Release Notes:1.2.0

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Contents 1 Xibo 1.2.0 - Codename "Biela" 2 Requirements 3 Upgrading 3.1 Upgrading from 1.0 (Halley) 3.2 Upgrading from 1.1.x (Encke) 4 Help 5 New Features 6 Known Issues and Limitations

Xibo 1.2.0 - Codename "Biela"

This is the first release in the new 1.2 series of Xibo server and clients.

Our thanks go to everyone who has helped out in the 1.1 and 1.2 series release candidates to get this ready. Thanks also to everyone who sent bug reports, patches, translations or ideas. Special thanks to everyone who has supported us financially too by making a donation to the project.

You can download this release from https://launchpad.net/xibo/1.2/1.2.0

Requirements

You must use the 1.2.0 .net client or pyclient-1.2.0a3 client with this version of the Xibo server. Older client versions will not connect to this server version.

Xibo requires PHP 5.2.9 or higher. A full list of module requirements is presented at the point of installation - we'll even tell you which modules you're missing!

Xibo now requires the PHP SOAP module to be installed and enabled.

Note that in some configurations, the Xibo 1.2.0 client will be unable to register or communicate with the Xibo server. You will receive a message similar to ""SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't load from 'http://server/xibo/xmds.php?wsdl' : failed to load external entity "http://server/xibo/xmds.php?wsdl"". Please refer to this bug report for a workaround. [1]

Upgrading

Upgrading from 1.0 (Halley)

There are significant database schema changes between the 1.0 series of Xibo and the 1.2 series. The upgrader will take a 1.0 series database and convert it to a schema suitable for the 1.2 series to date. Note that this is a one-way conversion. Please ensure you have a full backup of your 1.0 series database before upgrading. DO NOT RELY ON THE AUTOMATED BACKUP ROUTINE! Instructions for cloning a Xibo database are available here Release Notes:Clone Database if you would prefer to copy your database and upgrade that instead.

• Backup your database
• Optionally clone your existing Xibo database and grant permissions (see Release Notes:Clone Database for details)
• Continue with instructions from 1.1.x below.

Upgrading from 1.1.x (Encke)

• Backup settings.php from your installation
• The upgrader will offer to take a backup your database, but manually taking a backup would be a good idea.
• Replace your existing installation with the new version from the tar.gz or zip file
• Replace your settings.php file
• Browse to http://your.server/path as normal
• You will be prompted that an upgrade is required.
• Enter your xibo_admin password, and follow the upgrade wizard.
• The upgrade should run, and finally ask you to log in as you would normally.

Help

Please ask for help/advice in the Answers section of Launchpad: https://answers.launchpad.net/xibo

Please report any bugs in the Bugs section of Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xibo (if you're not sure that what you have found is a bug, please ask in the Answers section first!)

Please report any enhancement requests in the Blueprints section of Launchpad: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/xibo

New Features

New features are covered in the following blog post: http://xibo.org.uk/2010/09/26/xibo-1-2-0-has-arrived/

Known Issues and Limitations

Xibo is a young project. There are plenty of new features in the pipeline, but to provide a stable platform for users wanting Xibo now, the 1.2 series of releases are now feature-frozen (no new features will be implemented). All new development work will go in to the 1.3 series - which will be unstable.

Once we are happy with 1.3, we will release Xibo 1.4 which will be the next stable release series and the direct upgrade path for 1.2. Any future releases of Xibo 1.2 will be bug fix releases only.

Therefore there are the following known issues and limitations with Xibo 1.2.0:

• In some configurations, the Xibo 1.2.0 client will be unable to register or communicate with the Xibo server. You will receive a message similar to ""SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't load from 'http://server/xibo/xmds.php?wsdl' : failed to load external entity "http://server/xibo/xmds.php?wsdl"". Please refer to this bug report for a workaround. [2]
• The backgrounds of Text and RSS media items are not transparent if the background of a layout is a GIF image. Please use JPEG images as a work around. [3] (applies only to .net client)
• Overlapping regions are handled badly. The existing server/client were never developed to support overlapping regions, but they do work in some circumstances which is why we have decided to leave this functionality intact, but with the caveat that they may not work as you expect. [4] [5] (applies only to .net client)
• Backgrounds of FlashMedia items are not transparent. This is a limitation of the Adobe Flash C# control. [6] (applies only to .net client)
• RSS Tickers using "single" mode render incorrectly. (applies only to Python client)

Please also check the bug tracker for new issues: [7]