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====== Greenstone 3.09 Release Notes ====== | ====== Greenstone 3.09 Release Notes ====== | ||
**Release Name:** 3.09 | **Release Name:** 3.09 | ||
- | **Release Date: | + | **Release Date: |
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+ | ** Released: ** | ||
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+ | * Binaries for Windows, GNU/Linux 32 and 64 bit machines, a Mac binary for High Sierra/ | ||
+ | * The Mac binary is generated on High Sierra/ | ||
+ | * The Windows binary was largely tested on Windows 10, but partially on Windows 8.1 | ||
+ | * The Linux binary was largely tested on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS and partially on Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04. | ||
** Release Candidate History ** | ** Release Candidate History ** | ||
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* Download the appropriate binary release for your operating system and run it. | * Download the appropriate binary release for your operating system and run it. | ||
- | * **Note to Mac users:** The security settings in newer Mac OS versions have been altered to by default disallow users from casually opening and running .dmg executables that are not from Apple itself. When attempting to open the Greenstone binary .dmg file, if it pops up an error warning about security, you will need to set up the Security on your Mac to allow you to run .dmg files downloaded from the internet. Otherwise the Greenstone mac binary will not run. To do this, Go to your Mac's System Preferences. Under " | + | * **Note to Mac users:** The security settings in newer Mac OS versions have been altered to by default disallow users from casually opening and running .dmg executables that are not from Apple itself. When attempting to open the Greenstone binary .dmg file, if it pops up an error warning about security, you will need to set up the Security on your Mac to allow you to run .dmg files downloaded from the internet. Otherwise the Greenstone mac binary will not run. To do this, go to your Mac's System Preferences. Under " |
* **For Linux**, you will need to set the file to be executable before running it. (e.g. chmod a+x Greenstone-3.09-linux) | * **For Linux**, you will need to set the file to be executable before running it. (e.g. chmod a+x Greenstone-3.09-linux) | ||
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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 '' | + | 4. Set up your Greenstone environment if you've not already done so by running '' |
< | < | ||
ant start | ant start | ||
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* Patches to perl code upgrading perl syntax to work with newer versions of perl | * Patches to perl code upgrading perl syntax to work with newer versions of perl | ||
* GLI updates: | * GLI updates: | ||
- | * The GLI Applet has been converted to a Java WebStart Application. Java Web Start not supported from Java 9 or onwards. | + | * The GLI Applet has been converted to a Java WebStart Application. Java Web Start not supported from Java 9 or onwards. |
* GEMS can now launch in languages other than English | * GEMS can now launch in languages other than English | ||
===== IMPORTANT information ===== | ===== IMPORTANT information ===== | ||
For ease of access this section has been brought across from the [[en: | For ease of access this section has been brought across from the [[en: | ||
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+ | ==== Patches to 3.09 ==== | ||
+ | These are corrections to a 3.09 installation that should be easy for Greenstone users to make. | ||
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+ | 1. Bugfix to online document editor not calculating the correct subsection being edited | ||
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+ | Download the file [[http:// | ||
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+ | 2. Fix to solrserver on Windows not detecting that the GS3 server isn't running | ||
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+ | Download the file [[http:// | ||
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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 '' | ||
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+ | === You see an empty page when visiting the Greenstone 3 library home page on Windows === | ||
+ | //**If you're running Greenstone 3 on a non-English locale on Windows**//, | ||
=== Content Encoding Error when visiting the local solr servlet page === | === Content Encoding Error when visiting the local solr servlet page === | ||
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We've added a work around to one kind of SIGPIPE errors which could occur with large collections when using '' | We've added a work around to one kind of SIGPIPE errors which could occur with large collections when using '' | ||
* change the database type from '' | * change the database type from '' | ||
- | * or leave the database type at '' | + | * or leave the database type at '' |
=== Your browser doesn' | === Your browser doesn' | ||
**The issue:** | **The issue:** | ||
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==== Useful information ==== | ==== Useful information ==== | ||
- | When you've built a collection of documents, you may discover that there appears to be a copy of all these documents in the collection' | + | When you've built a collection of documents, you may discover that there appears to be a copy of all these documents in the collection' |
- | By default, Windows doesn' | + | By default, Windows doesn' |
====Known Issues==== | ====Known Issues==== | ||
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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 | + | ===Filenames in collections should not contain < and >=== |
- | In order to have better handling of different file and filename encodings, | + | [**Note:** [[https:// |
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+ | In order to have better handling of different file and filename encodings, | ||
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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 " | ||
===Greenstone applets (Phind, Collage) crash Firefox=== | ===Greenstone applets (Phind, Collage) crash Firefox=== | ||
See [[https:// | See [[https:// | ||
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Thanks to the following people for new and updated translations since 3.08: | Thanks to the following people for new and updated translations since 3.08: | ||
- | *Lavji Zala for Gujarati translations | + | |
+ | * Arabic to Kamal Salih Mustafa Khalafala. | ||
+ | * Diego Spano for Spanish translations | ||
+ | * Vano Tsertsvadze for Georgian translations | ||
+ | * Japanese Gaku Yamaguchi | ||
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+ | * Catalan (GS2 interface) Eduardo del Valle Perez |
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