The new Greenstone 3.10 release is finally out. You may all download it from http://www.greenstone.org/download

Greenstone 3.10 binaries are available for Windows, 32 and 64 bit Linux, and a single Mac binary for Mojave/10.14 and Catalina/10.15.

As always:

• The up to date tutorials are at http://wiki.greenstone.org/doku.php?id=en:tutorials (click the Greenstone 3 tab)
• The release notes are at http://wiki.greenstone.org/doku.php?id=en:release:3.10_release_notes
• The release notes will also cover some of the major areas of Greenstone 3 that have been changed and improved with this release.

Do download the Greenstone 3.10 binary for your OS today!

At long last, a new and improved version of Greenstone 3  is available for all to download from http://www.greenstone.org/download

Greenstone 3.09 binaries are available for Windows, 32 and 64 bit Linux, and a single Mac binary for High Sierra/10.13 and Mojave/10.14.

The up to date tutorials are at http://wiki.greenstone.org/doku.php?id=en:tutorials (click the Greenstone 3 tab)

The release notes are at http://wiki.greenstone.org/doku.php?id=en:release:3.09_release_notes

The release notes will also cover some of the major areas of Greenstone 3 that have been changed and improved with this release.

We welcome all to download the Greenstone 3.09 binary for your OS today!

We recommend that Greenstone users shift to Greenstone 3, as that’s the future of Greenstone.

But for those who really need Greenstone 2, we’ve now brought out a maintenance release of it with Greenstone 2.87.

You can grab the new GS 2.87 binaries, and source component and source distributions packages from the downloads page.

The release notes include the installation instructions. And here are the Greenstone 2 tutorials, make sure to select the “Greenstone 2” tab at the top.

For those who need to work from source, the release notes also contain links to pages detailing the steps for compiling the source components and distributions.

As usual, write us if you encounter any issues with GS2.87.

Greenstone 3.08 was released November 2016 (oops, what a late blog entry!)

You can grab the binaries, source components and source distributions from the downloads page.

The release notes include the installation instructions. There are instructions for helping you port Greenstone2 collections to Greenstone3.

To familiarise yourself with how things are done in Greenstone3, follow along with the Greenstone 3 tutorials.

For those who need to work from source, the release notes also contain links detailing the steps for compiling the source components and distributions.

Have fun with Greenstone 3.08 and write us if you discover any bugs or have any problems.

We’ve finally released the binaries, source components and source distributions for Greenstone 3.07.

You can grab them from the downloads page.

The release notes include the installation instructions. There are instructions for helping you port Greenstone2 collections to Greenstone3.

To familiarise yourself with how things are done in Greenstone3, follow along with the Greenstone 3 tutorials.

For those who need to work from source, the release notes also contain links detailing the steps for compiling the source components and distributions.

Have fun with Greenstone 3.07 and write us if you discover any bugs or have any problems.

Good news for Mac Yosemite users out there (and possibly Mac Maverick users too): the current Greenstone 3.07 release-candidate binaries now include a JRE with the Mac Mountain Lion binary. This allows the Greenstone 3.07-rc2 Mountain Lion installer to now run out of the box on Mac Yosemite machines. You may still need to change the security settings on your Mac to allow you to open dmg binary files not created by Apple, as this is a new security feature on Macs, but otherwise the Greenstone installer and the Greenstone applications once installed should run fine on Yosemite too.

We’ve decided to come out with another intermediate release candidate, because the major change we’ve made are specific to a Mac binary this time. That means there is still time for Greenstone users to find and report on bugs, and for translators to add further translations and send these back in to us for inclusion in the upcoming official 3.07 release. Therefore, please do try out the current 3.07 rc2 release by heading on over to the Snapshots page, and let us know how the binaries fare, so we can improve them for the official release.

Hello all,

The GS3.07 release candidate 1 (3.07 rc1) was released on 03 Aug 2015 and can be downloaded from the snapshots page. There have been quite a few changes and improvements. These have been documented in the release notes.

The 3.07 rc1 binaries available are for Windows, Linux (32 and 64 bit) and Mac (Snow) Leopard and (Mountain) Lion. The Mountain Lion release can be used with some modification on Mac Maverick and Yosemite machines.

We’re still working on the final, official release of 3.07. It will include a Java Runtime Environment with the Mac Lion release so that this can be run on later releases of the Mac OS that do not include Java like Yosemite, without Greenstone Mac users having to download Java. In all we’d like to make the experience for Mac Maverick and Yosemite users much smoother than it’s been so far.

In the meantime, we would like to continue to encourage Greenstone users to try out the current 3.07 rc1 release and report back their experiences, in particular any bugs or issues they detected.

We’ll keep you posted about the upcoming 3.07 release.

Hello all!

On 6 Nov we released the final binaries of Greenstone 3.06. There are binaries available for the following operating systems:

• Windows,
• Linux 32-bit and 64-bit machines and
• Mac OS Leopard, for Leopards and Snow Leopards
• Mac OS Mountain Lion for Mountain Lion, Maverick (and possibly the older Lion, but untested on there)

For those who want to compile 3.06 up from source, there is the 3.06 “source distribution” package.
Those who have installed the binary and who eventually want to recompile can top up their binary installation with the 3.06 “source component”.

You can get the binary for your operating system from the Greenstone 3 home page’s Download section at

http://www.greenstone.org/greenstone3-home

The source component and source distribution zip files are available from the same page as well.

The 3.06 Release Notes are at

http://wiki.greenstone.org/doku.php?id=en:release:3.06_release_notes

These contain instructions on how to install the binaries, or compile with the source distribution or source component for your operating system, as well as information on the basic of use Greenstone and its new features. The release notes may get modified and expanded over time, as questions appear.

For those who want to follow along with the Greenstone 3 tutorials, these are at

http://wiki.greenstone.org/doku.php?id=en:tutorials

Make sure to select the “Greenstone 3” tab.

An example of the kind of interfaces now possible with Greenstone 3 can be viewed at

http://www.music-ir.org/gc14ux-ex/thankyou-library/collection/basic-implementation/page/about

If you’re wondering about how to port Greenstone 2 collections from Greenstone 3, then have a look at the page

http://wiki.greenstone.org/doku.php?id=en:user:gs2_to_gs3

It explains the use of the new Format Conversion Wizard that’s now part of Greenstone 3.06’s GLI and which automates some of the conversion process, while allowing you to interactively modify its suggested Greenstone 3 format statements. Therefore, copy a Greenstone 2 collection into your Greenstone 3.06 installation’s web/sites/localsite/collect/ folder, open it in 3.06 GLI and try out the Format Conversion Wizard.

If you discover bugs or encounter any issues, join the mailing list at greenstone-users @ list.waikato.ac.nz and drop us a message, and we’ll try to get it fixed.

As several people had encountered issues in the recent 2.85 release, a lot of this week was spent looking at them so that we can get 2.86 out as soon as possible.

The bugs and oversights are not fatal and work-arounds are possible:

1) If you don’t have the PDF-box extension for Greenstone installed already, GLI will suggest where it can be obtained from. However, the URL it provides points to an olderversion of the PDF-box extension, which happens to be one that’s not functional. If you want the version of PDF-Box that works with 2.85, get it from

http://trac.greenstone.org/browser/main/tags/2.85/gs2-extensions/pdf-box/trunk/pdf-box-java.tar.gz

or http://trac.greenstone.org/browser/main/tags/2.85/gs2-extensions/pdf-box/trunk/pdf-box-java.zip

2)  The Greenstone demo collection in 2.85 contains HTML files that can’t get converted into XML properly enough to work well with the flash file generated by the Realistic Book feature. So if you’re thinking of testing out the realistic book option of the HTMLPlugin against the HTML files included in the Greenstone demo collection, rather than against your own HTML files, get the improved demo collection from SVN at http://svn.greenstone.org/main/trunk/greenstone2/collect/demo

3) On Vista, if your Greenstone is installed in a path containing brackets, such as “Program Files (x86)” as can happen on Windows 7 machines, then launching Greenstone is likely to fail. On Windows, spaces in Greenstone’s installation path are okay, but brackets aren’t handled well-enough yet. This will be fixed in a future release of Greenstone 2.

4) The fourth bug is more serious in that there is no work-around. It was found by a member on the mailing list when he was using the Datelist Classifier and discovered that references to [ex.srclink] or [srclink] in his Format statements did not get resolved to the URL of the source file. (However, the default browsing classifiers had no problem with such Format statements and would display the correct URL.) This has now been fixed by Dr Bainbridge and will be present in the next release of Greenstone.

5) Another discovery made is that Ubuntu now seems to have a problem with the open-office extension. This was not  the case some two months back when, after a bugfix, the extension was tested on the Ubuntu both here and by another dedicated member of the Greenstone family on his own Ubuntu. However, the new problem has been confirmed to now exist, including when run from the commandline, and even older versions of the Greenstone extension are performing similarly despite having worked at one point. Perhaps this has something to do with updates on the Ubuntu, but we’ll be investigating it further.

At last, we did it. After a lot of testing, bug discovery and fixing, we’ve finally released Greenstone 2.85. It should be much improved from 2.84. There were also some last minute changes from release candidate version 2.

Please do grab a binary for your operating system by visiting the download page at http://www.greenstone.org/download and start using it!

The Release Notes can be found at http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/index.php/2.85_Release_Notes