(Mission, KS) -The update to the News module was released. The new version v04.00.01 fixes some of the reported issues with the initial release.
- Add accept and user agent for web request
- Remove email address constraints
- Add option to not use Ajax rendering in module settings
- Reorganized and rewritten Javascript to allow rendering of multiple News modules on a single page in Ajax mode
- Fix for XHTML issue (div ending with span)
However, you should note that while several issues were fixed, many others persist. Including support of non-standard pubDates, and transformation of Atom feeds. Some will find that their feed still will not download.
The option pending review of these issues and subsequent fixes is to use the XML/XSL module with a custom XSL. This option is not welcome news for novice users, who are inexperienced in writing their own custom xsl transformations.
More on this release as more folks post their issues. My own issue is that the Atom feed for this very blog cannot be rendered by the latest DNN News module. During testing I found some issues with with DNN's method of 'sanitizing and transforming' Atom feeds into RSSv2.0 DNN specific format. I've fixed the issue in my code, but since the release was 'in the tracker' this fix could not be added to the update. That's a sad reality of the way things move in the development world. I didn't have the source to the v04.00.01, so I could not confirm that the issue persisted in that version until today.
Ah, well, all in due time I suppose. Meantime, I'm fixing it in the latest version and will submit it to Peter for review and hopefully inclusion in the next release.
As always, please test any new release in a non-production area. You'll be glad you did.
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