2010 Jul 1
And there it is: the new Dotclear 2.2 release!
Included here is a new installation wizard, a better handling of the tags in the administration interface, and more generally an administration interface that has been tweaked here or there to remove a bunch of small bugs. That's about it as long as we are talking about user-related changes, but more is to come, as most changes of this version were made under the hood, with new behaviours, some template tags refining, an updated JQuery, an exception handler mechanism, a better internal settings system, all things that will open the door to better plugins and themes.
On the administration side, this new release offers a smaller footprint on server resources, is more resilient to non standard PostgreSQL installations, is more tweakable and last but not least, is now fully PHP 5.3 compliant. As such it can now be installed on up-to-date Linux servers.
So there you are, go grab this new release and have fun. Most plugins have been updated to run smoothly on it and have new versions that can be installed in a click thanks to DAInstaller[1] and the newly reopened DotAddict. Our French Blog will be updated with some posts detailing this release's changes and we plan to write a comprehensive digest of those posts here sometimes next week.
Notes
[1] It has to be manually updated before it sees the 2.2 compatible plugins.
Comments
Great and thanks to all of the Dotclear team!
Congrats !
And the missing step: clear out the cache/ directory in the Dotclear 2 installation. After doing this, themes work again.
Pourquoi Dotclear ?
Il est facile et rapide un mettre en place
Il est in English
il offre de Tres bons resultas en terme de referencement
Il ya une Communauté d' utilisateurs Tres activa
Foro d entraide est Disponible
De nombreux plugings existentes
securite La Anti Spam est bonne
Upgrade turned into a nightmare. Automatic installation failed, manual installation didn't recognize config.php / db, re-set it up, half of the things were missing, complained about extra fields in the database.
Decided to screw it and install from scratch, getting a missing config.php error while it's there, used wizard, complains dotclear is already installed.
So essentially even with backups made, dotclear managed to confuse itself so much that nothing is working. Time to switch and re-do the website.
Update from 2.1.6 failed here also.
After adding some directories to overcome errors (like plugins/tags/..) the dashboard says "update successful" - but the blog throws an error:
"Cannot make non static method urlHandler::callHandler() static in class urlAlias in
/var/www/sites/liquid/inc/core/class.dc.modules.php on line 530"
Fortunately I had done a backup of the folder, and extracting this got the site up again.
But obviously the "auto-update" is not working correctly, i.e. leaves out various checks - so DO NOT USE IT!