Announcing CMS Made Simple 1.2
Oct 15, 2007 by Robert Campbell
At long last here it is. We've released it, the final package has had some testing, and we think that this is stable. Hopefully I'm not deleting this post in 15 minutes.
Anyways, Here is the list of what has changed in 1.2:
Version 1.2 "Barbados"
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- Adds capabilities to have a wysiwyg on the front end
- Adds the ability to select 'groups' as additional editors
- Now the 'admin group' automatically has all permissions, not
just the admin user
- Add a new page where default settings for new pages can be set
- Adds a new file manager
- Enhance the use of permissions when adding or editing content
- Adds a new 'print' plugin capable of generating pdf filees
from one or more pages
- News 2.5.1
* Moved the default summary and detail templates into
their own tab
* Adds An extra field
- Fix issues with stylesheet name changes after hitting 'apply'
- Fixes issues with spaces or underscores not being allowed in usernames
- Fixes pagination issues in the admin log, and anywhere that uses
the built in pagination functions.
- Turn error reporting to E_ALL and turn display_errors on
if debug mode is on.
- You can no longer delete the admin group
Notes:
- This is the New 'Stable' version, the 1.1 branch will no longer be maintained, unless there are circumstances that force us to do so
- We intend this to be the last version of the 1.x series unless there are critical bugs or security issues that pop up
- Some items (particularly with frontend News that didn't appear in the beta cycle were not important enough to restart the beta process for, and therefore will be taken care of in subsequent versions of News
© Copyright 2007 by CMSMS™ and the posts author(s). All rights reserved.
26 Responses to "Announcing CMS Made Simple 1.2"
On: Oct 15, 2007, Henry said:
Awesome work guys - I'll be updating some sites later today. This release fixes the few issues that I had with CMSMS. can't wait for v2 :)
On: Oct 16, 2007, Ben said:
Well, I tried to upgrade using the diff but I get the following errors:
Smart Error 83, cant find template
"Your cms is in the need of an upgrade -> /admin/upgrade File not found"
Maybe u can check your diff again, for me its not working.
Cheers.
http://www.restomacuisine.be
On: Oct 16, 2007, Yves said:
Super, good work this is really something :)
http://www.feuerwehrsuhr.ch
On: Oct 16, 2007, David said:
I always get this error trying to update a module using the module manager with 1.2. Got an idea how to fix it?
Error!
SOAP Error: HTTP Error: Couldn't open socket connection to server http://modules.cmsmadesimple.org/soap.php?module=ModuleRepository prior to connect(). This is often a problem looking up the host name.
http://www.feuerwehrsuhr.ch
On: Oct 16, 2007, David said:
And now my Site is down and doesnt work anymore... I don't recommend updating..
http://www.pocius.lt
On: Oct 16, 2007, ~Karolis said:
I have update without any problems. However, I can't find batch template operations anywhere :( Didn't I read that it will be included in 1.2? It was my most anticipated feature :(
On: Oct 16, 2007, Ben said:
@David: Restore ur backup.
http://Missingupdatescript
On: Oct 16, 2007, Christophe said:
I just did an upgrade with the diff package. Then I get the sign me database schema needs an update. But the script (install/upgrade.php) was not in the diff package. I downloaded the full package and that solved my problem...
http://www.technika.lt
On: Oct 16, 2007, Fenixoid said:
Everything works ;)
Afcourse, wehen you need to upgrade modules/ you need to chmot all modules to apache user rights. After upgerade - switch back to apache:user
I had no problem.
On: Oct 16, 2007, Russ said:
If you use the diff files - no modules are included, yet there are new modules e.g. FileManager?
http://cmsmadesimple.org
On: Oct 16, 2007, Ted Kulp said:
I've removed the diff files. They weren't made to be used on a large upgrade like this. Please use the complete version.... sorry for the mixup.
Thanks!
On: Oct 16, 2007, Arthur said:
Hi team,
Just upgraded from 1.1.4.1 to 1.2.
Up and running in 2 minutes!
Great work.
Thanks,
Arthur
On: Oct 17, 2007, Russ said:
Thanks Ted, but diff files are usefull. For all those who went down the diff route. Copy the install folder from the full package and add the modules you require. You may have to add/Install the new File Manger module and perhaps the Printing module.
Ted are there any others I've missed - could you post here?
Run the upgrade and you should be OK. My test local site seems fine... well at least for now. Good work to the dev team ;-)
Russ
p.s. are we standardising on a js library (e.g. jquery) for the future? Just seems to me there are numerous places in the admin module which could benefit?
http://www.kerner.de
On: Oct 17, 2007, Kerner said:
Up and running in 35 minutes (some error messages). Thanks a lot!
http://www.feuerwehrsuhr.ch
On: Oct 17, 2007, David said:
With the full update it works great now. Thank you for removing the diff files.
http://www.blogsweek.com/en/cms-made-simple-12/
On: Oct 17, 2007, CMS Made Simple 1.2 - BlogsWeek.com said:
[...] For additional details, please read the release announcement. [...]
On: Oct 18, 2007, Dennis said:
Hi how can i update from 1.1.4.1 without losing my current site?
http://d
On: Oct 18, 2007, Ella said:
Everything works. Thank you so much again for creating such useful and user/designer-friendly CMS!!
http://Reload
On: Oct 19, 2007, Andre said:
2 Minutes for upgrading 1.1.4.1 to 1.2 . Plus: Fine work, all customizations from me still work.
What's about updating the freshmeat.net/cmsmadesimple listing immediately after releasing a new version ?
I would be a volunteer ;-)
Andre
On: Oct 19, 2007, Dave said:
"- Enhance the use of permissions when adding or editing content" is this documented anywhere because my users pages now become inactive whenever they edit them.
http://www.openmutual.net
On: Oct 20, 2007, openmtl said:
Used full zip file to overwrite existing site from 1.1.4.1 to 1.2. Worked fine.
One little upgrade tweak would be when you hit http://mysite/install then it checks the site configuration and at the bottom have two buttons, one for a clean install and one for an upgrade. The clean install then prompts you for the admin password as normal and the upgrade button jumps you to the upgrade script.
Though recently we've done a lot of upgrades the script is usually run infrequently and people may have forgotten that to upgrade you go to http://mysite/install/upgrade.php rather than just going to http://mysite/install
To save people time I have created a patch to do this made up of a tiny bit of Javascript in installer_start.tpl ({literal} function goToURL() { window.location = "upgrade.php"; } {/literal} ) plus adding an to the page1.tpl. It seems to work on FF2/IE6.
On: Oct 22, 2007, Tom said:
Upgraded from 1.0.1 to 1.2 in about a minute! No issues... my site still looks and works great!
It's very impressive that the underlying architecture could flawlessly handle such a huge version jump. Kudos and congratulations to the folks that conceived and developed this outstanding piece of software... and many thanks!
-Tom
On: Oct 24, 2007, liudaz said:
- Adds capabilities to have a wysiwyg on the front end - maybe it as a little bit early to say. So far, on my several sites, and even on the fresh install of cmsms 1.2 i couldnt get the TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor to load up.
Maybe i am doing something wrong?
On: Oct 27, 2007, liudaz said:
My mistake, sorry. The front end WYSIWYG editor needs to be specified in the Admin Global setings page.
Everything works great! :)
On: Oct 28, 2007, Kevin said:
The upgrade from 1.1.3.1 to 1.2 messed up the paths in my config.php, but didn't take long to fix.
On: Nov 1, 2007, nothing said:
here's a simple stupid question, why doesn't cms made simple use its own blog setup - its using wordpress hello ? doesn't say much about a cms if they aren't using their own stuff
