• ANNOUNCE: OpenACS 5.10.0 released

    From gustafn@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 16 01:15:20 2021
    We are proud to announce the release of the OpenACS 5.10.0 [0,1]. This release contains the most changes in OpenACS between releases in history, including many security and performance improvements and includes new functionalities. This new release
    differs from OpenACS 5.9.1 (released 2017) by the following statistics

    3445 files changed, 215464 insertions(+), 193642 deletions(-)

    The release of OpenACS 5.10.0 contains the 93 packages of the oacs-5-10 branch (plus 9 compared to oacs-5-9). These packages include the OpenACS core packages, the major application packages (e.g. most the ones used on OpenACS.org), and DotLRN 2.10.0.
    The release contains several security improvements and new functions, several new packages were added, and 370 bugs noted in the bug tracker have been fixed (plus many more not noted there).

    For a partial summary of changes, please check the release notes [2], for the more detailed list of changes since the release of OpenACS 5.9.1, see [3]. Many changes/enhancements of the application packages are just contained in the detailed changelog.

    These changes were contributed by 7 committers ...

    Antonio Pisano
    Gustaf Neumann
    Günter Ernst
    Hector Romojaro
    Michael Aram
    Stefan Sobernig
    Thomas Renner

    ... and additional 13 patch/bugfix providers

    Felix Mödritscher
    Florian Mosböck
    Frank Bergmann
    Franz Penz
    Hanifa Hasan
    Keith Paskett
    Markus Moser
    Maurizio Martignano
    Monika Andergassen
    Nathan Coulter
    Rainer Bachleitner
    Stephan Adelsberger
    Tony Kirkham

    All packages of the release were tested with PostgreSQL 13.* and Tcl 8.6.*.

    [0] https://openacs.org
    [1] https://openacs.org/projects/openacs/download/
    [2] https://openacs.org/doc/release-notes
    [3] https://openacs.org/changelogs/ChangeLog-5.10.0

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