PRES

This version builds strongly on ideas of locating
content in time and space, integrating with Google
Maps and Simile Timeline. In addition, there's new
media integration, with integration of uploadable
Quicktime videos and of remotely hosted Google
videos. The templating system is greatly tidied up
and modularized, making for easy reskinning either
by editing the supplied templates or by uploading
new ones. There are, in addition, a welter of
minor improvements.

Separate subeditors for separate categories. The pseudo-WYSIWYG Ekit widget. New skins and a new rating system. Tools for adding multimedia content. Many detail fixes and improvements. Integration with Google video, numerous bugfixes, and modularisation of the XSL templates used to skin content, making maintenance much easier. Although this is still unstable, it is reliable and should be considered a late beta for PRES 1.10.

The primary new feature is the inclusion of pluggable exception handlers. Exception handlers deal with otherwise uncaught bugs at the top level of the application. From the installer you can choose from three exception handlers: JustWhinge (exception reports are written to the log; Alert (exception reports are emailed to the site owner); and Bugzilla (a Bugzilla form is generated pre-filled with the details of the exception, and the user is invited to submit it). This release is packaged with antinstaller.

Major enhancements include a desktop installer (using ant-installer), more supplied skins, easier configuration of stylesheets, Google ads and Amazon books integration, subscriber verification, better integration of syndication feeds, and many improvements to user interface, both for editors and for readers. This is the first release that can really be installed and configured without any technical skills; just answer the questions in the installer, and you're away.

Security was greatly improved. Creating an author
record now creates a real database account, and
you can change your database account password
through the admin system. Category templates now
use inheritance, so if you upload custom XSL
templates for a category, they will be used for
that category and all sub-categories of that
category which don't have their own custom
templates. Installation was greatly simplified.
PRES now works with a new system which can create
a war file already customized for your needs,
which you can download and just drop into place in
your webapps directory.