Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 22:59:06 +0200 (EET)
From: Henri Bergius <Henri.Bergius@iki.fi>
Subject: MWS for 19th of January, 2000 (#28)
To: midgard@greywolves.org, lwn@lwn.net, marty@linuxtoday.com,

Greetings!

First of all, I'm sorry about missing last 
week's MWS. I had already all the material 
collected, but then got caught up with work 
matters so I didn't have time to send it 
out. Because of that, we have quite many 
things to mention this week. 

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Current versions:
	Stable: 1.2.5 (Mad King)
	Devel.: 1.2.6 prerelease 

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Midgard 1.2.6 progress

Work on the next Midgard 1.2.x series release, 
version 1.2.6 has continued steadily. It seems 
that this release will introduce some very 
important Midgard 2 features back to the older 
Midgard branch as well as make many usability
improvements to the administration interface.

Alexander Bokovoy is managing the development 
of this release. He is also making prereleases 
available on his site as the work progresses. 
Currently it is expected that the release 
would be feature-complete within two weeks 
when Alexander gets  his new XML-based 
replication utility Repligard integrated to 
the system.

If you are interested in helping out with
testing or development of this release, you
can find the sources from Alexander's site.

  -> http://www.midgard.f2s.com

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Access Control in Midgard

There seems to be quite much interest in how 
the access control features of Midgard work 
in the current stable and the 2.x branches, 
and what difference there is with these two 
implementations.

As a followup to a thread on security in 
Midgard, there is my reply on the current 
access control options and Emile's write-up 
on the Midgard 2 ACLs available from Midgard's 
mailing list archives.

  -> http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?t=94800938700001&w=2&r=1

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Updates on Midgard packages

As there seems to be increasing interest for 
Midgard from SuSE Linux users, Malte Knoerr 
(malte@knoerr.escape.de) has now announced 
that he will be packaging Midgard for that 
platform. He hasn't yet announced any dates, 
but will try to get the packages available 
ASAP.

Also, there was an issue raised with Emile's
Midgard Monster packages (a combination of
Apache, Midgard and mod_ssl). The package
contains encryption software that is illegal
to use within the United States due to patent
concerns.

To fix this problem, Emile has now uploaded
a source RPM that allows the package to be
built against the RSAREF library. Instructions
for this are available from Midgard's download
site. Now, if a Midgard user living within the
US could make some binaries from this package,
I'm sure things would be easier for Web 
developers living there.

  -> http://www.midgard-project.org/article/1309.html
  
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Midgard Hints & Tips updated

David Guerizec has now updated his 'Midgard 
Hints & Tips' column on Midgard's Web site. 
The new article provides instructions on how 
to share code between different Midgard hosts 
in an easy manner.

As a reminder, David is always looking for 
useful code snippets to add there, so if you 
have any available, be sure to contact him.

  -> http://www.midgard-project.org/topic/265.html
  
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SSLUG looking for speakers

Kristian Vilmann from the Skåne Sjælland 
Linux User Group wrote in about the 
LinuxForum 2000 conference which they are 
arranging together with the Danish UNIX 
User Group.

One of the topics they are planning to 
cover this year is databases and Web, and 
they would like to include a Midgard 
presentation.

Everybody interested in giving a talk on 
the subject in either Danish, Swedish or 
English should contact him directly.

  -> http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=midgard&m=94745807622911&w=2

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Midgard and Oracle update

We mentioned a project on porting the 
database interface in Midgard 1.2.x
to support Oracle 8 databases month ago.

Now there is some information available
on how things are proceeding in that end. 
It seems that there are still some 
unresolved issues left, but they expect
to be able to make the release sometime
around February 15th.

You can find Jean-Pierre Arneodo's update
on the matter from Midgard's mailing
list archives.

  -> http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=midgard&m=94785274310427&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 Today
   -> http://www.linuxtoday.com

 -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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