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Bug fix and alpha releases
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:Author: Derick Rethans
:Date: 2008-03-03 14:39 UTC

The eZ Components team just released new versions of the Configuration and
Mail components that address minor bugs in those components. Besides this, we
also released alpha versions of Debug, Template, TemplateTranslationTiein,
Translation, Tree and TreeDatabaseTiein; those alpha versions introduce
new functionality such as support for stack traces, translatable strings and
auto-generated Node IDs.

The fix in the Mail component addresses an issue with double folding of long
To, Cc and Bcc headers. New versions can be installed through the PEAR
installer with::

	pear upgrade ezc/Mail
	pear upgrade ezc/Configuration

The Debug package features a new function for retrieving back traces and CSS
support for its generated reports.

The new TemplateTranslationTiein component ties the Template and Translation
packages together. The Template component has now new language constructs
that allow you to embed translatable strings in your templates. The Template
tutorial__ explains on how to use this feature.

__ /docs/api/latest/introduction_Template.html#translations

The Tree and TreeDatabaseTiein components now support auto-generation of 
node IDs, allowing for more flexible usage. This also makes the component
support auto-increment fields in the database backends. More information about
this is available through the Tree tutorial__.

__ /docs/api/latest/introduction_Tree.html#auto-generated-ids

The alpha versions can be installed by running the following commands::

	pear upgrade ezc/Template-alpha ezc/Translation-alpha ezc/TemplateTranslationTiein-alpha
	pear upgrade ezc/Tree-alpha ezc/TreeDatabaseTiein-alpha
	pear upgrade ezc/Debug-alpha

The alpha releases will become part of 2008.1alpha1, which we hope to release
early May.