Announcing CMS Made Simple 1.2
October 15th, 2007 by Robert CampbellAt long last here it is. We’ve released it, the final package has had some testing, and we think that this is stable. Hopefully I’m not deleting this post in 15 minutes.
Anyways, Here is the list of what has changed in 1.2:
Version 1.2 “Barbados”
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- Adds capabilities to have a wysiwyg on the front end
- Adds the ability to select ‘groups’ as additional editors
- Now the ‘admin group’ automatically has all permissions, not
just the admin user
- Add a new page where default settings for new pages can be set
- Adds a new file manager
- Enhance the use of permissions when adding or editing content
- Adds a new ‘print’ plugin capable of generating pdf filees
from one or more pages
- News 2.5.1
* Moved the default summary and detail templates into
their own tab
* Adds An extra field
- Fix issues with stylesheet name changes after hitting ‘apply’
- Fixes issues with spaces or underscores not being allowed in usernames
- Fixes pagination issues in the admin log, and anywhere that uses
the built in pagination functions.
- Turn error reporting to E_ALL and turn display_errors on
if debug mode is on.
- You can no longer delete the admin group
Notes:
- This is the New ‘Stable’ version, the 1.1 branch will no longer be maintained, unless there are circumstances that force us to do so
- We intend this to be the last version of the 1.x series unless there are critical bugs or security issues that pop up
- Some items (particularly with frontend News that didn’t appear in the beta cycle were not important enough to restart the beta process for, and therefore will be taken care of in subsequent versions of News
Many thanks to the considerable effort expended by numerous people in this beta cycle. Alot of people have put their time and effort into making this a stable release, so that we can have tiime to donate to 2.0 to make it an order of magnitude better than CMS already is (and that seems like it’ll be a hard task).
October 15th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Awesome work guys - I’ll be updating some sites later today. This release fixes the few issues that I had with CMSMS. can’t wait for v2
October 16th, 2007 at 12:52 am
Well, I tried to upgrade using the diff but I get the following errors:
Smart Error 83, cant find template
“Your cms is in the need of an upgrade -> /admin/upgrade File not found”
Maybe u can check your diff again, for me its not working.
Cheers.
October 16th, 2007 at 1:48 am
Super, good work this is really something
October 16th, 2007 at 2:12 am
I always get this error trying to update a module using the module manager with 1.2. Got an idea how to fix it?
Error!
SOAP Error: HTTP Error: Couldn’t open socket connection to server http://modules.cmsmadesimple.org/soap.php?module=ModuleRepository prior to connect(). This is often a problem looking up the host name.
October 16th, 2007 at 2:35 am
And now my Site is down and doesnt work anymore… I don’t recommend updating..
October 16th, 2007 at 4:15 am
I have update without any problems. However, I can’t find batch template operations anywhere
Didn’t I read that it will be included in 1.2? It was my most anticipated feature 
October 16th, 2007 at 5:08 am
@David: Restore ur backup.
October 16th, 2007 at 5:49 am
I just did an upgrade with the diff package. Then I get the sign me database schema needs an update. But the script (install/upgrade.php) was not in the diff package. I downloaded the full package and that solved my problem…
October 16th, 2007 at 6:16 am
Everything works
Afcourse, wehen you need to upgrade modules/ you need to chmot all modules to apache user rights. After upgerade - switch back to apache:user
I had no problem.
October 16th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
If you use the diff files - no modules are included, yet there are new modules e.g. FileManager?
October 16th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
I’ve removed the diff files. They weren’t made to be used on a large upgrade like this. Please use the complete version…. sorry for the mixup.
Thanks!
October 16th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
Hi team,
Just upgraded from 1.1.4.1 to 1.2.
Up and running in 2 minutes!
Great work.
Thanks,
Arthur
October 17th, 2007 at 1:06 am
Thanks Ted, but diff files are usefull. For all those who went down the diff route. Copy the install folder from the full package and add the modules you require. You may have to add/Install the new File Manger module and perhaps the Printing module.
Ted are there any others I’ve missed - could you post here?
Run the upgrade and you should be OK. My test local site seems fine… well at least for now. Good work to the dev team
Russ
p.s. are we standardising on a js library (e.g. jquery) for the future? Just seems to me there are numerous places in the admin module which could benefit?
October 17th, 2007 at 2:42 am
Up and running in 35 minutes (some error messages). Thanks a lot!
October 17th, 2007 at 6:38 am
With the full update it works great now. Thank you for removing the diff files.
October 17th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
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October 18th, 2007 at 5:39 am
Hi how can i update from 1.1.4.1 without losing my current site?
October 18th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Everything works. Thank you so much again for creating such useful and user/designer-friendly CMS!!
October 19th, 2007 at 2:27 am
2 Minutes for upgrading 1.1.4.1 to 1.2 . Plus: Fine work, all customizations from me still work.
What’s about updating the freshmeat.net/cmsmadesimple listing immediately after releasing a new version ?
I would be a volunteer
Andre
October 19th, 2007 at 8:17 am
“- Enhance the use of permissions when adding or editing content” is this documented anywhere because my users pages now become inactive whenever they edit them.
October 20th, 2007 at 2:41 am
Used full zip file to overwrite existing site from 1.1.4.1 to 1.2. Worked fine.
One little upgrade tweak would be when you hit http://mysite/install then it checks the site configuration and at the bottom have two buttons, one for a clean install and one for an upgrade. The clean install then prompts you for the admin password as normal and the upgrade button jumps you to the upgrade script.
Though recently we’ve done a lot of upgrades the script is usually run infrequently and people may have forgotten that to upgrade you go to http://mysite/install/upgrade.php rather than just going to http://mysite/install
To save people time I have created a patch to do this made up of a tiny bit of Javascript in installer_start.tpl ({literal} function goToURL() { window.location = “upgrade.php”; } {/literal} ) plus adding an to the page1.tpl. It seems to work on FF2/IE6.
October 22nd, 2007 at 1:04 am
Upgraded from 1.0.1 to 1.2 in about a minute! No issues… my site still looks and works great!
It’s very impressive that the underlying architecture could flawlessly handle such a huge version jump. Kudos and congratulations to the folks that conceived and developed this outstanding piece of software… and many thanks!
-Tom
October 24th, 2007 at 1:04 am
- Adds capabilities to have a wysiwyg on the front end - maybe it as a little bit early to say. So far, on my several sites, and even on the fresh install of cmsms 1.2 i couldnt get the TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor to load up.
Maybe i am doing something wrong?
October 27th, 2007 at 7:30 am
My mistake, sorry. The front end WYSIWYG editor needs to be specified in the Admin Global setings page.
Everything works great!
October 28th, 2007 at 6:59 am
The upgrade from 1.1.3.1 to 1.2 messed up the paths in my config.php, but didn’t take long to fix.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:24 am
here’s a simple stupid question, why doesn’t cms made simple use its own blog setup - its using wordpress hello ? doesn’t say much about a cms if they aren’t using their own stuff