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Indico 1.2 released
It is with great enthusiasm that we announce the world wide release of Indico 1.2. This is the result of around one year of work which involved profound changes in Indico's internals (namely the move to Flask and the refactoring of the authentication code) and many interface improvements (e.g. Registration Form and Room Booking).
Full details available in our GitHub site.
Indico 1.1 released
It is with great pleasure that we announce that Indico 1.1 has been released.
81 tickets have been closed for this release. The full list is available here:
Here are some of the most relevant ones:
Interface
- New event browsing interface (cleaner and more modern)
- New "User Dashboard" and "favorite categories" features
- Separate Redis setup required
- Re-designed Room Booking module, user-friendly interface
- New user-friendly Event Log
API
- Now accessible using cookie authentication (from within Indico, with CSRF token);
- Compatibility with Indico Mobile
Misc
- Speakers can now have submission rights in lectures
- Paper reviewing managers, referees and reviewers have now permission to upload papers on behalf of the author
- ZIP files now use ZIP64 extension (larger sizes)
- Room Booking - Room can now be changed after reservation is cloned
Fixes
- Author ordering in Book of Abstracts
- Timezone was not correctly applied in conference timetables
- ... and many others!
Indico Mobile
Another important fact is that any 1.1+ Indico setup can pair up with Indico mobile. There is no stable release date foreseen for Indico Mobile, but the GitHub version is now in production at CERN and being actively developed.
We hope you like it!
Indico 0.98.2 released
It is our pleasure to announce that we've just released Indico 0.98.2 (git tag v0.98.2).
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 features
- Event managers can now consult per-event statistics - based on Piwik
- Vidyo - "connect to room" bitton
Interface improvements
- Protection status is now shown at the top of each protected page
- Unified user information pop-up
- Reworked search box
- Contribution/abstract list interfaces - much nicer and more functional
Server-side
- Atom used instead of RSS for feeds
Your feedback is very important. We hope you will let us know what you think of this new release and report any problems you may have.
The next release will be 0.99, which is due in around three months.
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 .
