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Short Description
This release represents the first stable release for Tripal v3.0. It is already in use by several production sites.
Longer Description
To Upgrade from an Existing pre-release 3.x version:
Simply use Drupal or Drush to retrieve the most recent version of Tripal v3 and update the database. For example, to update using Drush:
drush updatedb
To Upgrade from Tripal v2
Please see the Upgrade Instructions in the User's Guide:
Release Notes
The following improvements have been made:
- Tripal v3.0 represents a major overhaul from Tripal v2.0. Specifically, all content is now organized via controlled vocabularies
- Content types are more tightly integrated with Drupal Entities and Fields.
- Tripal v3.0 requires no editing of PHP templates to alter the placement and order of content on the page
- More of Chado is supported than in previous versions.
- RESTful web services are provided to allow for programmatic access to data on the site,
- New data collections are available to allow site visitors to place content found via searching into collections for download or use by other tools.
In addition, several more changes have been made leading up to this release:
- The User's Guide and Developer's Handbook have been converted to restructuredText and is now part of the Tripal source code allowing for more easy updates by anyone. Both Guides have been moved to ReadTheDocs.
- Tripal now includes unit testing to help speed new releases and to maintain quality.