nitrc:NITRC Release Notes
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NITRC Pre-Release v2.0.0-5 - 2/12/2010
- Bug Fixes
- Removed automatic forum postings (created when new tools/resources are approved) from the front page "Recently Active Forums" and "More Forums" list
NITRC Pre-Release v2.0.0-4 - 1/21/2010
- New Features
- Added reCAPTCHA to user registration form to reduce spam account creation
- Bug Fixes
- Added "Rating/Reviews" back to tool/resource menus
- Added link to statistics in the tool/resource home pages
- Fixed free-text searches for a tool/resource that has a name containing a hyphen ("-")
NITRC Major Release v2.0.0-2 - 12/23/2009
- Pre-Releases Included in Major Release
- v1.3.2-1
- v1.3.1-2
- New Home Page
- New and improved design based on extensive usability testing
- Optimized for finding and downloading software
- Browse for tools/resources right on our home page
- Visit our community links for the latest events, jobs, funding, and other related community topics
- Keep up with the latest discussions and files featured on the right of the home page
- Visit often to keep an eye on the latest and hottest NITRC featured tool/resource
- Simpler Tool/Resource Home Page
- Download now! Improved design allows users to easily download software
- Keep up! Your favorite tool/resource now has a recent activity application to keep you informed of current events
- Help out! Community involvement is highlighted and encouraged in the new participate section
- Get connected! Tool administrators can take advantage of our newly added support for NCBC's Biositemaps
NITRC Pre-Release v1.3.2-1 - 10/22/2009
- New Features
- Users can edit their existing forum postings
- Users can use BBCode to format and add images to forum postings
- Tool/resource administrators can use BBCode to format and add images to package release notes
- Tool/resource administrators can change the default columns that are listed in a tracker
- Users have the option to have a weekly email sent to them with their current and outstanding tasks
- Tool/resource administrators can list the funding sources for their projects
- Phrase searching (in quotes) is now supported for site-wide and tool/resource searches
- Users can monitor NITRC site-wide news
- User sessions are increased to 48 hours
- Bug Fixes
- Improved the display of new-lines in RSS feeds
- Corrected the display of custom tracker queries
NITRC Other Changes - 10/1/09
- New tool/resource association type: "From the Makers Of"
NITRC Pre-Release v1.3.1-2 - 9/1/2009
- New Features
- Users now have the ability to request deletion of a document
- Tool/Resource documents display date, time, and size
- Visitors now see the download count on a tool's summary page
- Users can build custom tool/resource tracker queries which display and sort by custom field values
- Users can post attachments along with their forum posts
- We've enabled monitoring of MediaWiki pages
- Tool/Resource administrators can easily email all project members
- Our email parser for tracker emails now indicates which tracker email bounced or could not be read
- Tool/resource administrators can upload and download large files to their project via FTP
- We are now crawling site-wide content for our search every day
- Bug Fixes
- Our automatic language detection algorithm has been improved for our Opera users
NITRC Major Release v1.3.0-2 - 7/09/2009
- Pre-Releases Included in Major Release
- v1.2.1-1
- v1.2.2-1
- v1.2.3-3
- v1.2.4-0
- Subversion Upgrade and Stability
- Updated Subversion to 1.4.6
- Migrated existing Subversion repositories to the FSFS database system (From DBD) to improve data integrity
NITRC Pre-Release v1.2.4-0 - 6/26/2009
- Bug Fixes
- Text files from SVN repositories are properly displayed when viewed on-line
- Help wanted jobs that are renewed last for 4 weeks
- When viewing a tool/resource, the search type defaults to searching within that tool/resource
- MediaWiki pages now have the "Feedback" button
- The matrix view of "Browse by Attribute" correctly sorts by ratings
- Reviews are numbered by date submitted to provide better consistency
NITRC Pre-Release v1.2.3-3 - 6/2/2009
- New Features
- Tool/Resource administrators can set up project web sites which point to their own HTML pages
- Tool/Resource administrators can track access to project pages using their own Google Analytics accounts
- Tool/Resource administrators can specify custom messages shown prominently on tracker "browse" pages
- Tool/Resource job listings remain open for 4 weeks (up from 2 weeks before)
- Internal stats tool augmented by sitewide Google Analytics tracking
- Mailing lists are now spam-filtered
- Bug Fixes
- Software Map no longer shows paging controls when "show all" is selected
- News monitor email messages now correctly handle single and double quotes
- MediaWiki plugin now recognizes logout followed by immediate login as a different user
- Document Manager plugin can now handle documents with special characters in their filenames
- Statistical graphs no longer display errors when activity data is unavailable
- Large tool/resource backup uploads no longer time out
- Language detection now works correctly for Camino browser users
- The boolean terms OR, AND, and NOT are no longer highlighted in search results
- Search terms in search result titles are now highlighted correctly in Gecko-based browsers
- Deleting a tracker no longer deletes unrelated monitors
NITRC Pre-Release v1.2.2-1 - 4/28/2009
- New Features
- Tool/Resource Boolean-based search with sortable results
- Site-Wide Boolean-based search that indexes both NITRC and directly-linked external pages
- Capability to define relationships between NITRC tools and resources
- MediaWiki <pubmed> command that generates wiki links to PubMed articles
- MediaWiki <nitrc> command that generates wiki links to NITRC trackers, tasks, documents, and file releases
- New site satisfaction survey
- New NITRC feedback menu item and form
- Bug Fixes
- Corrected the sort order of tools in the "Attribute Comparison" and "Tool/Resource Tables" (under "Browse By Attribute")
NITRC Pre-Release v1.2.1-1 - 12/22/2008
- New Features
- Added quick links to the front page.
- Modified text to reflect the site scope expansion from purely fMRI-related to more general functional and structural neuroimaging.
- Modified terminology to "attributes" and "categories" for the functional attributes bringing them to the top of the Attribute List.
- Bug Fixes
- Fixed MediaWiki file uploads.
NITRC Pre-Release v1.2.1-0 - 10/28/2008
- New Features
- News/RSS
- E-mail notification for new news items
- RSS feeds can now be found in the URL bar for project pages
- Forums
- Create advanced mathematical equations (LaTeX notation)
- Ratings
- Alter your existing ratings
- Help
- Site help is now linked to Mediawiki
- Ratings forms are simpler with context help
- Menus
- Increased menu consistency for better navigation
- Software Map
- Expanded tool scope
- Cleaner display
- Mediawiki
- Now included in project data backup
- All NITRC Community wiki pages upgraded to Mediawiki
- News/RSS
NITRC Major Release v1.2.0-2 - 9/22/2008
- Pre-Releases Included in Major Release
- v1.1.1-1
- Help Enhancements
- Updated User Guide and added over 40 help text pop-up "i" icons on various pages with information from the User Guide
- Mediawiki Now Offered!
- Due to NITRC community demand, Mediawiki 1.12 is offered as a wiki plugin. PHPwiki will be phased out over the next few months
- Project Administration
- ability for tool/resource administrators to back up their project data using virtual machine functionality
- ability to identify default graphic for project summary page
- System Enhancements
- provide link to description of activity percentiles in "Most Active" lists
- Documentation Updates and Bug Fixes
- customized content for NITRC Community document manager
- Docs
- retain lost cookie when loading Microsoft documents
- retain ability for tool/resource administrators to delete documents within a folder
- removed document review message for roles which have document administrator privileges
- corrected HTML escaped content for 404 document not found page
- File Release System
- display hidden packages on files page for project and FRS administrators
- hide hidden file releases on project summary page
- News
- enabled submission of news items by registered users
- resolved wrong count of news bytes to review on project administrator's personal page
- Project Data Backup
- provide ability to import a sample project's backup database
- display missing forum threads and news, removed blank SCM page
- Upload_export.php nitrcadmin user appears to be logged in
- Associate member missing
- FRS file missing
- retain task comments and tracker items in backup database
- view files successfully from FRS
- implement SVN backup tarball and project backup
- Project Administration
- Javascript enforcing project's long description permits too many characters (1023 Max)
- rename confusing "Request to join" link for project members to "View Members"
- provide safeguard against administratorless projects
- allow use of special characters in project name, user added license names and display them properly
- Project administration statistics link does not have project administration menu
- remove nonexistent functionality link from tool/resource administrator page
- display line breaks properly for public descriptions on project summary pages
- remove pending document email when tool/resource adminstrator submits a document
- edit "Active Features"
- clarify error message when images are incorrectly deleted
- Rating and Review
- remove unnecessary display of empty rating/reviews
- SCM
- ensure CVS 2 Tracker plugin works correctly
- report correct path for SVN access
- allow for anonymous CVS access as well as ability to commit files to new SCM-CVS module
- Search
- Change "Google" search term to "Site-wide" search
- Duplicate results in Files and News results for Tool/Resource search
- Snippets
- resolve lost of snippet raw text version when downloading code snippet
- Software Map
- allow editing of FMRI Tool Tree categorization
- resolve sort function of software map's "Tool/Resource Table", correct software map counts
- Change "Browse By Topic" to just "Browse By Category"
- System
- resolve PHP 5 JPGraph error
- include SVN counts to "Most Active" calculation as it counts CVS
- resolve broken forum, task, and tracker factories due to database upgrade to Postgresql 8.1
- provide error message for login attempt with incorrect username or password **allow for HTML special characters in e-mail messages
- update NITRC global variables for PHP 5 compliance
- Tasks
- resolve task Gantt chart bug
- Tracker
- ensure all tracker updates include item's last modified date
- resolve Internet Explorer paging issue in tracker items
- remove display of "Close Date" for tracker items when an item has been reopened
- Internet Explorer 7 centers tracker list and descriptions
NITRC Pre-Release v1.1.1-1 - 5/6/2008
- Feature Requests
- Search
- Implemented Google Search.
- Search of mailing lists/forums.
- Advanced Google search options (boolean etc.).
- Search by developer name.
- Search for ontology terms.
- Better description of search functionality.
- Searches uploaded document text.
- Project
- Safeguard against administrator-less projects.
- Removed ratings on/off toggle on project administration page.
- Allow existing forge-like tool/resource project import for new project registration,
- RSS feeds for tool/resources now include tool/resource name in RSS link.
- Search
NITRC Major Release v1.1.0-1 - 4/1/2008
- Pre-Releases Included in Major Release
- v1.0.5-2
- v1.0.5-1
- v1.0.4-2
- v1.0.4-1
- Documentation Updates and Bug Fixes
- Docs
- Allow all registered users to submit documents to the "Community Docs" page.
- Fixed bug in display of pending docs folder.
- Jobs
- All registered users can now see project job openings.
- RSS
- Swapped references for RSS 0.91 specification.
- Added project names to RSS feed html links.
- Surveys
- Fixed bug in "not active" setting for newly created surveys.
- Snippets
- Fixed display of snippet creation feedback and cleaned up form html.
- Tasks
- Added warning to task managers that cvs upload will remove unreferenced task IDs.
- Account
- Fixed reverse DNS look-up for server to interact with certain mail systems (AOL, Yahoo, etc.).
- Tracker
- Fixed a total and open tracker count bug.
- Fixed help in user guide text to match tracker form.
- SCM
- Fixed an erroneous Anonymous Subversion Access message.
- Stats
- Corrected download count for Talairach Deamon project.
- Docs
NITRC Pre-Release v1.0.5-2 - 3/13/2008
- Documentation Updates and Bug Fixes
- Document Manager
- Added a check to prevent duplicate document names.
- Fixed a document count bug project summary pages.
- File Release System
- Added an error message when trying to access a non-existent file.
- Added support for moving URLs between releases.
- Fixed error messages generated when uploading release notes or a change log.
- Fixed formatting of text file display in IE 7.
- Set the default of the "Preformat Text" checkbox to unchecked.
- News Manager
- Fixed formatting of e-mail addressed at the end of lines in posts.
- Project Manager
- Fixed handling of custom menu URLs with embedded GET variables.
- Project Registration
- Changed content to match current functionality.
- Updated error handling to remember the source control selection.
- RSS Feeds
- Fixed an error with accessing RSS feeds using Firefox.
- Source Control
- Modified site configuration to better support SVN over HTTPS.
- Snippet Library
- Added support for deleting code snippets.
- Fixed a snippet language typo.
- Survey Manager
- Fixed a permission error.
- Task Manager
- Fixed date error checking.
- Tool Tree
- Added support for sorting all matching tools.
- Fixed a tool count error.
- Trackers
- Added display of the close date on summary pages.
- Added support for multi-page mass updates.
- Fixed a bug in the display of custom fields.
- Fixed help text for uploading attachments.
- Fixed the width of the "Detailed description" field.
- Wiki
- Updated the PubMed macro to use the new Entrez eUtils interface.
- Document Manager
NITRC Pre-Release v1.0.5-1 - 2/22/2008
- Documentation Update and Bug Fixes
- Various documentation manager content changes and minor bug fixes.
- Fixed a bug in which the document manager returned blank pages when following an external URL.
- Fixed the PubMed PhpWiki macro to work with the latest version of Entrez eUtils.
- Fixed an error reporting bug in the NITRC web services.
- Updated the User Guide to describe additional document manager functionality.
- Added an "About NITRC" page.
- Updated instructions for adding a subproject to a task manager.
- Tool Tree Enhancements
- Added the ability to list all tools/resources at once.
- Added a dynamic tool tree viewer, allowing better navigation of categories and better display of category context.
- Improved the tool/resource comparison tables.
- Added the ability to view the entire tool tree at once.
- Now displaying all tools in the selected category and its subcategories.
NITRC Pre-Release v1.0.4-2 - 12/27/2007
- Documentation Update and Bug Fixes
- Fixed text and formatting on the FRS page.
NITRC Pre-Release v1.0.4-1 - 12/27/2007
- Documentation Update and Bug Fixes
- Short notes are displayed for releases on the FRS page when a user hovers over a release link
- A menu of standard names is provided when adding items to a tool/resource menu
- Added a count on the summary page of documents in the documentation manager
- Added a default group for submitted documents
- Added MATLAB and IDL as code snippet types
- Links to published reviews (where they exist) appear on project summary pages
- Improved instructions for document upload and file release pages
NITRC Major Release v1.0.3-2 - 10/1/2007
- Documentation Update and Bug Fixes
- Error browsing svn repository fixed
- Footer now includes accessibility link
- Purpose of FRS "Preserve my ASCII-style text" checkbox altered
- Fixed javascript error in IE generated when user enters data in tool registration public info field
- In adding or updating skills profile, end date cannot be before start date
- Font size in IE7 made larger
- Default start date in tracker reporting option set to current month/year
- FRS table elements aligned under their headers (508 compliant)
- Delete file for admin in doc mangement found
- Added obvious way to stop monitoring a project's files
- Reporting tracker option no longer available to registered users who aren't project team members
- "data" changed to "Data" on RSS/XML export page
- Added length checking at tool registration
- "View Calendar" link on tracker opens a calendar only window (theme removed)
- Confusing note on docs admin page made clear
- URL in 'request to join' email to project admin fixed
- Added link for site admin to create job categories and job skills for jobs
- Custom rendering field template for trackers verified
- Formatting of release notes made sensible
- Updated text of 'Permission Denied' error message for non-site administrators on jobs admin page
NITRC Pre-Release v1.0.2-3 - 9/10/2007
- Documentation Update and Bug Fixes
- Added privacy, accessibility, and copyright notices (located on the footer)
- Document email notifications now include the document group name
- The RSS image now appears with RSS feed links
- The front page news box now appears directly underneath introductory text
- The menu item "NITRC Bug and Feature Requests" was renamed to clarify its purpose
NITRC Pre-Release v1.0.2-2 - 8/31/2007
- Matrix View of Topic Tree Results
- Users are now able to view the tools listed in the topic tree as a matrix with sortable columns. (This is available through fMRI Tools & Resources/Browse by Topic.)
- Descriptive Text for Licenses and Tool Topics
- On the tool summary and topic tree pages, a question-mark is placed next to every license and topic assignment that leads to a definition of that item. (Topic definitions are populated by an editor available to the site administrator and are being populated.)
- PubMed References in PHPWiki
- A reference to a PubMed article can be made in a tool's Wiki through the tag "[pubmed:#]", where "#" is the ID of the article. For example, [pubmed:314159] appears as: Katzen, B T, et al. Percutaneous transhepatic portal venography in the diagnosis and management of gastroesophageal varices. South Med J. 1979 Aug; 72 (8): 942-5.
- User Interface Enhancements
- The member list on the tool page lists members by role.
- Unanswered questions are not displayed when viewing a tool's reviews.
- For newly registered tools, a "Reference" role is created to allow NITRC users to request to become references for that tool.
- The user guide, system text, and error text has been updated to support the newly added features.
NITRC Pre-Release v1.0.1-1 - 8/8/2007
- Links to External Tool Resources and Files
- Tool Administrators are now able to create tool-specific menu items that point to resources on external Web sites. (This is available through Admin/Custom Tool Menu Entries.)
- Tool Administrators are now able to create file releases through NITRC that pass through to external Web sites. NITRC will keep track of the number of click-throughs for each release link.
- Updated Menu System
- Tool resources are listed alphabetically in the tool menu. This allows consistency across projects while enabling tool administrators to add their own custom menu items.
- Updated Web Content
- A number or error messages have been rewritten to make them more informative.
NITRC Pre-Release v1.0.0-1 - 07/16/2007
New features include:
- Tool Reviews
- Registered users are now able to rate and review the tools listed on NITRC.
- Average ratings appear on tool summary pages as well as on the fMRI Tool Tree.
- All users are able to peruse entered tool/resource reviews.
- Updated Menu System
- The default GForge tabbed interface has been replaced with pull-down menus.
- The menu system converts to an HTML list when !JavaScript is disabled for accessibility.
- Updated Web Content
- Many default GForge pages have been customized for NITRC and are more informative.
