MySource Matrix Developer

MySource Matrix Developer Newsletter Issue 87
Friday 11th August 2006

covers versions 3.8.5 stable, 3.10.0 stable, 3.11.0 development

News

Two New Stable Releases

The first stable release of the 3.10.x branch of MySource Matrix, version 3.10.0, was released on Monday. Version 3.10.0 has been 5 months in the making and contains almost 90 new features. 3.10.0 also contains 34 bug fixes and 4 minor functionality improvements since the 3.10.0 RC1 release.

The next stable release of the 3.8.x branch, version 3.8.5, was also released on Monday. Version 3.8.5 contains 30 bug fixes and a couple of minor functionality improvements. All users currently running 3.8.4 should upgrade to this new version.

Cache Manager Permission Key Hashing

There have been changes to the cache manager in all three current branch versions (3.8.x, 3.10.x, 3.11.x) to prevent problems with LDAP users with a long asset ID pushing the length of the permission key beyond the 255 character limit. Now the permission key is hashed using MD5.

The cache table in the database should be truncated, because the previous permission keys will no longer make any sense.

New Features

Errors Reported From Squiz Server

Added to: 3.11.0 development

When a HIPO job is run on the Squiz Server and dies because of an error, the user was not informed of the error or the fact that the job had died. Now, the HIPO job will check to see if the Squiz Server job has died and report any errors that were found.

Set Cache Expiry Trigger Action Updates

Added to: 3.8.6 stable, 3.10.1 stable, 3.11.0 development

This trigger action updates the expiry time of an asset's cache entries. This action has been updated to provide the following features, many of which also appear in the Clear Cache trigger action:

• The ability to choose assets to act upon in addition to the current asset
• The ability to set whether the action should apply to the asset(s) selected, their dependent children, or all of their children
• The ability to restrict the types of assets to be affected by this trigger action

New Data Source Graph Features in 3.8

Added to: 3.8.6 stable

Some features of the Data Source Graph asset, previously available in the then-current 3.9.0 dev and 3.10.x branch versions since February, have been made available in the 3.8.x branch version. These include:

The graph can now be drawn horizontally.
• The user can specify padding of the graph's axes.
• The ability to specify specific plot options for each data set.

Also, any associated Image Variety assets will be updated whenever the graph is updated.

Planned Development

Web Services: SOAP Application Assets

To be added to : 3.11.0 development
Estimated start date: already in development
Estimated end date: mid August 2006

Upgrading

3.11.0 Development

Additional queries:

Due to the changes to storage permission in the cache manager, the sq_cache table should be truncated:
DELETE * FROM sq_cache;

Additional comments: 

No additional upgrade steps are required.

3.10.0 Stable

Additional queries:

Due to the changes to storage permission in the cache manager, the sq_cache table should be truncated:
DELETE * FROM sq_cache;

Additional comments: 

No additional upgrade steps are required.

3.8.5 Stable

Additional queries:

Due to the changes to storage permission in the cache manager, the sq_cache table should be truncated:
DELETE * FROM sq_cache;

Additional comments: 

No additional upgrade steps are required.

New Bugs Added To Bug Tracker

Bug ID	3.8.x	3.10.x	Dev	Description
1537	Y	Y	Y	Preferences Screen of User Group - locale strings missing
1538	Y	Y	N	Asset Map count not updating (not confirmed)
1539	Y	Y	Y	Workflow step with empty logic number generate a parser error
1541	Y	Y	Y	Cant display nested content from Default Format of Paint Layout
1542	Y	Y	N	Process function return code is not treated consistently (not confirmed)
1543	Y	Y	N	Layout of the links report (not confirmed)
1544	Y	Y	N	Links Report - Exporting of the CSV file not working (not confirmed)
1545	Y	Y	N	Links report and the exported csv of the links report does not match (not confirmed)
1546	Y	Y	N	Blackout Period on Cron manager is editable for a sys admin (not confirmed)
1547	Y	Y	N	Display options section titles on the links report details screen (not confirmed)
1552	Y	Y	Y	embed movie plugin break in IE
1553	N	N	N	Encoding HTML entities (not confirmed)

Notes:

Bug #1510 (Archived files still available from front end) was submitted by KateN but was marked as Can Not Replicate after a developer was unable to reproduce the problem and received no feedback from the poster for 3 weeks.

Bug #1553 (Encoding HTML entities) was submitted by AFP-WMT as occurring in version 3.6.3. This version is no longer supported. The bug will be checked in currently-supported versions (3.8.x, 3.10.x, 3.11.0 Dev) only.

Bug #1554 (Duplicated IDs on repeated divs in asset listings, search etc) was submitted by AFP-WMT but was marked as a duplicate of bug #999 (Asset list items are invalid HTML by default) submitted by Raena Armitage on 4th November 2005, which was marked as Will Not Fix. The bug has been closed.

New Feature Requests Added To Bug Tracker

Bug ID	Description
1540	Account Manager - license
1548	FR: Option for Remote Content to tunnel everythings (even the headers)
1549	FR: Remote content to log errors to file
1550	FR: Remote Content: Non-replaced or bad links to open in a pop-up
1551	FR: Remote Content: Bodycopy + keywords

Bugs Fixed In The Bug Tracker

Bug ID	3.8.x	3.10.x	Dev	Description
1256	N	N	Y	No errors reported with Squiz Server
1535	Y	Y	Y	Data Source Graph - PHP Notice
1536	Y	Y	Y	Data Source Graph - PHP Notice when deleting a plot
1537	Y	Y	Y	Preferences Screen of User Group - locale strings missing
1539	Y	Y	Y	Workflow step with empty logic number generate a parser error
1541	Y	Y	Y	Cant display nested content from Default Format of Paint Layout
1552	Y	Y	Y	embed movie plugin break in IE

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