News and announcements

Silva integrated with PAS (Pluggable Authentication Service)

Written for Silva by Kit Blake on 2008-05-26

For anyone who's dealing with other authentication systems besides the classic LDAP, we'd like to announce that we now have Silva integrated with PAS.

For some parties this is not news. The people in Vienna at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien created their own implementation a while ago. But we now have a generic integration which makes it possible to use various PAS plugins.

One of those plugins is for OpenID, and thanks to Marc Petitmermet (who's at ETH Zürich, but it was funded from another source) we now have OpenID authentication working for Silva.

We're not going to do a special release. It's available as an 'egg', or you can try things out directly from our svn:
https://svn.infrae.com/silva.pas.base/
https://svn.infrae.com/silva.pas.membership/
https://svn.infrae.com/silva.pas.openid/

Soon we'll be putting a demo online which includes the OpenID login functionality. If you're only interested in that, wait a few days.

Updated on 2008-05-26.

3 Google Code Sources Available

Written for Silva by Kit Blake on 2008-05-26

Three new Code Sources that enable embedding of Google objects are available. There’s a YouTube video, Google Maps, and a Google Calendar source.

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dLCMS 1.6.1 Released

Written for Silva dLCMS by Kit Blake on 2008-01-11

ETH Zurich and Infrae are pleased to announce the release of the dynamic Learning Content Management System (dLCMS) 1.6.1. This is an update of the 1.6 series.

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Silva News Network 2.6 beta released

Written for SilvaNewsNetwork by Kit Blake on 2006-10-09

The Silva News Network 2.6 beta has been released, the first Silva 2.x compatible release of SNN. While primarily a compatibility release, SNN 2.6 does include a few new features like a category filtering asset, more configuration options for InlineNewsViewers, and support for the Atom syndication format.

Updated on 2007-12-22. Read more