Hi all,
after another 6 months of work, RefDB 0.9.8 has been released into the
wild today. Please grab your copy right here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/showfiles.php?group_id=26091
Please note that you should also upgrade your RefDB-perlclient package
to 1.15.
See the attached list for news and bugfixes. Please report any
problems to the list.
regards,
Markus
Bugfixes:
- queries for UR and L1-L4 fields now work again
- en2ris now properly imports the start and end page information from
newer EndNote versions
- using multiple databases in LaTeX documents now works again properly
- bibtex output is now properly escaped
- getref now honours backslash-escaped apostrophes in query strings
- strings extending the length of limited size fields in t_refdb are
now properly truncated during data import
- correctly rollback if adding RIS data fails
- exclusive queries (e.g. :UR:!~"http") now work as expected for links
(UR, L1-L4, authors, and keywords
- refdbd now modifies citation keys containing the string "-ID" as
this may cause problems when creating bibliographies. "-ID" will be
replaced with "_ID" to avoid problems.
- if an iconv error occurs during data import, refdbd now returns a
meaningful error message.
- in Pubmed XML data, <PersonalNameSubject> name parts no longer leak
into the next author name
Improvements:
- the refdba:listuser command now checks for the required database
argument
- improved manpage layout by using new DocBook stylesheet capabilities
when available, and workarounds for older stylesheet versions
- configure now simplifies the task of building modularized RefDB
packages. You can now build server, clients, and doc packages
separately. Additionally, you can switch off building docs and
manpages to build the RefDB binaries from the SVN sourceson systems
without an XML/DocBook toolchaiin
- the code that generates citation keys from author names was improved
by using iconv to transliterate foreign characters.
- the default setup now uses UTF-8 as the default input, storage, and
output encoding.
- the wrapper script bib2ris-utf8 was added to simplify postprocessing
of the bib2ris output with the new refdb_latex2uft8txt script. The
latter converts foreign characters to their UTF-8 equivalents and
strips off other LaTeX commands.
- personal reference lists are now implemented on top of extended
notes. This means in particular that each user can maintain an
unlimited number of reference lists
- various fixes to the PHP web interface
- use an improved bibtex citation format (\cite{dbname:citekey})
- now supports citation key based citation formats in addition to
author/year and numeric
- improved citation formats handle more reference types
- refdbd can now install and upgrade the main database without
external tools. See the file UPGRADING and the refdbd man page for
further information.
- for this to work, the main database dump files are now versioned
- refdb-init now uses these new refdbd capabilities to simplify the
initial setup.
- refdbd can also be run to check the database connection and to
retrieve the database version. This is mainly useful for
package/ports builders.
- the help messages of the binaries now show the subversion revision
they were built from. This makes it easier to track down bugs to
specific builds.
- refdbd can now run from a single main+reference database to allow
the installation on cheap web space with access to a single MySQL
database.
- RefDB now provides frequency data for various statistical
purposes. The get{au|ed|as|kw|jo|jf|j1|j2} commands allow to display
the absolute number of references that use the particular item, or a
relative number between 0 and 10
- The xhtml output of getref and checkref now contain frequency
data. If you view the output with a new optional stylesheet, the
authors, journal names, and keywords will be displayed according to
their frequency in terms of font size and colour, similar to the tag
clouds in services like del.icio.us.
- getref and get{au|ed|as|kw|jo|jf|j1|j2} now support a new option -N
limit[:offset] to cut down on the number of returned datasets. This
feature can be conveniently used to loop over the result set in
e.g. increments of 5 or 10, a feature most useful for graphical
frontends.
- the dump files of empty reference databases (these are required
e.g. to set up RefDB using a single database) were updated and
versioned.
- the name of the main database is now configurable through the
refdbdrc config file or by means of refdbd's -M command-line
option. This allows RefDB to run in situations where you cannot choose
the database name.
Backwards-incompatible changes:
- The -N option of the refdba:adduser command (which specifies the
password of a new user) was renamed to -W. -N is now used by the
clients to specify a number or a range of datasets.
- The addref and updateref commands now use -A to specify the
input reference type instead of -r. This was necessary to stay
consistent with the new checkref command which has to deal with both
an input (-A) and an output (-r) format.
- To avoid confusion, these changes extend to the internal
client/server protocol. Its version is now 5. As a result, old clients
won't talk to the new server and vice versa.
--
Markus Hoenicka
markus.hoenicka@xxxxxxx
(Spam-protected email: replace the quadrupeds with "mhoenicka")
http://www.mhoenicka.de
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