The code freeze for the Drupal 4.2.0 release has begun. As of now, no new features or functionality is being added. Just bugfixes. Though, in the initial stage of the code freeze, documentation updates, usability improvements and performance improvements are still being accepted.
If you have a Drupal site and you want to help testing, consider upgrading now. Anyone who doesn't have an old site and wants to help out can of course setup a Drupal site from scratch. Drupal has been remarkably stable during the past weeks so everything should be well.
The release candidate is available at:
The release candidate is repackaged twice a day so make sure to download a fresh copy every now and then to get the latest fixes.
For bug reports, use the project pages. For support, consult the documentation, the mailing lists, the support forums or add a comment below.
After the initial stage of the code freeze, the DRUPAL-4-2-0 branch will be created so we can continue active development. In the mean time we ask the Drupal contributors to focus on the pending bugs as well as the documentation.
If you are the maintainer of a theme or module in the contributions repository, this would be the time to ensure it works with the Drupal 4.2.0 release candidate.
Happy testing.
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Did I do anything wrong? Had
Did I do anything wrong? Had last nights CVS and updated to this new one and get:
user error: Unknown column 'changed' in 'where clause'
query: SELECT * FROM site WHERE changed > 1053882690 ORDER BY changed DESC LIMIT 0, 20 in c:\webserver\includes\database.mysql.inc on line 75.
run update.php
ie. http://yoursite/update.php (logged in as admin). see also http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/drupal-cvs/2003-June/004771.html
Features
Which are the new features of the 4.2.0 release? I have been searching in the documentation and the mailing lists, but I have not found them. It would be nice to see what improves ;)
here
CHANGELOG from cvs
very nice!
Got it running on win32 - very nice indeed! Will muck around and see if I can get it to fall over, but overall very impressed with the new look of the admin interface.
"- removed the 'register_globals = on' requirement."
hooray! :)
Great Job!
Thanks guys, I was using an older version of Drupal and just upgraded to the 4.2.0RC and I wanted to let you know that so far things are going GREAT! My Site is now doing alot more than I had hoped, the new pinging of update servers such as weblogs sure does make my life alot easier so I can now concetrate on trying to write content for the site instead of having to worry about updating 10,000,000 site by hand everytime I make a change! Thanks Again!!!!!
locale module problem
Test Report:
Great administration interface! This is now the best CMS project, I think.
1.There isn't any "Original text" displayed both after clicking "edit locale" and search result lists!
2.It displayed all the translated/untraslated string no matter what I clicked "translated string" or "untranslated string" under path - "Administration
I've found what's wrong!
Solved above point 1 and 2!
After import database.mysql into database (by using phpMyAdmin)and checking it I found there is an uppercase field name() in locales table. But it's actual lowercase in original database.mysql... what's wrong? Anyone know why?
Thanks, and excuse my poor english.
Sincerely,
CS.
Check out the htmlarea module in contribs
As subject. Gives you WYSIWYG editing for textareas. Works on IE and Mozilla.
Seems to work!
Ok, just did the upgrade from a CVS build a few weeks ago to RC2. Everything went great. Just make sure that you run the update.php script.
Check the site out at www.clearstatic.org. I support shared Druapl IDs but haven't really tested it. Try creating an account with your Drupal ID.
Doubled Taxonomy items
When I list the taxonomy
[site]/?q=admin/taxonomy
most of the entries are repeated twice:
General (edit term)
General (edit term)
Professional (edit term)
Professional (edit term)
Research (edit term)
-- Algebraic Topology (edit term)
-- Algebraic Topology (edit term)
update.php
If you've never done this before, when you run update.php -- first you want to select 'Upgrade to CVS', then '2002-12-10:First update since Drupal 4.1.0 release'.
I had to take a couple of tries at this before I figured out which one it was, but again, it was mostly testing it against other modules.
'Style' looks promising but doesn't work -- will be looking forward to that one.
style works
There us just a small glitch. If the problem that you're refering to is that you get the message 'enter the right values first' - it's to do with the new way that POST is implemented. The fix is simple. In the style_admin function, there is the line, at the beginning of the function: global $edit; Change it to $edit = $_POST['edit']; This will fix the problem.
*Grin*
Well, yeah. That did take care of the "enter right values..." message, and I can at least clone style sets, but now I'm getting:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: xtemplate_default_style() in /home/middlebrother/public_html/modules/style.module on line 103
(Note: I also removed the admin.module replacement that comes with the style module due to errors involving the header message (and I don't think it's the bit about them already being sent, because I got that for a bit and ended up pulling extra spaces out of everything that had them, but...)
Thanks bunches just the same -- this gives me something to play with. If I figure it out, I'll post it back here presently...
style module
The "Fatal error: Call to undefined function: xtemplate_default_style()" is caused because the style modules searches for compatible themes by looking for a file name like $theme.inc. X-template is a theme (only one?) that is not (yet) compatible but has an .inc file too. Have not checked but if you disable the x-template theme (remove it?), the problem is probably solved.
Do not understand what you exactly mean with the errors in the admin.module replacement. But the Drupal I work on (and tested the module and themes on) is a couple of months old. I am going to have an update and a look at it soon (and of course fix the bugs I find).
Chatbox does not work
Chatbox /cvs-version) does not work with drupal 4.2rc
Unable to upgrade
I had a cvs version of drupal running (around 4/26/03) I've copied the files into the directory, put the correct info into my conf.php file and pointed the browser at update.php. On the update.php page, I click "upgrade to cvs" and nothing happens. I expect to see the list of dates to upgrade from but it doesn't appear. Has anyone else had this problem?
Joe Lombardo | joe@familytimes.com | My Blog
Problem Solved
Thanks go to Dries for figuring this out. My problem was an outdated version of PHP. Recent changes to Drupal require PHP 4.1.0 or higher.
This is one slick release! I love the interface improvements.
Joe Lombardo | joe@familytimes.com | My Blog
Great - hopefully soon with running modules
Drupal is great and exatly what I need for implemeting an e-learning-environment (constructivist learning).
It is a pity that some of the additional modules do not running correctly and producing error with 4.2rc (chatbox, online, viewcount ..).
So I find myself impatiently waiting for the drupal team or competent users to make those modules work.
If you find a problem with a module...
...please file a bug report. The developers rely on people to file bug reports for contribution modules, as they won't notice if they don't use the module otherwise.
Most small bugs of the "produces an error when you just enable it with 4.2, but it always worked with 4.1" variety are easily fixable.
I'm now off to check out the three modules you mention...
I'm now off to check out the three modules you mention...
No progress here ... ?
Status update
This was originally posted on June 1. What's the status of 2.4 now? How's the final release of 2.4 coming along?
Microsoft® Versus
the answer is 42 :-)
hi
we are all waiting for (or contributing to) 4.2. the whole point is, it is ready when its ready. no pressure there, some critical points need to be fixed and some are -despite freeze- added. if you cant wait, go for the "bleeding edge" rc's. if you cant upgrade, just wait or contribute in any way you can (testing, writing, etc..)
we (they? :-) ) need more people and i think everybody is welcome to pick something up, not just coders
--
groets
bertb
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groets
bert boerland
Status update
It's "4.2.0", not "2.4".
We are still in a feature freeze. We have been fixing bugs on a daily basis and have made good progress on all fronts; we have been working on the documentation and Drupal's usability and have put quite some effort in fine-tuning the CSS. Most modules and themes in the contributions repository have been updated as well.
I'm quite confident about Drupal 4.2.0's release readiness thus I'm soon going to create the DRUPAL-4-2-0 branch so we can pick up active development. Soon thereafter, Drupal 4.2.0 will be released. The exact timing will depend on the bug report/patch rate and our gut feeling.
Have you tried Drupal 4.2.0 yet? This would be the time to give it a try and report back as we are currently very responsive to bug reports and upgrade woes; probably more then we are during active development so ...
3.000+ downloads already
I just looked at some statistics and I was pleasantly surprised to see that the Drupal 4.2.0 release candidate has been downloaded over 3.000 times.
choice for "bad" html tags
In the procedd of code freeze not only bugs not only bugs were corrected. Some changes takes away possibilies of page creation within drupal I previously had (for example using inline frames in some pages. Now drupal is "protected" against the use of "exploitable" HTML tags/attributes. Allowing the iframe-tag causes an error: "terminated request because of suspicious input data"
Is it not possible to give admins the choice to allow also exploitable tags?
possible in latest version
see http://drupal.org/node/view/2147#8 :
Thanks and new bug?
Thank You. Yes it works now with some tags.
But not exactly with iframe-tag: the page in the iframe-source is shown double times in a row.
(it was correctly shown in earlier versions of 4.2. last month)