MindTouch Deki 8.05.2 is now available for download and updating from VMs; RPM packages will be ready tomorrow.

Jay Cooke State Park, the namesake of this release
Photo by Nattapol Pornsalnuwat

This release is our last minor release within the Jay Cooke family before Kilen Woods. The main driver of features for this release was the Topsan project, which is a collaborative effort to describe proteins and their functions. The most notable feature is the addition of global templates - these are Deki templates which are loaded on every page. In combination with our skin template targeting in 8.05.1, this allows you to target any part of the skin on all pages with output from DekiScript. We’ve also added more control over the default content of user and home pages - this’ll let you embed templates and more personalized content whenever somebody joins your Deki community; this is a part of a long-term effort to emphasize features which assist user adoption.

We’ve added a slew of new features for our LDAP authentication service which adds more compatibility support for systems which use LDAPS and OpenLDAP - this underscores our commitment to making it as easy as possible to bridge between your existing systems. Beta testers of the LDAP upgrades are suggested to switch their SIDs upon upgrade.

From the reported bugs by our QA team, as well as the developer community, we’ve fixed the most common regressions from 8.05.1: the inability to add templates on new pages and JavaScript output dying if the cache folder is not writable. We’ve implemented a faster diffing algorithm, which will improve the comparison times for large documents. Bundled JavaScript libraries were also updated to their latest versions (YUI 2.5.2, jQuery 1.2.6, SWFUpload 2.1.0).

8.05.2 comes with three new Fiesta skins: PRO, Maroon Flash, and MindTouch. The CSS structure for Fiesta has been greatly simplified with the usage of the CSS variables feature - this will make building new skins on top of the Fiesta platform much easier. At our upcoming DekiCon, the documentation and style refactoring done in Fiesta will be highlighted to help you design your own skin based on Fiesta.

With the release of FireFox 3, our QA team rigorously tested Deki functionality to ensure compatibility - we’re happy to report that MindTouch Deki 8.05.2 is production-ready for Firefox 3!

Read the release notes, check out the bug fix changelog, or download Deki 8.05.2 now!

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