Come one come all.  This is mostly bugfixes and slight improvements,
nothing earthshattering.  Check the snapshot file for details.

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This is a minor update including a bunch of small fixes, plus a structure
change to let Resources work with eschema.

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I've just release Keystone 0.70.00.  For folks who have been tracking the
CVS tree, you're already up to date.  For folks running 0.60.05 or
earlier, now is the time to upgrade!

See the webpage for details and release notes.

	 http://www.stonekeep.com

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Stonekeep Consulting is pleased to announce the redesign of the main
website.  This has been in the works for several months, and is just now
finally going online.

Feel free to comment on the new site.  There are still a few rough edges
(literally) to be smoothed out, but we're pretty sure everything is in
place and working.

Stay tuned for more developments!

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I've just posted Keystone 0.60.05 on the site.  For folks who have been
tracking the CVS tree, there is nothing drastic.  Folks running 0.60.04
should upgrade at their convenience.  There are no "drop dead" issues
resolved in this release, but there are some new features:

o Time tracking on slips and followups (thanks to Bill Fumerola)
o ACL fixes (still not quite complete, but they at least work now. :)
o New addresses / phone numbers handling for associating a speicifc phone
number or address with a slip, instead of always using the 'main' one.
o added 'jump to' slip entry on the 'visitor' page
o added a 'comments' column to contacts.

Note that this release WILL require structure updates.  Check 'followups'
and 'contacts' for correct structures.

All the details are in the snapshot file on the website. (note that the
bug in the 'snapshot' generator has been fixed, and the snapshot file now
contains only the changes since the last release, rather than the changes
for the last year or so.

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I've just dropped Keystone 0.60.04 out of the CVS tree into a new .tar
file, and posted it on the web.  This release includes all the changes
that have gone into the CVS tree since 0.60.02, plus some longer changes
that were just added today.  FOlks who have been tracking the CVS tree
should update.

This release also includes the first phase of 'keycli', the command line
interface to Keystone.  Keycli is currently query-only... the next
version, already in the works, will allow full interactive work.

Details, as always, are in the 'snapshot' file on the webpage, but here's
a brief summary.  (Hmm, on reflextion, it appears that the 'snapshot' file
is not accurate, and is showing a LOT of old history.  I'll work on this)

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Added "previous" and "next" handling of Contacts display so users can
limit the number of contacts displayed

Added filter selector to quickly jump between filters

Fixed many typos / oddities in the filter system.

Changed HTML layout in main slips zoom to better show long summaries

Added phone and address labels so now slips can specify which address or
phone for a contact is associated with the slip. (this is still under
development)

Hopefully fixed problems regarding bad logins and cookie problems.

Many Oracle updates

And many other minor fixes...

Enjoy!

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Taken from the 'news' page:

Keystone 0.60.02 is available for download.  This is primarly a bugfix
update, to fix the nefarious 'off by one' display.  This also includes a
fix or two for running under PHP4, and I can tell you, the system SCREAMS
under it.  See the snapshot file for details (although, there is a bug in
my release generation script that shows snapshot information further
backthan the current release)

Also in this release is a pretty functional 'keycli.pl', written by David
Silber.  It's quite workable, and lets you do command line queries and
lookups against Keystone.  It's still work in progress, but if you're
comfortable with Perl, give it a shot.

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                    \______________________________________________________/

Stonekeep Consulting is pleased to announce the release of Keystone
0.60.01.  This is the first dropped release of the code since January,
1999, and includes MANY changes and bugfixes from the 0.50.01 release.

Keystone is once again under active development, and this release reflects
many changes over the last several weeks.

Please see www.stonekeep.com for more information, including the current
'snapshot' file which documents all the changes.

Note - there are MANY database changes with this release.  The only fully
tested version if MySQL.  Stonekeep desperately needs Postgres developers
to test out the new version and submit new structure tables.  Please send
mail back to shevett@... if you have updates.

From the README, included with the distribution:

---------------------------------------------------------
                         KEYSTONE
                RELEASE NOTES: Version 0.60.00
        (c)1999 Dave Belfer-Shevett (shevett@...)
                  http://www.stonekeep.com
---------------------------------------------------------
$Id: RELEASE-0.60.00,v 1.3 1999/07/08 21:21:37 shevett Exp $
---------------------------------------------------------

Welcome to Keystone 0.60!

A quick note before we go on to the normal release notes.
This release of Keystone represents the work of many
people, and is the first version to include large chunks of
code not written by Dave.  So some special thanks to
these people:

Bill Fumerola (billf@...)
Many internal changes, as well as support for more database
platforms (such as Interbase)

Jonathan Roy (roy@...)
All of the Perl updates, and bringing us (FINALLY) to a
stable email interface.

Roland Roberts (roberts@...)
Keeper of the Postgres flame.

Thanks to everyone who has submitted bug reports, suggestions,
and support.

--------------------------------------------------------
                    ***** NOTE *****

If you are upgrading an existing installation of Keystone
you will need to update your structures:

from MySQL:

alter table followups add f_usergen int(1);
alter table state add mlibrary int(1);
alter table state add libzoom varchar(30);
alter table state add cbgn int(4);
alter table state add sbgn int(4);
alter table slips add timespent int(5);
alter table slips add spolicy int(2);

Many of the 'slips' functions have been rearranged into
the utilities file to make sure various pulldown menus
all have the same look and feel.

'Attachments' are now enabled, though are in a rough form.
A user can upload an attachment to a slip (any file type
or size), and it will be available when browsing the
slip.

'keymail.pl' is now stable and working.  Many thanks to
Jonathan Roy for doing the work on this module.  With
'keymail.pl' operational, and a Keystone.pm module in
place, adding more Perl functions is going to get a lot
easier.

A new menu pick 'library' has been added.  Attachments
uploaded can be placed in the 'library' for other users
to work with.  In this way a slip can be opened, a patch
written to fix the problem, and the slip closed, with the
attached patch.  The patch will also be able to be
downloaded from the Library.

A new column has been added to 'followups' that flags
whether an entry in followups has been generated
automatically by the system or was a comment entered
by the users.  THis way reports and displays can be
filtered to show the system generated msgs or not.

Many ACL fixes.

Many HTML cleanups.  We ran large chunks of Keystone
HTML output through WebLint and tried to clean up
dangling table definitions, etc.  This made many of the
tables load faster and look cleaner.

Added 'number of slips shown' at top of Slips display.

Added option for removal of email headers when generating
mail replies.

Added an 'auto-refresh' function to automatically refresh the
display after nnn seconds.  See keystone.conf.default for the
setting.

Continued work on the Reporting system to allow a 'pulldown'
date style form, so users dont' have to specifically enter
dates in as mm/dd/yy hh:mm.

New child slips now inherit their 'is_public' setting from the
parent.

Limited support for Interbase has been added (thanks
billf).  This code is still under development, and should
be used with caution.

Added support for deleting filters.

Added "Next" and "Prev" functions for slip displays.  This
allows the user to set how many slips will be shown on one
screen, and let them skip forward or back 'pages'.  Also,
the current number of slips being displayed is always shown
at the bottom of the listing.

MANY bugfixes, such as:

o Fixed a 'child of' link problem in slips display
o Fixed handling of includes if PHP_INCLUDE_PATH was
	 set wrong.
o Fixed problems with \'s in problems
o Encryption of the local session key was completely
	 broken.  Modify the variable "$sys_serverkey" in
	 keystone.conf to change the local encryption key.
o Fixed Contacts to allow multiple word tags.

and more...


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I've created a 'keystone-dev' mailing list for those folks who are doign
development on Keystone, or are interested in talking about development
topics.

If you'd like to sign on, send mail to 'majordomo@...' with
'subscribe keystone-dev' in the body of the message.

Thanks!

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                   |                        Ihnatko)                        |
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Just to keep folks up to date.  I'm going through all the patches that
have been submitted, and posting them (with minor revs :) into the current
CVS tree.  This is in preparation for a 0.60 release.  Many of these
changes require structure changes to your tables.  Where this is
happening, I'm commenting on them in the CVS commit message.

Feel free to cvs update, but also watch for structure changes.  This
update procedure should take about a week and then 0.60 should be
released.

Thanks!

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                    \______________________________________________________/

Stonekeep Consulting is pleased to announce the release of Keystone
0.50.01.  This release follows 2 months of development and testing.  Those
users who have been keeping up with the CVS tree have most of the changes
in this release already.  Some changes have been submitted as recently as
today.

A brief commentary has been posted to the webpage, which I'll repeat here:

New 'Add Long' screen, for easily adding slips in a helpdesk
   setting, prompting users for information through a series of screens.
Complete and clean Postgres support
New ACL system for user and group-level security
Addition of form control elements "Yes" "No" "Cancel" "Reset"
Better email handling - user can specify to just send most recent
   Followup when mailing.
Support for pull-down menus in ESCHEMA definitions (see
   docs/option-menu.html for details)
Many many many bugfixes, small enhancements, and code cleanup
Continued work on the user manual

Thanks for everyone's patience while we worked on the new release.

	 - The Keystone Development team


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I'm collecting testimonials, to go on the website, from folks who are
running Keystone (and like it.  :).  I've gotten one or two just from
talking from folks on the 'net, but I'd like a few more before actually
putting the page together.

If you're running Keystone now, and you'd like to contribute to the page,
with commentary, raves, comparison against other products, etc - that
would be great.  Email them to -me- please, not to Keystone-users or
keystone-announce, and I"ll put together the page.

Basically I'm looking for something along the lines of "We looked at
Remedy, Gnats, Razor, etc - and none compared to the price/performance we
get out of Keystone" - that sorta stuff.

Thanks!

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We're doing a bunch of changes to the CVS tree that may cause the current
version to be somewhat unstable for a while.  I would recommend users NOT
checking out the current version for a little while.  :)

Thanks...

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Steven Freed wrote:
>
> On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Dave Belfer-Shevett wrote:
>
> > Keystone version 0.40.04 has been released out of the install tree onto
> > www.stonekeep.com.  This is basically a snapshot of the current CVS
> > version, with one or two last minute patches included today.
>
> I see the contacts email has changed from 30 to 50 chars. What is the best
> msql command to make this change?
>
> --
>
> Steven.


While I don't use mSQL, my guess would be to dump the table to a file,
drop the table, recreate it and load the data back in. Maybe you could
alter the schema in the dumped file. But as I said, I have no experience
with mSQL. Hope this helps anyway.

/Palle

On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Dave Belfer-Shevett wrote:

> Keystone version 0.40.04 has been released out of the install tree onto
> www.stonekeep.com.  This is basically a snapshot of the current CVS
> version, with one or two last minute patches included today.

I see the contacts email has changed from 30 to 50 chars. What is the best
msql command to make this change?

--

Steven.

Keystone version 0.40.04 has been released out of the install tree onto
www.stonekeep.com.  This is basically a snapshot of the current CVS
version, with one or two last minute patches included today.

I have had very few bug reports from folks running the current CVS
version, so this should (hopefully) be a little more stable than the
0.40.03 release.  :)

As always, please mail me or keystone-users if you have any issues with
this release.  Changes included in this release are in the 'snapshot'
file, also on the download page.

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Homeport's dedicated ISDN line was down from yesterday, at approximately
5pm through 10:30am this morning, East Coast time.  The failure appears to
have been a problem inside Bell Atlantic.  We're investigating further,
both with Bell Atlantic, and our ISP, Verio, get a full report on the
cause of the outage.  The following websites were affected:

www.homeport.org
www.stonekeep.com
www.chips4less.com

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

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I can't seem to get filters to work.  Is there some secret to this
that I don't know about?

I've tried simple queries like:

SELECT * FROM slips

and I always get a parse error in db_query.

Any help would be much appreciated.

  -Mark



==
Mark Alston
Harding Marketing Communications, Inc.
377 South Daniel Way
San Jose, CA  95128
Phone: 408.260.4525
Email: malston@...
_________________________________________________________
DO YOU YAHOO!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Glenn Leavell wrote:
> I just upgraded from 0.40.02 to 0.40.03 and now get:
>
>    Mysql Error # 1064 in function db_query
>    parse error near " at line 1
>
> Whenver I try to manipulate Resources.  Also, if I click on "Associate"
> in the Resources area, I get a black screen.

Confirmed.  There's something wrong with the state table mechanism in
0.40.03 having to do with Resource manipulation.  If you're using
Resources in 0.40.02, don't upgrade yet.

Sorry about this.

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On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Dave Belfer-Shevett wrote:

> I've just dropped version 0.40.03 out of the CVS tree.  Folks who have
> been updating via CVS shouldn't need this new distribution.
>
> People running 0.40.02 should upgrade to this new version.  The most
> notable changes are:

I just upgraded from 0.40.02 to 0.40.03 and now get:

    Mysql Error # 1064 in function db_query
    parse error near " at line 1

Whenver I try to manipulate Resources.  Also, if I click on "Associate"
in the Resources area, I get a black screen.

Glenn

A minor suggestion: I recommend moving the "Last Result:" status line
from the bottom of the page to somewhere closer to the top.  It's hard to
see the last result on pages that have a lot of slips in view, as it's
sometimes several "screens" down.

Glenn

I've just dropped version 0.40.03 out of the CVS tree.  Folks who have
been updating via CVS shouldn't need this new distribution.

People running 0.40.02 should upgrade to this new version.  The most
notable changes are:

o MANY updates for Postgres compatability
o Final quashing of the 'cannot expand' bug
o User configurable mail options
o A plethora of small bugfixes.

Please read the 'snapshot' file on the download page to get a full rundown
of all changes.

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I've just posted Keystone 0.40.01 to the web site.  This is more an
interim release than a full blown version.  I have simply gotten to the
point where there is SO much new stuff in my working version (heretofore
known as 0.40.00), that it didn't make sense to keep 0.30.03 as the latest
release on the site.

Please take a look at the release notes in the SNAPSHOT file.  Also,
before installing this update, read the RELEASE-0.40.00 document, which
describes all the necessary structure changes.

NOTE - This has NOT been tested under Postgres, and I know of one direct
incompatability with Postgres.  You might want to wait until soem of the
PG gurus have had a look at the current codebase before doing a simple
install.

Some highlights of this release:

o Much of the functionality for email interaction is in the
	 ksb.pl perl scripts.  ksb.pl now supports command line
	 arguments for posting messages into Keystone via email,
	 and getting replies back.  NOTE - this is alpha-alpha ware.
	 If you dont' know Perl, these utilities are NOT READY YET.

o The 'groups' functions have been overhauled.  Groups are now
	 set up via picklists in the 'maintenance' windows.  After
	 installing this update, you will need to redefine your 'admin',
	 'tech', and 'topslips' groups.

o The Contacts function has been completely rewritten, to allow
	 multiple phone numbers, addresses, etc per contact.  Each entry
	 can be tagged as the 'Main' entry, which will show up on slips
	 when viewed.

o Added the Search function, which allows searching of slips for
	 specific words.

o Fixed numerous bugs and formatting issues, including a
	 security hole pointed out by a Keystone user.  (THANKS!)

o Added the ability to put a 'link' on a slip, that automatically
	 generates a link to another external application.  Configured
	 with the keystone.conf file.

o Added some helpful verbeage to the Visitor screens.

Enjoy!

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Well, thought I'd give folks an update, since it's been 6-7 weeks since
anything new has come out.

0.40.00 is in it's final bug-fix stage.  There's a huge number of internal
changes that I'm working on, such as fixing how some of the state
mechanisms work, as well as overhauling the Groups model.  I think I have
the groups model fixed, but the way I fixed the state tables has made it
impossible to support Postgres.  I may have to back off this change into
something more Postgres friendly, but we'll see.  (Postgres' lack of an
OUTER JOIN mechanism is frustrating my efforts)

The Contacts system has been totally rewritten.  This now allows for
multiple addresses and phone numbers per contact, as well as customization
of how they are displayed on a Slips lookup.  I've put a screenshot of the
new Contacts screen up on the web page, in the Samples section (under
Keystone): http://www.stonekeep.com/images/screencap-contacts-new.jpg

There is now a Search function in the slips display, that lets you look
for a simple text string.  Very fast.

I've also made my CVS tree available for read-only browsing from the net.
Information on getting the current version of Keystone out of my CVS tree
is available on stonekeep's web pages, under Download.  Note that 0.40.00
is -in- the CVS tree, but may not be ready for public use.  This is my
workspace, so unless you don't mind working with bleeding edge software,
wait for full releases.  :)

Folks interested in working on the Postgres ports, or other platforms are
welcome to work with the current CVS versions, and any changes they wish
to commit to the system to support other database servers, I'll happily
incorporate into the distribution.

And now on a more personal note...

<begin plead>

Recently I've come up against a performance roadblock on Keystone.  The
application is around 8000 lines of PHP, Perl and HTML documentation.  The
server I'm using for development is an AMD 5x86/150, (roughly equivelent
to a 486/120), and is starting to be very slow responding.  (that same
server hosts the public Keystone pages, homeport's web pages, and a ton of
other things.  You can imagine the strain. :)

I'm looking for equipment donations.  If you have a Pentium 166 or faster,
or a Sun workstation (Sparc 10 or faster) that you're not using, or your
company is interested in donating to the development of the project,
please get in touch with me via email.  I will happily exchange favorable
advertising, commentary, and a site licenses with folks who donate
equipment to the project.  I don't need Sun Ultra Enterprise servers
here...  I have a PentiumPro machine at work running Keystone right now,
and it's really humming along quite fast.

The other option, of course, is to license the product.  (note that, to
date, I have received received no licenses for Keystone or for PTS.  The
entire project has been out of my own pocket)

</end plead>

Thank you for your time, and enjoy Keystone.  :)

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                   |  was a virgin.." (from 'Top 10 things you don't want   |
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                    \______________________________________________________/

Well, we've finally gone ahead and revamped 'stonekeep's web site so it's
a little more professional, and a lot more content-rich.  Take a look at
the new format, and let me know what you think.

http://www.stonekeep.com/

Among the new things are links to the work-in-progress user manual, which
only a few folks have seen so far.

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                   |                without using the timer.                |
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On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 10:29:29PM -0400, Dave Belfer-Shevett wrote:
>
> This is mostly minor bug fixes having to do with Postgres
> incompatibilities.  Take a look at the snapshot file.
  Great! I was starting to getting lost with all the patches ;o))
>
> Hopefully this'll be the last set of patches for 0.30, and I can get to
> work on 0.40.  :)
  Could You please be so kind and tell me (us) whats planned for  0.40 and
beyond ? =o)

--
  Robert Ramiega   | robert@...    IRC: _Jedi_ | Don't underestimate
  IT Manager @ PDi | http://plukwa.pdi.net/        | the power of Source

This is mostly minor bug fixes having to do with Postgres
incompatibilities.  Take a look at the snapshot file.

Hopefully this'll be the last set of patches for 0.30, and I can get to
work on 0.40.  :)

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                    \______________________________________________________/

I've just posted keystone 0.30.02 to the web site.  There are many bug
fixes, as well as completion of some features that were introduced in
0.30.01.  The snapshot file has all the details.

Enjoy!

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                   |                          job.                          |
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> I am pleased to announce that Keystone 0.30.01 is available for download
> from http://www.stonekeep.com.

Thanks!

Just downloaded this version and currently testing. Seems to work fine
except one error I have: Each time I load a page I receive this error
message:

	 MySQL Error # 1017 in function db_query Can't find file: 'preferences.frm'
(errno: 2)

This happens after I updated from 0.22 to 0.3 of Keystone. Keystone 0.22
worked fine. I found no reference to "preferences.frm", I even don't know if
this is an Keystone or MySQL issue.

Also, I miss some informations on upgrading. You mentioned to add two tables
"dictionary" and "propdisp", I did so, but is that all? Add some columns to
existing tables?

Continue your excellent work.

...darko

I am pleased to announce that Keystone 0.30.01 is available for download
from http://www.stonekeep.com.

This is a major release, and includes over 1500 lines of new code, dozens
of bugfixes, and documentation enhancements.

Some of the major new features:

o Customized views.  Under Slips->Properties, a user may now select what
columns they wish to view, in what order, and under what criteria.  This
allows enormous flexibility for doing point-queries and user
customization.    Selections may be done on any column, and orders may be
set on any column all through this page.  A screenshot of the new
Properties screen is available on Keystone's home page.

o Slips view code rewritten for better performance.  There were problems
with how certain browsers would handle large complex tables.  The new
Slips display code cuts out two levels of complexity, which results in
an order of magnitude improvement in display speed.

o Configuration files have been moved into a subdirectory, allowing better
security on the site running Keystone.

o Innumerable bug fixes and UI enhancements.  The release notes have more
detail, as does the snapshot log file.  Most of the requests have coem
from the user community (Thank you!), as well as my own experience running
Keystone both to track the product itself, but also deploying it at my
fulltime job.  :)

Please also note there are two new mailing lists for Keystone.
'keystone-users' and 'keystone-announce', both served via majordomo at
homeport.org.  (mail to 'majordomo@...' 'subscribe
keystone-users' in the body of the message).

I do believe that this release should also clear any issues folks who have
been running PTS have had.  The main complaint has been that Keystone did
not have dynamic query capabiliies.  This reelease includes that function,
and enhances it far beyond what PTS had.

As always, I encourage commentary and input.  The mailing lists are for
general conversations - or you can submit a bug or enhancement request via
Keystone's public pages at stonekeep.com

Thanks for everyone's support during this project!

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