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.

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!

It is with great pleasure that we announce that Indico 1.0 has just been released.

http://indico-software.org/wiki/Releases/Indico1.0

(git tag v1.0)

91 tickets have been closed for this release. The full list is available at:

http://indico-software.org/query?group=status&milestone=v1.0

Here are some of the most relevant ones:

Events

• Outlook plugin:
  • Now, Indico has a new plugin (calendaring) that enables the synchronisation of your participation in events with Outlook. When you are added as a participant in any event or when you register to a conference; an entry will show up in your personal Outlook calendar. Users can disable this option from its personal preferences.

• Timetable:
  • The modification of contributions is now done via a popup.
  • When adding or editing a contribution, we can grant/revoke the submission rights of the speakers individually.

• New Interfaces for:
  • Conference overview: added icons and new style.
  • Poster and Badges has been re-designed.
  • Option List and Scientific programme for Conference organization.
  • Warning pages: lock, delete, etc

• Protection:
  • In the event protection page, warnings will be displayed if there are items inside it (contributions, sessions, materials) with a different protection.

• Call for abstracts:
  • Added option to the setup page which enables track coordinators to directly accept or reject abstracts (before they could only propose).
  • Added feature to change a rejected abstract back to 'submitted' status.

• List of Abstracts:
  • New layout for the list of abstracts, including a new tool bar and filters.
  • As well, new sorting criteria has been added: by modification date and by track.

• Participants:
  • Added option to notify managers when a user applies for participation.

• Conference support field:
  • Added the option to write, not only the email, but also the phone number.

Room booking

• A new feature has been added to the room booking service. One can define the daily availability of a room. For instance, one could set that a room can be booked and used only from 8h30 to 17h30.
• Third party applications can use our HTTP API in order to book a room.

General

• When adding a new category manager, an email is triggered to all the other managers (optional)
• Search has been pluginised.
• HTTP API: added action to download files.
• Performance improved: Using memcached (it can be enabled from indico.conf).

As usual, all your feedback is very important to us.

You will be hearing from us again in around 3-4 weeks time, when we will be releasing 1.1. This version is already in production at CERN and full of new features. You can already have a look here: ​https://indico.cern.ch/news.py

Have fun with the new version!

Best regards, The Indico Team

It is our pleasure to announce that we've just released Releases/Indico0.99 (git tag v0.99).

The release can be obtained from PyPI:

​http://pypi.python.org/pypi/indico/

Please go ahead and easy_install it.

This is the last version before 1.0 (official release due in January 2013).

89 tickets have been closed for this release. The full list is available at:

http://indico-software.org/query?group=status&milestone=v0.99.0

However, here are some of the most relevant ones:

• Indico is now distributed under version 3 of the GPL
• Paper Reviewing - multiple changes in the interface, many bugs fixed in the workflow
• Vidyo - several changes in the workflow, auto-mute, moderator PIN and room connection API (this latter is CERN-only)
• CKEditor version update - now properly working on iPad
• Conferences - redesigned "Author index", "Speaker index" and "Session display" pages
• Event statistics - several improvements, now file downloads can be tracked
• Links can now be added to "report numbers".

Some other nice things:

• Web Session Cleanup is now done using a "janitor" task that can be added to the scheduler
• Cookies now set the "secure" flag if in HTTPS, so that they are never sent in the clear
• Material upload now polls PDF conversion service for converted file
• Several fixes to recurrent errors caused by crawlers
• Several fixes in the material editor
• New currency editor in administration area
• HTTP API now doesn't take into account "visibility" parameter (only user privileges).

As usual, all your feedback is very important to us. We've been working hard towards a stable 1.0 release and any bug reports will be most welcome.

Have fun with the new version!

Best regards,

The Indico Team

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.

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.

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 .

We are very happy to announce the release of our first release candidate for 0.98-rc1. This is the version that is already in use at CERN and that we now consider to be ready for use in other environments.

http://indico-software.org/wiki/Releases/Indico0.98-rc1

(git tag v0.98-rc1)

Please note that the Python package has changed name from cds-indico to indico:

​http://pypi.python.org/pypi/indico/

(Don't forget to delete any existing cds-indico package before installing)

The easiest method to install Indico is still easy_install (pip not yet supported).

Here are some of the new features:

• WSGI Support - mod_python _no longer supported_;
• New search engine "push" synchronization tools - LiveSync? (replaces OAI-PMH gateway);
• New scheduling daemon - replaces taskDaemon;
• New HTTP export API - replaces export.py;
• Paper reviewing;
• Contribution Import interface (for Invenio);
• Social Share button - share Indico events in social networks;
• Multi-file upload;
• Integration with XMPP/Jabber chat servers;
• Integration with Google Maps (Room Booking);
• Experimental LDAP authentication support (thanks to Martin Kuba);
• Babel-based i18n;
• Performance optimizations:
  • Abstracts - acceptance (50x faster), listing (10% faster) and PDF creation;
  • Room booking - calendar (3x) and 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;
• Unit/functional tests;

Please note that if you are currently using the OAI interface to export events to a search engine, your current setup may need changes.

As you can see at:

http://indico-software.org/milestone/v0.98

Some tickets remain open. A small number of them will be integrated into the final 0.98 version, but the most significant ones will be shipped with 0.98.1. This will include:

• Timetable Drag&Drop interface;
• jQueryUI-based interface dialogs (as well as some widgets);
• Replacing all old user search dialogs with pop-ups;
• Further performance improvements:
  • Loading past events (loading in chunks);
  • "Bookings in my rooms" - improvements;
  • Caching "Book of Abstracts" and Room Booking Calendar;

Event though this is still the RC1 version (not final), we encourage everyone to give it a try and let us know about possible bugs and migration problems. We want to release a final version as soon as possible and your collaboration is essential for that.

Thanks in advance for your collaboration and a special acknowledgment to all the developers who have worked to make this release possible.

The 0.97 branch sees its maturity level further increased by this new release. Although no new features have been added, a total of 38 fixes/improvements have been made.

Download it here.

You can consult the full list of changes here