OpenCms 8.5 Distribution

OpenCms 8.5 introduces inline editing, Solr integration and numerous other enhancements.

New Features of OpenCms 8.5

  • The new inline content editor allows to edit content "in place" on the web page.
  • The form based content editor has been completely rewritten for improved speed and ease-of-use.
  • Integration of SEO features with automatic sitemap.xml generation and page alias support.
  • Integration of Solr for improved search and noSQL like content queries.
  • Integration of CMIS access to the content repository.

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

Who should use this OpenCms 8.5 distribution download?

Use this download to install the new version 8.5.0 of OpenCms from scratch. We recommend everyone who uses OpenCms to update to the 8.5.0 release. OpenCms 8.5 is fully backward compatible to all prior 8.x and 7.x versions. Templates and other OpenCms developed code these versions should work "out of the box" with version 8.5.

If you want to upgrade an existing OpenCms 8.0.x, 7.5.x, 7.0.x or 6.x version, please use the OpenCms 8.5 upgrade Wizard download also available from this website. 

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

Module Version: 8.5.0
Provided By: Alkacon Software GmbH
License: GNU Lesser General Public License
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Download OpenCms

  • OpenCms 17 gives content managers the new app "Date search" to find content that has been changed in a certain time range. The "Websites" app allows to easily export the content of a complete site for archiving. An option has been added to hide "sensitive" content in the Offline project. The default Mercury template has been further improved, e.g. with SEO optimized job postings, a "spacer" function and marker clusters for maps. OpenCms 17 has also been tested and certified using Java 17 LTS and 21 LTS.
    Size:240154KB

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Upgrade OpenCms

  • Update your existing OpenCms installation to the current stable version 17 with the easy to use upgrade wizard.
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