2/4/2003: This version is the second "release candidate" for OpenCms 5.0. The core features planned for the 5.0 release are all fully implemented. Due to some major cleanup in the Java source tree and some improvements "under the hood" of the OpenCms core, I found that it was better to have yet another release candidate before making the final release. The final release of OpenCms 5.0 will be made available in 4 to 8 weeks if no major bugs are discovered.
OpenCms now runs with a default content-encoding
of ISO-8859-1
(Western Europe). In case you do not care about the encoding, this default is most likley what you need. The previous 5.x releases had the encoding pretty much hardcoded to UTF-8
(Unicode). With the 5.0 rc 2 release it's now possible to select different encodings from the default. The selected value must match the value of the file.encoding
set for the Java VM, the wizard will make sure that this is the case.
OpenCms 5.0 rc 2 is Open Source software published under the LGPL license.
The OpenCms 5.0 rc 2 includes all features from the last "major" release 4.6.1, the FLEX alpha 1, the 4.7.7 version and of course the 5.0 beta 1, 5.0 beta 2. and 5.0 rc 1. It's at last as stable as all of these earlier versions. I encourage everyone to try this version and provide feedback on the opencms-dev mailing list.
OpenCms 5.0 rc 2 supports Java 1.4. and 1.4.1. Because of required features related to file encoding and JDBC, Java 1.3 is not longer supported.
If you run Java 1.3 on your OpenCms server, please upgrade to 1.4.1. for OpenCms 5.0.
The almost complete list of changes and improvements in OpenCms 5.0 rc 2:
com.opencms.flex.jsp.CmsJspNavElement
now provides direct access to all properties of a fileUTF-8
as with previous releasesUTF-8
to ISO-8859-1
flex.jsp.errorpagecommit
in the opencms.properties
CmsMethodElement
could produce NullPointerExceptions in rare circumstancesjava.util.ResourceBundles
and support of it is disabled by default (can be enabled in opencms.properties
with the compatibility.support.oldlocales
flag)com/opencms/workplace/workplace.properties
for easier translationcom.opencms.locales.it
and is no longer part of the core distributioncom.opencms.workplace.CmsNewExplorerFileList
, the current Workplace language now stored in sessionpackage.html
file to all packagesPlease use our Bugzilla to report bugs in this release: http://www.opencms.org/bugzilla/
You can find the "TODO" list for the final release here: http://www.opencms.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/opencms/todo.txt?rev=1.13 .
Note that all items on the list have been completed in the 5.0 rc 2 release.
Thank you for using OpenCms and have fun with OpenCms 5.0 rc 2 :-)
]]>2/4/2003: This version is the second "release candidate" for OpenCms 5.0. The core features planned for the 5.0 release are all fully implemented. Due to some major cleanup in the Java source tree and some improvements "under the hood" of the OpenCms core, I found that it was better to have yet another release candidate before making the final release. The final release of OpenCms 5.0 will be made available in 4 to 8 weeks if no major bugs are discovered.
OpenCms now runs with a default content-encoding
of ISO-8859-1
(Western Europe).
In case you do not care about the encoding, this default is most likley what you need.
The previous 5.x releases had the encoding pretty much hardcoded to UTF-8
(Unicode). With the 5.0 rc 2 release it's now possible to select different encodings from the
default. The selected value must match the value of the file.encoding
set for the Java VM,
the wizard will make sure that this is the case.
OpenCms 5.0 rc 2 is Open Source software published under the LGPL license.
The OpenCms 5.0 rc 2 includes all features from the last "major" release 4.6.1, the FLEX alpha 1, the 4.7.7 version and of course the 5.0 beta 1, 5.0 beta 2. and 5.0 rc 1. It's at last as stable as all of these earlier versions. I encourage everyone to try this version and provide feedback on the opencms-dev mailing list.
OpenCms 5.0 rc 2 supports Java 1.4. and 1.4.1. Because of required features related to file encoding and JDBC, Java 1.3 is not longer supported.
If you run Java 1.3 on your OpenCms server, please upgrade to 1.4.1. for OpenCms 5.0.
The almost complete list of changes and improvements in OpenCms 5.0 rc 2:
com.opencms.flex.jsp.CmsJspNavElement
now provides direct access to all properties of a file
UTF-8
as with previous releases
UTF-8
to ISO-8859-1
flex.jsp.errorpagecommit
in the opencms.properties
CmsMethodElement
could produce NullPointerExceptions in rare circumstances
java.util.ResourceBundles
and support of it is disabled by default
(can be enabled in opencms.properties
with the compatibility.support.oldlocales
flag)
com/opencms/workplace/workplace.properties
for easier translation
com.opencms.locales.it
and is
no longer part of the core distribution
com.opencms.workplace.CmsNewExplorerFileList
,
the current Workplace language now stored in session
package.html
file to all packages
Please use our Bugzilla to report bugs in this release: http://www.opencms.org/bugzilla/
You can find the "TODO" list for the final release here:
http://www.opencms.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/opencms/todo.txt?rev=1.13
.
Note that all items on the list have been completed in the 5.0 rc 2 release.
Thank you for using OpenCms and have fun with OpenCms 5.0 rc 2 :-)
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