Silva News Network 2.1 released

14 februari 2006 – Infrae has just released version 2.1 of Silva News Network, the news application and framework for Silva. Silva News Network can be used to turn a Silva site into a sophisticated news publishing and aggregation application.

Changes

The most important changes in the new release are:

• Silva 1.5 support (Silva 1.5 is the required Silva version for SilvaNews 2.1).
• Added upgrader for a specific Zope 2.8.x issue, where catalog queries failed under certain circumstances (when using Zope 2.7.x contents).

For a full list of changes, see HISTORY.txt in the package.

What is it?

Silva News Network provides a News and Events application for Silva that runs out-of-the-box. It offers the capability to deploy multiple news sources within an organization, say, in different departments, where some or all sources can be aggregated into a central news page. The different departments might have their own news page too. By adjusting SNN filters, editors can choose what target audiences and subjects their aggregator collects, and have granular control of display down to an article level.

Silva News Network viewers can be used ‘as is’ for a news page, or be included inline into a document. Silva templates can display news feeds in a related column. SNN has RSS extensions; a news viewer can publish its contents as RSS. There is also an RSS Aggregator that can be used to pick up and display news from other SNN sources or external RSS and Atom feeds.

Download

The package can be downloaded from https://infrae.com/download/SilvaNews.

The Infrae website contains more information about how to report bugs, mailing lists, and related extensions.

Collaboration

Thanks to the University of Luton, University College London, Marc Petitmermet of ETH Zürich, Andrew Altepeter of Bethel University in St. Paul, USA, and the Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Informatics for support.

Contact

FMI contact Guido Wesdorp, guido at infrae com, +31 10 243 7051.