Hot from the oven: FusionForge 4.7 was just released. The release notes follow. If you have local enhancements based on a previous version of GForge, now is the time to port them to the 4.7 codebase and submit them, so they can be merged in time for the next version!
Release notes for FusionForge 4.7
This is the first public release of FusionForge. FusionForge is based on GForge, and started as an identical copy, with only a name change to avoid confusion with the proprietary versions of GForge (known as GForge Advanced Server or GForge AS). As such, it benefits from mature code and known-good infrastructure, and builds on it for the future.
This 4.7 release is focused on bringing the recent evolutions out to the community in an official stable release. This should provide a solid base as a starting point for community-based development, making it easier for enhancements to be maintained. The FusionForge name was chosen to reflect this: this is a community effort, and we hope to hear about your improvements. Contributing these improvements would make their future long-term maintenance easier for everyone.
Major changes since previous versions (of GForge) include:
- 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.
Things to keep in mind when installing:
- FusionForge is based on GForge, and the renaming is quite recent. So the code still contains lots of references to GForge. This will be fixed as time passes.
- Full text search using the primitives provided by PostgreSQL 8.3 isn't quite complete yet.
- Not all plugins are packaged for all distributions yet.
Things to keep in mind when upgrading:
- Since internationalisation was changed from a hand-made system to standard gettext, locally customised translations will no longer override standard ones. This will be addressed in a future release.
For more up-to-date information, please visit http://fusionforge.org/ or http://fusionforge.fusionforge.org/ -- you can even join us on IRC from there!
-- The FusionForge development team
