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The first bug has already been found in the 0.1.0-RC1 release. I'll update this article as bugs are reported and hopefully find time to fix a few of them quickly as well.

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After a very long wait (far too long) a new release of Brage CM is now available for download.

Currently only as a release candidate #1, but hopefully stable enough for use. 

Please goto the Project download page to download the 0.1.0 release.

Report any bugs/problems via mailinglist, forum or directly to email address found in the documentation.

Some of the changes in this relase are:

Major changes since 0.0.4-x
  * ALL $api_ settings in config.php have changed to $conf[<>]!!!
  * Changed WYSISYG editor from HTMLArea to FCKEditor
  * Profiles are migrated to assets making management easier!!
  * Improved security. (XSS, SQL injection etc)
  * Added pagination on the CM Event/Asset screens
  * User/Group administration is far easier.
  * Approval section and notification emails on CM Events have been improved.
  * Field-ordering of asset registration fields are customisable.
  * Added Ticket Reference. ($conf['cm_tag']) 
  * Asses does not need to be a member of groups.

            
TODO:
  * Update documentation  

   
Limitations:
  * Only database schema login currently works.
  * When an CM Event is saved in Complete/Locked status, no warning is given
    that it cannot be edited again once the user leaves the edit screen. 
 

This should have been put up here a long time ago, but it was only posted to the forum and mailing list... 

Anyway, if you have downloaded Brage CM 0.0.4-2, make sure you also download this patch to bring your install up to v0.0.4-4. 

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This project started of with a need to have one central place to keep change reports for a global network managed by several administrators. Unable to find any other Change Management solution that didn't cost an arm and a leg, a basic PHP based database seemed to be the way forward...

This project will in no way compete with commercially available change management solutions, but it will provide an easy and efficient way to make sure you have a complete record of whatever you want to keep track on in terms of changes...

A simple asset management module is now also part of Brage - CM (which is becoming more and more functional- and less and less simple!)

Current Status:

• Release 0.1.0-RC1 is available for download from Sourceforge Project download page.

Features:

• PHP Based application
• Profile based entries (a profile can be anything you want to keep CM logs on)
• Group based security (profiles can be grouped together). Users are assigned to groups.
• Future cross platform independent database support (using ADODB library)
• Multiple authentication schemes supported (database, LDAP, HTTP Auth)
• WYSIWYG editor (Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, Safari using FCKEditor)
• Group based security
• Works on Linux/Unix and Windows (Apache and IIS)

Next Release: * A final release for v0.0.4 is out. Check out the News section for more info.

Mailing Lists * brage-cm-users

What would you like to see in this application? Do you have ideas that would improve Brage, please drop me an email on thomas.nilsen (at) doc-s.co.uk.

 
Roadmap

• Move profiles into the assets module. No longer need for separate assets/profiles (Completed!)
• Provide import script of data collected from Windows hosts via VB script (Near completion - need some testing)

v0.x.y

• Become an ITIL type application with features normaly found in an ITIL/CMDB type application.
• Allow building of a hieracy of assets that shows how differnet assets depend on each other (something that Configuration Management is all about)
• Improved approval functions on CM Events.
• Email subscription to changes
• Templates to allow a predefined documentation to be loaded on creation of new CM events.
• Improved Search Function
• Reporting function
• Improve GUI / CSS
• Complete DELETE function to make sure no "ghost" data exists.
• Export to CSV/TXT/XML format for the various listings (assets, profiles, events)
• Creating SQL structures for PostgreSQL, Oracle, MSSql.
• Asset templates to allow the creation of custom defined asset types
• Documentation
• Improved error logging/detection
• Event error logging to SQL base?
• Windows 32 binary to allow automatic registering/update of assets (run from login script or similar)
• Internationalisation

Why the name?

Brage was one of the gods in Norse Mythology. Being the good of eloquence and poetry, his speech was always the fairest.... As Change Management is about being fair in documenting any change, I thought it would fit well.. (better than Tor or Loke I suppose...)