                         RELEASE NOTES FOR IRM 1.5.3
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What's new?
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New Features:

* Complete translation support throughout the entire application.  Special
	thanks to Christoph Maser and Franck Rokoto for doing most of this
	work;

* Indonesian, French, German, and Brazilian Portuguese translations now
	available;
	
* More enhancements to the system health check;

* The computers-info screen now allows the user to choose whether to see
	all, current, or no tracking for the computer, and whether or not to
	show all followups for displayed tracking;

* New reports from Dave Maxwell for installed software and detailed
	tracking;

* Only show technicians and admins in the tracking summary report;

* Don't show the "last followup" box in tracking lists if we've chosen to
	show all followups instead,


Bugs fixed:

* Database connection failures should now be louder and more distinct;

* URL redirects ('Go Back' links, mostly) now include the URL arguments,
	which should solve problems people were having where a computer's
	details would go blank after an update or similar;

* Some SNMP system cleanups;

* The ldapupdate.php script can now auth bind to an LDAP directory (handy
	for AD and such);
	
* The computer groups system now only allows a computer to be registered in
	a group once;

* ldapupdate.php no longer deletes full names when run;

* Tracking items assigned to a user are now shown when they view their
	personal info page.


Behind the scenes (primarily of interest to developers):

* A new baz wrapper script, barm, for helping to make Arch a little less
	painful to use;
	
* The way tracking status types is managed has been totally changed; we can
	now change what tracking statuses are available (not completely
	supported yet), and also change which types are considered 'open'
	and which are considered 'closed'.


Downloading and Installing
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1) Retrieve the irm-1.5.3.1.tar.gz file from
	http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=14522.

2) Expand the downloaded file to a temporary location.

3) For new installations, read docs/INSTALL.  For upgrades, read
	docs/UPGRADE.

4) Operate as required, and enjoy the best that Open Source can offer!

