July 11, 2007
This is the release of OpenCms 7.0.1, a maintenance release which fixes a critical issue in
7.0.0 that made it impossible to apply permissions to resources outside the
/system/
folder. A number of other issues reported by the OpenCms community since the
release of 7.0.0 have also been fixed.
OpenCms 7 is a major upgrade, and it vastly expands the features of OpenCms 6.
We recommend everyone who uses an earlier version of OpenCms to update to the 7.0.1 release. OpenCms 7.0.0 has a critical bug that makes it impossible to apply permissions to resources outside the /system/ folder. In case you are using one of the previous versions (OpenCms 7 alpha, beta or release candidates), there have been a lot of issues fixed in the final release.
OpenCms 7 is largely backward compatible with version 6. Most templates and other OpenCms developed code from version 6 should work "out of the box" with version 7. A number of API methods from OpenCms 6 have been marked as "deprecated". In case you have made extensive use of OpenCms internal classes and APIs from version 6, there may be some changes required in your code. However, in most cases this should not take longer than a couple of hours.
Please note that since OpenCms 7 uses JSP 2.0 and Servlet 2.4 standards by default, you may have to change that back to JSP 1.2 / Servlet 2.3 so your existing OpenCms JSP templates run without change. You must edit the "web-app" node in the OpenCms web.xml file to do that.
OpenCms 7 has been written and tested using Java 1.5 / 1.6. It works well with Java 1.4 using the optional "Java 1.4 compatibility package". It won't work with Java 1.3. We have tested only with SUNs version of the JDK. However, OpenCms has no dependencies to sun.* packages so it should in theory run with all compliant JVMs.
We have tested this release on the Tomcat servlet engine. OpenCms 7.0.1 works "out of the box" with Tomcat 5.5, which we recommend. Others have reported deploying 7 development versions successfully on other servlet containers like JBoss, BEA and Websphere. We appreciate any feedback regarding other servlet containers.
On the database side, we have tested with MySQL 4.0.x, MySQL 4.1, MySQL 5.x, Oracle 9.x and Oracle 10.x, as well as PostgreSQL 8.2.x and 7.4.x. The automatic update wizard for OpenCms 7 supports MySQL and Oracle.
In case you want to check out OpenCms from the CVS, please keep the following in mind: The CVS tag numbers for all OpenCms 7 final releases are "build_7_0_x", so the 7.0.1 release is tagged "build_7_0_1". Development of maintenance releases (like 7.0.1) is currently done in CVS HEAD.
Contributions to the OpenCms core development are most welcome. Please contact the core development team on the opencms-dev mailing list in case you are interested in supporting the development of OpenCms.
Please use our Bugzilla to report bugs in this release:
http://bugzilla.opencms.org/
Thank you for using OpenCms and have fun with OpenCms 7.0.1 :-)
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
Do you want to take a quick test drive of OpenCms to get an impression of its great features? Try out the OpenCms Live Demo website available at http://demo.opencms.org
The Alkacon OpenCms Enterprise Extensions (also called OCEE) are a commercial extension for OpenCms. Alkacon OCEE adds features to OpenCms that are often required for running OpenCms in a medium or large Enterprise, where data consistency, security and failover are highly important.
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