Invenio v1.0.0-rc0

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Invenio v1.0.0-rc0 is released
December 21, 2010
http://invenio-software.org/
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Invenio v1.0.0-rc0 was released on December 21, 2010.

This is the initial release candidate for Invenio v1.0.0.  It is well
tested and stable but it contains a few known issues that we plan to
address in a forthcoming release candidate.  We would like to
encourage you to try v1.0.0-rc0 on your test server and to report us
any issues you may encounter.

What's new:
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 *) CDS Invenio becomes Invenio as of this release

 *) new facility of hosted collections; support for external records
    in search collections, user alerts and baskets (WebSearch,
    WebAlert, WebBasket)

 *) support for nested parentheses in search query syntax (WebSearch)

 *) new refersto/citedby search operators for second-order searches in
    citation map (BibRank, WebSearch)

 *) numerous improvements to SPIRES query syntax parser (WebSearch)

 *) enhancement to search results summaries, e.g. co-author lists on
    author pages, e.g. h-index (WebSearch)

 *) new support for unAPI, Zotero, OpenSearch, AWS (WebSearch)

 *) new phrase and word-pair indexes (BibIndex)

 *) new fuzzy author name matching mode (BibIndex)

 *) new time-dependent citation ranking family of methods (BibRank)

 *) full-text search now shows context snippets (BibFormat)

 *) improvements to the basket UI, basket export facility (WebBasket)

 *) new support for FCKeditor in submissions and user comments,
    possibility to attach files (WebComment, WebSubmit)

 *) commenting facility enhanced with rounds and threads (WebComment)

 *) new facility to moderate user comments (WebComment)

 *) enhanced CLI tool for document file management bringing new
    options such as hidden file flag (WebSubmit)

 *) numerous improvements to the submission system, e.g. asynchronous
    JavaScript upload support, derived document formats, icon
    creation, support for automatic conversion of OpenOffice
    documents, PDF/A, OCR (WebSubmit)

 *) new full-text file metadata reader/writer tool (WebSubmit)

 *) new experimental SWORD protocol client application (BibSword)

 *) complete rewrite of the record editor using Ajax technology for
    faster user operation, with new features such as field templates,
    cloning, copy/paste, undo/redo, auto-completion, etc (BibEdit)

 *) new multi-record editor to alter many records in one go (BibEdit)

 *) new Ajax-based record differ and merger (BibMerge)

 *) new fuzzy record matching mode, with possibility to match records
    against remote Invenio installations (BibMatch)

 *) new circulation and holdings module (BibCirculation)

 *) new facility for matching provenance information when uploading
    records (BibUpload)

 *) new possibility of uploading incoming changes into holding pen
    (BibUpload)

 *) new batch uploader facility to support uploading of metadata files
    and of full-text files either in CLI or over web (BibUpload)

 *) new record exporting module supporting e.g. Sitemap and Google
    Scholar export methods (BibExport)

 *) improvements to the keyword classifier, e.g. author and core
    keywords (BibClassify)

 *) new facility for external robot-like login method (WebAccess)

 *) numerous improvements to the journal creation facility, new
    journal `Atlantis Times' demo journal (WebJournal)

 *) refactored and improved OAI exporter and harvester (BibHarvest)

 *) new taxonomy-based and dynamic-query knowledge base types
    (BibKnowledge)

 *) possibility to switch on/off user features such as alerts and
    baskets based on RBAC rules (WebAccess and other modules)

 *) various improvements to task scheduler, for example better
    communication with tasks, possibility to run certain bibsched
    tasks within given time limit, etc (BibSched)

 *) new database dumper for backup purposes (MiscUtil)

 *) new plotextractor library for extracting plots from compuscripts,
    new figure caption index and the Plots tab (MiscUtil, BibIndex,
    Webearch)

 *) enhanced reference extrator, e.g. support for DOI, for author name
    recognition (MiscUtil)

 *) new register emergency feature e.g. to alert admins by SMS in case
    the task queue stops (MiscUtil)

 *) infrastructure move from mod_python to mod_wsgi, support for
    mod_xsendfile (WebStyle and many modules)

 *) infrastructure move from jsMath to MathJax (MiscUtil)

 *) some notable backward-incompatible changes: removed authentication
    methods related to Apache user and group files, changed BibFormat
    element's API (BibFormat, many modules)

 *) new translations (Afrikaans, Galician, Georgian, Romanian,
    Kinyarwanda) plus many translation updates

 *) other numerous improvements and bug fixes done in about 1600
    commits over Invenio v0.99 series

Download:
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  <http://invenio-software.org/download/invenio-1.0.0-rc0.tar.gz>
  <http://invenio-software.org/download/invenio-1.0.0-rc0.tar.gz.md5>
  <http://invenio-software.org/download/invenio-1.0.0-rc0.tar.gz.sig>

Installation notes:
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Please follow the INSTALL file bundled in the distribution tarball.

Upgrade notes:
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Upgrade from v0.99 series is not recommended for production servers
yet.  For test servers, please install an empty Invenio v1.0 series
installation, dump your production tables and load them onto your test
system, and run the usual `make update-v0.99.3-tables' statements
followed by reindexing.  More concrete upgrade instructions will be
provided with the final Invenio v1.0.0 release.

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