Posts for the month of April 2012
Indico 0.98.1 released
We are happy to announce Indico 0.98.1.
http://indico-software.org/wiki/Releases/Indico0.98.1#Download
(git tag v0.98.1)
The release can be obtained from PyPI:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/indico/
Please go ahead and easy_install it.
Some of the new features in comparison with 0.98:
New options
- Timetable Drag & Drop: drag time blocks freely, resize them, drop contributions and breaks inside sessions, and undo last operation
- iCalendar: generates URLs that we can use from our favourite calendar (Outlook, Google calendar, etc), both for public and private information (using pub/priv keys).
Interface improvements
- Participants module has been redesigned
- User search pop-ups everywhere (no more old-style HTML forms)
- New face for Video Services Overview
Performance Improvements
- Room booking: calendar: 25x faster, (PRE-)Booking in my rooms: 35x, My rooms: 15x.
- Event list: loading past events by batches (infinite scroll).
- Book of Abstract is now cached
- Faster loading of event home page
Server-side
- Analytics compatibility. Administrators can include the necessary Javascript to use any web analytics tool like Piwik, Google Analytics, etc.