<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Dear IPT users, </div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br>The GBIF Secretariat is pleased to announce that a new release of the Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT v2.0.4) is now available for download <a href="http://code.google.com/p/gbif-providertoolkit/downloads/list">here</a>.<br><br>Since the last version was released in November 2011, the growing user community has been actively reporting enhancement requests and minor bugs. A total of 108 issues were addressed in IPT version 2.0.4; 38 Defects, 35 Enhancements, 7 Other, 5 Patches, 18 Won't fix, 4 Duplicates, and 1 that was considered as Invalid. These are detailed in the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/gbif-providertoolkit/issues/list?can=1&q=milestone=Release2.0.4">issue tracking system</a>.</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">A few notable <b>improvements</b> to<i> </i>the<i> </i>User Interface include: </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><ul class="MailOutline"><li>Translation into Traditional Chinese</li><li>Clearer setup pages aimed at preventing users from installing the IPT in the test mode unwittingly</li><li>Improved user friendliness, done by adding more context help and better navigation between pages</li></ul><div><br></div><div>A couple of <b>new features</b> added in this release are:</div><div><br></div><div><ul class="MailOutline"><li>Resource migration: allows an IPT resource to replace the registration of an existing DiGIR, BioCASE, or TAPIR resource in the GBRDS [<a href="http://code.google.com/p/gbif-providertoolkit/wiki/IPT2ManualNotes?tm=6#Migrate_a_Resource">instructions</a>]</li><li>Creating a resource from an archived resource folder: allows a resource to be transferred between 2 IPTs including all its source files and mappings [<a href="http://code.google.com/p/gbif-providertoolkit/wiki/IPT2ManualNotes?tm=6#Upload_a_zipped_(.zip)_IPT_resource_configuration_folder">instructions</a>]</li></ul></div><br>As always, we’d like to give special thanks to the volunteer translators for their time and efforts: </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><ul><li>Nicolas Noé (Belgian Biodiversity Platform<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">, Belgium)</span> - French </li><li>TaiBIF, Taiwan - Traditional Chinese</li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 16px; ">Laura Roldan Gomez, Dairo Escobar, and Daniel Amariles, (Colombian Biodiversity Information System (SiB)) - </span>Spanish</li></ul></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Another couple of special mentions are owed to Peter Desmet and Laura Russell who provided an exceptional amount of feedback and suggestions. <br><br>We highly recommend previous versions to be updated. Updating an IPT 2.0.x installation can be done in 3 simple steps: <br><ol><li>Replace the previous .war file with the latest edition</li><li>Backup the existing data directory</li><li>Reuse the existing data directory during setup</li></ol><div>New users should follow the installation guidelines in the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/gbif-providertoolkit/wiki/IPT2ManualNotes">IPT User Manual</a> that has been updated for this version. A <a href="http://code.google.com/p/gbif-providertoolkit/wiki/IPT2ManualNotes?wl=es">Spanish version</a> of the IPT User Manual is also available now thanks to the volunteers from SiB. <br><br>Thank you once again for using the IPT, and we hope you enjoy the latest version.<br><br>With kind regards, <br><br>Kyle, on behalf of the IPT development team and the GBIF Secretariat</div></span></div></div></body></html>