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• Version 4.8.3+evolvis27 released!   12/22/2010 11:11
  
• Version 4.8.3+evolvis26 released!   10/06/2010 16:03
  
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[News archive]

Evolvis – Make it into a project!

evolvis stems from the latin verb "evolvere" and means "you evolve". "Evolution" as well traces back to this word.
evolvis.org is a free project platform for free software projects, the publicly available instance of the Evolvis platform provided by tarent solutions GmbH. Here developers and other project participants can find everything that is needed for a free software project:
source code management, discussion board, bug tracking, release and document management, downloads and more.

EvolvisForge helps you manage the entire development life cycle

EvolvisForge has tools to help your team collaborate, like message forums and mailing lists; tools to create and control access to Source Code Management repositories using Subversion. EvolvisForge automatically creates a repository and controls access to it depending on the role settings of the project.

Additional Features:

• Manage File Releases.
• Document Management.
• News announcements.
• Issue tracking with "unlimited" numbers of categories, text fields, etc.
• Task management.
• Wiki (using the MediaWiki software).
• A powerful plugin system to add new features.
• Source Code Management with git or Subversion.

What's new in EvolvisForge 4.8

• The scmgit plugin can now create multiple git repositories per project. This functionality is exposed via the Admin section of the SCM tab.
• New gitweb global tab, handling all registered git repositories.
• Extra per-project configurable tabs for linking and embedding arbitrary websites.
• System administrators can now disable crawling the Forge by search engines.
• Date/Time input fields are now handled by Prototype.DatePicker in many languages; the preferred format is configurable; even without ECMAscript, several date/time formats are accepted.
• Automatic creation of a functionality specification tracker.
• Standard Search Queries for Trackers: automatic creation of several tracker-global queries useful in software development and Quality Assurance.
• Group (project) homepages are now held in a subdirectory of the main vhost by default, instead of a subdomain, for better SSL support.
• Automatic commit mails for git and Subversion VCS repositories.
• For Copy+Closed tasks, the “original” task is now moved and the “copied” replaces the old one. This keeps RSS subscriptions, permalinks and tarent-activity tracking sane.
• In the Mediawiki plugin, hidden projects (groups) automatically have no read permission for non-group members. Some bugs have been fixed or worked around.
• Forge administrators can now add (register) and activate users in one go, skipping the registration eMail. All eMails sent, however, have contact information and correct encoding now.
• In the Evolvis theme, selection box options are now white-on-black in Gecko based browsers to work around a bug in Firefox® which displays selected options as black-on-white despite any styling.
• Configurable paging in Tasks and Tracker for logged-in users.
• When history is tracked (group/project, task/pm, artefact/tracker), the new value is now often shown as well, and sort order switched to chronological.
• Commit messages referencing a task/tracker item with [#123] are shown on the task/tracker item’s details page, linking to the ViewVC revision summary page.
• Newly created Task and Tracker items can be referenced in commit messages and task/tracker comments as [#123] and will be turned into hyperlinks with the task/tracker item’s summary and type as pop-up.
• Comments in Trackers and Tasks will be automatically scanned for URIs which then are turned into hyperlinks.
• It is now possible to subscribe to every single Task as RSS feed.
• Assist developers by overlaying the output webpage with PHP warnings/errors and/or check the emitted XHTML with two different validation engines, on development/test systems.
• Group members are automatically added to the -discuss mailing list and, if they have SCM write permissions, the -commits mailing list; there is now a Quick Subscribe link, and mailman list administrator passwords can be re-set from the forge by project administrators if configured.
• Many plugins for MediaWiki are packaged as part of Evolvis and available by default (with more to come still):
  • Math
  • Cite
  • Collection
  • CreateBox
  • Footnote
  • GraphViz
  • ImageMap
  • InputBox
  • LanguageSelector
  • NewestPages
  • News
  • PageCSS
  • ParserFunctions
  • Polyglot
  • RSS_Reader
  • SpecialCite
  • SpecialInterwiki (or just Interwiki, depending on the version)
  • SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi
• Correct many issues with the code, theme and MediaWiki.
• The website now displays the version of the forge software, including a ForgePlucker compatible header.
• Mailman configuration is more comprehensive and includes SSL if enabled.
• Completely restructured Apache 2 configuration files for better customisation and SSL support.
• New values for PM (task) status fields.
• Manual file upload via SFTP integrated with the File Release System, the Document Manager and the MediaWiki plugin. Now with clickable direct sftp:// hyperlink for Konqueror.
• Improvements in Univention LDAP integration and NSS/PAM interface.
• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for groups and plugins, including MediaWiki.
• Permalinks for Tasks and Tracker in groups, with JSON S2S interface to Tasks.
• CAPTCHA-protected new user account registration.
• Automatic mail forward for «user»@evolvis.org not just «user»@users.evolvis.org.
• Better overrides of functionality in the MediaWiki plugin.
• XHTML and CSS fixes for better standards compliance and browser compatibility; administrative, development, theme and usability improvements.
• Role-based access control on Forums, Tasks and Tracker now works.
• Per-project default settings for RBAC on new Forum/Task/Tracker groups.
• Global default categories for Tracker.
• Site Admins can now change any user’s password.
• Based on FusionForge 4.8.
• MediaWiki integration via plugin, one separately maintainable wiki per group/project.
• New project classification by tags (tag cloud).
• New reporting item for the File Release System: downloads per package.
• List of all projects added in Project List
• Support for HTTPS.
• Support for PHP5.
• Support for PostgreSQL 8.x.
• Translations are now managed by gettext.
• Support for several configurations running on the same code.
• Improved security, no need for PHP register_globals.
• Available as full install CD.
• New wiki plugins (using MediaWiki or phpWiki).
• New online_help plugin.
• New phpwebcalendar plugin.
• New project hierarchy plugin.