Dedication along with this software. If not, see
<http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>.
+.. _release-notes:
+
=============
Release Notes
=============
If you're upgrading from a previous release, please read it
carefully, or at least skim over it.
+0.6.1
+=====
+
+This is a short, bugfix release.
+
+**Do this to upgrade**
+
+1. Update to the latest release. If checked out from git, run:
+ ``git fetch && git checkout -q v0.6.1``
+2. Make sure to run
+ ``./bin/python setup.py develop --upgrade && ./bin/gmg dbupdate``
+
+This release switches the default terms of service to be off by
+default and corrects some mistakes in the default terms of service.
+
+Turning the terms of service on is very easy, just set ``show_tos`` in
+the ``[mediagoblin]`` section of your config to ``true``.
+
+
+0.6.0
+=====
+
+**Do this to upgrade**
+
+1. Update to the latest release. If checked out from git, run:
+ ``git fetch && git checkout -q v0.6.0``
+2. Make sure to run
+ ``./bin/python setup.py develop --upgrade && ./bin/gmg dbupdate``
+
+That's it, probably! If you run into problems, don't hesitate to
+`contact us <http://mediagoblin.org/pages/join.html>`_
+(IRC is often best).
+
+This tool has a lot of new tools for administrators, hence the
+nickname "Lore of the Admin"!
+
+**New features:**
+
+- New tools to control how much users can upload, both as a general
+ user limit, or per file.
+
+ You can set this with the following options in your mediagoblin
+ config file: `upload_limit` and `max_file_size`. Both are integers
+ in megabytes.
+
+ There is an option to control how much each individual user can
+ upload too, though an interface for this is not yet exposed. See
+ the "uploaded" field on the core__users table.
+
+- MediaGoblin now contains an authentication plugin for ldap! You
+ can turn on the mediagoblin.plugins.ldap plugin to make use of
+ this. See the documentation: :ref:`ldap-plugin`
+
+- There's a new command line upload tool! At long last! See
+ `./bin/gmg addmedia --help` for info on how to use this.
+
+- There's now a terms of service document included in MediaGoblin.
+ It's turned on by default, but you can turn it off if you prefer,
+ just set the configuration option of `show_tos` in the [mediagoblin]
+ section of your config to false.
+
+ Alternately, you can override the template for the terms of service
+ document to set up your own.
+
+- We have a lot of new administrative tooling features!
+ - There's a built-in privileges/permissions system now.
+ Administrators are given access to modifying these parameters
+ from a user administration panel.
+ - Users can submit reports about other problematic users or media
+ and administrators are given tools to resolve said reports and
+ ban/unban users if needed.
+
+- New version of video.js is included with MediaGoblin. Slight
+ amount of skinning to match the MediaGoblin look, otherwise also
+ uses the new default skin.
+
+Developer-oriented changes:
+
+- New developer tool for quickly setting up a development environment
+ in `devtools/make_example_database.sh`. Requires doing a checkout
+ of our other tool `mg_dev_environments <https://gitorious.org/mediagoblin/mg-dev-environments/>`_
+ (probably in the parent Directory) though!
+- A "foundations" framework has entered into the codebase.
+ This is mostly just relevant to coders, but it does mean that it's
+ much easier to add database structures that need some entries filled
+ automatically by default.
+- Refactoring to the authentication code and the reprocessing code
+
+
+0.5.1
+=====
+
+v0.5.1 is a bugfix release... the steps are the same as for 0.5.1.
+
+**Bugfixes:**
+
+- python 2.6 compatibility restored
+- Fixed last release's release notes ;)
+
+
+0.5.0
+=====
+
+**NOTE:** If using the API is important to you, we're in a state of
+ransition towards a new API via the Pump API. As such, though the old
+API still probably works, some changes have happened to the way oauth
+works to make it more Pump-compatible. If you're heavily using
+clients using the old API, you may wish to hold off on upgrading for
+now. Otherwise, jump in and have fun! :)
+
+**Do this to upgrade**
+
+1. Make sure to run
+ ``./bin/python setup.py develop --upgrade && ./bin/gmg dbupdate``
+ after upgrading.
+
+.. mention something about new, experimental configure && make support
+
+2. Note that a couple of things have changed with ``mediagoblin.ini``. First
+ we have a new Authentication System. You need to add
+ ``[[mediagoblin.plugins.basic_auth]]`` under the ``[plugins]`` section of
+ your config file. Second, media types are now plugins, so you need to add
+ each media type under the ``[plugins]`` section of your config file.
+
+
+3. We have made a script to transition your ``mediagoblin_local.ini`` file for
+ you. This script can be found at:
+
+ http://mediagoblin.org/download/0.5.0_config_converter.py
+
+If you run into problems, don't hesitate to
+`contact us <http://mediagoblin.org/pages/join.html>`_
+(IRC is often best).
+
+**New features**
+
+* As mentioned above, we now have a plugable Authentication system. You can
+ use any combination of the multiple authentication systems
+ (:ref:`basic_auth-chapter`, :ref:`persona-chapter`, :ref:`openid-chapter`)
+ or write your own!
+* Media types are now plugins! This means that new media types will
+ be able to do new, fancy things they couldn't in the future.
+* We now have notification support! This allows you to subscribe to media
+ comments and to be notified when someone comments on your media.
+* New reprocessing framework! You can now reprocess failed uploads, and
+ send already processed media back to processing to re-transcode or resize
+ media.
+* Comment preview!
+* Users now have the ability to change their email associated with their
+ account.
+* New oauth code as we move closer to federation support.
+* Experimental pyconfigure support for GNU-style configue and makefile
+ deployment.
+* Database foundations! You can now pre-populate the database models.
+* Way faster unit test run-time via in-memory database.
+* All mongokit stuff has been cleaned up.
+* Fixes for non-ascii filenames.
+* The option to stay logged in.
+* Mediagoblin has been upgraded to use the latest `celery <http://celeryproject.org/>`_
+ version.
+* You can now add jinja2 extensions to your config file to use in custom
+ templates.
+* Fixed video permission issues.
+* Mediagoblin docs are now hosted with multiple versions.
+* We removed redundent tooltips from the STL media display.
+* We are now using itsdangerous for verification tokens.
+
+
+0.4.1
+=====
+
+This is a bugfix release for 0.4.0. This only implements one major
+fix in the newly released document support which prevented the
+"conversion via libreoffice" feature.
+
+If you were running 0.4.0 you can upgrade to v0.4.1 via a simple
+switch and restarting mediagoblin/celery with no other actions.
+
+Otherwise, follow 0.4.0 instructions.
+
+
+0.4.0
+=====
+
+**Do this to upgrade**
+
+1. Make sure to run
+ ``./bin/python setup.py develop --upgrade && ./bin/gmg dbupdate``
+ after upgrading.
+2. See "For Theme authors" if you have a custom theme.
+3. Note that ``./bin/gmg theme assetlink`` is now just
+ ``./bin/gmg assetlink`` and covers both plugins and assets.
+ Keep on reading to hear more about new plugin features.
+4. If you want to take advantage of new plugins that have statically
+ served assets, you are going to need to add the new "plugin_static"
+ section to your nginx config. Basically the following for nginx::
+
+ # Plugin static files (usually symlinked in)
+ location /plugin_static/ {
+ alias /srv/mediagoblin.example.org/mediagoblin/user_dev/plugin_static/;
+ }
+
+ Similarly, if you've got a modified paste config, you may want to
+ borrow the app:plugin_static section from the default paste.ini
+ file.
+5. We now use itsdangerous for sessions; if you had any references to
+ beaker in your paste config you can remove them. Again, see the
+ default paste.ini config
+6. We also now use git submodules. Please do:
+ ``git submodule init && git submodule update``
+ You will need to do this to use the new PDF support.
+
+**For theme authors**
+
+If you have your own theme or you have any "user modified templates",
+please note the following:
+
+* mediagoblin/bits/ files above-content.html, body-end.html,
+ body-start.html now are renamed... they have underscores instead of
+ dashes in the filenames now :)
+* There's a new file: ``mediagoblin/bits/frontpage_welcome.html``.
+ You can easily customize this to give a welcome page appropriate to
+ your site.
+
+
+**New features**
+
+* PDF media type!
+* Improved plugin system. More flexible, better documented, with a
+ new plugin authoring section of the docs.
+* itsdangerous based sessions. No more beaker!
+* New, experimental Piwigo-based API. This means you should be able
+ to use MediaGoblin with something like Shotwell. (Again, a word of
+ caution: this is *very experimental*!)
+* Human readable timestamps, and the option to display the original
+ date of an image when available (available as the
+ "original_date_visible" variable)
+* Moved unit testing system from nosetests to py.test so we can better
+ handle issues with sqlalchemy exploding with different database
+ configurations. Long story :)
+* You can now disable the ability to post comments.
+* Tags now can be up to length 255 characters by default.
+
+
+0.3.3
+=====
+
+**Do this to upgrade**
+
+1. Make sure to run ``bin/gmg dbupdate`` after upgrading.
+2. OpenStreetMap is now a plugin, so if you want to use it, add the
+ following to your config file:
+
+ .. code-block:: ini
+
+ [plugins]
+ [[mediagoblin.plugins.geolocation]]
+
+If you have your own theme, you may need to make some adjustments to
+it as some theme related things may have changed in this release. If
+you run into problems, don't hesitate to
+`contact us <http://mediagoblin.org/pages/join.html>`_
+(IRC is often best).
+
+**New features**
+
+* New dropdown menu for accessing various features.
+
+* Significantly improved URL generation. Now mediagoblin won't give
+ up on making a slug if it looks like there will be a duplicate;
+ it'll try extra hard to generate a meaningful one instead.
+
+ Similarly, linking to an id no longer can possibly conflict with
+ linking to a slug; /u/username/m/id:35/ is the kind of reference we
+ now use to linking to entries with ids. However, old links with
+ entries that linked to ids should work just fine with our migration.
+ The only urls that might break in this release are ones using colons
+ or equal signs.
+
+* New template hooks for plugin authoring.
+
+* As a demonstration of new template hooks for plugin authoring,
+ openstreetmap support now moved to a plugin!
+
+* Method to add media to collections switched from icon of paperclip
+ to button with "add to collection" text.
+
+* Bug where videos often failed to produce a proper thumbnail fixed!
+
+* Copying around files in MediaGoblin now much more efficient, doesn't
+ waste gobs of memory.
+
+* Video transcoding now optional for videos that meet certain
+ criteria. By default, MediaGoblin will not transcode webm videos
+ that are smaller in resolution than the MediaGoblin defaults, and
+ MediaGoblin can also be configured to allow theora files to not be
+ transcoded as well.
+
+* Per-user license preference option; always want your uploads to be
+ BY-SA and tired of changing that field? You can now set your
+ license preference in your user settings.
+
+* Video player now responsive; better for mobile!
+
+* You can now delete your account from the user preferences page if
+ you so wish.
+
+**Other changes**
+
+* Plugin writers: Internal restructuring led to mediagoblin.db.sql* be
+ mediagoblin.db.* starting from 0.3.3
+
+* Dependency list has been reduced not requiring the "webob" package anymore.
+
+* And many small fixes/improvements, too numerous to list!
+
+
+0.3.2
+=====
+
+This will be the last release that is capable of converting from an earlier
+MongoDB-based MediaGoblin instance to the newer SQL-based system.
+
+**Do this to upgrade**
+
+ # directory of your mediagoblin install
+ cd /srv/mediagoblin.example.org
+
+ # copy source for this release
+ git fetch
+ git checkout tags/v0.3.2
+
+ # perform any needed database updates
+ bin/gmg dbupdate
+
+ # restart your servers however you do that, e.g.,
+ sudo service mediagoblin-paster restart
+ sudo service mediagoblin-celeryd restart
+
+
+**New features**
+
+* **3d model support!**
+
+ You can now upload STL and OBJ files and display them in
+ MediaGoblin. Requires a recent-ish Blender; for details see:
+ :ref:`deploying-chapter`
+
+* **trim_whitespace**
+
+ We bundle the optional plugin trim_whitespace which reduces the size
+ of the delivered html output by reducing redundant whitespace.
+
+ See :ref:`core-plugin-section` for plugin documentation
+
+* **A new API!**
+
+ It isn't well documented yet but we do have an API. There is an
+ `android application in progress <https://gitorious.org/mediagoblin/mediagoblin-android>`_
+ which makes use of it, and there are some demo applications between
+ `automgtic <https://github.com/jwandborg/automgtic>`_, an
+ automatic media uploader for your desktop
+ and `OMGMG <https://github.com/jwandborg/omgmg>`_, an example of
+ a web application hooking up to the API.
+
+ This is a plugin, so you have to enable it in your mediagoblin
+ config file by adding a section under [plugins] like::
+
+ [plugins]
+ [[mediagoblin.plugins.api]]
+
+ Note that the API works but is not nailed down... the way it is
+ called may change in future releases.
+
+* **OAuth login support**
+
+ For applications that use OAuth to connect to the API.
+
+ This is a plugin, so you have to enable it in your mediagoblin
+ config file by adding a section under [plugins] like::
+
+ [plugins]
+ [[mediagoblin.plugins.oauth]]
+
+* **Collections**
+
+ We now have user-curated collections support. These are arbitrary
+ galleries that are customizable by users. You can add media to
+ these by clicking on the paperclip icon when logged in and looking
+ at a media entry.
+
+* **OpenStreetMap licensing display improvements**
+
+ More accurate display of OSM licensing, and less disruptive: you
+ click to "expand" the display of said licensing.
+
+ Geolocation is also now on by default.
+
+* **Miscelaneous visual improvements**
+
+ We've made a number of small visual improvements including newer and
+ nicer looking thumbnails and improved checkbox placement.
+
+
+
+0.3.1
+=====
+
+**Do this to upgrade**
+
+1. Make sure to run ``bin/gmg dbuptdate`` after upgrading.
+
+2. If you set up your server config with an older version of
+ mediagoblin and the mediagoblin docs, it's possible you don't
+ have the "theme static files" alias, so double check to make
+ sure that section is there if you are having problems.
+
+
+
+**New features**
+
+* **theming support**
+
+ MediaGoblin now also includes theming support, which you can
+ read about in the section :ref:`theming-chapter`.
+
+* **flatpages**
+
+ MediaGoblin has a flatpages plugin allowing you to add pages that
+ are aren't media-related like "About this site...", "Terms of
+ service...", etc.
+
+ See :ref:`core-plugin-section` for plugin documentation
+
0.3.0
=====
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