Plodcasting 0.0.13 (Alpha release) (May 11, 2005)

This is not a final release. Experimental releases should only be used for testing and development. Do not use these on production sites, and make sure you have proper backups before installing.

Many improvments and bugfixes since the initial release; We now have the ability to support multiple stations. Some nifty portlets are provided to get your podcasts on the home page. There is a new workflow system which drives an exciting RPC blog-style pingback system, and much more!

For additional information about this project, please visit the overview page .

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Release Notes

Just about every component in Plodcasting has had a make-over since the initial release:

• Pingback: We now support blogging style RPC Pingback protocol. We also have a new pinger tool, complete with it's own control panel.
• Workflow: A new workflow somewhat based on Plone Default workflow, but with a nifty flexible workflow script system that allows Plone developers filesystem based control over workflow actions.
• New Portlets: The joy of Podcasting from your home page. We have a latest Podcasts portlet, and a stations portlet, complete with optional iPodder compatible logo.
• Fixes to RSS2 Feeds: Now validated by most podcasting software. RSS Feeds now show up in the correct order.
• Action-icons for Podcast feeds - I've nicked some icons from Firefox. I hope they do not mind.
• Many missing icons no longer missing.
• Caching control panel; switch off or caching if you have more bandwidth than Bill Gates.

Change log

• Release 0.0.13 - More fixes to the [[Pingback]] system. I'm still in need of constructive feedback from users. The Ping tab now works. It gives a summary of pings an object has sent.
• Release 0.0.12 - I think I have basic RPC pinging working. Any time you publish an object (using the workflow transition called publish), a URL on PingOMatic (or whatever you set in the portal pinger) will be RPC-Pinged. I am fairly sure that it is sending the wrong URLs, but please provide feedback if you can.
• Release 0.0.11 is my first attempt at a generic extendable workflow system. Previosuly the system sort-of used the standard Plone Workflow. Now the quickinstaller brings its own custom workflow, called "podcasting_workflow", which superficially looks exactly the same as the default Plone Workflow; The main difference is that my workflow can trigger scripts and change objects when their security status changes. I anticpate the main use of this will be ping links and [http://www.pingomatic.com auto-pinger] sites when an episode is published.
• Release 0.0.10 gives you a new numbering system. Dont be afraid of the extra zero. I've just adopted a [http://www.kernel.org Linux Kernel] style revision numbering system. I've also added a new portlet that lists out all the master-podcast feeds, for more information see: [[Plodcasting Portlets]]. I fixed a bug that caused shows from one station to appear in another. I fixed a bug that caused gaps to be left when no photos were provided on an object. I have also included some nice new contributed icons. Please see the readme.txt file for author information.
• Release 0.09 is mainly a bunch of bugfixes: Added the missing icon for people folder. Fixed a bug that caused a crash on upgrade. Fixed a bug that caused some RSS feeds to be in reverse order. A bug caused cache information to reset on upgrade. All fixed, all for you!
• Relese 0.08 offers some tidyups and much requested features. From now on, station staff will be stored in a special folder within the station object. This seems a little less cluttered to me. Ive also allowed the main station object to have a general podcast, that will include all the shows for that station.
• Release 0.06 brings cute action-icons for Podcast XML. Users of Mozilla-Firefox will be familiar with the orange icon that now appears on any content object that is capable of generating a Podcast XML document. TopicTreeNodes are now discussable by default, and have some body text. Please provide more feedback on how this ought to work.
• Release 0.04 is now in Subversion. This new release corrects some annoying bugs from the previous version, plus adds the "latest podcasts" portlet. You can read more about it on the [[Plodcasting Portlets]] page. If you are upgrading from an older version, remember to use your portal_quickinstaller to '''reinstall''' the Plodcasting product.
• Release 0.03 is now in Subversion now. This new release addes finer grain of external caching. You can now disable Coral Cache support entirely or on a Per-item basis. Audio File objects now have a checkbox that allows you to opt-out of caching for just that object. I've also added an extra tab to the portal_url tool that allows you to globally set cache options for the entire site. Read [[Plodcasting Caching]] for more information about the new caching features.