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[Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman@xxxxxxxxx>]

After some delays and false starts, I'm happy to announce the
"official" release of our SchoolTool 1.2 packages for Ubuntu Karmic.

This is a feature-oriented release, which means... features!  But
also, it is not meant as a mid-year update on deployed school
instances, at least not without testing and review beforehand.

There are a few bugfixes included which will be backported to the 1.0 branch.

See http://book.schooltool.org/htmlhelp/install.html for installation
instructions

Thanks to Justas Sadzevicius, Gediminas Paulauskas, Alan Elkner and
Douglas Cerna for their hard work on this release.  Special thanks to
Justas and Gedminas, who stuck with it while learning far more about
packaging and release management than they ever wanted to know.  It is
a *lot* harder than it looks.

Next goal, getting SchoolTool in Ubuntu Lucid...

--Tom

1.2 Release Notes
+++++++++++++++++

SchoolTool Core
===============

New Features
------------

* A way to enter contact information of users themselves (as opposed to
  external contacts) https://launchpad.net/bugs/381158

* Outgoing email support for interventions (sent either via specified
  SMTP server or your Gmail account).
  https://launchpad.net/bugs/417029,
  https://launchpad.net/bugs/417101,
  https://launchpad.net/bugs/425759

SchoolTool security
-------------------

* An overview page of user permissions (access rights) in SchoolTool.
  https://launchpad.net/bugs/381698
  (Only SchoolTool core permissions listed - Gradebook, Attendance/Journal
  and Interventions are soon to follow)

* Refined some of the rougher access permission corners, tightened
  permissions where needed.

Bug fixes
---------

* Much better SchoolTool translatability coverage.

* Failed to create sections that span multiple terms.
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/427321

* Crufty section name display for section.
  https://launchpad.net/bugs/394388

SchoolTool Intervention
=======================

This is the first public release of SchoolTool Intervention, a system
to create goals for students in collaboration with key stakeholders,
to keep those stakeholders up to date on progress toward the goals,
and provide a central interface for reports and communication about a
student.

SchoolTool Gradebook
====================

Worksheets
----------

* New summary worksheets. https://launchpad.net/bugs/427997
* Default non-report worksheet. https://launchpad.net/bugs/417929
* Ranged value score support in Report Sheet activity.
  https://launchpad.net/bugs/417926
* Improved multi-worksheet interaction. https://launchpad.net/bugs/417918
* Way to create summary sheets automatically.
  https://launchpad.net/bugs/427994

Reporting
---------

* Failure report. https://launchpad.net/bugs/428077
* Student detail report. https://launchpad.net/bugs/428075
* Section attendance information in the report card layout.
  https://launchpad.net/bugs/410005

Translations
------------

* Gradebook translations are now separate from schooltool.
* Many fixes to make it translatable.

Tweaks and fixes
----------------

* Abbrevations in gradebook scoring system. https://launchpad.net/bugs/409038

* Better category weighting documentation. https://launchpad.net/bugs/447468,
  https://launchpad.net/bugs/417919

* And a lot of small UI / navigation tweaks, fixes for several crashes and
  glitches.  For a full list see
  https://launchpad.net/schooltool.gradebook/+milestone/0.5.0

SchoolTool Lyceum Journal
=========================

* Show period in section journal view, https://launchpad.net/bugs/409959