[10 Jul 2008]

• search engine syntax now supports parentheses (WebSearch)
• search engine syntax now supports SPIRES query language (WebSearch)
• strict respect for per-collection sort options on the search results pages (WebSearch)
• improved parsing of search query with respect to non-existing field terms (WebSearch)
• fixed "any collection" switch on the search results page (WebSearch)
• added possibility for progressive display of detailed record page tabs (WebSearch)
• added support for multi-page RSS output (WebSearch)
• new search engine summarizer module with the cite summary output format (WebSearch, BibRank)
• "cited by" links are now generated only when needed (WebSearch)
• new experimental comprehensive author page (WebSearch)
• stemming for many indexes is now enabled by default (BibIndex)
• new intelligent journal index (BibIndex)
• new logging of missing citations (BibRank)
• citation indexer and searcher improvements and caching (BibRank)
• new low-level task submission facility (BibSched)
• new options in bibsched task monitor: view task options, log and error files; prune task to a history table; extended status reporting; failed tasks now need acknowledgement in order to restart the queue (BibSched)
• safer handling of task sleeping and waking up (BibSched)
• new experimental support for task priorities and concurrent task execution (BibSched)
• improved user-configured browser language matching (MiscUtil)
• new default behaviour not differentiating between guest users; this removes a need to keep sessions/uids for guests and robots (WebSession)
• optimized sessions and collecting external user information (WebSession)
• improved logging conflicts for external vs internal users (WebAccess)
• improved Single Sign-On session preservation (WebAccess)
• new 'become user' debugging facility for admins (WebAccess)
• new bibdocfile CLI tool to manipulate full-text files archive (WebSubmit)
• optimized redirection of old URLs (WebSubmit)
• new icon creation tool in the submission input chain (WebSubmit)
• improved full-text file migration tool (WebSubmit)
• improved stamping of full-text files (WebSubmit)
• new approval-related end-submission functions (WebSubmit)
• comments and descriptions of full-text files are now kept also in bibdoc tables, not only in MARC; they are synchronized during bibupload (WebSubmit, BibUpload)
• fixed navigation in public baskets (WebBasket)
• added detailed record page link to basket records (WebBasket)
• new removal of HTML markup in alert notification emails (WebAlert)
• improved OAI harvester logging and handling (BibHarvest)
• improved error checking (BibConvert)
• improvements to the record editing tool: subfield order change, repetitive subfields; improved record locking features; configurable per-collection curators (BibEdit)
• fully refactored WebJournal module (WebJournal)
• new RefWorks output format, thanks to Theodoros Theodoropoulos (BibFormat)
• fixed keyword detection tool's output; deactivated taxonomy compilation (BibClassify)
• new /stats URL for administrators (WebStat)
• better filtering of unused translations (WebStyle)
• updated French, Italian, Norwegian and Swedish translations; updated Japanese translation (thanks to Makiko Matsumoto and Takao Ishigaki); updated Greek translation (thanks to Theodoros Theodoropoulos); new Hungarian translation (thanks to Eva Papp)
• ... plus many other minor bug fixes and improvements

[27 Mar 2008]

• new Invenio configuration language, new inveniocfg configuration tool permitting more runtime changes and enabling separate local customizations (MiscUtil)
• phased out WML dependency everywhere (all modules)
• new common RSS cache implementation (WebSearch)
• improved access control to the detailed record pages (WebSearch)
• when searching non-existing collections, do not revert to searching in public Home anymore (WebSearch)
• strict calculation of number of hits per multiple collections (WebSearch)
• propagate properly language environment in browse pages, thanks to Ferran Jorba (WebSearch)
• search results sorting made accentless, thanks to Ferran Jorba (WebSearch)
• new OpenURL interface (WebSearch)
• added new search engine API argument to limit searches to record creation/modification dates and times instead of hitherto creation dates only (WebSearch)
• do not allow HTTP POST method for searches to prevent hidden mining (WebSearch)
• added alert and RSS teaser for search engine queries (WebSearch)
• new optimized index structure for fast integer bit vector operations, leading to significant indexing time improvements (MiscUtil, BibIndex, WebSearch)
• new tab-based organisation of detailed record pages, with new URL schema (/record/1/usage) and related CSS changes (BibFormat, MiscUtil, WebComment, WebSearch, WebStyle, WebSubmit)
• phased out old PHP based code; migration to Python-based output formats recommended (BibFormat, WebSubmit)
• new configurability to show/hide specific output formats for specific collections (BibFormat, WebSearch)
• new configurability to have specific stemming settings for specific indexes (BibIndex, WebSearch)
• optional removal of LaTeX markup for indexer (BibIndex, WebSearch)
• performance optimization for webcoll and optional arguments to refresh only parts of collection cache (WebSearch)
• optional verbosity argument propagation to the output formatter (BibFormat, WebSearch)
• new convenient reindex option to the indexer (BibIndex)
• fixed problem with indexing of some lengthy UTF-8 accented names, thanks to Theodoros Theodoropoulos for reporting the problem (BibIndex)
• fixed full-text indexing of HTML pages (BibIndex)
• new Stemmer module dependency, fixes issues on 64-bit systems (BibIndex)
• fixed download history graph display (BibRank)
• improved citation ranking and history graphs, introduced self-citation distinction, added new demo records (BibRank)
• fixed range redefinition and output message printing problems in the ranking indexer, thanks to Mike Marino (BibRank)
• new XSLT output formatter support; phased out old BFX formats (BibFormat)
• I18N output messages are now translated in the output formatter templates (BibFormat)
• formats fixed to allow multiple author affiliations (BibFormat)
• improved speed of the record output reformatter in case of large sets (BibFormat)
• support for displaying LaTeX forumas via JavaScript (BibFormat)
• new and improved output formatter elements (BibFormat)
• new escaping modes for format elements (BibFormat)
• output format template editor cache and element dependency checker improvements (BibFormat)
• output formatter speed improvements in PHP-compatible mode (BibFormat)
• new demo submission configuration and approval workflow examples (WebSubmit)
• new submission full-text file stamper utility (WebSubmit)
• new submission icon-creation utility (WebSubmit)
• separated submission engine and database layer (WebSubmit)
• submission functions can now access user information (WebSubmit)
• implemented support for restricted icons (WebSubmit, WebAccess)
• new full-text file URL and cleaner storage facility; requires file names to be unique within a given record (WebSearch, WebSubmit)
• experimental release of the complex approval and refereeing workflow (WebSubmit)
• new end-submission functions to move files to storage space (WebSubmit)
• added support for MD5 checking of full-text files (WebSubmit)
• improved behaviour of the submission system with respect to the browser "back" button (WebSubmit)
• removed support for submission "cookies" (WebSubmit)
• flexible report number generation during submission (WebSubmit)
• added support for optional filtering step in the OAI harvesting chain (BibHarvest)
• new text-oriented converter functions IFDEFP, JOINMULTILINES (BibConvert)
• selective harvesting improvements, sets, non-standard responses, safer resumption token handling (BibHarvest)
• OAI archive configuration improvements: collections retrieval, multiple set definitions, new clean mode, timezones, and more (BibHarvest)
• OAI gateway improvements: XSLT used to produce configurable output (BibHarvest)
• added support for "strong tags" that can resist metadata replace mode (BibUpload)
• added external OAI ID tag support to the uploader (BibUpload)
• added support for full-text file transfer during uploading (BibUpload)
• preserving full history of all MARCXML versions of a record (BibEdit, BibUpload)
• XMLMARC to TextMarc improvements: empty indicators and more (BibEdit)
• numerous reference extraction tool improvements: year handling, LaTeX handling, URLs, journal titles, output methods, and more (BibEdit)
• new classification daemon (BibClassify)
• classification taxonomy caching resulting in speed optimization (BibClassify)
• new possibility to define more than one keyword taxonomy per collection (BibClassify)
• fixed non-standalone keyword detection, thanks to Annette Holtkamp (BibClassify)
• new embedded page generation profiler (WebStyle)
• new /help pages layout and webdoc formatting tool (WebStyle)
• new custom style template verification tool (WebStyle)
• added support for the XML page() output format, suitable for AJAX interfaces (WebStyle)
• introduction of navigation menus (WebStyle)
• general move from HTML to XHTML markup (all modules)
• fixed alert deletion tool vulnerability (WebAlert)
• do not advertise baskets/alerts much for guest users; show only the login link (WebSession)
• password reset interface improvements (WebSession)
• new permanent "remember login" mechanism (WebSession, WebAccess)
• local user passwords are now encrypted (WebSession, WebAccess)
• new LDAP external authentication plugin (WebAccess)
• new password reset mechanism using new secure mail cookies and temporary role membership facilities (WebAccess, WebSession)
• added support for Single Sign-On Shibboleth based authentication method (WebAccess)
• new firewall-like based role definition language, new demo examples (WebAccess)
• external authentication and groups improvements: nicknames, account switching, and more (WebSession, WebAccess)
• task log viewer integrated in the task monitor (BibSched)
• new journal creation module (WebJournal)
• new generic statistic gathering and display facility (WebStat)
• deployed new common email sending facility (MiscUtil, WebAlert, WebComment, WebSession, WebSubmit)
• dropped support for MySQL-4.0, permitting to use clean and strict UTF-8 storage methods; upgrade of MySQLdb to at least 1.2.1_p2 required (MiscUtil)
• uncatched exceptions are now being sent by email to the administrator (MiscUtil, WebStyle)
• new general garbage collector with a possibility to run via the task scheduler and a possibility to clean unreferenced bibliographic values (MiscUtil)
• new generic SQL and data cacher (MiscUtil)
• new HTML page validator plugin (MiscUtil)
• new web test suite running in a real browser (MiscUtil)
• improved code kwalitee checker (MiscUtil)
• translation updates: Spanish and Catalan (thanks to Ferran Jorba), Japanese (Toru Tsuboyama), German (Benedikt Koeppel), Polish (Zbigniew Szklarz and Zbigniew Leonowicz), Greek (Theodoros Theodoropoulos), Russian (Yana Osborne), Swedish, Italian, French
• new translations: Chinese traditional and Chinese simplified (thanks to Kam-ming Ku)
• ... plus many other minor bug fixes and improvements

[20 Feb 2007]

• new support for external authentication systems (WebSession, WebAccess)
• new support for external user groups (WebSession)
• new experimental version of the reference extraction program (BibEdit)
• new optional Greek stopwords list, thanks to Theodoropoulos Theodoros (BibIndex)
• new Get_Recid submission function (WebSubmit)
• new config variable governing the display of the download history graph (BibRank)
• started deployment of user preferences (WebSession, WebSearch)
• split presentation style for "Narrow search", "Focus on" and "Search also" search interface boxes (WebSearch, WebStyle)
• updated CERN Indico and KEK external collection searching facility (WebSearch)
• fixed search interface portalbox and collection definition escaping behaviour (WebSearch Admin)
• fixed problems with external system number and OAI ID matching (BibUpload)
• fixed problem with case matching behaviour (BibUpload)
• fixed problems with basket record display and basket topic change (WebBasket)
• fixed output format template attribution behaviour (BibFormat)
• improved language context propagation in output formats (BibFormat)
• improved output format treatment of HTML-aware fields (BibFormat)
• improved BibFormat migration kit (BibFormat)
• improved speed and eliminated set duplication of the OAI repository gateway (BibHarvest)
• fixed resumption token handling (BibHarvest)
• improved record editing interface (BibEdit)
• fixed problem with empty fields treatment (BibConvert)
• updated Report_Number_Generation submission function to be able to easily generate report numbers from any submission information (WebSubmit)
• fixed problem with submission field value escaping (WebSubmit)
• fixed problem with submission collection ordering (WebSubmit)
• fixed BibSched task signal handling inconsistency (BibSched)
• fixed TEXT versus BLOB database problems for some tables/columns
• minor updates to the HOWTO Migrate guide and several admin guides (WebHelp, BibIndex, BibFormat)
• minor bugfixes to several modules; see ChangeLog for details and credits

[22 Dec 2006]

• previously experimental output formatter in Python improved and made default (BibFormat)
• previously experimental new submission admin interface in Python improved and made default (WebSubmit)
• new XML-oriented output formatting mode (BibFormat)
• new export-oriented output formats: EndNote, NLM (BibFormat)
• RSS 2.0 latest additions feed service (WebSearch, BibFormat)
• new XML-oriented metadata converter mode (BibConvert)
• new metadata uploader in Python (BibUpload)
• new integrated parallel external collection searching (WebSearch)
• improved document classifier: composite keywords, wildcards, cloud output (BibClassify)
• improved UTF-8 fulltext indexing (BibIndex)
• improved external login authentication subsystem (WebAccess)
• added possibility to order submission categories (WebSubmit)
• improved handling of cached search interface page formats, preferential sort pattern functionality, international collection names (WebSearch)
• improved behaviour of OAI harvester: sets, deleted records, harvested metadata transformation (BibHarvest)
• improved MARCXML schema compatibility concerning indicators; updates to the HTML MARC output format (BibEdit, BibUpload, BibFormat, and other modules)
• multiple minor bugs fixed thanks to the wider deployment of the regression test suite (all modules)
• new translation (Croatian) and several translation updates (Catalan, Bulgarian, French, Greek, Spanish); thanks to Ferran Jorba, Beatriu Piera, Alen Vodopijevec, Jasna Marković, Theodoros Theodoropoulos, and Nikolay Dyankov (see also CREDITS file)
• removed dependency on PHP; not needed anymore
• full compatibility with MySQL 4.1 and 5.0; upgrade from MySQL 4.0 now recommended
• full compatibility with FreeBSD and Mac OS X

[23 Jul 2006]

• output messages improved and enhanced to become more easily translatable in various languages (all modules)
• new translation (Bulgarian) and several updated translations (Greek, French, Russian, Slovak)
• respect langugage choice in various web application links (WebAlert, WebBasket, WebComment, WebSession, WebSubmit)
• fixed problem with commenting rights in a group-shared basket that is also a public basket with lesser rights (WebBasket)
• guest users are now forbidden to share baskets (WebBasket)
• fixed guest user garbage collection, adapted to the new baskets schema (WebSession)
• added possibility to reject group membership requests; sending informational messages when users are approved/refused by group administrators (WebSession)
• experimental release of the new BibFormat in Python (BibFormat)
• started massive deployment of the regression test suite, checking availability of all web interface pages (BibEdit, BibFormat, BibHarvest, BibIndex, BibRank, MiscUtil, WebAccess, WebBasket, WebComment, WebMessage, WebSearch, WebSession, WebSubmit)
• updated developer documentation (I18N output messages policy, test suite policy, coding style)

[30 Jun 2006]

• formerly known as CDSware; the application name change clarifies the relationship with respect to the CDS Sofware Consortium producing two flagship applications (CDS Indico and CDS Invenio)
• version number increased to v0.90 in the anticipation of the forthcoming v1.0 release after all the major codebase changes are now over
• new possibility to define user groups (WebGroup)
• new personal basket organization in topics (WebBasket)
• new basket sharing among user groups (WebBasket)
• new open peer reviewing and commenting on documents (WebComment)
• new user and group web messaging system (WebMessage)
• new ontology-based document classification system (BibClassify)
• new WebSubmit Admin (WebSubmit)
• new record editing web interface (BibEdit)
• new record matching tool (BibMatch)
• new OAI repository administration tool (BibHarvest)
• new OAI periodical harvesting tool (BibHarvest)
• new web layout templating system (WebStyle)
• new clean URL schema (e.g. /collection/Theses, /record/1234) (WebStyle)
• new BibTeX output format support (BibFormat)
• new possibility of secure HTTPS authentication while keeping the rest of the site non-HTTPS (WebSession)
• new centralized error library (MiscUtil)
• new gettext-based international translations, with two new beta translations (Japanese, Polish)
• new regression testing suite framework (MiscUtil)
• new all prerequisites are now apt-gettable for Debian "Sarge" GNU/Linux
• new full support for Mac OS X
• ... plus many fixes and changes worth one year of development