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After some time we have released Cyclone3 for July 2010. Several functions have been added. Bugs have been fixed and lots of new features are being planned and currently worked on.

Changes

• Drag&Drop has been improved!

  

  You can drag documents (docbook, ODF), vCards, images, videos and other files directly to their respective listing to initiate upload

• The number of open tabs is not limited by the window width.

  Their behaviour is now much smarter too. The list can be scrolled backwords and forwards. 

• Image EXIF data is being processed upon upload

  Date and time of creation for now. Importing the rest of EXIF data into image entity metadata could be the next step - useful in particular for professional and hobby photo galleries.

• Listings do not scroll to nonexistent positions

  
  This is a convenience improvement - clicking a category outside the listing should reset the paging to zero. Also there is no point in paging to exceed the amount of results.

• Previews embedded in listings can be closed (articles, images)

• Many minor icons and labels glitches have been fixed

• Video parts can be sorted by visits

What to expect in the following release?

Many things are currently being worked on. They haven't been added to the stable release yet. We choose rather not to incorporate new features unless they are really stable.

• Rectangular Selecton

  We are implementing rectangular selection for thubnail-mode listings for images and video. This should be faster and easier than the good old control+click way.

• Upload Manager

  As for current stable release we use single upload windows. These get annoying when you upload 5+ files simultaneously so it will be replaced by an upload manager. Much like the standard Download Manager in Firefox.

• vCard and selective exports

  Selective exports are not as reliable as we'd like them to be. These will need revision. vCard exports are almost ready - contact and user exports in this format will be possible. (imports already work)

• Windows server and MS SQL as backend

  Cyclone3 framework is currently able to run on Windows servers with minor issues to resolved. In a couple of weeks we are hoping to achieve a stable port using Microsoft SQL server as its database.

• Polls and forms editing

  We would like to incorporate forms editing into the HTML editor. Various ways to do this are being discussed now.

If you are interested in testing development versions of Cyclone3 XULadmin, you can check out the nightly builds.

The link to install the Cyclone3 XULadmin nightly build. (Warning: do not use this for production purposes)