Aida 6.6 Release Notes

6.6 release

--Avg13

• Preparing for a release, syncing with Squeak/Pharo
• AIDASite class version '6.6'

• Bootstrap3Library upgraded to final 3.0.0
• patch: WebTabs now Bootstrap compatible
• patch: WebSessionManager addSession does not add secureId anymore, to prevent duplicate ids. Temporary!

• AIDASite internalIPs (settings) for extending WebSesion isInternalIP to cover also external NAT IPs of internal networks

• DefaultWebStyle htmlHeaderElements adds now an url to aida website in page header
• Bootstrap2Library renamed to, and new Bootstrap3Library for v3 added

--Jul13

• patch: WebSession setRandomIds random id 10x bigger, up to 10 bilions
• patch: WebSession logout does not return to last page if this is login, to avoid confusing users
• WebJSONObject introduced to replace plain Dictionary and therefore preserve order of attributes in JSON
• JSON or XMLPresenter is called also if Accept: text/json or xml is in request header, besides .json and .xml URL extensions

--Jun13

--May13

• patch: WebPage ensure title in header patch
• patch: WebAutocomplete2Field addSetupScript deals now with mouse selects too
• patch: WebMethodLibImporter getLibraryFromFile copies correctly directories

• XEditableLibrary for inline editing introduced
• WebAutocomplete2Field setupScript - HTML labeling moved directly to jQueryLibrary, see class comment for instructions!
• patch: EMailMessenger - ObjectMemory versionId patch by Niall Ross
• JQueryLibrary upgrade to jQuery 1.9.1, jQueryUI 1.10.3, no Editable anymore!
• BootstrapLibrary upgraded to 2.3.1

• AmberLibrary moved to special AidaAmber package under AIDA/Addons
• WebButton now as tag button, not tag input type=submit anymore

• WebSession
  
  • isInternal,  if from internal  IP (192.168.* or 10.* )
  • isInternalGuest, isPublicGuest
  • lastIP

• AIDASite settings-logging method category introduced
• AIDASite answerToGetOrPosT: streaming of HTML temporary switched off
• WebSchedduler isRunning, renamed from isLoopRunning
• patch: WebEvent pageVew - #includesSubstring replaced for portabiltiy
• patch: WebDemo onChangeDo:on:app:

--Apr13

• WebPage addGeolocationScript added
• WebGeolocation locationPoint added
• patch: WebSession setGeolocationFrom:
• WebGeolocation class distanceBetween:and: added
• Number aidaArcTan: from Squeak added, for atan2(x, y) function from JavaScript
• DelimitedFile reads .csv always binary to avoid encoding problems

--Mar13

• #aidaIsRespondingNewerStreamed added to explicitly prohibit streaming
• AIDASite behindProxy settings added, if site runs behind say Apache or load balancer
• URLResolver urlFromHalfUrl: doesn't add ports if site is behind proxy

• patch: WebStyle jsEvents - xhr not global JS variable anymore!
• patch: WebSession respondToElementDirectRequest: finds now a context from a session apps
• patch: WebCounter: addDays: instead of +
• patch: WebAutocomplete2Field choicesAsJsonForEntry: handles unicode chars too

--Feb13

• DailyValues current added - to return a current value, that is value on today's date
• WebElement title: handles now Slovene csz with ^ correctly
• charset UTF8 back in page header (WebPage initPageHeaderLinks)
• WebStyle filterCssClass: to set a CSS class of filter row
• AIDASite styleClass: sets also style class in method resources route in router
• WebRouter setMethodRouteStyle: added
• compression for main HTML page off because of unknown memory problems regarding external GZip interface on VW (fixed memory...)
• SpSocket errors ignored in AIDASite answer:toGetoOrPost:

• CSS sprites introduced, see WebSprite, WebMethodResource, WebImage
  • WebSprite, WebSpriteEntry, WebSpriteException introduced
  • WebImage spriteCss, ...
  • WebStyle class Sprite clasvar,
  • WebStyle resourceFor searches for method image here, no more in URLResolver
• WebScript async, defer, for external scripts, not yet finished!
• patch: AIDASite answer:toGetOrPost:on: don't stream WebSocket upgrade request
• WebMethodImage cache removed, entire class moved under Aida-Imaging

• Optimizations on HTTP level: gzip compression, streaming everything to send the first byte to the client as soon as possible
  • AIDASite answer:toGetOrPost:on: stream and gzip compress response
  • AIDASite addResponseHeaders sets charset=UTF8 into content-type
  • WebMethodResource, WebMethodLibrary class streamHtmlTo: gzip compress text resources like CSS, JS
  • UTF8 encoding moved to from the page to the response header
  • WebMethodResource expiresTimestamp a week now, up from 24 hours before

• AIDASite answerTo: streaming of regular responses as well to optimize streaming HTML by starting as soon as possible.
• WebPage streamHtmlTo:for:on:   flush to stream after headers were sent to allow client start fetching css and js files from header ASAP

--Jan13

• Person companyOwner added
• patch: use more portable SpDate instead of Date in WebCounter, WebIndex, WebDemoApp
• patch: WebSession respondToElementDirectRequest: returns HTTPException notFound in case of error
• patch: WebStatistics isLocalUrl: avoiding double **

--Dec12

• WebAutocomplete2Field afterPostUpdate deprecated, will raise such exception

MIGRATION after load:

AIDASite allInstances do: [:each | each securityManager removeAdminAccess]

• admin access is not set by default to all Apps anymore but is granted immediately if user is in admin group and escalated to admin (WebApplication vew,updateAllowed, WebLink)
• WebSecurityManager removeAdminAccess while initAdminAccess removed, not needed anymore
• WebApplication reportSecurityViolation to Transcript
• WebSession adminAllowed removed!
• patch: WebApplication, WebLink view and update always allowed only if user hasAdminRights (is in admin group AND is escalated to admin!)

--Nov12

• patch: WebRouter resourceFor:  if URL is intentionally wrongly UTF8 encoded

• Scriptaculous and jQueryLibrary cross check if other library is loaded and raises exception with confict warning
• WebMethodLibrary isPresent:onPage added
• WebStyle accessDeniedText added
• WebElement isUpdatable added, to see if it is Ajax updatable or not
• WebElement onClickUpdate: and similar now explicitly check if element is updatable
• WebElement newDiv - tag is now enforced if element is to be updatable
• WebStyle yesText, notText for i8n dialog buttons etc.
• Joomla* stuff moved out of Aida-Styles to new package AidaJoomla
• DefaultWebStyle - version number shown in header

• patch: WebAutocomplete2Field choicesAsJsonForEntry: converts to UTF8 first
• patch: WebElement isUpdating more exactly finds if this element is updating and not some superelement which part it is
• patch: WebWindow webPage added, finds page through a context for popups
• patch: FileProxy streamHtml:.. ingores network exceptions while streaming

• WebStyle js12Events - more exact websocket detection
• patch: WebSecurityManager initDemoAccessRights
• patch WebMethodResource, WebMethodLibrary streamHtml:.. ignore network related exceptions

6.5 interim release

--Oct12

• Twitter BootstrapLibrary upgraded
• Realtime demo added in WebDemoApp
• WebApplication enableRealtime added, to enable easier realtime on a page of current view

MIGRATION!
   "if you need hourly snapshot, evaluate this:"
   AIDASite allInstances do: [:each | each hourlySnapshotEnabled: true]

• AIDASite new settings #hourlySnapshotEnabled, false by default
• AidaSite class imageSnapshot tests if at least one site has hourly snapshot enabled.
• patch: WebDemo defaultIntroductioText links, thanks to Sebastian Sastre
• patch: WebEventHandler addCloseWindow updates with argument too
• patch: WebForElement existScriptForEvent check consistently elsewhere
• patch: WebElement update preserves parent link too

• AIDASite defaultHomeDirectory is now './static' in a directory from where the image started
• patch: WebSession respondToElementDirectRequest - more robust context finding

• popups can now be called with one argument:
  • WebElement creationArgument in #other, see laso seeCreationMethodAndObj
  • WebElementHandler addPopup:onStub:
• WebElement isUpdating added to check for instance in popups if there is really a popup or just initial creation of element
• WebButton noSubmit added, to prevent classical submit with page reload and use button for instance just for clicks
• WebAutocomplete2Field (jQuery based) used everywhere now
• WebFormElement - no more 100ms delay sending submit event
• patch: WebEvent reconnectOn: absent app context doesn't raise exception anymore

• WebLink class nilLinkText: added, useful for instance in WebGrid addBlocks
• WebElement onClickCloseAndDo: and similar methods removed.
• patch: WebElement on: event methods now always checks to prevent duplicate event scripts
• patch: WebElement add: reports a descriptive error now
• SwazooSocketConnection, SwazooWebSocket extensions to send already UTF8 encoded strings
• WebRealtimeConnection
  • sendMessagesFromQueue calls sendUtf8Text: to send already encoded stuff
  • respondToWebSocketMessage: converts back to UTF8 first. This is temporary!
• patch: WebElement site finds an AIDASite more robustly
• patch: WebPage disableRealtime called immediately after streaming phase

--Sep12

• WebSockets active again after Swazoo was upgraded to final WebSockets RFC
• AIDASite webSocketsEnabled for site-wide websockets
• WebPage enableRealtime for per-page websockets
• patch: WebRealtimeHandler queue cleanup improved
• patch WebRealtimeConnection page reload command now works
• WebGrid noPageNumbers for pagination without links on bottom of the grid and show just number of rows.
• patch: WebSession respondToElementDirectRequest: searches for a right context among allInstances if not found in lastApp
• patch: FileProxy streamFileToResponse: ignores SpSocket error to ensure file closing and avoid sharing violations
• WebPage redirectTo:view:parameter:value: added
• patch: WebSession respondToElementDirectRequest better contex parsing

• WebAutocomplete2Field (jQuery) addSetupScript adds change and select events
• WebApplication createdTimestamp set, for debugging purposes
• DefaultWebStyle css23Inputs gray out disabled buttons
• patch: WebPage ensureTitleInHeader - too late in streaming phase
• patch: WebMethodLibrary ensure:onPage: more exact check

• WebPage
  • addRefreshAfterNighltyCleanup to preserve Ajax functionality even after nightly releasing of application state
  • #clear added with initHeaders to avoid accumulation of headers over time
• WebSession
  • last 50 requests are logged
  • patch: removeIfNewGuest more exactly conclude when to remove session
• WebSessionManager
  • findOnCreateSession in critical section, refactored to be more clear
• WebInputField autocomplete attribute added
• WebAdminApp viewLogin avoids autocomplete in username field for better privacy

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