OpenACS 4.6.3 Release Notes

- by Don Baccus
+OpenACS Release Notes

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OpenACS Release Notes

Version 5.0.0

+ by Don Baccus
OpenACS docs are written by the named authors, and may be edited by OpenACS documentation staff.

- This is a final release of OpenACS 4.6.3. This release has been subjected - to an organized test effort, but please bear in mind that we are still - in the process of developing testing tools, methodology, and scripts. + This is a pre-alpha release of OpenACS 5.0.0.

Please report bugs using our - Bug Tracker at the OpenACS website. This version - of the OpenACS Toolkit supports PostgreSQL 7.2.3 and 7.3.2, and - Oracle 8i. It will not work with Oracle 9i (support is planned for - OpenACS 4.7.) + Bug Tracker at the OpenACS website.

- Upgrading from OpenACS 4.6.1 -

- OpenACS 4.6.2 includes key datamodel changes to acs-kernel and other - packages. Your first step after downloading OpenACS 4.6.2 and restarting - AOLserver should be to visit the Package Manager, click on the "install - packages" link, and select the checkbox to upgrade acs-kernel. After - acs-kernel has been upgraded, return to the "install packages" page and - select the checkboxes for all other packages you have installed that - need upgrading (they are marked "upgrade" rather than "new install") and - perform the upgrade step. -

- After packages have been upgraded, your installation should run without - problems. -

You may want to begin by reading our installation documentation for Chapter�3. Note that the Windows documentation is - not current for OpenACS 4.6.3, but an alternative is to use John + not current for OpenACS 5.0.0, but an alternative is to use John Sequeira's Oasis VM project.

After installation, the full documentation set can be found by visiting - http://[your-host]/doc. Not all pieces are updated for OpenACS 4.6.3 at - this moment. -

Site Wide Searching

- If you're using Oracle 8.1.6 or 8.1.7 Enterprise Edition you may want - to uncomment the SQL that causes InterMedia to keep online searching - online while indexing. The feature doesn't exist in Standard Edition - and OpenACS 4.6.3 now defaults to being loadable in SE. Just grep for - 'sync' to find the code. -

- Also be sure to read the documentation in the Site Wide Search - package's sql/oracle directory. The APM doesn't execute the SQL for - this package, in part due to the fact that some steps need to be run - as the Oracle user 'ctxsys'. -

- If you're using PostgreSQL be sure to read the documentation on - installing the Open FTS driver for OpenACS. It's included in the - package as a text file and is also summarized at the end of the - installation documentation in the section, 4. As with the Oracle version, there - are steps you must take manually in order to get this feature - working. -

Testing Notes

- dotLRN 1.0 is an e-learning solution - from MIT based on OpenACS 4.6.2 - The dotLRN 1.0 - testing effort was organized by Bart - Teeuwisse and made use of the OpenACS Bug - Tracker and OpenACS test - servers hosted by Collaboraid. -

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