Releases for Radioactivity

This release contains a fix for a regression, where decay granularity could not be set if Memcache was not enabled. For details, see #552036: Error on configuration form submission (admin/settings/radioactivity).

New features:

• Support for memcache-based acceleration for energy increases. This should greatly reduce inserts/updates to table radioactivity for busy sites, and therefore, make db query caches work better. (#400644: Memcache acceleration (D6 port))
• Restricting node view energy for authenticated users only. (#452288: How to limit to authenticated users?)

Changes in work logic:

• When submitted comment is automatically approved, give comment_submit and comment_publish energies to node. In earlier releases, only comment_submit was given. Fixed as a part of #452288: How to limit to authenticated users?.

Bug fixes:

• Fix comment publish. (#460326: Publishing comments gives fatal error). Thanks to swentel for the report and patch!

This release also introduces some Simpletest tests for the most important functionality. This should improve the code quality.

If no blockers show up, I'll make the official release in a week or so.

Enjoy!

This is the first release candidate for 5.x-1.3. Changes since 5.x-1.2:

• Support for memcache-based acceleration of node views. #400644: Memcache acceleration (D6 port)
• Fix some warnings when E_STRICT and E_NOTICE error levels are used. http://drupal.org/cvs?commit=199114

If no blockers pop up, I'm going to make this official 5.x-1.3 in a week or so.

This is the first release candidate for Drupal 6 port of Radioactivity. Some feature highlights:

• Nodes and comments can receive radioactivity with positive (the usual) and negative energy. Negative energy is intended for up/down voting.
• Energy settings configurable per node type, if required.
• Views 2.0 support. Sorts can be configured to use LEFT or INNER JOIN against Radioactivity table.
• VotingAPI support with common voting (for most voted lists) and up/down voting (best/worst lists)
• Developed for Mysql 5.0 and PostgreSQL 8.0, but may work with other versions and even other databases, too.

Enjoy!

P.S. Please share your testing results in #335098: Feedback request for 6.x-1.0-RC1.

Here's the official 5.x-1.2! This is rc2 + small fixes to radioactivity_up_down_voting.module and radioactivity_votingapi.module. The notable fixes in this release: (compared to 5.x-1.1)

• #251651: radioactivity_add_energy called with wrong arguments on node view when click_duration != 0
• #301230: radioactivity_node incompatible with page caching
• #301241: radioactivity_get_energies_for_source: Resolve subclass only when required (Optimization)

The notable new features in this release: (compared to 5.x-1.1)

• A new modular design for radioactivity sources and targets
• Support for node comments and arbitrary objects, in addition to node targets
• Support for VotingAPI as an energy source for node and comment radioactivity
• Support for arbitrary sources. This is for integration purposes
• Configurable HTTP interface, exposing radioactivity_add_energy, radioactivity_get_energy and radioactivity_delete_energy
• Support for settings per node type
• Support for different join types in views
• radioactivity_up_down_voting for up/down radioactive voting (see #300767: Negative amount and integration with Drigg)

As always, see the the CVS messages (http://drupal.org/project/cvs/240484) and the issues for detailed changes.

Notes for 5.x-1.1 → 5.x-1.2 migration:

This is a release candidate for 5.x-1.2. The official 5.x-1.2 will be released in a week or so, if no major issues show up before that. If you don't want to go for a release candidate, download 5.x-1.1 and apply patch from issue #251651: radioactivity_add_energy called with wrong arguments on node view when click_duration != 0.

The notable fixes in this release: (compared to 5.x-1.1)

• #251651: radioactivity_add_energy called with wrong arguments on node view when click_duration != 0

The notable new features in this release: (compared to 5.x-1.1)

• A new modular design for radioactivity sources and targets
• Support for node comments and arbitrary objects, in addition to node targets
• Support for VotingAPI as an energy source for node and comment radioactivity
• Support for arbitrary sources. This is for integration purposes
• Configurable HTTP interface, exposing radioactivity_add_energy, radioactivity_get_energy and radioactivity_delete_energy
• Support for settings per node type
• Support for different join types in views

As always, see the the CVS messages (http://drupal.org/project/cvs/240484) and the issues for detailed changes.

Notes for 5.x-1.1 → 5.x-1.2 migration:

New features in this release:

• configurable amounts of energy per node view and submitted/published comment #248220: Submitting comments should also increase node radioactivity
• reworked admin navigation a bit #248260: Change navigation for energy profile admin

Bug fixes:

• Works now correctly with anonymous users when page cache is enabled #248216: Radioactivity does not work well with page cache and anonymous users

This release was sponsored by Kustannusosakeyhtiö Uusi Suomi which runs www.uusisuomi.fi , a Finnish news site.