There is a new version of ocPortal out and about. ocPortal 4.2 is officially a "feature" release and includes a huge number of new features developed over the last 9 months or so. ocPortal 4.2 is such an impressive improvement over the previous version that this content management system is worth a second look if you passed it by once before.
Some of the new features and improvements in this version of ocPortal include:
- Online store (shopping cart)
- Big cleanup of blogging/news features
- Tidy-up of galleries
- True multi-language support - virtually all content (news posts, forum posts, CEDI pages, etc) can be translated.
- More data-conversion choices - importing from CSV files, RSS and JPEG meta-data, and ocPortal's new XML format for synchronisation of data between sites
- Google Sitemap generation
- Twitter and Facebook syndication
- A new weather block to show the current weather in a given location
- Refreshed forum driver support (IPB3, vBulletin 3.8, SMF 2)
- About 30 new configuration options, to allow greater flexibility
- Performance improvements, particularly to reduce memory usage
- Search-friendly URLs (URLs with keywords in, rather than ID numbers)
- Reviews support (e.g. people can post reviews for a catalog entry)
- MkPortal import, and feature parity: Slide-shows and eCards from galleries, Top-sites support
- Overhaul of the support ticket system, including SMS alert support
- Encrypted custom profile fields (CPFs) and privacy settings
- Flash and Java based uploaders
- Further improved best practice compliance for web standards, and support for the semantic web ("Web 3.0") - Microformat support, Dublin Core support, and more
Download links and additional information on ocPortal 4.2 can be found on the official release announcement available at ocPortal.com.
