From: Dmitry Borodaenko Date: 2003-07-14T17:57:37+09:00 Subject: [ANN] Samizdat 0.0.2, ready for experimental deployment Greetings! I'm glad to announce the release of Samizdat 0.0.2, the first version with appropriate RDF query validation and security limits. This does not mean that this version is absolutely secure, but I've put a lot of effort into finding and closing vulnerabilities that would allow to bring down or compromise a server running Samizdat by giving specially crafted Squish queries to the search interface. Other changes in this version include schema improvements (better integration of Samizdat RDF schema with Dublin Core, separate namespace for tags, switch from RDF/XML to more readable N3 notation), enhanced search result display (resource rendering is separated into a class), UI CSS clean-up, documentation updates. Access to utility classes is reorganized and simplified, making scripts shorter and easier to read. Home page: http://www.nongnu.org/samizdat/ Download: http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/samizdat/samizdat-0.0.2.tar.gz P.S. I need your help! This is only the beginning, and there is so much to do in Samizdat project: its design goals are very ambitious, and I can not do it all alone. First of all, I need more people trying out Samizdat and giving me feedback on what they don't like about it, reporting bugs, and helping me prioritize my work. I also need a third-party security audit of my code: I am not a security expert, and I expect that there are much more ways to break Samizdat than I can imagine. Needless to say, for Samizdat to be useful it has to be safe to run. I need help with design of groupware and P2P networks: both of these technologies are really important for Samizdat to become useful collaboration tool, but I do not feel myself competent enough in neither. At last, there are smaller, but absolutely necessary tasks such as unit testing, l10n, i18n, UI design, etc.. I can't afford to disctract myself from main line of Samizdat development, which right now is RDF storage, RDF queries, and tag management, but it would be a shame to completely neglect all these issues until all main features of Samizdat are complete. -- Dmitry Borodaenko