[IPT] IPT v2.0.4 released

[John Wieczorek]

A big congratulations to all involved.

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:28 AM, Kyle Braak [GBIF] <kbraak at gbif.org> wrote:

> Dear IPT users,
>
> 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 here<http://code.google.com/p/gbif-providertoolkit/downloads/list>
> .
>
> 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 issue tracking
> system<http://code.google.com/p/gbif-providertoolkit/issues/list?can=1&q=milestone=Release2.0.4>
> .
>
> A few notable *improvements* to* *the* *User Interface include:
>
>
>    - Translation into Traditional Chinese
>    - Clearer setup pages aimed at preventing users from installing the
>    IPT in the test mode unwittingly
>    - Improved user friendliness, done by adding more context help
>    and better navigation between pages
>
>
> A couple of *new features* added in this release are:
>
>
>    - Resource migration: allows an IPT resource to replace the
>    registration of an existing DiGIR, BioCASE, or TAPIR resource in the GBRDS [
>    instructions<http://code.google.com/p/gbif-providertoolkit/wiki/IPT2ManualNotes?tm=6#Migrate_a_Resource>
>    ]
>    - Creating a resource from an archived resource folder: allows a
>    resource to be transferred between 2 IPTs including all its source files
>    and mappings  [instructions<http://code.google.com/p/gbif-providertoolkit/wiki/IPT2ManualNotes?tm=6#Upload_a_zipped_(.zip)_IPT_resource_configuration_folder>
>    ]
>
>
> As always, we’d like to give special thanks to the volunteer translators
> for their time and efforts:
>
>    - Nicolas Noé (Belgian Biodiversity Platform, Belgium) - French
>    - TaiBIF, Taiwan - Traditional Chinese
>    - Laura Roldan Gomez, Dairo Escobar, and Daniel Amariles, (Colombian
>    Biodiversity Information System (SiB)) - Spanish
>
> Another couple of special mentions are owed to Peter Desmet and Laura
> Russell who provided an exceptional amount of feedback and suggestions.
>
> We highly recommend previous versions to be updated. Updating an IPT 2.0.x
> installation can be done in 3 simple steps:
>
>    1. Replace the previous .war file with the latest edition
>    2. Backup the existing data directory
>    3. Reuse the existing data directory during setup
>
> New users should follow the installation guidelines in the IPT User Manual<http://code.google.com/p/gbif-providertoolkit/wiki/IPT2ManualNotes> that
> has been updated for this version. A Spanish version<http://code.google.com/p/gbif-providertoolkit/wiki/IPT2ManualNotes?wl=es> of
> the IPT User Manual is also available now thanks to the volunteers from
> SiB.
>
> Thank you once again for using the IPT, and we hope you enjoy the latest
> version.
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Kyle, on behalf of the IPT development team and the GBIF Secretariat
>
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