It is with great enthusiasm that we announce the world wide release of Indico 1.2. This is the result of around one year of work which involved profound changes in Indico's internals (namely the move to Flask and the refactoring of the authentication code) and many interface improvements (e.g. Registration Form and Room Booking).
New features:
- Rich Abstract Editor: users can use markdown and LaTeX when writing their abstracts. Indico will preview the content in real time. PDFs have been improved as well.
- WYSIWYG Registration Form: new, intuitive and easy to manage registration form - fully WYSIWYG.
- E-tickets: conference organizers can now create electronic tickets for attendees. We have also developed a mobile app that can be used to check registrants in at the conference venue.
- Vidyo: added Search option. Users can search and attach already existing rooms to their events.
- Offline web-site creation: Event organisers can generate a zip file with a complete offline version of their Indico event. This offline website as well as all related files can be consulted off-line.
- Dashboard - Category suggestion: Indico will suggest categories depending on the events you are attending and other indicators.
- Added extra field type to Call For Abstract Form. Now, dropdown menus can be added to the form as an extra option.
- Shibboleth/SSO compatibility: Indico administrators can now use Shibboleth with no need for dirty hacks and custom changes. Moreover, the LDAP plugin has been improved and made compatible with both OpenLDAP and ActiveDirectory.
Improvements/Fixes:
- Improved the Room Booking Interface to search and book a room.
- Authentication Core Refactored: CERN specific authentication mechanisms removed in favor of standard LDAP (mentioned above).
- Indico Core Framework: Indico is now using the Flask microframework.
- Local authenticator: encryption of passwords.
- Using pycountry as the standard official list of countries. This can be overridden using the
CustomCountriesconfiguration option. - New category manager notification: when adding a new category manager, the other managers will receive a notification by email.
- Extra configuration parameters in Timetable - conference organisers can choose if the timetable will be rendered by default using the regular or detailed view, and if it will use the normal or by room layout.
- New layout for the login web page.
- Removed buggy 'Cache' option from administration. Caching is performed transparently in Indico.
- Fixed the escaping of characters (e.g. &) in passwords.
- Fixed PDF conversion of files attached to categories.
- Fixed "skip conflicting dates" in the Room Booking to skip over blocked periods too.
- Added option to edit poster contributions from inside the timetable.
- User search will ignore accents. Searching for González will be equal to searching for Gonzalez.
Total tickets closed: 100