Release 3.3 of The SkunkWeb Web Application Server has just been released. The release is available from the SkunkWeb home page at http://skunkweb.sourceforge.net or directly from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/skunkweb/skunkweb-3.3.tgz Changes in 3.3 ======================================== * Developer's manual updated * fix to PyDO/mysql so that you can put NULL values into columns * minor change to handling of python code files (__name__ is now set to '__main__' in the document namespace), so precompiled Cheetah templates work. * fix to the cachekey generator so it won't dump core under certain conditions ---3.3 beta 0 cut * the build process was revised to facilitate changing the installed directory structure using standard configure options; FHS-compliant packaging and installation is now feasible. * PSP support added. For now should be considered alpha * Prebuilt documentation is now included in the distribution (HTML and paper-formats in letter dimensions) * now can have skunkweb started as root (can set who you actually want it to run as) so you can bind to low ports * new extcgi service so you can run CGI's from SkunkWeb! * new pycgi service for running Python CGI's in process -- still in alpha. * vfs.FS has new method, split_extra(), that finds extra path info; the rewrite service has a new DynamicRewriter subclass, ExtraPathFinder, which takes advantage of it (although a simple rewrite rule is still more efficient to use when possible -- see the FAQ). * fixed userModuleCleanup bugs when using MySQL service and/or used <:img:> tag with PIL installed. * pydo/mysql now supports connection caching using the mysql service. * PyDO documentation updates * The userdir service will now function properly when operating with a scoped docroot * Now converts non-native line-endings in exprs to the native line ending so that when editing templates on non-native machines, expressions will work properly * auth service fix when using multiple auth schemes simultaneously -- BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE AHEAD--- If you customized the login/logout pages copied from the auth service directory, NOTE THE FOLLOWING CHANGE!! change the <:import SkunkWeb Configuration:> to <:import auth:> change the Configuration.authAuthorizer bits to auth.getAuthorizer(). If you copied them and didn't change them, recopy them. * the logger now handles some really bizarre cases that shouldn't ever happen in reality (but of course have, or I wouldn't have fixed them). Oh the benefits of a machine with bad memory to make you test for things that shouldn't happen. Cheers, Jacob Smullyan