[opencms-dev] OpenCms version 6.2.1 has been released

[Alexander Kandzior]

Dear OpenCms users,

version 6.2.1 (stable) of OpenCms is now available for download from the
OpenCms website http://www.opencms.org. OpenCms 6.2.1 is a maintenance
release which fixes several issues reported in OpenCms 6.2.0. No new
features have been added since the 6.2.0 version. 

The following issues have been fixed in 6.2.1 compared to the 6.2.0 release:

* Added fix for "concurrent resource creation" issue 
* Fixed issue with old version of cached content 
  definition after a nested XML subschema was changed 
* Fixed issues with special characters in help texts of XML content editor 
* Fixed issue in CmsHtmlConverter with variable line separator 
  length in UNIX / Win environments 
* Fixed issue with missing "Lock" entry in context menu for image resources 
* Fixed issue with VFS resource state being set wrong in 
  combination with operations on new siblings 
* Fixed issue #1129: DB Table name length for project name was too short 
* Fixed issue with secure site in SSL and redirects 
* Fixed some small issues with the update wizard 
* Fixed issue #1150: binary distribution usable only 
  with Java 1.5 (with new special Java 1.4 download) 
* Fixed issue #1138: custom JSP error handler page now return 
  the original error status code

For complete details about the new features and fixed issues in 6.2.1,
please check the release notes. 

To upgrade an existing OpenCms 6 installation to the new 6.2.1 release, an
easy to use upgrade wizard is provided. This wizard will upgrade version
6.0.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.3, 6.0.4 and 6.2 beta and 6.2.0 to 6.2.1 almost
automatically.

Alkacon Software GmbH is the company responsible for the main development of
OpenCms. Today OpenCms is a leading open source CMS solution in widespread
use all over the world. Many businesses and organizations use OpenCms as a
cost effective, professional alternative to expensive license products. 

Alkacon Software GmbH offers its customers training, support and add-on
products for OpenCms. This gives our customers a layer of security and
convenience often required for mission critical OpenCms installations.

The team at Alkacon Software wants to thank everyone who has contributed bug
reports and feedback for this release of OpenCms.

Kind Regards,
Alex.

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Alexander Kandzior                                                        

Alkacon Software GmbH  - The OpenCms Experts

http://www.alkacon.com - http://www.opencms.org