[opencms-dev] Updated major release 4.4.6 of OpenCms now available

[Andreas Hochsteger]

Hi!

I just tried this release and I have to say that it's really much better than 
4.4.0.

I found some problems which are still here:

* cmsshell.sh contains some ^M characters (seems to be saved in windows 
format) which causes it to fail if you want to run it under Unix/Linux. It 
should be made executable by default too, if possible.

* The explorer still doesn't work with Netscape, Mozilla Opera and Konqueror 
(KDE). This should be fixed somehow, since I don't think that OpenCMS should 
only be available for M$ IE. Perhaps an alternative plain HTML (no 
JavaScript) frontend might be useful. It would be slower but useful with all 
browsers out there. Please don't forget to be usable for text-only browsers 
(the great Lynx!) too, if you do so.

* I still can't import the modules successfully:
  search.form can be installed, but generates an exception after installing
  search.htdig can be installed without problems
  NewsModule4: nothing happens after starting install
  website_for_oc_4.4.0: nothing happens after starting install

Nevertheless you did a great job with OpenCMS!

One more questions which I asked some time ago:
How can I build the cvs version of OpenCMS?
Ant complains about build.xml.
Can you tell me:
* What version of jdk, ant, ... do you use?
* Which command line do you use to start building and installing it?

If I can make it built somehow, then perhaps I'd have a look at the code how 
a plain HTML frontend could be implemented. Can somebody point me where to 
start?

-- 
Thanks,
	Andreas
	

On Friday, 19. October 2001 14:09, you wrote:
> The major release 4.4.6 of OpenCms is now available from the OpenCms
> website http://www.opencms.org.
>
> New features of the 4.4.6 release:
>
> A history function in the project administration shows information about
> all recently published projects. An integrated messaging system allows the
> Administrator to broadcast a message to all users logged in the workplace
> (e.g. for server shutdown). The WYSIWYG Editor now displays the page using
> the CSS of the selected template. Workplace dialogs (Copy / Move / Edit)
> have been improved. The Workplace Explorer now displays directories with
> more than 50 entries distributed on several pages, greatly improving
> download times on slow connections. The reference Servlet engine is now
> Tomcat 4.0. Several issues regarding the page element cache have been
> solved.
>
> This is the latest major production release of OpenCms. It includes
> numerous smaller  improvements and bug fixes over the latest major release
> 4.4.0. If your server runs on OpenCms 4.4.0, you should definitely update
> to 4.4.6. Update is easy, please see the description at
> http://www.opencms.org/opencms/opencms/service/upgrade44.html. In case you
> wonder what happend to the releases 4.4.1 to 4.4.5: these were internal
> builds not relased for download.
>
> We have slowed down the cycle for download releases since the 4.4.0
> version. We think it is now more important to have fewer but stable
> releases that also are fully backwards compatible. It is always possible to
> get the source code of latest development release of OpenCms from the CVS
> tree, please check out
> http://www.opencms.org/opencms/opencms/service/cvs.html for further info
> about that.
>
> Many thanks to all who have contributed to this new release.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Alexander Kandzior
> OpenCms Group