
last MWS. There is very good stuff going 
on in both the Midgard mailing list and 
in private discussions. It is nice to see 
so many people interested in using and 
working on the system.

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Current versions:
	Stable: 1.2.4 (Mad King)
	Devel.: 1.3 

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Midgard 1.2.4 released

Jukka released the latest stable version of
Midgard on October 26th. Here is the release
announcement:

Midgard 1.2.4 adds support for multiple Midgard 
databases in a single Apache server. Support for 
URL address space management was extended and 
better defaults for configuration directives was 
added. Some access control bugs were fixed in 
the Midgard library.

Changes in this release:

- Now supports multiple Midgard databases
- MidgardDatabase can now be used many times
- MidgardUsername and MidgardPassword now only 
  set the defaults
- You can use extra arguments to MidgardDatabase 
  to set the username and password
- MidgardEngine now works inside VirtualHosts and 
  even Locations
- MidgardRootfile now defaults to 
  libexec/midgard-root.php3
- Structure of log messages is now clearer.
- Bug fixes in access control. Group membership is 
  now handled better.

The semantics of the Midgard configuration 
directives have changed a bit so it is advised 
that the mod_midgard documentation (INSTALL and
midgard.conf files) are checked before upgrading 
from an earlier version. The changes are only minimal 
and should cause no problems.

The release is available as both source and RPM 
formats from Midgard's Web site:

  -> http://www.midgard-project.org/download/

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Russian version of Midgard

Alexander Bokovoy has announced that there is
now a version of Midgard in Russian language.

This version includes a translated Admin site
and some modifications to the Midgard 1.2.3 
sources to allow the use of Russian code pages.

The Russian Midgard 1.2.3 should be available
soon and according to Jukka the modifications 
will probably also be included into future 
Midgard releases.

After the announcement of Russian Midgard we've
received some offers to translate Midgard to 
various other languages, and hopefully this will
be the beginning of the actual work on adding
the needed i18n and l10n features into Midgard. 
If there is interest in working on this, let us 
know!

  -> http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=midgard&m=94094237107938&w=2

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Midgard Workshop #2

The next Midgard Workshop will be held during
January 2000 in Karlskrona, Sweden.

Michael Ed (michael@marlowes.com) has offered
to arrange the next training event for Midgard.
The event will probably take place in January
22nd-23rd, and will concentrate mostly on
development labs, but we will also speak about
Midgard's future there.

I'll post more on this when the details are 
clearer. Before that, Michael can be contacted
for further information.
  
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Improved host configuration

Emile has informed us of a very interesting
way of configuring Apache VirtualHosts. This
would enable Midgard administrators to add 
new hosts dynamically from the Admin site
without needing to change the actual Apache
configuration files.

You can learn how to do it from Emile's
email to the Midgard mailing list:

  -> http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=midgard&m=93989027430223&w=2

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About Midgard

Midgard is a freely-available Web application 
development and publishing platform based on 
the popular PHP scripting language. It is an 
Open Source development project, giving you the 
freedom to create your solutions in an open 
environment. Midgard is the tool for creating, 
modifying and maintaining dynamic 
database-enabled web services.

  -> http://www.midgard-project.org

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About MWS

The Midgard Weekly Summary is a newsletter 
for the Midgard user and developer community.

The MWS is currently being distributed in
following mediums:

 -The Midgard Project's Web site
   -> http://www.midgard-project.org

 -Linux Weekly News
   -> http://www.lwn.net

 -Linux Developer's Network
   -> http://linuxdev.net

 -Open Source Writers Group
   -> http://www.oswg.org

 -Midgard mailing list

If you would like to release it elsewhere,
please contact Henri Bergius 
(Henri.Bergius@iki.fi).

Previous issues of Midgard Weekly Summary can 
be found archived at the Midgard web site.
  -> http://www.midgard-project.org/topic/169.html

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/Bergie

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