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 		<h1>OpenGuides News Archive</h1>
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Note: only releases with major improvements are mentioned here. For a full
release history, please see the <a href="release_notes.html">release
notes</a>.
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<div class="news_date">
March 17, 2013
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<p>Version 0.71 of OpenGuides was released yesterday.  The main
user-visible change is that category/locale index maps now have the
scale superimposed on the map.  There are also several Debian-related
fixes to the tests and the install process.</p>

<p>In addition, the OpenGuides code repository has been moved from svn
<a href="https://github.com/OpenGuides/OpenGuides">to github</a>.</p>

<div class="news_date">
August 27, 2012
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<p>Version 0.70 of OpenGuides was released yesterday.  The changes
include an upgrade to version 0.4 of the Leaflet mapping library; this
was done in order to allow use of <a
href="https://github.com/shramov/leaflet-plugins">Pavel Shramov's
Leaflet plugins</a> (in particular, the Google satellite view plugin
used on <a href="http://croydon.randomness.org.uk/">the Completists'
Guide to Croydon</a>).</p>

<p>The other main changes are to do with formatting and display of
node content.  External links are now given a class of "external",
rather than being formatted with hardcoded square brackets.  New
elements are allowed in page content: span, dl, dt, and dd.  Finally,
a new macro has been added &#8212; @INDEX_LIST_NO_PREFIX &#8212; which
gives a list of things in a given category or locale but leaves off
the "Category" or "Locale" prefix for any subcategories/sublocales in
that list.</p>

<div class="news_date">
July 11, 2012
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<p>Version 0.69 of OpenGuides was released on the weekend, with
changes focusing on the administrative "missing metadata" tool.  New
metadata types have been added to the missing metadata search form,
allowing people to search for pages with, for example, no associated
image.  In addition, these search results can now be viewed on a map
as an extra option to the previous "list" view.</p>

<p>Under-the-hood changes made as part of this enhancement will also
make it easier in the future for us to allow visualisation of even
more types of search result on a map.</p>

<div class="news_date">
May 7, 2012
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<p>Version 0.67 of OpenGuides was released today, with several major
changes and bugfixes.</p>

<p>We now use <a href="http://leaflet.cloudmade.com/">Leaflet</a> as
our JavaScript mapping library, with OpenStreetMap and MapQuest tiles
as default.  JSON output has been added or improved on several types
of pages, including index pages and user preferences.  A basic
stylesheet is now included in the distribution, and a long-standing
recent changes bug has been fixed.  Finally, it's now possible to
index on category and locale at the same time (so you can view e.g. a
list or map of all pubs in Holborn).</p>

<div class="news_date">
April 13, 2012
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<p>Version 0.66 of OpenGuides was released yesterday by our new CPAN release
manager, Bob Walker.  This includes various usability fixes, new CSS hooks,
and a switch to Geo::Coordinates::* modules rather than the old 
Geography::NationalGrid::* ones (which no longer exist on CPAN).</p>

<p>We now require version 2.24 of Template (for its text virtual methods,
needed to create the abovementioned CSS hooks).</p>

<div class="news_date">
February 25, 2009
</div>

<p>Version 0.64 of OpenGuides was released this week, with various
small bugfixes and improvements including slightly simpler
installation, plus metadata discovery, JSON support, an optional admin
navbar, and host whitelisting for editing moderated nodes.</p>

<div class="news_date">
November 11, 2008
</div>

<p>We had <a
href="http://dev.openguides.org/wiki/OxfordHackfest2008">a hackfest in
Oxford</a>, and it was good!</p>

<p>Release manager Dom reports that 22 Trac tickets were closed and 6
were opened during the weekend.  We also saw a few new faces, which
is excellent.</p>

<div class="news_date">
August 19, 2008
</div>

<p>Apologies for the long delay since the last bit of news here; we
<i>were</i> doing things, honest, but because of the way the website was set
up, it was a faff to update.  This has now been fixed!</p>

<p>In other exciting news, we're having another hackfest!  It'll be in <a
href="http://oxford.openguides.org/">Oxford</a> this time, on Saturday 18
October and Sunday 19 October 2008.  Many more details can be found <a
href="http://dev.openguides.org/wiki/OxfordHackfest2008">on our dev wiki</a>.
</p>

<div class="news_date">
May 28, 2007
</div>
<p>We're
holding <a href="http://use.perl.org/use.perl.org/_Kake/journal/33485.html">a
hackfest</a> in London on 9&#8211;10 June, focusing on bug triage and
bug fixing.
</p>

<div class="news_date">
May 22, 2007
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<p>
<a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/OpenGuides-0.60/">OpenGuides
0.60</a> has now been <a href="release_notes.html">released</a>, with
improved stylability of the &#8220;edit page&#8221; form, increased admin
control over the &#8220;random page&#8221; link in the sidebar, and a new
macro for providing a link to a random page in a specific category or locale.

</p>
<div class="news_date">
March 25, 2007
</div>
<p>
<a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/OpenGuides-0.59/">OpenGuides 0.59</a>
has now been <a href="release_notes.html">released</a>, with a number of
bugfixes, plus new stylesheet hooks and template tweaks to give Guide admins
more control over the appearance of their sites.
</p>
<div class="news_date">
March 5, 2006
</div>
<p>
<a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/OpenGuides-0.52/">OpenGuides 0.52</a>

has now been <a href="release_notes.html#0.52">released</a>. The major new feature
is <a href="http://maps.google.com/">Google Maps</a> support!
</p>
<div class="news_date">
November 25, 2005
</div>
<p>
Please welcome the
<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070116191056/http://miltonkeynes.openguides.org/">Open Guide to
Milton Keynes</a>.
</p>
<div class="news_date">
November 15, 2005

</div>
<p>
<a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/OpenGuides-0.51/">OpenGuides 0.51</a>
has now been <a href="release_notes.html#0.51">released</a>, with quite a number
of improvements.
</p>
<div class="news_date">
October 15, 2005
</div>
<p>
<a href="http://search.cpan.org/~ivorw/OpenGuides-RDF-Reader/lib/OpenGuides/RDF/Reader.pm">New 
module</a> for converting OpenGuides RDF back into Perl data structures released.
</p>
<div class="news_date">

October 14, 2005
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<p>
Please welcome the
<a href="http://cortex.ecs.soton.ac.uk/openguide/">Open Guide to
Southampton</a>.
</p>
<div class="news_date">
October 7, 2005
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<p>
Please welcome the
<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20071014061102/http://cotswolds.openguides.org/wiki/wiki.cgi">Cotswolds Guide</a>.
</p>
<div class="news_date">
July 24, 2005

</div>
<p>
<a href="release_notes.html#0.49">OpenGuides 0.49</a>
released: numerous RDF output refinements and various minor improvements.
</p>
<div class="news_date">
April 18, 2005
</div>
<p>
<a
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20111001030820/http://search.cpan.org/dist/OpenGuides-Statistics/">OpenGuides::Statistics</a>
released to let you produce nice graphs of how many nodes you have, like <a
href="http://london.openguides.org/statistics/">these ones for London</a>.
</p>
<div class="news_date">
December 21, 2004
</div>

<p>
<a href="release_notes.html#0.47">OpenGuides 0.47</a> released with a number 
of bugfixes.
</p>
<div class="news_date">
November 30, 2004
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<p>
Release of <a href="release_notes.html#0.45">OpenGuides
0.45</a>, with new support for global geolocation.
</p>
<div class="news_date">
September 26, 2004
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<p>

We are pleased to announce the opening of the new
<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060206214205/http://chesterguide.org.uk/">Open
Guide to Chester</a>.
</p>
<div class="news_date">
July 5, 2004
</div>
<p>
Earle Martin, one of our developers, recently spoke at
the <a href="http://www.xcom2002.com/nc04/">NotCon</a> conference in
London about
OpenGuides. A <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050601002524/http://www.ejhp.net/notcon/#audio">recording</a>
of his talk is now available (“Geolocation” session, 20 minutes in).
</p>
<div class="news_date">

June 25, 2004
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<p>
<a
href="release_notes.html#0.35">OpenGuides 0.35</a> - to help protect your wiki 
from spammers, you can now delete individual historical versions of a node.
</p>
<div class="news_date">
June 20, 2004
</div>
<p>
<a href="release_notes.html#0.33">OpenGuides 0.33</a> - improved 
templates and a new search by distance feature.
</p>
<div class="news_date">
May 28, 2004

</div>
<p>
<a href="http://london.openguides.org/">The Open Guide to
London</a> gets <a
href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2004-06-06/online-extra-wikis-winning-ways">mentioned
in <cite>Business Week</cite></a>.
</p>
<div class="news_date">
June 12, 2003
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<p>
<a href="http://london.openguides.org/">The Open Guide to
London</a> (in its earlier incarnation as "Grubstreet") was <a
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050309220219/http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,975131,00.html">mentioned
in the <em>Guardian</em>'s "Online" section</a>.

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