The "Reanimator" beta update adds an import tool for v1.x sites and accounts,
letting your legacy Big Medium sites breathe the sweet, sweet air of
Big Medium 2.
You'll find instructions and troubleshooting tips for the importer in a new
section inside the installation guide that comes with the download. Or,
just give it a whirl by choosing "Settings>Import Legacy Sites" in the
control panel.
I've got most of the kinks ironed out of the importer, but there are some
inevitable discrepancies and incompatibilities between Big Medium versions
1.x and 2.0. If you have questions or get some odd results, give me a shout
in the discussion forum.
Also new in this version:
- A password-reset utility and account name reminder
- Ability to display article-page images outside of the main body text
- Option to include the modification date in link content
- Additional date format options in site properties
- Improved sort handling in the edit menu
- Improved security
- A whole slew of bug fixes
Download the latest version of Big Medium here.
Upgrading from 2.0b26?
If you're upgrading from v2.0b26, you can update to the new version
by uploading only the following files. Except where noted below, upload
all files in "plain text" (or "ASCII") mode.
In bmadmin
bmadmin/index.html
Update the two URLs in the file as described in the two comments
inside the file.
In bmadmin/js
bigmedium_cp.js
bm-config.js
bm-css.js
In moxiebin
bm-import.cgi (set to chmod 755)
bm-reset.cgi (set to chmod 755)
Modules/BigMed.pm
Modules/BigMed (directory and all contents)
In moxiedata/support
Upload these files in "automatic" or "binary" mode.
v1assets (directory and all contents)
In moxiedata/templates/cp_templates
screen_import_progress.tmpl
screen_login_login.tmpl
screen_reset_request.tmpl
In moxiedata/templates/site_templates
_navcss (directory and all contents)
base.css
HTML/wi_navigation.tmpl
After uploading the files...
After uploading the files, browse to the bm-update.cgi
file in your site's moxiebin directory. For example:
http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/moxiebin/bm-update.cgi
The Nitty Gritty
New Features
Added "Import Legacy Sites" option to settings menu to allow administrators to import accounts and sites from Big Medium 1.x installations. (Instructions and
troubleshooting tips are in the installation guide).
Added the password-reset utility and account name reminder for users who forget their account names and/or passwords.
Added new "other" position when saving/editing images, documents and media.
This lets you show images outside of the main body text via <%images limit="other"%>.
Added the option to include the modification date in link content (in the
"Links" panel of "Settings>HTML Preferences"). (Hat tip to Sander Feinberg.)
Added additional date format options in "Settings>Site Properties."
Improved sort handling in the edit menu.
Added additional security protections against email header injection
exploits.
The style editor currently works only for sites in the same domain where
the Big Medium control panel is installed; I'm working on this, but in the
meantime, I added a message to the style editor to explain that it's
not available when you try to edit styles for a site in a different domain.
Bug Fixes
Fixed bugs that caused Windows not to complete page builds or version updates
(sometimes with an error message, sometimes not).
Changed filename convention for auto-generated thumbnails to work around
bug in Windows servers.
Fixed bug that prevented the display of library images entered as a URL
instead of file upload.
Fixed bug that caused parentheses in submitted fields to be converted into
linefeeds in servers running Perl 5.6. (Hat tip to Karen Kaiser.)
Fixed bug that prevented Markdown cheatsheet from showing up. (Hat tip to
Kevin Waite.)
Fixed regression bug in Firefox that could cause data gobbledygook to appear
on the screen after saving images and documents under certain conditions.
Fixed bug that caused style-editor styles to get temporarily cleared
after saving navigation styles.
Fixed bug that prevented the style editor from saving settings in older
versions of Safari (specifically, when a font name contained more than one word).
Fixed bug that can cause code to appear in the progress bar in a
race-condition collision when server is updating status file. (Hat tip to
Sander Feinberg.)
Fixed bug that caused <%overflow%> widget tag to go unreplaced in section
templates with no link widgets.
Sites' custom templates are now properly removed when sites are deleted.
Fixed bug that prevented link thumbnails from aligning correctly when the "original" image size is the selected format for thumbnails. (Hat tip to
Karen Kaiser.)
Fixed bug that commonly prevented welcome email from being sent after
creating a new account. (Hat tip to Steve Carter.)
Fixed a bug in the setup wizard that could cause code to appear in status
field of directory validators in setup wizard when the session has expired.
Fixed bug that prevented display of subsection navigation for sections marked
to be excluded from navigation.
Added missing "Review/Delete Sites" option to the main settings page.
Added missing "Edit Links" option to the "Edit" menu.
Fixed typo in CSS styles generated by style editor for hovered navigation
menus.