The latest Pantheon web farm update to www-dev and www-test (release tag 2012-08-20b) includes:
3 core changes
fixes to 1 snippets
changes to 2 themes

The svn logs of these changes are:

• [pantheon] Fix error messages from twitter & EventsCalendar snippets.
• [pantheon][chronos] Canary page – add webfarm snippets + EventsCalendar
• [pantheon][chronos] Updated sample site
• [Pantheon][Themes][CCUSB] Custom tabber.js file
• [Pantheon][Themes][CCUSB] New style tabs, fixes to summary styling.
• [pantheon][core] Pantheon now writes errors to error logs instead of simply eating them.
• [pantheon][core] – SiteStat.class.php modified
• [Pantheon][Online Prospectus] new PG Prospectus layouts

These updates will be rolled out to the live webfarm servers once the Clearing period is over.

The latest Pantheon web farm update (release tag 2012-08-07a) includes:
2 core changes
fixes to 2 snippets
changes to 3 themes

The svn logs of these changes are:

• [Pantheon][Snippets][Chronos] CSS fixes for news-content snippet
• [Pantheon][Themes][Chronos-SAC] Fix SAC flavour menu
• [Pantheon][Themes][CCUSB] Additional CSS fixed, added missing files
• [Pantheon][Engine] Fix intermittent issue with PostProcessing
• [Pantheon][Components][Summary3] Sign Off meeting fixes and FeedComponent module for future use
• [pantheon][ugprogrammes] – removed year from urls in UG programmes listings and the search box
• [Pantheon][Sample Site] Backports and fixes

The Castor branch has now been updated with some security fixes, and is now at version 2012-08-07castor.

The latest Pantheon web farm update (release tag 2012-08-02a) includes:
1 core change
fixes to 5 snippets
changes to 1 theme

The svn logs of these changes are:

• [pantheon][pgprogrammes] – fixed a bug where the ‘see also’ box was showing in some cases even when there were no related subjects or programmes
• [Pantheon][MenuGenerator] Fix submenus
• [Pantheon][Snippets][KentContent] Fix Unicode issue with Staff Profile Blurbs
• [Pantheon][Snippets][KentSummary] Fix error when the optional ‘a’ tag is omitted
• [pantheon][ugprogrammes] – added UPProgrammes folder to assets
• [Pantheon][Snippets][DepartmentFooter] Add back-end code to allow attributions to live again

The Castor branch has now been updated with some security fixes, and is now at version 2012-07-30castor.

The latest Pantheon web farm update (release tag 2012-07-25b) includes:
3 core changes
fixes to 5 snippets
changes to 1 theme

The svn logs of these changes are:

[Pantheon][Core] Resolve menu path resolution for subsites with _notes folders in their menu folders.

[Pantheon][Core] Dont profile on test/live

[Pantheon][Themes][CCUSB] Initial assets for CCUSB theme.

[Pantheon][Themes][CCUSB] Initial files for CCUSB theme.

[Pantheon][Sample Site] Fix Regression in show-hide.html

[Pantheon][Snippets][QuickLinks] Initial commit

[Pantheon][core] Fix use-case which could cause an infinite loop

[Pantheon][Snippets][FormMailer] Fix FMUtil tokeniser when field names are partially re-used

[Pantheon][Snippets][FormMailer] Fix issue with radiobuttons requiring an extra trailing semi-colon, which departs from convention

[pantheon][ugprogrammes] – removed year from links in the ugprogrammes in line with changes to the url

[Pantheon][Themes][CCUSB] Updated background, added image javascript.

[Pantheon][Themes][CCUSB] Added more snippets.

The latest Pantheon web farm update (release tag 2012-07-17b) include:
9 core changes
fixes to 8 snippets
changes to 2 themes

The svn logs of these changes are:

[Pantheon][Snippets][SimpleSearchBox] Accessibility fix for fp #199935 – Add alt tag to graphical input element
[Pantheon][Snippets][SimpleSearchBox] Accessibility fix for fp #204061 – Add title tag to graphical input element
[Pantheon][Snippets][DateTimeSnippet] New DateTime snippet – designed for inline use
[Pantheon][Snippets][Carousel] Revert Commit 12053
[Pantheon][Snippets][Summary3] Initial upload of Summary 3 snippet
[Pantheon][Snippets][Summary3] Snippet Upload
[Pantheon][Snippets][RSS] Fix some long-standing issues with the RSS snippet, hopefully this will resolve a lot of issues users are experiencing
[Pantheon][Snippets][PageList] Fix potential collision in PageList::getUID
[Pantheon][Snippets][PageList] Little fix for PageList – uid will not work
[Pantheon][Snippets][KentContent] Fix unicode in staff names
[Pantheon][Snippets][KentContent] Staff profiles may want phone numbers.
[Pantheon][Snippets][Twitter] Add links for “@…”
[Pantheon][Snippets][Twitter] Reduce size of links

[Pantheon][Core] Remove Decorator::checkView depreciation
[Pantheon][Core] Keeping ParameterTable clean – Revert ignore tag
[Pantheon][Core] Add filename to debug panel (resolves FP 202726)
[Pantheon][Core] Allow snippet authors to exclude rows from Pantheon’s Parameter Tables so we can keep a nice (and less confusing) count on cells
[Pantheon][Core] Deprecate Element Definition Regex. Util::loadComponent now returns a boolean (true if the component was found, false if not). Cache::load now generates more helpful errors. PostProcessingModuleCore::parseParameterTable is now static, hopefully preventing the use of custom methods in the future.
[Pantheon][core] Remove ancient core test check.
[Pantheon][core] Path fix for Summary3-style uses of path resolution
[Pantheon][core] New Util::scanDir method for scanning directories and getting lists of files.
[Pantheon][core] Uploading Profiler

[Pantheon][Themes][Chronos] Remove warning message that is shown if key text is not set.
[Pantheon][Themes][MSP] Staff profile mini summary – changed title tag so static view matches animated view.

[Pantheon][Sample Site] Web Farm Notes for the sample site

An updated build of pantheon has been rolled on to the preview web-server oil.

This release includes a number of bug fixes to path resolution functions as well as fixing some minor snippet bugs. A few extra warnings have also been added to the publisher panel.

SVN Logs:
[Pantheon][legacy][core] Back-port further path resolution fixes
[pantheon][legacy][snippets][PageList] Remove PageList fix from castor branch as the readable check does not seem to function properly.
[Pantheon][core] Backport img tag fix to castor as it works well on webfarm
[Pantheon][snippets][carousel] Fix path resolution (Resolves 158742)
[Pantheon][snippets][summary][events] Add warning when events dont have a start date and ensure that the event is not used.
[Pantheon][snippets][PageList] PageList snippet will now throw a publisher warning rather than a developer error if a listed file does not exist. Additionally, multiple instances of this snippet may now be placed on a single page without the tab-switching issue.

Information Services (IS) are carrying out a programme of work to update and upgrade the University’s main web server infrastructure. The completion of the new “web farm” is designed to replace the current preview and live web servers (Oil and Castor). It will provide increased resilience, speed, flexibility, security and functionality for all University of Kent web sites.

Many central websites have already been migrated to the new platform, and the Web Solutions team will be contacting site owners to discuss the transfer of the school and departmental sites.

The migration process should not involve any work for schools/departments; however it does include a short freeze on content publishing, to ensure that content remains consistent.

An onsite familiarisation session will be arranged for all publishers in order to setup their site(s) in Dreamweaver and to provide training on publishing to the new web farm.

Regular updates and announcements on the migration, workshops, and other related news will be posted on the Kent on the Web website.

http://www.kent.ac.uk/web

If you have any queries please email helpdesk@kent.ac.uk, prefixing the message subject with “webfarm migration”.

An updated build of pantheon has been rolled on to the preview web-server oil.

This release includes a number of bugfixs related to caching and should improve the reliability of snippets (such as the twitter snippet) which are reliant of external content.

SVN Logs:
[Pantheon][legacy][snippets][twitter] Legacy twitter snippet gets its own personal version of the Cache::load method built in “cacheload”. This should resolve most cache based twitter display bugs.
[Pantheon][legacy] Backport “force IE to latest rendering mode” fix.
[Pantheon][legacy] Backport fix for twitter. Add ability to correctly parse entries with multiple lines.