**Release Name:** 3.03 

**Release Date:** October 2007

**Released:** Windows, GNU/Linux and Source releases of Greenstone 3.03

===== Installation Instructions =====
The binary distributions now consist of self-installing InstallShield
binaries. Download and run to install. 
  * Ant is still used for running and configuring Greenstone3. This comes bundled in the distribution.
  * A bundled Java Runtime Environment will be installed if Java is not found on the user's machine.


===== Important Changes =====

==== Runtime changes ==== 

  * New oaiserver: for more info, see [[en:user_advanced:oai | here]]
  * New Remote GLI: for more info, see [[old:remote_greenstone3 | here]]
  * external link support - this is equivalent to Greenstone2's external link support
  * only Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is required to run Greenstone3
  * the document retrieving and searching process synchronized to fix a crash problem caused by concurrent accesses
  * The Greenstone3 collection config file can be edited in GLI directly, Greenstone2->Greenstone3 collection config file conversion is no longer needed

==== Collection building changes ==== 

Greenstone v3.03 uses Greenstone2 collection building and GLI. This
release uses version 2.74 code which has the following changed compare
to 2.72
  * MetadataXMLPlug can no longer be removed
  * Interface improvements in GLI
  * New 'NoText' metadata can be used to suppress the dummy text
  * Download plug for downloading from a Mediawiki website from GLI.
  * Can now double click an index to bring up the 'Edit Index' window.
  * Moved mg, mgpp, lucene and unac into the indexers branch
  * New CONENTdmPlug plugin for collections in the CONTENTdm digital library
  * New option for GenericList: partition_name_length, many thanks to Jens Wille.
  * New option for GenericList: sort_using_unicode_collation, which uses the Unicode::Collate module to sort Unicode values better (eg. e with acute is sorted with the other e values, not after everything else).
  * New RecentDocumentsList classifer for classifying documents based on the lastmodified metadata.