Indico 0.98 released

We are proud to announce the release of Indico 0.98, the final version of the 0.98 branch.

http://indico-software.org/wiki/Releases/Indico0.98

(git tag v0.98.0)

As usual, the release can be obtained from PyPI:

​http://pypi.python.org/pypi/indico/

Please go ahead and easy_install it.

Here are some of the new features in comparison with 0.97:

New options

• Paper reviewing;
• Contribution Import interface (for Invenio);
• Social Share button - share Indico events in social networks;

Interface improvements

• User search pop-ups everywhere (no more old-style HTML forms);
• jQueryUI-based interface dialogs;
• Multi-file upload;

Performance Improvements

• Abstracts - acceptance (50x faster), listing (10% faster) and PDF creation;
• Room booking - calendar (3x), booking a room (10x);
• Registrant listing (4x);
• Contribution listing (2x);
• Event (5x) and Calendar (4x) overview;
• Category browsing (2x);
• Reduction of number of database writes;
• Memcache support;

Server-side

• WSGI support (no more mod_python);
• New search engine "push" synchronization tools - LiveSync? (replaces OAI-PMH gateway);
• New scheduling daemon - replaces taskDaemon;
• New HTTP export API - replaces export.py;
• Babel-based i18n;
• Unit/functional tests;

3rd party tools

• Integration with XMPP/Jabber chat servers;
• Integration with Google Maps (Room Booking);
• Experimental LDAP authentication support (thanks to Martin Kuba);

We've been working very hard to deliver this version. Indico is now faster than it has ever been, due to all the performance improvements we've made. At the same time, this version brings a multitude of new features as well as technology improvements that will be very important in the future development of the project.

Your feedback is, as always, very important. We hope you will let us know what you think of this new release and report any problems you may have.

As you have seen this release took quite a bit to come out. This has been in part due to the fact that we were already working in parallel on 0.98.1 while we fixed bugs. This next version is already pretty stable and should come out in about 3 weeks (and this time we mean it .