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 ====== Greenstone 3.09 Release Notes ====== ====== Greenstone 3.09 Release Notes ======
  
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 ** Released: ** ** Released: **
  
-   * Binaries for Windows, GNU/Linux 32 and 64 bit machines, a Mac binary for High Sierra/10.13 and Mac Mojave/10.(but may also work on Mac Sierra/10.12).\\ All the binaries have only been spot-tested, since the 3.09 release candidates, which came out a few weeks before, were tested more extensively on all the tutorials. Source distributions and source components compile on Windows 8. \\ [[http://svn.greenstone.org/main/tags/3.09/|svn tag page]] [[http://trac.greenstone.org/browser/main/tags/3.09|trac tag page]]. Code revision up to 33119. Tag revision: 33122.+   * Binaries for Windows, GNU/Linux 32 and 64 bit machines, a Mac binary for High Sierra/10.13 and Mac Mojave/10.14 (but may also work on Mac Sierra/10.12).\\ All the binaries have only been spot-tested, since the 3.09 release candidates, which came out a few weeks before, were tested more extensively on all the tutorials. Source distributions and source components compile on Windows 8. \\ [[http://svn.greenstone.org/main/tags/3.09/|svn tag page]] [[http://trac.greenstone.org/browser/main/tags/3.09|trac tag page]]. Code revision up to 33119. Tag revision: 33122.
       * The Mac binary is generated on High Sierra/10.13 and tested partially on that but mostly on Mojave/10.14.       * The Mac binary is generated on High Sierra/10.13 and tested partially on that but mostly on Mojave/10.14.
       * The Windows binary was largely tested on Windows 10, but partially on Windows 8.1       * The Windows binary was largely tested on Windows 10, but partially on Windows 8.1
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 Put these two together with a period mark to separate them and use this as the value for your tomcat.server property.) Put these two together with a period mark to separate them and use this as the value for your tomcat.server property.)
  
-4. Set up your Greenstone environment if you've not already done so by running ''gs3-setup.bat'' in your Greenstone 3 installation folder (''source ./gs3-setup.bash'' on Linux and Mac machines). And then start up your Greenstone 3 server with:+4. Set up your Greenstone environment if you've not already done so by running ''gs3-setup.bat'' in your Greenstone 3 installation folder (''source ./gs3-setup.sh'' on Linux and Mac machines). And then start up your Greenstone 3 server with:
 <code> <code>
 ant start ant start
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 ==== Troubleshooting ==== ==== Troubleshooting ====
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 +=== Some perl scripts don't run properly or to completion ===
 +//**If you're running Greenstone 3 on a non-English locale**// and certain perl scripts don't run properly or completely, such as when you run ''perl -S pluginfol.pl -describeall'', then the problem may be locale/encoding related. To resolve this issue, refer to [[en:supporting_other_locales|Supporting running Greenstone in other locales on Windows 10]].
  
 === You see an empty page when visiting the Greenstone 3 library home page on Windows === === You see an empty page when visiting the Greenstone 3 library home page on Windows ===
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 If you get this error, then please install the CGI module for your system perl. If you get this error, then please install the CGI module for your system perl.
 ====Work Arounds==== ====Work Arounds====
-===Filenames in collections should not contain &, < and >=== +===Filenames in collections should not contain < and >=== 
-In order to have better handling of different file and filename encodings, [[http://trac.greenstone.org/changeset/29793|sacrifice]] [[http://trac.greenstone.org/timeline?from=19.03.2015&daysback=30&ticket=on&changeset=on&milestone=on&wiki=on&update=Update|was made]] of being unable to support &, < and > characters in filenames. Filenames with such characters will make metadata.xml invalid, as a result of which, GLI won't be able to reload the metadata therein.+[**Note:** [[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1976007/what-characters-are-forbidden-in-windows-and-linux-directory-names|Windows disallows < and >]] characters in filenames anyway, so it's best to avoid such filenames even on other Operating Systems in cases where you may tranfer a Greenstone collection with documents' filenames containing < or > from one operating system to a GS3 running on Windows at any point.] 
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 +In order to have better handling of different file and filename encodings, an [[http://trac.greenstone.org/changeset/29793|sacrifice]] [[http://trac.greenstone.org/timeline?from=19.03.2015&daysback=30&ticket=on&changeset=on&milestone=on&wiki=on&update=Update|was made]] of being unable to support &, < and > characters in filenames. In Dec 2019, which is months after 3.09's release, Greenstone was modified so that GLI can now accept & in filenames. However, filenames containing < and > characters continue to make metadata.xml invalid, as a result of which, GLI won't be able to reload the metadata therein
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 +A workaround is to use different characters for < and >, such as [ and ] or ( and ), or leave them out from filenames.
  
-A workaround is to use "and" in place of "&" in filenames. And either use different characters for < and >, such as [ and ] or ( and ), or leave them out from filenames. 
 ===Greenstone applets (Phind, Collage) crash Firefox=== ===Greenstone applets (Phind, Collage) crash Firefox===
 See [[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789959|bugzilla report]]. See [[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789959|bugzilla report]].
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