Midgard 1.8.4 is coming

This week I fixed another very important sitegroup related bug in midgard-core. As current sitegroup rule for objects is clear , the issue I found raised very ugly problem. Class constructor unfortunatelly set object's sitegroup even if object has been fetched from database. "Fortunatelly" it only affected object created by root user, which happens almost only when midgard sitewizard creates new host.

Interesting, I found this issue solved in CVS HEAD ( aka 1.9 ), and never thought it exists in stable branch.

So 1.8.4 ( instead of hotfixes ) must be made , just because of this one issue and few minor found in midgard_object_class PHP bindings. The latter is interesting ( as others issues found in ZE1 ). When you write code in C , you must know when you return NULL and when ''. But ZE1 ( or maybe even ZE2 ) never tells you when '' string is "marked" by engine as NULL...

Ah, I could forget. Datagard handles database updates much nicer now. Randomly "not updated" database problem is fixed.

Debian users should love midgard packages when installing 1.8.4.

At last we have meta midgard package , so

apt-get install midgard

installs everything you need to have midgard running in few minutes.

Midgard-data from debian packages increases memory_limit in php.ini files ( 4 or 5 or both ).
After installing midgard you have brand new midcom-indexer package, which provides midcom indexer files and init.d script which starts automagically when package is installed. Needless to say. As soon as you create new website with midgard sitewizard, indexer is waiting for you.

Important note! Debian package uses /var/lib/midgard/indexer directory for indexer. If you already use it ( self compiled ), fix your paths and copy indexed db files to this directory.

I have been testing indexer with few java sdk. non-free sun ones, kaffeine, gij-4 and free-java-sdk. The last one seems to be the best choice , so it's installed as indexer dependency and indexer uses its files directly instead of /usr/bin/java for example which can be linked to other java binary in your case. And something obvious , you do not have to remember about lucene library anymore. I think midcom-indexer does all out of the box.

In other news. I try to make Midgard2 as cool as possible. And it looks like soon we should be able to install Midgard2 library together with Midgard1 one.