[opencms-dev] OpenCms version 5.0 rc 1 available

[Alexander Kandzior]

Hi all,

I am happy to report that the OpenCms version 5.0 rc 1 is now available.


This version is the first "release candidate" for OpenCms 5.0. 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.

You can download the OpenCms 5.0 rc 1 release here:
* http://www.opencms.com/download/opencms_5.0_rc_1.zip (binary)
* http://www.opencms.com/download/opencms_src_5.0_rc_1.zip (source)

The final release of 5.0 will be made available after a) some time has
passed and b) we where able to check out all of the functionality in
different environments. Installing in a "default" Tomcat / MySQL
environment is pretty smooth now, but there are lot's of other
possible configurations out there and we expect there are some issues
left to solve until OpenCms runs fine on all of them. Since our own
resources are limited, we depend on feedback from other OpenCms users,
preferably on the mailing list.

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. I encourage everyone to try this version and provide
feedback on the opencms-dev mailing list.

OpenCms 5.0 beta 2 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. If you run Java 1.3 on your OpenCms server, please upgrade 
to 1.4.1. for OpenCms 5.0.

The almost complete list of changes and improvements in
OpenCms 5.0 rc 1:

The almost complete list of changes in OpenCms 5.0 beta 2:

* Static export for JSP pages and JSP based templates added
* The Setup wizard now checks if the OpenCms WAR was unpacked and
  complains if this is not the case
* WYSIWYG editor now tries to preserve the HTML source code formatting
* The "empty" template and "empty" page body are now part of a module
  "org.opencms.default" which is imported during setup
* The welcome and release note pages are now part of a module
  "org.opencms.welcome" which is imported during setup
* Temporary editor files (like ~index.html) are now re-used after an
  unclean editor shutdown and deleted if a project is published
* Added Ant 1.5 support for build.xml
* Added report output for module management (import / export / delete)
* Report output is now localized
* Help system will now look up if a directory for the current locale
  exists and display the "online help" button only in this case
* Preference panel for start-up options will not display language
  selection if only one locale directory exists
* New "relativeroot" property tells the link substitution in the
  editor to generate relative URLs instead of absolute URLs
* Description of a Module (and Module Parameters) is now saved in a
  CDATA section and not longer scrambled after server restart
* It's now possible to use "special" HTML chars (like < > " &) in
  resource property values
* "Undo changes" now also resets the file-last-modified date
* JSP based templates now work when linked to in the VFS
* Improved spelling for english language locale
* Fixed a bug in the export that prevented exporting of page bodies
* The gallery contents are exported even if "exclude system folder" is
  checked in export dialog
* Added entry for a modules "publish class" on the workplace dialog
  when creating a new module
* Fixed template selection issue when creating a new page
* Fixed issue with response.setContentType() in JSP pages
* Attribute "part" in the and tags has been renamed to "element"
* WYSIWYG editor now uses the "script save" variation of the control,
  so it should not longer be necessary to change IE security settings
  for this editor (note: it is still required for the LEdit text
  editor)
* Changed behaviour for deleted files that reside in a folder that is
  locked: Now the file is also shifted to the current project where
  the lock is applied, old behaviour was to stay in the project where
  it was deleted in
* Improved report output for actions like "publish", "export" etc.
  with nicer html, also improved the report templates and some of the
  workplace classes dealing with the reports
* Added all default directories (like "/system/") to the exclude-list
  in the module import
* Modules are now exported to and read from /WEB-INF/export/modules/
  (was /WEB-INF/export/ before)
* Some cleanup of code comments
* Removed unnecessary imports and non-static access to static
  resources in all classes

Please use our Bugzilla to report bugs in this release:
http://www.opencms.org/bugzilla/

You can find the "TODO" list for the final release here:
http://www.opencms.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/opencms/todo.txt?rev=1.12

Thank you for using OpenCms and have fun with OpenCms 5.0 rc 1 :-)

Best Regards,
Alex.

Alexander Kandzior
OpenCms Group / Alkacon Software