[opencms-dev] OpenCms version 5.0 rc 1 available

[James McLaren]

Will the help documentation, including the tutorials be updated too ;)

?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexander Kandzior" <alex at opencms.org>
To: <opencms-dev at www.opencms.org>
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 2:03 PM
Subject: [opencms-dev] OpenCms version 5.0 rc 1 available


> 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
> 
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