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1.. MediaGoblin Documentation
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3 Written in 2012 by MediaGoblin contributors
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5 To the extent possible under law, the author(s) have dedicated all
6 copyright and related and neighboring rights to this software to
7 the public domain worldwide. This software is distributed without
8 any warranty.
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10 You should have received a copy of the CC0 Public Domain
11 Dedication along with this software. If not, see
12 <http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>.
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15Release Notes
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18This chapter has important information for releases in it.
19If you're upgrading from a previous release, please read it
20carefully, or at least skim over it.
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26**Do this to upgrade**
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281. Make sure to run ``bin/gmg dbuptdate`` after upgrading.
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302. If you set up your server config with an older version of
31 mediagoblin and the mediagoblin docs, it's possible you don't
32 have the "theme static files" alias, so double check to make
33 sure that section is there if you are having problems.
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37**New features**
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39* **theming support**
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41 MediaGoblin now also includes theming support, which you can
42 read about in the section :ref:`theming-chapter`.
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44* **flatpages**
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46 MediaGoblin has a flatpages plugin allowing you to add pages that
47 are aren't media-related like "About this site...", "Terms of
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50 See :ref:`core-plugin-section` for plugin documentation
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56This release has one important change. You need to act when
57upgrading from a previous version!
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59This release changes the database system from MongoDB to
60SQL(alchemy). If you want to setup a fresh instance, just
61follow the instructions in the deployment chapter. If on
62the other hand you want to continue to use one instance,
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