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--- en:release:3.09_release_notes [2020/12/06 06:18] – [You see an empty page when visiting the Greenstone 3 library home page on Windows] anupama
+++ en:release:3.09_release_notes [2023/03/13 01:46] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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 ====== Greenstone 3.09 Release Notes ======
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 ** Released: **
-   * Binaries for Windows, GNU/Linux 32 and 64 bit machines, a Mac binary for High Sierra/10.13 and Mac Mojave/10.4 (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 Windows binary was largely tested on Windows 10, but partially on Windows 8.1
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 If you get this error, then please install the CGI module for your system perl.
 ====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, a [[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.]
+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.
+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===
 See [[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789959|bugzilla report]].