Greenstone Blog http://www.greenstone.org/blog News and Posts from the Greenstone Team Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:02:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 en 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 […]

]]> http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-08-26/anus-entry-for-the-month-of-aug-2011/feed/ Greenstone 2.84 released! http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-04-01/greenstone-284-released/ http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-04-01/greenstone-284-released/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:35:36 +0000 Friday 1st April, 2011 not-new ak19 http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-04-01/greenstone-284-released/ After last week’s bug discovery got fixed at the start of this week (there were issues with HTML files that had non-English filenames interlinking on a Mac OS), we went back to testing the Greenstone binaries on Windows, Linux and Mac. Finally, after uploading all the files onto SourceForge and adjusting the pages there as […]

]]> http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-04-01/greenstone-284-released/feed/ Release Candidate 2 of Greenstone 2.84 out http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-02-25/release-candidate-2-of-greenstone-284-out/ http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-02-25/release-candidate-2-of-greenstone-284-out/#comments Fri, 25 Feb 2011 07:59:10 +0000 Friday 25th February, 2011 not-new ak19 http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-02-25/release-candidate-2-of-greenstone-284-out/ After a lot more testing, discovering bugs, fixing bugs and further testing, we’ve finally generated our 2nd release candidate for Greenstone 2.84. This time, there’s also a binary for the MacOS (tested on Leopard).
Most of the bugs this time round (after Release Candidate 1) had to do with dynamically linked libraries on the MacOs, getting […]

]]> http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-02-25/release-candidate-2-of-greenstone-284-out/feed/ Greenstone 2.81 released http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2008-11-13/greenstone-281-released/ http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2008-11-13/greenstone-281-released/#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:47:57 +0000 Thursday 13th November, 2008 not-new David Bainbridge http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2008-11-13/greenstone-281-released/ http://www.greenstone.org/download]]> We are pleased to announce that the Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS/X and Source distributions of Greenstone v2.81 are now available for download from:

http://www.greenstone.org/download

]]> http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2008-11-13/greenstone-281-released/feed/ Nightly Snapshot Releases http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2008-04-16/nightly-snapshot-releases/ http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2008-04-16/nightly-snapshot-releases/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:16:32 +0000 Wednesday 16th April, 2008 not-new Sam McIntosh http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2008-04-16/nightly-snapshot-releases/ snapshots page.]]> Starting now, nightly “snapshot” releases of Greenstone3 will be constructed and made available on our snapshots page.

]]> http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2008-04-16/nightly-snapshot-releases/feed/ Greenstone2.80 Released http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2007-12-11/greenstone280-released/ http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2007-12-11/greenstone280-released/#comments Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:18:30 +0000 Monday 10th December, 2007 not-new Quan http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2007-12-11/greenstone280-released/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/greenstone or via our download page.]]> The Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS/X and Source distributions of Greenstone v2.80
are now available for download from our sourceforge page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/greenstone or via our download page.

]]> http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2007-12-11/greenstone280-released/feed/ Greenstone2.75 Released http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2007-11-09/greenstone275-released/ http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2007-11-09/greenstone275-released/#comments Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:01:38 +0000 Friday 9th November, 2007 not-new Sam McIntosh http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2007-11-09/greenstone275-released/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/greenstone or via our download page]]> The Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS/X and Source distributions of Greenstone v2.75
are now available for download from our sourceforge page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/greenstone or via our download page

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