December 19, 2002
Alkacon Software has finished work on the first "release candidate" for OpenCms version 5.0, one of the leading open source content management solutions. All core features planned for the 5.0 release have now been implemented. The most important addition since the last release (5.0 beta 2) is the ability to do static export of JSP pages. Also the OpenCms module management has been improved by adding reports to the module operations and fixing a lot of smaller issues. As always, a long list of minor enhancements and fixes completes this release.
OpenCms 5.0 rc 1 is Open Source software published under the LGPL license. The software is freely available from the OpenCms website. The OpenCms 5.0 rc 1 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 and 5.0 beta 2. It's at last as stable as all of these earlier versions. Users of these old versions are encouraged to try this version and provide feedback on the opencms-dev mailing list.
OpenCms 5.0 rc 1 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.
The almost complete list of changes and improvements in OpenCms 5.0 rc 1:
The team at Alkacon continues working towards the final release of the 5.0 version. The final release of 5.0 will be made available in 6 - 8 weeks after all of the new functionality has been tested in different environments.
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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