By dries on

In preparation of the Drupal 4.5.0 release, Drupal development has been frozen. However, I'm going to make an exception for the proposed document management and theme system changes. We have been actively working on these, so they get a couple more days. I hope that we can get these sorted by Wednesday, if not, they'll have to wait for Drupal 4.6.0.

During the initial stage of the code freeze, documentation updates, usability improvements and performance improvements will be accepted. New functionality, on the other hand, will not be accepted unless deemed critical. Thus, the current focus is to strengthen the code base's performance, usability and stability. As we progress, focus will shift towards stability and near the end of the code freeze, only bug fixes will be allowed, until no release critical bugs are left.

People who maintain contributed modules or themes are advised to start updating them to be compatible with Drupal 4.5.0. We plan to make a release candidate available so early adopters might be trying your themes and modules.

Last but not least, in good tradition, the DRUPAL-4-5 branch will be created only when the HEAD branch is opened up for development -- typically, near the end of the code freeze.

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UGlee’s picture

UGlee commented

I am going to launch a handheld portal/community using new drupal 4.5. This is mainly because the new document management function. I am too tired about tweaking the filestore/2, flexinode, simple upload... modules.

Now I am checking drupal site at least 20 times a day (sorry for wasting so many bandwidth, :)). Really cant wait for new release, and, man, could you tell me when I can get it (even a beta version but not CVS)?

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dries commented

I won't put a date on it (yet). Drupal 4.5.0 will be released when it is ready. Simple as that. All I can say is that with the previous releases, it took up to a month and sometimes even longer than a month. Of course, one or more release candidates will be made available during the code freeze.

In the mean time, you can download the latest version of what will be Drupal 4.5.0 from http://drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-cvs.tar.gz. It is repackaged every few hours. If you are familiar with CVS, it is easier to use CVS though. Also, I hope we can roll a first release candidate in a couple of weeks.

I hope that helps.

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sj_smoogen commented

Thanks for the information. I will start trying to track CVS for my test site, but would like to set up my QA/Production sites using any RC candidates. I guess I need to make sure I am watching the site more often than I have :).

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andremolnar commented

First of all - awesome news on the upcoming 4.5 release.

How about September 3rd for a release candidate. Developers can relax over the long weekend - and everyone else can waste their weekend playing with the new release.

andre

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owad commented

Will it be possible to move data from modules such as filestore2 to the new system?

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dries commented

I don't think anyone has looked into that yet, but I might be wrong. However, I do believe it is a good idea to deprecate some file handling modules in the contributions repository (where possible) and to provide an upgrade path to the built-in upload module.

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Eric Scouten commented

I think there's general agreement among the handful of people working on image.module that we want to move images into the new file-handling system.

This almost certainly won't happen at the same time as 4.5 (the old system will continue to work), but I do expect to provide a migration path when we do make the cutover.

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Please get the events time bug (in issues) fixed before the next release - that's a serious problem!

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Steven commented

Is this an event.module bug? Is there an issue for this bug? Event.module is a contributed module, so bug reports about it should go into the appropriate project.

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sidsalvi commented

Does the new release has support for Centralized Installation? Web hosting becomes easier and effecient on resources if their is one centralized installation of Drupal which is used by number of communities (client sites). The problem in previous release was file store and image modules.

Cheers!
Sid

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markc commented

> Does the new release has support for Centralized Installation?

This is a really important issue for me too... and PHP5 compatibility. I just spent a week to get phpBB working off a single codebase and... well, decided my time would be better spent looking into Drupal, perhaps. I have only just started with Drupal and have trouble getting it (current release) to run under PHP5 so I will try the CVS version and start hacking on it. FWIW my phpBB efforts are catalogued here -> http://phpbb-php5mod.sourceforge.net/viewtopic.php?t=53

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Jhef.Vicedo commented

There are some syntaxes and semantics used by the latest version of Drupal(4.4.2) which are now obsolete or deprecated on PHP5. so drupal will not run on PHP5.

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http://drupal.org/node/view/9292

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adrian commented

They have made their way into core ... and I have a working (and very nice) version of the phptemplate engine for 4.5, which includes the ability to extend almost completely using template files. (in all honestly, you still need to define a theme function you want to override, but you then just hand it off to the template engine to process. most functions are 3 lines in length)

PHPTal is going to take a bit longer, as the template engine itself is pretty simple, but the default template takes a while to develop

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water-1 commented

has anybody got any inside juicy progress reports they can "sort-of-leak" to help shorten the wait ;)

:water

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smalljaw@www.mdfishing.org commented

The CVS logs look very busy over the last few days. Still, by my count, 65 outstanding bugs in the cvs version. A fair amount of documentation updates have been checked in which I think is great. I too am anxious for 4.5. An update would be nice to have.

Keep up the GREAT work you guys.