Change Log 1.5

Version 1.5.43 [2016-08-18]

Gmane mailing list archives seem to be down forever. Thus the references to it have been removed.
Announcements on CTAN-ann are shown on the CTAN portal now.
- The cover page shows a short list of recent postings to ctan-ann.
- A somewhat longer page with announcements is linked there.
- The package pages have a short list of announcements for the package.
  - They are missing if no announcements have been recognized yet.
  - From the package page you can navigate to a longer list of announcements of the package.
  - There you can find a link to the Atom 1.0 feed and a RSS 2.0 feed for the package.
- Auto discovery of Atom and RSS channels has been added. Unfortunately many modern browsers need a plugins to make use of this.
- Redirecting file URLs in the tex-archive to mirror sites.
Text for “Did you know” on the cover page partially translated to German.
Hyphenation of webmaster mail address disabled.
Link to single-file packages redirected to CTAN mirrors.

Version 1.5.42 [2016-07-26]

Asynchronous loading of files and directories added to tex-archive browser. A spinner is shown in this case.
File browser abbreviates size and date. The full values are shown on mouse-over.
Error on error pages fixed.

Version 1.5.41 [2016-07-17]

The search form presents Lucene errors more gently.

Version 1.5.40 [2016-07-03]

Fighting spam via the mirror registration form.

Version 1.5.39 [2016-06-30]

Validation for the mirror registration fixed.
Description on the upload page improved.

Version 1.5.38 [2016-06-09]

Ordering the packages on the author page.
Pop-up message as new message type introduced to present one-time messages to the user.

Version 1.5.37 [2016-05-02]

Ignoring HTML entities in upload improved.

Version 1.5.36 [2016-05-01]

Notification partially moved from configuration to database to make it online editable.
Upload notification improved.

Version 1.5.35 [2016-03-12]

Minor extension for date-related tags.

Version 1.5.34 [2016-02-12]

Disallow the same extensions for uploaded files on the client and the server.

Version 1.5.33 [2016-01-22]

Suppress inactive mark for died authors.

Version 1.5.32 [2016-01-11]

Flag for Algeria added.
Warning for elsarticle upload added.

Version 1.5.31 [2015-12-08]

Special treatment for index to fix a problem with the package index and the topic index.
Menu bar on small devices improved.
Icons added to foot buttons in generic layouts.

Version 1.5.30 [2015-11-15]

Gender added to authors.
Marking of deceased authors prepared.
Making the menus more mobile friendly.

Version 1.5.29 [2015-10-19]

Cursor change added for the generic skins.
Reducing search to magnifier icon on small devices.
Improvements for several skins.

Version 1.5.28 [2015-10-08]

Upload statistics added to cover page.
Fixed: readme files have to be real files.
Fixed: soft hyphens on mirrors page.

Version 1.5.27 [2015-09-27]

Markdown renderer gracefully ignores single space before itemize or enumerate item.
New favicons in various incarnations added.
File search added to search menu.
Typo on the upload page fixed.
Tool tip for feedback improved.
Headline for README added on browser page.
Responsive design on browser page improved.

Version 1.5.26 [2015-09-06]

Explanations in upload form improved.
Links for rsync URLs of mirrors removed.

Version 1.5.25 [2015-08-23]

/pkg/* URLs can take the name as well as the key of the package.
New policy for readme files documented.
Error handling for mirror registration improved.

Version 1.5.24 [2015-08-01]

Link in recommendations fixed.

Version 1.5.23 [2015-07-27]

Documentation of markdown for bold and italic text fixed.
Sorting of LUGs fixed – kind of.
Lithuanian flag fixed.
Tool tips improved.
Renamed recommendations to suggestions.
Missing translations on the settings page added.

Version 1.5.22 [2015-07-25]

Link to topics in menu fixed.

Version 1.5.21 [2015-07-18]

Color version of TeX collection integrated.
Several images for packages added.
Migrated to lightbox 2.7.1.
World map of mirrors changed to GeoChart.
Misleading country in mirror registration removed.

Version 1.5.20 [2015-06-15]

Upload problem fixed.
TeX collection 2015 updated on cover.

Version 1.5.19 [2015-06-14]

Breadcrumb for packages fixed.
Fixes and improvements in the administration interface.

Version 1.5.18 [2015-06-08]

Length of announcement for upload form raised to 8192.
Omitting multi-column layout on author page if only few packages have to be shown.
Scheme of uploaded files altered.

Version 1.5.17 [2015-04-06]

Clarification of the announcement text on the upload page.
Subsections for countries on the mirrors page added. Regions identical to the city are suppressed.

Version 1.5.16 [2015-03-27]

Cambridge site is history now.
Improvement for broken links in markdown.

Version 1.5.15 [2015-03-22]

Improved line breaking and switch to one column layout on upload notification page.
Fix for image links in markdown.

Version 1.5.14 [2015-03-21]

Contact author button added.
Layout improvements on small devices added.
Fix for irc links in markdown.

Version 1.5.13 [2015-03-09]

Feedback button added.
Accepting soft hyphen in upload form.

Version 1.5.12 [2015-03-01]

Using a reduced head background image for gray skins.
Word marks TeX Live and MiKTeX fixed.
Check box position on settings page fixed.
Escaping in guest book item fixed.
Back-end processing of uploads and mirror registrations improved.

Version 1.5.11 [2015-02-23]

Links on the licenses page fixed.
Text on upload page improved.

Version 1.5.10 [2015-02-19]

Toggling of indentation for share links added.
The featured topic on the cover page randomly takes into consideration the package last visited.
Separate maintenance page added.

Version 1.5.9 [2015-02-14]

Upload notification clarified.
Upload email improved.

Version 1.5.8 [2015-02-09]

Upload form validations for textareas withdrawn.

Version 1.5.7 [2015-02-08]

Upload form enhanced with more client-side validations. Especially the format of the CTAN path and the use of special characters is restricted.
Upload protocol improved.
Upload communication with the back-end extended.

Version 1.5.6 [2015-02-06]

List of licenses improved.
Upload notification email improved.

Version 1.5.5 [2015-02-01]

Flags displaying the sections of an extended search fixed.
Redirects for ancient URLs fixed.
Relative URLs in HTML forms of HTMLified README files fixed.

Version 1.5.4 [2015-01-30]

The simple default search is restricted to the catalogue and the portal itself.
Some links fixed.
Catalogue import fixed.

Version 1.5.3 [2015-01-26]

Fix: mirror monitor page fixed.

Version 1.5.2 [2015-01-25]

Fix: indexing of files improved.

Version 1.5.1 [2015-01-22]

/search.html added to ancient URLs. Not proposed, not liked, but working.
Fix in guest book: avoid Exception

Version 1.5.0 [2015-01-21]

Navigation buttons extended by drop-down menus. Thus more navigation items are present on each page.
Link to share pages on social media platforms have been added. The impact of using the Javascript libraries have been omitted by using a link-only interface each.
Search for file names enabled.
Teaser images for packages and topics added. This feature is experimental. Only a few images are present yet. The plain skins do not show these images at all.
HTML structure and CSS improved to speed up the response time.
Upgrade to Grails 2.4.4 including upgrade of all plugins used.
Migrated from resources plugin to asset pipeline (Partially).
Upgrade to Lucene 4.10.3.
Fix: ignoring shy in search. Thus cut and paste to search field works more smoothly.
Fix: Umlaut problem in search fixed.
Fix: disabling the hyphenation has been rewritten.

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