From jjb at ibiblio.org Thu Oct 11 12:11:48 2007 From: jjb at ibiblio.org (John Joseph Bachir) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:11:48 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Lyceum-announce] Lyceum 1.0 Message-ID: We are extremely proud and excited to announce Lyceum 1.0. We???ll be talking more about the larger Lyceum landscape over the next several days. For now, here's a list of improvements since 0.34: * Synchronized with WordPress 2.0.11 * Even greater plugin and theme compatibility with WordPress * Improved and expanded search functionality * Vastly improved interface for assigning permissions to users * More complete set of system-admin tools for managing users and blogs * Ability to restrict number of blogs a user can create * Refined admin interface layout * Performance optimizations, some of them very significant for large installations * Bundled plugins: Lyceumified Akismet, Creative Commons wpLicense * Dozens of bug fixes Get it via SVN or as a .tar.gz from the downloads page. Report bugs and feature suggestions on trac. Get help on the support forums, email lists, or IRC channel. Much thanks to everyone who has contributed to Lyceum over the years. Dozens of code submissions, hundreds of bug submissions and feature suggestions, great conversations on IRC, email, and the forums, have all made Lyceum the powerful tool that it is today. And we're just getting started :-D John -- John Bachir http://lyceum.ibiblio.org/ http://blog.johnjosephbachir.org/ aim/yim/msn/jabber.org/gtalk: johnjosephbachir 713-494-2704 irc://irc.freenode.net/lyceum From jjb at ibiblio.org Wed Oct 31 01:14:48 2007 From: jjb at ibiblio.org (John Joseph Bachir) Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:14:48 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Lyceum-announce] Lyceum 1.0.1 Message-ID: Lyceum 1.0.1 is out the door. Thanks to 1.0 users who reported bugs and suggestions. Bugs that have been fixed include charset specification on the login page, which was crucial for i11n users, placement of the Akismet dialogue box, and a few incorrect links. A new feature in this release is the ability to specify whether new blogs are populated with an example post and an example page, and what the text of said post and page will be. In addition, if a blog has no posts, now instead of a 404 message, there will be a friendlier message suggesting that the user write their first post (if the user is logged in and has authorship privileges) or visit the portal to see other content on the site. See an example here. Please note the two new configuration constants in wp-config-sample.php. It is important that you add these to your wp-config.php after upgrading your code. Get it via SVN or as a .tar.gz from the downloads page. http://lyceum.ibiblio.org/downloads Report bugs and feature suggestions on trac. http://wiki.lyceum.ibiblio.org/index.php/Trac_Guide Get help on the support forums, email lists, or IRC channel. http://lyceum.ibiblio.org/support -- John Bachir http://lyceum.ibiblio.org/ http://blog.johnjosephbachir.org/ aim/yim/msn/jabber.org/gtalk: johnjosephbachir 713-494-2704 irc://irc.freenode.net/lyceum