Awasu 3.0.1.alpha2

IMPORTANT: This is an alpha release (what's this?). Some features may not be complete and there will probably be bugs!

You must be already running 3.0 or 3.0.1.alpha1.

To install:

• Read the release notes below first!
• Backup your Awasu installation directory and keep it, even if the alpha appears to work correctly.
• Unpack one (!) of the following zips on top of your existing installation:
  • Personal Edition
  • Advanced Edition
  • Professional Edition
• Run admin.exe to upgrade your database (this will be quick).

Awasu API

Most of the changes in this release are for the Awasu API.

• $/workpads/create - creates a new workpad.
• $/workpads/update - updates the configuration for a workpad.
• $/workpads/delete - deletes a workpad.
• $/logs/activity - returns the Awasu Activity log.
• $/logs/error - returns the Awasu Error log.
• $/userInfo - returns information about the user account Awasu is running under.

• Upgraded the Python script for accessing the Awasu API.
• Added a PHP script for accessing the Awasu API.
• The Awasu API now supports compressed responses.
• Split the $/workpads/list functionality into $/workpads/list and $/workpads/get (these now work in the same way as the corresponding channel and report functions).
• The HTML template for $/workpads/list now links to each individual workpad.
• $/workpads/list now returns information about custom fields.
• $/buildInfo now returns the build options (add a"verbose=1" parameter).
• Tweaked the way $/buildInfo returns the expiry date (for expiring builds of Awasu).
• $/channels/list now returns the number of new and unread items.
• $/channels/list now returns the number of update errors.
• $/channels/list now returns the channel GUID's.
• $/stats now returns the number of channels currently updating.
• $/reports/list now includes the flag that controls whether the report post-processing command is visible or not.
• Awasu API arguments can now be specified in the HTTP POST data.
• Awasu now uses a special token (generated each time it starts) in the cases where the token must be embedded in HTML (e.g. the search page).
• The Awasu API token is now encrypted in CONFIG.INI.
• The character # is now no longer allowed in Awasu API token.
• Added a muppet header to the $/stats and $/reports/list XML response files.
• The JSON response for $/channels/cleanup now has a root node.
• The JSON response for $/search/query and $/feedItems/get now return the text type for each text field.
• Fixed a problem with how Unicode text was being returned in JSON responses.
• Fixed some errors in the JSON template files.
• Changed the way Awasu responds if channel/report/workpad API's are called but no objects are selected.
  In particular, this means that $/channels/delete id=* no longer returns an error if there are no channels.
• Changed the way a channel's auto-update enabled flag and interval are passed in and out of the Awasu API.
• {%BUILD-DATE%} and {%EXPIRY-DATE%} now respond to the standard timeZone=... and format=... parameters.
• Added a new {%IS-AWASU-SERVER%} parameter to the $/buildInfo templates.
• The Awasu API now recognizes "@" to mean the default workpad when creating reports and channels.
• $/channels/create now expects search channel score cutoffs to be between 0 and 1.
• HTML template files are now marked as UTF-8.
• The Awasu API no longer returns channels that are in the process of being deleted.
• Tweaked some Awasu API error messages.

Other changes

• User-defined metadata nodes are now stored in the archive database (not CONFIG.INI).
• Fixed a problem that was stopping ampersands from appearing in item titles.
• Fixed incorrectly-generated links in search results for searches done within Awasu.
• Informational messages about enclosure downloads are no longer recorded in the Error Log.
• Minor UI changes.

Known issues

• The expiry date month returned by $/buildInfo is wrong.