3 Round Stones is pleased to announce the general availability of Callimachus Open Source version 1.3.1. A Callimachus Enterprise release is anticipated to follow shortly.
Callimachus version 1.3.1 is primarily a bug fix release, which addresses a number of small bugs present in Callimachus versions 1.2 and 1.3. A summary of the most important bug fixes may be found at:
https://github.com/3-Round-Stones/callimachus/pull/112
Other bugs fixed in this release include a fix for the JQuery-UI date picker when using the Firefox browser. This bug interfered with the workflow used in the new developers tutorial for Firefox users:
https://github.com/3-Round-Stones/callimachus/issues/117
Some new features are introduced that will be expanded in the future. These features are aimed at making the Callimachus user experience easier to use and easier for new users to understand. Thanks for the many comments and suggestions we have received from users of both the Open Source and Enterprise editions of Callimachus for these ideas. The new features include:
- A guided tour of Callimachus folders. We have introduced the use of the Trip.js JavaScript library to introduce Callimachus folders to new users. Select ’Tour the folder view’ from the main menu when in a folder view to start the tour. This feature will be used to provide tours for other parts of the Callimachus interface in future releases and is part of a concerted effort to ease the transition of new users to the way operations are conducted within Callimachus.
- The beginnings of an “administrative dashboard” for Callimachus. We have started by simplifying the workflow for the addition of new users to groups and will be adding more functionality for administrators in later releases. The new dashboard is hyperlinked from the default main article and is accessible at /admin on any new Callimachus instance.
- Updates to the import workflow for Callimachus ARchive (CAR) files. Some users found the need to explicitly create a new folder first either confusing or just too many clicks. It is now possible to choose between replacing the contents of the current folder and creating a subfolder during the importation step. This feature also stops users from unintentionally overwriting the contents of the /callimachus folder when importing CAR files into the home folder. The new functionality may be accessed by selecting “Import folder contents” from the main menu when in a folder view.
Documentation and tutorial enhancements relevant to this release include:
- A new developers tutorial. This tutorial is intended to be the first place that a new Callimachus developer will go to learn how to create Callimachus applications. The new tutorial leads you through the creation of a Linked Data address book on Callimachus:
http://support.3roundstones.com/tutorial/developer-tutorial.docbook?view
- General documentation updates, to include a better introduction to setting up the initial user and the handling of group membership in the Getting Started Guide, major updates to the Web Developers Guide and Callimachus Enterprise for System Administrators Guide, and a complete description of URL pragmas to the Callimachus Reference.
- Three new presentations which introduce Callimachus Enterprise to new users, developers and system administrators. These presentations provide a look at features that are likely to migrate to the Open Source version of Callimachus in time and indicate the differences between the Open Source and Enterprise versions of Callimachus. All three presentations are available from the bottom of the 3 Round Stones support page.
