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ocPortal 4.2 is available

By Bryan - Posted on 30 September 2009

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.

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Bryan Ruby is the owner and editor for CMS Report. He founded CMSReport.com in 2006 on the belief that information technologists, website owners, and web developers desired visiting sites where they could learn about content management systems without the sales pitch.

Outside of his late night blogging hours, he is the Information Technology Officer for a field office in the federal government. Away from the computer he enjoys his family, bicycling, camping, and the outdoors.