From yvo at muze.nl  Fri Aug 20 14:58:57 2010
From: yvo at muze.nl (Yvo Brevoort)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:58:57 +0200
Subject: [Ariadne-announce] Ariadne 2.7.2 released
Message-ID: <i4lu3v$41b$1@olympos.muze.nl>

The main goal for this release was to enhance the performance of 
Ariadne, to make every single site and the Ariadne backend faster and 
snappier. A lot of time was spent with the Ariadne profiler to find out 
where performance impact came from - even more experimentation on fixes 
followed. The result is quite amazing - CPU time needed for displaying 
the Ariadne backend went down from 2 seconds to 0.3; The speedup in 
websites that display a lot of data should be in the same range, and can 
be tuned even further using the profiler if needed.

A queueing mechanism for Image Magick has been added to Ariadne, to 
prevent it from eating up all the system resources. This mechanism 
allows better performance tuning when a lot of Image Magick calls need 
to be executed, to make sure the websites stay responsive while the 
images are processed.

New features:
- more speed, less CPU time needed.
- added image-magick queue to prevent denial of service through lots of 
image magick calls
- groups are now allowed outside /system/groups/
- added ftp client to ar
- added runtime test for config.ini before saving
- reinstated editor selection (YUI or Toolbar)
- reworked gettext/loadtext nls
- Added option to delete a file for a specific language
- recursive SVN checkout and update now allow a specific revision number

Additions to existing features:
- removed lots of debug statements to speed things up
- speedups in editor.ini, typetree aanroep
- reworked compression support
- import/export skips compression of files/templates folders to speed 
things up
- speedups in SVN support, reuse the SVN instance
- typetree nls moved to typetree.ini, deprecates ariadne object-based 
typetree
- speedups in icon fetching
- reworked mysql query compiler
- added visual queue for uploaded files in file/photo dialogs
- explorer/user interface language is now treated seperate from the data 
language
- User interface now updates to the new language after changing the 
users language.
- explorer tree now also updates when a node is changed
- explorer now re-selects an item after an object is added
- 0 values can now be displayed using ar_html and ar_xml

Bugfixes:
- fixed calendar call for articles
- several fixes in the nls/language support
- several fixes to better support website speed profiling
- fixed backend to use backend-urls instead of frontend urls
- fix in HTML toolbar editor to allow classes on editable divs
- fixes in ar/html/menu
- lots of code cleanup
- fix post/get/callargs after failed logins
- fix in customdata dialog to prevent arrays/objects being destroyed 
when using this dialog
- bugfix in SVN resolved, conflicts can now be resolved correctly from 
within Ariadne
- bugfix in the installer for SVN support, removed trailing slash.
- Fixed broken owner grants to work again
- fixes in manual mimetype setting for pfiles
- fix for 'crop' to make sure the result is the requested size.
- fixed windowsizes and window dialog names
- allow logoff from any object
- language list sorted to be more consistent
- added new 404 page styling
- fixed mogrify window and options, vtype is removed since it is overwritten
- layout improvements in the lock dialog
- bugfixes in grants dialog
- SVN dialogs now requires a repository to be entered

Deprecated:
- deprecated mod_json in favour of json_encode