OpenCms 8 contains a greatly improved user interface for content managers and numerous other enhancements.

With OpenCms 8.0.1, a number of issues that persisted in the initial release of OpenCms 8 have been fixed. Some new features have been added as well.

Main fixed issues and improvements in OpenCms 8.0.1

• The sitemap and ADE configuration has been greatly simplified and improved.
• The properties of a page can now be modified directly in the ADE editor.
• The full text search now also works on MS Office Open XML based documents (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx).
• German content was added to the Template III flower showcase to demonstrate a possible multi language setup.
• A "log out" option has been added to the menu in the ADE editor.
• In the sitemap editor there is a new option to go back to the last page viewed in the ADE editor.
• The sitemap editor now displays the lock status of pages and sub-pages and handles lock conflicts.

Please check out the release notes for further details of the changes in this release.

Who should use this OpenCms 8.0.1 distribution download?

Use this download to install the new version 8.0.1 of OpenCms from scratch. We recommend everyone who uses OpenCms to update to the 8.0.1 release. OpenCms 8 is fully backward compatible to all prior 7.x versions. Templates and other OpenCms developed code from version 7.0 or 7.5 should work "out of the box" with version 8.

If you want to upgrade an existing OpenCms 7.5.x, 7.0.x or 6.x version, please use the OpenCms 8.0.1 upgrade Wizard download also available from this website. 

Please note: The *.jar files in this binary distribution have been compiled for Java 1.5.