Greenstone Blog http://www.greenstone.org/blog News and Posts from the Greenstone Team Mon, 02 Oct 2017 06:16:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 en Greenstone 2.87 released http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2017-10-02/greenstone-287-released/ http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2017-10-02/greenstone-287-released/#comments Mon, 02 Oct 2017 05:50:53 +0000 Monday 2nd October, 2017 not-new ak19 http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2017-10-02/greenstone-287-released/ We recommend that Greenstone users shift to Greenstone 3, as that’s the future of Greenstone.
But for those who really need Greenstone 2, we’ve now brought out a maintenance release of it with Greenstone 2.87.
You can grab the new GS 2.87 binaries, and source component and source distributions packages from the downloads page.
The release notes include […]

]]> http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2017-10-02/greenstone-287-released/feed/ Greenstone 3.08 released http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2017-05-04/greenstone-308-released/ http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2017-05-04/greenstone-308-released/#comments Wed, 03 May 2017 22:13:02 +0000 Wednesday 3rd May, 2017 not-new kjdon http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2017-05-04/greenstone-308-released/ Greenstone 3.08 was released November 2016 (oops, what a late blog entry!)
You can grab the binaries, source components and source distributions from the downloads page.
The release notes include the installation instructions. There are instructions for helping you port Greenstone2 collections to Greenstone3.
To familiarise yourself with how things are done in Greenstone3, follow along with […]

]]> http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2017-05-04/greenstone-308-released/feed/ Greenstone 3.07 released http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2015-09-09/greenstone-307-released/ http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2015-09-09/greenstone-307-released/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2015 06:44:24 +0000 Wednesday 9th September, 2015 not-new ak19 http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2015-09-09/greenstone-307-released/ We’ve finally released the binaries, source components and source distributions for Greenstone 3.07.
You can grab them from the downloads page.
The release notes include the installation instructions. There are instructions for helping you port Greenstone2 collections to Greenstone3.
To familiarise yourself with how things are done in Greenstone3, follow along with the Greenstone 3 tutorials.
For those who […]

]]> http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2015-09-09/greenstone-307-released/feed/ GS 3.07rc2 out now: Mac Mountain Lion binary now runs on Mac Yosemite out of the box http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2015-08-26/gs-307rc2-binaries-out-now-mac-mountain-lion-binary-now-runs-on-mac-yosemite-out-of-the-box/ http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2015-08-26/gs-307rc2-binaries-out-now-mac-mountain-lion-binary-now-runs-on-mac-yosemite-out-of-the-box/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:29:27 +0000 Wednesday 26th August, 2015 not-new ak19 http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2015-08-26/gs-307rc2-binaries-out-now-mac-mountain-lion-binary-now-runs-on-mac-yosemite-out-of-the-box/ Good news for Mac Yosemite users out there (and possibly Mac Maverick users too): the current Greenstone 3.07 release-candidate binaries now include a JRE with the Mac Mountain Lion binary. This allows the Greenstone 3.07-rc2 Mountain Lion installer to now run out of the box on Mac Yosemite machines. You may still need to change […]

]]> http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2015-08-26/gs-307rc2-binaries-out-now-mac-mountain-lion-binary-now-runs-on-mac-yosemite-out-of-the-box/feed/ Greenstone 3.07 release candidate out (03 Aug 2015) http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2015-08-15/greenstone-307-release-candidate-out-03-aug-2015/ http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2015-08-15/greenstone-307-release-candidate-out-03-aug-2015/#comments Sat, 15 Aug 2015 06:36:12 +0000 Saturday 15th August, 2015 not-new ak19 http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2015-08-15/greenstone-307-release-candidate-out-03-aug-2015/ Hello all,
The GS3.07 release candidate 1 (3.07 rc1) was released on 03 Aug 2015 and can be downloaded from the snapshots page. There have been quite a few changes and improvements. These have been documented in the release notes.
The 3.07 rc1 binaries available are for Windows, Linux (32 and 64 bit) and Mac (Snow) Leopard […]

]]> http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2015-08-15/greenstone-307-release-candidate-out-03-aug-2015/feed/ Greenstone 3.06 release out now http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2014-11-13/greenstone-306-release-out-now/ http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2014-11-13/greenstone-306-release-out-now/#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2014 06:52:26 +0000 Thursday 13th November, 2014 not-new ak19 http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2014-11-13/greenstone-306-release-out-now/ Hello all!
On 6 Nov we released the final binaries of Greenstone 3.06. There are binaries available for the following operating systems:

Windows,
Linux 32-bit and 64-bit machines and
Mac OS Leopard, for Leopards and Snow Leopards
Mac OS Mountain Lion for Mountain Lion, Maverick (and possibly the older Lion, but untested […]

]]> http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2014-11-13/greenstone-306-release-out-now/feed/ Anu’s blog entry for the week ending 11 Nov 2011 http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-11-11/anus-blog-entry-for-the-week-ending-11-nov-2011/ http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-11-11/anus-blog-entry-for-the-week-ending-11-nov-2011/#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:01:22 +0000 Friday 11th November, 2011 not-new ak19 http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-11-11/anus-blog-entry-for-the-week-ending-11-nov-2011/ As several people had encountered issues in the recent 2.85 release, a lot of this week was spent looking at them so that we can get 2.86 out as soon as possible.
The bugs and oversights are not fatal and work-arounds are possible:
1) If you don’t have the PDF-box extension for Greenstone installed already, GLI will […]

]]> http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-11-11/anus-blog-entry-for-the-week-ending-11-nov-2011/feed/ Official Greenstone 2.85 released! http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-11-04/official-greenstone-285-released/ http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-11-04/official-greenstone-285-released/#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2011 04:30:35 +0000 Friday 4th November, 2011 not-new ak19 http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-11-04/official-greenstone-285-released/ At last, we did it. After a lot of testing, bug discovery and fixing, we’ve finally released Greenstone 2.85. It should be much improved from 2.84. There were also some last minute changes from release candidate version 2.
Please do grab a binary for your operating system by visiting the download page at http://www.greenstone.org/download and start […]

]]> http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-11-04/official-greenstone-285-released/feed/ Greenstone 2.85rc2 (release candidate 2) released http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-10-28/greenstone-285rc2-release-candidate-2-released/ http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-10-28/greenstone-285rc2-release-candidate-2-released/#comments Fri, 28 Oct 2011 05:31:30 +0000 Friday 28th October, 2011 not-new ak19 http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-10-28/greenstone-285rc2-release-candidate-2-released/ There was a lot of testing going on in the last 2 months, and I forgot all about writing blog entries.
The first stage of testing was to go through the Greenstone tutorials on Windows (Vista), Linux (Ubuntu) and Mac (Leopard). Some bugs were discovered and fixed, and after that RC1 of GS2.85 could be released.
Thereafter, […]

]]> http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-10-28/greenstone-285rc2-release-candidate-2-released/feed/ Anu’s entry for the month of Aug 2011 http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-08-26/anus-entry-for-the-month-of-aug-2011/ http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-08-26/anus-entry-for-the-month-of-aug-2011/#comments Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:22:38 +0000 Friday 26th August, 2011 not-new ak19 http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-08-26/anus-entry-for-the-month-of-aug-2011/ It’s been about 4 weeks since I wrote an entry. In the meantime we’ve been tidying up the last of the To Do list items for the upcoming GS2 release and several of the To Do list items for the GS3 release. Sam is now hard working on the GS3 interface alongside his other work […]

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