Onesimus Systems

Dandelion 6.1.0 Feature Freeze

Sun, 15 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

As the smell of turkey and your weird aunt Margaret grow ever stronger, Dandelion has been shaping up for its 6.1.0 release. The scheduled release date is December 19. Beginning today, 6.1.0 will be in feature freeze. This means no new features will be added or developed for 6.1. I’ll be focusing on getting the installation and upgrade procedures working correctly, update any lingering documentation, and fix any bugs in existing features.

As of now the new feature list of 6.1 includes:

Disable users (to keep name information)
Single-threaded log comments
Permalink for logs
Validation of API parameters
Better internal handling of permissions
Misc. bug fixes and internal improvements

There will be an upgrade path from 6.0.x to 6.1. There are a few database changes that need to be ran before using. All of this will be taken care of in a PHP script. Installation of a fresh instance won’t change much. You can always see the current development version on the develop branch on GitHub. Report any bugs to the Issue Tracker.

Dandelion Phoenix Released

Tue, 30 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been nearly a year since Dandelion 5 was released. During this time, Dandelion has gone through almost a complete rewrite and restructure. All this work has put it in a great position for future additions and maintainability. Dandelion 6 has a lot of cool new features including but not limited to:

Editing the category on a log
Completed API
Unified, more powerful search
Better theme handling
and more!

From this point forward, all major releases will have a code name along with the normal version numbers. Why? Because I think it’s cool. Because of the vast amount of changes making the current Dandelion look almost nothing like the old (both inside and out), “Phoenix” has been chosen as the code name for Dandelion 6.

The time has come! Take back the time you’ve wasted keeping up with written logs! Download Dandelion “Phoenix” and taste the true power of logging.

Download version 6 on Github today!

Dandelion Release Close

Sat, 30 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Version 6 of Dandelion is close to being released. The major feature set has been frozen and only minor tweaks and bug fixes will be made. The new release has a lot of cool stuff. Some of the highlights include:

begin able to edit a log’s category after save
robust, unified search
new, easy to use interface
improved themeing engine
completed external API
and more!

Dandelion has a whole has been rebuilt almost from the ground up. The backend is more modular and loosely coupled which puts it in a good place for future development and expansion. The database has been abstracted allowing for easier accommodation of other databases. SQLite and PostgreSQL are in the works.

Everyone is invited to download version 6, it’s the current develop branch in the repo, install it and play around. Report any bugs to the repo issue tracker. All current documentation on the website is for Dandelion 6. None of the old versions had any documentation. There are currently no pre-built archives so you will need to clone the repo and run the install manually. Instructions are located here.

The planned release date for version 6 is June 30.

Official Onesimus Website Move

Wed, 25 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

In order to distinguish between my personal website and projects and those of Onesimus Systems, I’ve decided to move the official Onesimus Systems website to its GitHub organization. The URL has been transfered as well. The old site, which is now http://lfkeitel.github.io, will consist of my personal blog, projects, and other stuff.

With the website transfer, I will also be transferring the Dandelion repo to the organization. Again to distinguish between projects I want to be personal, and those I want to be “professional”.

Well, that’s about it. The source for this site is available at http://github.com/onesimus-systems/onesimus-systems.github.io.