[ANN] Radiant CMS 0.9.0 - Refraction Release

[Jim Gay]

Looks like it's time for another release of Radiant:

   http://radiantcms.org/download/

This is a major update from version 0.8.2. In this release we have a new 

user interface, internationalization of the admin interface, built-in pagination

of the admin interface and pagination of radius tags, and an updated

extension loader which allows extensions to live as gems.


WHAT IS RADIANT CMS?

Radiant is a no-fluff content management system made for designers and
programmers and is ideal for use on small teams. It is similar to
Movable Type or Textpattern, but is much more than a blogging engine.

Radiant features:

  * An elegant user interface
  * The ability to arrange pages in a hierarchy
  * Flexible templating with layouts, snippets, page parts, and a
    custom tagging language (Radius: http://radius.rubyforge.org)
  * A dynamic extension system
  * A simple user management/permissions system
  * Support for Markdown and Textile as well as traditional HTML
    (it's easy to create other filters)
  * Operates in two modes: dev and production depending on the URL
  * A caching system which expires pages every 5 minutes
  * Built using Ruby on Rails (which means that extending Radiant is
    as easy as any other Rails application)
  * Licensed under the MIT-License
  * And much more...

There's even a live demo over on the project Web site:

   http://radiantcms.org/demo/


WHAT'S NEW IN THIS RELEASE?

* Pull in aggregate tags from the aggregation extension [John Muhl, Sean Cribbs, Jim Gay]
* Fixed a bug which could cause the preferences submenu to dissapear [Mario Visic, Jim Gay]
* Fixed a bug PostgreSQL for creating pages with nested attributes [Andrew Cates]
* Updated to Rails 2.3.8 [Jim Gay]
* Added admin and Radius tag pagination [William Ross]
* Added will_paginate dependency [William Ross, Jim Gay]
* Added <r:gravatar/> radius tag [John Muhl]
* Exposed important view locals for partials that hook into the admin UI [Mislav Marohnić]
* Update to cucumber-rails 0.3.0 [Jim Gay]
* Update to Haml 2.2.24 [Jim Gay]
* Allow loading extension routes from the extension's config/routes.rb [Jim Gay]
* Cache admin.js in update task [Janne Asmala]
* Finally rename User.protected_attributes to unprotected_attributes [Jim Gay]
* Support i18n [Keith Bingman, many others]
* Only run migrate and update tasks with script/extension if they exist [John Muhl, Jim Gay]
* Dropped BlueCloth for kramdown [John Muhl]
* Updated sample images for Textile and Markdown [Jim Gay]
* Refactored Sass to separate out common styles [Jim Gay]
* Upgraded to HAML 2.2.19 [Jim Gay]
* Add future publishing feature [Anna Billstrom, Benny Degezelle, Jim Gay]
* Fixed support for newer Cucumber version [M. Scott Ford, William Ross]
* Fixed a bug in if/unless_content tags [Benny Degezelle]
* Support packaging extensions as gems [Josh French]
* Add tag reference to Layouts and Snippets [Jim Gay]
* Handle deploying to a sub-directory [Jim Gay]
* Ensure that generator specs actually test properly [Travis D. Warlick]
* Properly display errors on user password changes [Jim Gay]
* Prevent admin from removing her own admin privilege [Jim Gay]
* Move to Rails 2.3.5 [Jim Gay]
* Simplify admin tab API [Jim Gay, John Long, Sean Cribbs]
* Turned on HAML's "ugly" whitespace mode in production [John Muhl]
* Use HTML 5 doctype. [John Muhl]
* Miscellaneous HTML standards improvements [John Muhl]
* Fixed bug where pages were being cached in dev mode. This has been a problem since switching to Rack::Cache. [Jason Garber]
* Snippets are now only accessible to people with the "Designer" role. [John Long]
* Renamed "Developer" role to "Designer". [John Long]
* Verify that the cache directory exists before trying to store a response. [Sean Cribbs]
* Fix page-part deletion in JS. [Sean Cribbs]
* Don't cache extension-defined javascripts, but do cache the defaults. [Sean Cribbs]
* Fix dev-site behavior when 'dev.host' is configured. [Chris Ricca]
* Concatenate admin javascript files. [John Muhl]
* Use more descriptive page titles. [John Muhl]
* Allow non-standard controller methods for render_region. [Jim Gay]
* Updated to use Radius 0.6.1. [John Long]
* Correct type on content-type and move to more/hide language. [John Long]
* Add some helpful shortcut keys. [Sean Cribbs]
* Implemented "Blade" user-interface. [John Long, Chris Parrish, Daniel Beach, Brandon Mathis, Sean Cribbs, Ben Morrow, John Muhl]


INSTALLATION

We've worked hard to make it easy to install Radiant. For starters you
can download it with Ruby Gems:

% gem install radiant

Once the Radiant gem is installed you have access to the `radiant`
command. The `radiant` command is similar to the `rails` command (if you
are from the Rails world. It's how you generate a new Radiant project
for a website. So `cd` to the directory where you would like your
instance to be installed and type:

% radiant -d [mysql|postgres|sqlite3] .

Next, edit config/database.yml to taste. Then run the rake bootstrap task:

% rake production db:bootstrap

And start up the test server:

% script/server -e production

Finally, hit the /admin/ URL and you should be off to the races. See the
README file in the release for additional details.

If you are interested in other download options, visit the download
page: http://radiantcms.org/download/.


UPGRADING FROM 0.8.x

1. Update the Radiant gem:

   % gem update radiant

2. Change the RADIANT_GEM_VERSION constant in config/environment.rb
   to "0.9.0".

3. Run the update rake task:

   % rake radiant:update

4. Run migrations:

   % rake db:migrate

5. Restart the server


UPGRADING FROM 0.5.x

The upgrade process changed significantly from last release, so listen
up! To upgrade an existing installation, BACKUP YOUR DATABASE, update
the gem, and create a new Radiant project using the instructions above.
Then point Radiant to the right database by editing config/database.yml
and execute the following command in your project directory:

% rake db:migrate

If you have problems during the upgrade, please let us know.


CONTRIBUTORS

Radiant wouldn't be possible without the help of some fine people. The
following people have made contributions to this release:

* Mario Visic         * Dirk Kelly                   * Chris Ricca
* Andrew Cates     * Anna billstrom            * Jim Gay
* Janne Asmala     * Williams Ross            * John Muhl
* Keith Bingman    * M. Scott Ford             * Ben Morrow
* Josh French       * Travis D. Warlick, Jr.   * Sean Cribbs
* Jason Garber      * Brandon Mathis          * Daniel Beach
* Chris Parrish       * John Long


Thanks guys! If you'd like to hop on the development band wagon head on
over to our github repo site (http://github.com/radiant/).


SUPPORT

The best place to get support is definitely on the Radiant mailing list.
There's a crowd of people there who have been hanging around for many
moons now. Newbie questions are welcome! To sign up, go to:

http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/

The Radiant mailing list is also accessible via Ruby forum:

http://groups.google.com/group/radiantcms


Enjoy!

--
Jim Gay
for the Radiant CMS Dev Team
http://radiantcms.org