Merge pull request #1030 from pi-engine/develop

Added releasenote of 2.4.0

Author: linzongshu

doc/releasenotes.md

@@ -1,46 +1,49 @@
-Pi Engine 2.3.0 Release
+Pi Engine 2.4.0 Release
 =======================
 
-The Pi Team is pleased to present Pi Engine 2.3.0 as a major release since its public release, focused on user oriented architecture, feature and API building.
-Meanwhile Pi powered applications are launched by a variety of teams.
+The Pi Team is pleased to present the Pi Engine **Pi Day** Release (Pi 2.4.0), an application development engine focusing on user oriented architecture, feature and API building. Meanwhile Pi powered applications are launched by a variety of teams.
 
-Get the [Pi 2.3.0 Release](https://github.com/pi-engine/pi/archive/release-2.3.0.zip) and report issues and requests to [Pi Issue Tracker](https://github.com/pi-engine/pi/issues).
+Get the [Pi Day Release](https://github.com/pi-engine/pi/archive/release-2.4.0.zip) and report issues and requests to [Pi Issue Tracker](https://github.com/pi-engine/pi/issues).
 
 What's New
 ==========
 
-Selected major features:
-+ Primary modules available: `article`, `comment`, `message`, `tag`, `user`
-+ User system implemented with features:
-  + Extensible user profile field definition
-  + Configurable user profile page
-  + Configurable user data aggregator for user profile and activity feed
-  + Per-user per-field profile privacy control
-  + Cross-module user profile definition and data write
-  + Extensible multi-mode for user profile access: local, client
-  + Extensible multi-mode for avatar: local, select, gravatar, upload
-  + Extensible multi-mode authentication: local, SSO
-  + Built-in user data storage
-+ Comment service
-  + On-demand implementation on modules with multi-categories
-  + Auto-locator for target resources
-  + Support for JavaScript load of leading page
-+ Extensible and customizable architecture
-  + Module mechanism for functionality extensibility
-  + Custom i18n, config, templates and classes for user-land customization
-+ Preliminary Open API protocol and implementations
-+ Gettext as i18n solution friendly to translators
-+ AngularJS as front-end solution
-
-
-Check out [changelog](https://github.com/pi-engine/pi/blob/release-2.3.0/doc/changelog.txt) for details.
+During these months’ development, some features have been added and improved to Pi Engine and its basic modules.
+
+Some of the major changes:
+
++ New basic modules available: `media`, `search`
++ Refactored API calls to be compatible with registry and model calls: changed `Pi::api(<module>)` and `Pi::api(<module>, <api>)` to `Pi::api(<api>, <module>)`
++ Media service introduced to operate media in local or remote
++ Added security and permission checks
++ Added all modules updating features
++ Added built-in support for module custom with build metadata versioning
++ Added built-in support for module and theme custom asset
++ Added customizable breadcrumbs provides by module itself
++ Simplified config API with `Pi::config()`
++ Merged module `asset` and `public`, located in `www/asset`; independent asset deployment dropped off
++ Moved custom static to `asset/custom` folder for better deployment
++ Moved system abstract API classes to sub namespace `Api` located in `lib/Pi/Application/Api`
++ Added support for custom bootstrap and online custom bootstrap in themes
++ Added service of `string` for multi-byte string handling
++ Upgraded Zend Framework to 2.2.6 final
++ Upgraded Bootstrap to 3.1.1
++ Improvements and bugs fixed on core module: `user`, `page`, `article`, `comment`, `message`, `tag`, `search`, `saml` and `uclient`
++ Added config folders/files:
+  + var/config/event.listener.php
++ Modified config files:
+  + var/config/engine.php
+  + var/config/host.php
+  + var/config/hosts.php
+
+Check out [changelog](https://github.com/pi-engine/pi/blob/release-2.4.0/doc/changelog.txt) for details. And finally special thank goes to @[sexnothing](https://github.com/sexnothing), @[Simon Zhang](https://github.com/zhangsimon) and @[loidco](https://github.com/loidco).
 
 Documentation
 =============
 Checkout Pi development manual and tutorials at [Github wiki](https://github.com/pi-engine/pi/wiki) and APIs and class charts at [Pi API](http://api.pialog.org).
 
 
 ---------------------
-[Pi Team](http://pi-engine.org)
+[Taiwen Jiang](http://github.com/taiwen), [Marc Desrousseaux](https://github.com/Marc-pi), [Hossein Azizabadi](http://github.com/voltan), [Zongshu Lin](https://github.com/linzongshu), [Pi Team](http://pi-engine.org)
 
-Dec 3rd, 2013
+Mar 14th, 2014