Alkacon Software GmbH with the support of the OpenCms developer community have recently released OpenCMS 8.5. OpenCms is an enterprise geared WCM solution built in Java and XML from open source components. OpenCms 8.5 introduces a number of modern CMS features including inline editing, CMIS, and integration with the search platform Solr. Overall, there are some very cool new features and enhancements in OpenCMS 8.5 that makes this CMS worth the effort to knowing more about it.
Some of the most significant new features of OpenCMS 8.5 include:
- The new inline content editor allows you to edit content "in place" on the web page.
- The form based content editor has been completely rewritten for improved speed and ease-of-use.
- Integration of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) features with automatic sitemap.xml generation and page alias support.
- Integration of Solr for improved search and noSQL like content queries.
- Integration of CMIS access to the content repository.
The developers recommend everyone who uses OpenCms to update to the 8.5.0 release. OpenCms 8.5 is fully backward compatible to all prior 8.x and 7.x versions. Templates and other OpenCms developed code from these versions work "out of the box" with version 8.5.0. Users of the Alkacon OCEE packages require a new version of Alkacon OCEE for use with this OpenCms release. Along those same lines, OpenCms version 8.5.0 requires Alkacon OCEE version 3.5.0 or later.
For those curious, OpenCMS is open source software distributed under the LGPL license. Details on the availability of OpenCMS for download can be found on the OpenCMS.org download page. If you desire more information about the changes involved in this release you should also check out the Release Notes for OpenCms 8.5.
[Source: OpenCMS.org]