Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 13:33:05 +0100 (CET)
From: Henri Bergius <bergie@nl.envida.net>
To: user@midgard-project.org, lwn@lwn.net, marty@linuxtoday.com,
Subject: Midgard 1.4.1-beta1 released

PARIS, FEB 6TH 2001 -- The Midgard Project Association has released a
new test version of the Midgard Content Management and Application
Serving system. The new release contains Midgard core libraries, a
loadable module for the PHP4 scripting language and Asgard, the
Web-based administration and development interface.

THIS RELEASE

Midgard 1.4.1-beta1 brings numerous bug fixes and improvements to the
Midgard 1.x series. The main improvement is support for the PHP4
scripting language in a modular way, enabling users to install Midgard
using the standard PHP 4.0.4 packages.

Other improvements include bug fixes to Asgard and an enhanced version
of Repligard, the Midgard replication utility.

However, this release of Midgard is still of beta quality, and should
not be used on production servers. Since we're moving from a patched
version of PHP3 to the official PHP4 release, there are many
compatibility issues to check. Because of this, developers of
Midgard-based sites or applications are encouraged to test their
applications with this release and report possible issues using the
Midgard BugTracker.

ABOUT MIDGARD

Midgard 1 is an Open Source (OS) content management system based on
Apache and MySQL. The system uses PHP as its scripting language. The
application and documentation are licensed LGPL, GPL and GFDL which
ensures developers, webmasters, ISPs, and business managers that
they're investing in a strategy that grants everyone the freedom to
share solutions and participate in the application design. While
Midgard will always implement an OS development to publishing
solution, future releases will include APIs for implementing
commercial applications. Midgard works on most common UNIX platforms,
including Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris.

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.

DOWNLOAD LOCATIONS

Source packages: http://www.midgard-project.org/article/55582.html

PHP 4.0.4: http://www.php.net/downloads.php

Midgard 1.4 manual: http://www.midgard-project.org/req/midgard-1.4/

BUG REPORTS

Bug reports and enhancement requests on Midgard 1.4.1-beta1 can be
submitted to the Midgard Bug Tracker at

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

Users are also encouraged to join the discussion on the Midgard user
and developer mailing lists. Information on subscribing can be found
from

http://www.midgard-project.org/article/996.html 

MIDGARD 1.4.1 ROADMAP

We are now in the process of stabilizing Midgard 1.4.1 for release
quality. The roadmap for produzing a final release of this Midgard
version is the following:

 * Midgard 1.4.1-beta1 - Today (Feb. 6th)
    This release should allow users to port existing
    sites to PHP 4.  

 * Midgard 1.4.1 Release Candidate (Feb. 21st)
    New features such as PHP 4 class support, repligard
    improvements, and user defined filters should work.

 * Midgard 1.4.1 Final (Mar. 2nd)

THE MIDGARD PROJECT

Midgard Project Association (MPRy) is a nonprofit organization founded
in Helsinki, Finland for the advancement of Midgard by guaranteeing
free usage to developers and users. MPRy is responsible for governing
copyrights for the major components of the Application. Voting members
of the board are a volunteer group of professional software engineers
who are responsible for managing the core distribution and
coordinating development.

MPRy promotes Midgard by publishing a Web site, mailing lists and
newsletter.  The organization represents Midgard by participating in
IT events, arranging training, Public Relations etc.

To support its operations, MPRy accepts donations and collects
membership fees. MPRy may choose to publish and sell supplemental
Midgard products. Membership to the Midgard Project is open to
everyone.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Emiliano Heyns, Midgard 1.4.1 release manager
	 emile@iris-advies.com

Henri Bergius, chairman, MPRy
         Henri.Bergius@iki.fi

http://www.midgard-project.org



/Bergie

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