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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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14 | .. _release-notes: |
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16 | ============= |
17 | Release Notes | |
18 | ============= | |
19 | ||
20 | This chapter has important information for releases in it. | |
21 | If you're upgrading from a previous release, please read it | |
22 | carefully, or at least skim over it. | |
23 | ||
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24 | 0.4.1 |
25 | ===== | |
26 | ||
27 | This is a bugfix release for 0.4.0. This only implements one major | |
28 | fix in the newly released document support which prevented the | |
29 | "conversion via libreoffice" feature. | |
30 | ||
31 | If you were running 0.4.0 you can upgrade to v0.4.1 via a simple | |
32 | switch and restarting mediagoblin/celery with no other actions. | |
33 | ||
34 | ||
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35 | 0.4.0 |
36 | ===== | |
37 | ||
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38 | **Do this to upgrade** |
39 | 1. Make sure to run ``bin/gmg dbupdate`` after upgrading. | |
40 | 2. See "For Theme authors" if you have a custom theme. | |
41 | 3. Note that ``./bin/gmg theme assetlink`` is now just | |
42 | ``./bin/gmg assetlink`` and covers both plugins and assets. | |
43 | Keep on reading to hear more about new plugin features. | |
44 | 4. If you want to take advantage of new plugins that have statically | |
45 | served assets, you are going to need to add the new "plugin_static" | |
46 | section to your nginx config. Basically the following for nginx:: | |
47 | ||
48 | # Plugin static files (usually symlinked in) | |
49 | location /plugin_static/ { | |
50 | alias /srv/mediagoblin.example.org/mediagoblin/user_dev/plugin_static/; | |
51 | } | |
52 | ||
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53 | Similarly, if you've got a modified paste config, you may want to |
54 | borrow the app:plugin_static section from the default paste.ini | |
55 | file. | |
56 | 5. We now use itsdangerous for sessions; if you had any references to | |
57 | beaker in your paste config you can remove them. Again, see the | |
58 | default paste.ini config | |
59 | ||
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60 | **For theme authors** |
61 | ||
62 | If you have your own theme or you have any "user modified templates", | |
63 | please note the following: | |
64 | ||
65 | * mediagoblin/bits/ files above-content.html, body-end.html, | |
66 | body-start.html now are renamed... they have underscores instead of | |
67 | dashes in the filenames now :) | |
68 | * There's a new file: ``mediagoblin/bits/frontpage_welcome.html``. | |
69 | You can easily customize this to give a welcome page appropriate to | |
70 | your site. | |
71 | ||
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74 | * PDF media type! |
75 | * Improved plugin system. More flexible, better documented, with a | |
76 | new plugin authoring section of the docs. | |
77 | * itsdangerous based sessions. No more beaker! | |
78 | * New, experimental Piwigo-based API. This means you should be able | |
79 | to use MediaGoblin with something like Shotwell. (Again, a word of | |
80 | caution: this is *very experimental*!) | |
81 | * Human readable timestamps, and the option to display the original | |
82 | date of an image when available (available as the | |
83 | "original_date_visible" variable) | |
84 | * Moved unit testing system from nosetests to py.test so we can better | |
85 | handle issues with sqlalchemy exploding with different database | |
86 | configurations. Long story :) | |
87 | * You can now disable the ability to post comments. | |
88 | * Tags now can be up to length 255 characters by default. | |
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92 | ===== |
93 | ||
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94 | **Do this to upgrade** |
95 | ||
96 | 1. Make sure to run ``bin/gmg dbupdate`` after upgrading. | |
97 | 2. OpenStreetMap is now a plugin, so if you want to use it, add the | |
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100 | .. code-block:: ini |
101 | ||
102 | [plugins] | |
103 | [[mediagoblin.plugins.geolocation]] | |
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104 | |
105 | If you have your own theme, you may need to make some adjustments to | |
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106 | it as some theme related things may have changed in this release. If |
107 | you run into problems, don't hesitate to | |
108 | `contact us <http://mediagoblin.org/pages/join.html>`_ | |
109 | (IRC is often best). | |
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111 | **New features** |
112 | ||
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113 | * New dropdown menu for accessing various features. |
114 | ||
115 | * Significantly improved URL generation. Now mediagoblin won't give | |
116 | up on making a slug if it looks like there will be a duplicate; | |
117 | it'll try extra hard to generate a meaningful one instead. | |
118 | ||
119 | Similarly, linking to an id no longer can possibly conflict with | |
120 | linking to a slug; /u/username/m/id:35/ is the kind of reference we | |
121 | now use to linking to entries with ids. However, old links with | |
122 | entries that linked to ids should work just fine with our migration. | |
123 | The only urls that might break in this release are ones using colons | |
124 | or equal signs. | |
125 | ||
126 | * New template hooks for plugin authoring. | |
127 | ||
128 | * As a demonstration of new template hooks for plugin authoring, | |
129 | openstreetmap support now moved to a plugin! | |
130 | ||
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131 | * Method to add media to collections switched from icon of paperclip |
132 | to button with "add to collection" text. | |
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133 | |
134 | * Bug where videos often failed to produce a proper thumbnail fixed! | |
135 | ||
fda5ea7a | 136 | * Copying around files in MediaGoblin now much more efficient, doesn't |
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137 | waste gobs of memory. |
138 | ||
139 | * Video transcoding now optional for videos that meet certain | |
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140 | criteria. By default, MediaGoblin will not transcode webm videos |
141 | that are smaller in resolution than the MediaGoblin defaults, and | |
142 | MediaGoblin can also be configured to allow theora files to not be | |
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144 | |
145 | * Per-user license preference option; always want your uploads to be | |
146 | BY-SA and tired of changing that field? You can now set your | |
147 | license preference in your user settings. | |
148 | ||
149 | * Video player now responsive; better for mobile! | |
150 | ||
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151 | * You can now delete your account from the user preferences page if |
152 | you so wish. | |
153 | ||
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156 | * Plugin writers: Internal restructuring led to mediagoblin.db.sql* be |
157 | mediagoblin.db.* starting from 0.3.3 | |
158 | ||
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159 | * Dependency list has been reduced not requiring the "webob" package anymore. |
160 | ||
161 | * And many small fixes/improvements, too numerous to list! | |
162 | ||
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164 | 0.3.2 |
165 | ===== | |
166 | ||
167 | This will be the last release that is capable of converting from an earlier | |
168 | MongoDB-based MediaGoblin instance to the newer SQL-based system. | |
169 | ||
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170 | **Do this to upgrade** |
171 | ||
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172 | # directory of your mediagoblin install |
173 | cd /srv/mediagoblin.example.org | |
174 | ||
175 | # copy source for this release | |
176 | git fetch | |
177 | git checkout tags/v0.3.2 | |
178 | ||
179 | # perform any needed database updates | |
180 | bin/gmg dbupdate | |
181 | ||
182 | # restart your servers however you do that, e.g., | |
183 | sudo service mediagoblin-paster restart | |
184 | sudo service mediagoblin-celeryd restart | |
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186 | |
187 | **New features** | |
188 | ||
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189 | * **3d model support!** |
190 | ||
191 | You can now upload STL and OBJ files and display them in | |
192 | MediaGoblin. Requires a recent-ish Blender; for details see: | |
193 | :ref:`deploying-chapter` | |
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194 | |
195 | * **trim_whitespace** | |
196 | ||
197 | We bundle the optional plugin trim_whitespace which reduces the size | |
198 | of the delivered html output by reducing redundant whitespace. | |
199 | ||
200 | See :ref:`core-plugin-section` for plugin documentation | |
201 | ||
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202 | * **A new API!** |
203 | ||
204 | It isn't well documented yet but we do have an API. There is an | |
205 | `android application in progress <https://gitorious.org/mediagoblin/mediagoblin-android>`_ | |
206 | which makes use of it, and there are some demo applications between | |
207 | `automgtic <https://github.com/jwandborg/automgtic>`_, an | |
208 | automatic media uploader for your desktop | |
209 | and `OMGMG <https://github.com/jwandborg/omgmg>`_, an example of | |
210 | a web application hooking up to the API. | |
211 | ||
212 | This is a plugin, so you have to enable it in your mediagoblin | |
213 | config file by adding a section under [plugins] like:: | |
214 | ||
215 | [plugins] | |
216 | [[mediagoblin.plugins.api]] | |
217 | ||
218 | Note that the API works but is not nailed down... the way it is | |
219 | called may change in future releases. | |
220 | ||
221 | * **OAuth login support** | |
222 | ||
223 | For applications that use OAuth to connect to the API. | |
224 | ||
225 | This is a plugin, so you have to enable it in your mediagoblin | |
226 | config file by adding a section under [plugins] like:: | |
227 | ||
228 | [plugins] | |
229 | [[mediagoblin.plugins.oauth]] | |
230 | ||
231 | * **Collections** | |
232 | ||
233 | We now have user-curated collections support. These are arbitrary | |
234 | galleries that are customizable by users. You can add media to | |
235 | these by clicking on the paperclip icon when logged in and looking | |
236 | at a media entry. | |
237 | ||
238 | * **OpenStreetMap licensing display improvements** | |
239 | ||
240 | More accurate display of OSM licensing, and less disruptive: you | |
241 | click to "expand" the display of said licensing. | |
242 | ||
243 | Geolocation is also now on by default. | |
244 | ||
245 | * **Miscelaneous visual improvements** | |
246 | ||
247 | We've made a number of small visual improvements including newer and | |
248 | nicer looking thumbnails and improved checkbox placement. | |
249 | ||
250 | ||
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252 | 0.3.1 |
253 | ===== | |
254 | ||
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255 | **Do this to upgrade** |
256 | ||
257 | 1. Make sure to run ``bin/gmg dbuptdate`` after upgrading. | |
258 | ||
259 | 2. If you set up your server config with an older version of | |
260 | mediagoblin and the mediagoblin docs, it's possible you don't | |
261 | have the "theme static files" alias, so double check to make | |
262 | sure that section is there if you are having problems. | |
263 | ||
264 | ||
265 | ||
266 | **New features** | |
267 | ||
268 | * **theming support** | |
269 | ||
270 | MediaGoblin now also includes theming support, which you can | |
271 | read about in the section :ref:`theming-chapter`. | |
272 | ||
273 | * **flatpages** | |
274 | ||
275 | MediaGoblin has a flatpages plugin allowing you to add pages that | |
276 | are aren't media-related like "About this site...", "Terms of | |
277 | service...", etc. | |
278 | ||
279 | See :ref:`core-plugin-section` for plugin documentation | |
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281 | ||
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282 | 0.3.0 |
283 | ===== | |
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284 | |
285 | This release has one important change. You need to act when | |
286 | upgrading from a previous version! | |
287 | ||
288 | This release changes the database system from MongoDB to | |
289 | SQL(alchemy). If you want to setup a fresh instance, just | |
290 | follow the instructions in the deployment chapter. If on | |
291 | the other hand you want to continue to use one instance, | |
292 | read on. | |
293 | ||
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295 | to follow these steps: |
296 | ||
297 | 1. Make sure your MongoDB is still running and has your | |
298 | data, it's needed for the conversion. | |
299 | ||
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300 | 2. Configure the ``sql_engine`` URI in the config to represent |
301 | your target database (see: :ref:`deploying-chapter`) | |
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303 | 3. You need an empty database. | |
304 | ||
305 | 4. Then run the following command:: | |
306 | ||
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309 | 5. Start your server and investigate. | |
310 | ||
311 | 6. That's it. |