Pandora News

August 26, 2006

Pandora 0.4.4 has been made available to the general public. Updates include a new way to delete existing pages and chapters, recent changes page, default sidebar for new books, trail path attachment indicator, iconified file links, fix for a defect that caused an exception when a book is deleted, and documentation edits.

As usual, visit the download page or the RubyForge Pandora Project Site to get the latest code.

August 5, 2006

Pandora 0.4.3 has been made available to the general public. Since the last beta release, the code has been updated to include a new search function, common book sidebar, site-wide menu, and a few other features. It also includes fixes for defects in the new document link and in the handling of page names containing embedded spaces.

To get the code, visit the download page or the RubyForge Pandora Project Site.

March 31, 2006

Pandora 0.4.2 has been made available to the general public. Since the last beta release, the code has been updated to include new features that allow a Pandora Administrator to export a book into a portable compressed archive (*.pd file) that can be imported into other Pandora instances, minor defect fixes, and updated documentation. Under the covers, almost all of the Pandora controller classes have been rewritten into mixed-in modules, and the design templates have been updated to use the new, more secure sandbox delegates.

To get the code, visit the download page or the RubyForge Pandora Project Site.

March 3, 2006

Pandora 0.4.0 has been made available to the general public. Since the last limited beta release, the code has been updated to include administrative pages for managing library contents, users, and runtime settings, automated generation of user home pages, user interface improvements, minor defect fixes, and new and updated documentation.

To get the code, visit the download page or the RubyForge Pandora Project Site.

February 22, 2006

Pandora 0.3.1 has been made available to the participants of the Pandora Early Beta Program. This new beta seed has been updated with user management code that fixes the issue with blocked email communications between Pandora and its users, new startup code that generates the configuration script and registers the publisher automatically, a new command line tool to register users interactively, fixes in the page revision history code, minor user interface improvements, and new and updated documentation.

In addition, the Pandora Project has created and made available The Ruby Bookshelf, a library of free books and articles on Ruby programming in the Pandora format. Contact the Pandora Project Administrator Julian I. Kamil by email if you are a writer or a Ruby enthusiast who would like to help contributing contents to The Ruby Bookshelf.

February 20, 2006

Pandora 0.3.0 has been made available to a limited number of users who participate in the Pandora Early Beta Program, which is being held for 7 days in the week of February 20, 2006. This program has been designed to provide its participants with access to an early beta version of Pandora to be exercised in order to identify possible major issues that could be detrimental to its general usability. Read more about the program at: http://pandora.rubyveil.com/pandora/Pandora/Project/EarlyBetaProgram.

February 18, 2006

The Ruby Veil Pandora Project Site has been updated to use Pandora 0.2.4, which has added revision history view and restore functions, user account manual approval process, more Silk Veil markups, a few defect fixes, and more documentation pages.

Pandora is being prepared for an early beta testing which should occur all week next week, and is planned to be publicly released near the end of February 2006. Contact the Pandora Project Administrator Julian I. Kamil by email if you would like to participate in the early beta test program.

February 14, 2006

The Ruby Veil Pandora Project Site has been updated to use Pandora 0.2, which has added access control policy application for creating, viewing, and editing books and pages, automated book and chapter table of contents generation, the use of YAML system configuration file, along with a few defect fixes.

February 12, 2006

Pandora is a Wiki and web application platform written in the Ruby language that doesn’t require any database, uses Textile and Silk Veil for markups, supports skins, and has builtin user management functions.

It aims to make it easy for a team of people to quickly collaborate on the network and develop custom document components and extensions to meet their specific needs. It provides a Ruby object-oriented application framework called Pandora’s Box, which can be used to extend its functionalities.

Check out the Ruby Veil Pandora Project Site at: http://pandora.rubyveil.com/ and its RubyForge project entry at: http://rubyforge.org/projects/pandora/.

February 9, 2006

The Pandora Project is officially registered at RubyForge and the Ruby Application Archive, and the official project site is hosted using Pandora 0.1 itself and made ready for public viewing and limited testing at the Ruby Veil Pandora Project Site.

Pandora 0.1 is a functional Wiki system, but it is still missing a few key critical features, including: access control policy application, manual approval process for user registration, and revision view and restore functions.