Jahia, provider of Java-based open source CMS solutions, announced today that the National Governors Association has re-launched its website using Jahia 6.5, the first open source next-generation CMS, which bridges web, portal, social, search, and mobile user experiences with a single composite platform.

The new OpenCms 8 training courses of Alkacon Software provide the best possible introduction to OpenCms 8 development, right from the creators of OpenCms.

OpenCms 8 training courses are available at different skill levels and offer an introduction to the new OpenCms 8 concepts including Advanced Direct Edit, usage and creation of Templates, formatters and containers.

All Alkacon OpenCms courses have been developed specially for OpenCms and contain a variety of slides, lessons and exercises.

Hippo is pleased to announce its ongoing commitment to a passionate and loyal developer community by focusing almost the entirety of its new release of Hippo CMS Version 7.6 on new developer and architect focused features. Hippo's Java Web Content Management system is setting new standards for how web content can be managed and delivered.

Satzmedia GmbH and Hippo B.V. from the Netherlands announce a strategic alliance. The Hamburg-based IT Agency is the first German partner for the Enterprise Open Source Content Management System (CMS).

OpenCms 8 is now ready and available for download! OpenCms is one of the most popular Open Source Content Management Solutions. This new version was developed by Alkacon Software GmbH with the support of the international OpenCms developer community.

OpenCms 8 contains a greatly improved user interface for content managers and numerous other enhancements.

Major new features in OpenCms 8

• The "Advanced Direct Edit" mode allows to create page content by drag & drop.
• The new sitemap editor allows to create new pages and rearrange the navigation tree by drag & drop.
• A multiple file enabled upload dialog all based on HTML replaced the old "Upload Applet".
• The new "Content Subscription Engine" allows to inform users when important documents have changed.
• The XML content editor now support <xsd:choice> elements.
• The new publish dialog supports session based selection of content as well as add/remove of individual resources.
• Extended support for creation of content for mobile devices with the <cms:mobile> tag.
• A central "Shared Folder" has been added that is available from all sites for sharing content.
• JPA support has been added to the database layer, so there's support for 10+ additional databases.
  

Version 7.5.4 of OpenCms is now ready and available for download.

OpenCms is one of the most popular Open Source Content Management Solutions.

This new version was developed by Alkacon Software GmbH with the support of the international OpenCms developer community.

OpenCms 7.5.4 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of issues that persisted in the 7.5.3 version. Some new features have been added as well.

Main fixed issues and improvements in OpenCms 7.5.4

• Fixed issue 1717: DB deadlock if OpenCms hits db.pool.default.maxActive when db.pool.default.whenExhaustedAction=block
• Fixed issue 1900: Performance Patch for OpenCms
• Fixed issue 1901: Workplace login page security issue
• Fixed issue 1909: Internet Explorer crashes after saving structured XML content with image added from gallery into HTML field
• Fixed issue 1942: Publish scheduled jobs are missing after server restart
• Fixed issue 1945: Avoid reflected XSS on some authenticated resources (provided by Michele Orru)
• Fixed issue 1949: Database size does not decrease after (completely) deleting resources
• Fixed issue when creating a new user or editing an existing user using an Oracle database
• Fixed issue using delete and lock resource when called without path parameter
• Fixed issue in galleries: Broken layout with long item file names or titles
• Fixed premature publish thread interruption within CmsShell
• FCKEditor compatible with Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4
• Added new optional CmsShell start parameter to load additional commands

 Please check out the release notes for further details of the changes in this release.

The new OAMP GeoMap Module, which is available now for download from alkacon.com, adds a full-featured and highly customizable Google map widget to an existing OpenCms installation without knowledge of HTML.

The complete configuration is done in just one file. Multiple Locations can be selected by address or GPS-like coordinates. The interactive graphical user interface makes it easy to resize the map or change the zoom level or map type.

The OAMP GeoMap Module supports the KML file-format for Google maps. Existing KML data can be loaded from OpenCms' virtual file system or via URI from a remote server.

Application possibilities reach from holiday blogs, event promotion to a business site's contact information.

Magnolia 5.0, the upcoming release of the Java-based open source Magnolia CMS, will have a new user interface based on Vaadin, the popular open source framework for Rich Internet Applications (RIA). Vaadin was selected after an exhaustive review and community discussion due to its agility, security, efficiency, theming, collaboration, and community backing.

NEW YORK, NY — Magnolia, the open source content management vendor that delivers simplicity on an enterprise scale, today announced that its Magnolia Conference 2010 was a huge success, with 50% more participants – 240 vs. 160the year before – who came to exchange experiences and attend a packed dual-track agenda of business and technology talks. Those who missed the conference can view the presentations on www.magnolia-cms.com/conference.

“Rarely is there a conference where you have unfettered access to the entire company behind the product,” said Brian Warrick, Director of Product Solutions of NRG Edge, a Magnolia partner in the U.S.“Also in evidence was the strong and growing Magnolia community, which is a positive for the product and all of its users.”

“The conference was a great chance to meet the Magnolia software team and connect with the community,” said Matthew Arriaga, Software Designer, ManateeCounty, Florida.

“Magnolia 2010 was very interesting and the atmosphere was friendly. I was impressed by the quality of the presentations and the speakers’ technical expertise,”said Maurizio Müller, R&D Manager, of Tinext, a Magnolia partner in Switzerland.

“The event was well-organized,and participants had a high level of expertise,” said Rico Jansen, Software Developer, of VPRO, a public broadcaster in The Netherlands.

Hippo, developer of open source Web Content Management and Portal software, headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam is proud to announce that Dolce&Gabbana, one the world leading fashion and luxury brands has chosen Hippo CMS as the foundation for it's future web development. After extensive comparison Hippo CMS was chosen for scalability, performance, ease of development, and last but not least it's superior user friendly interface. Allowing Dolce&Gabbana's non-technical users to be more productive.

On May 23rd the online magazine dedicated to fashion, luxury and lifestyle Swide was the first site to go live on Hippo CMS.  As a leading luxury and fashion brand Dolce&Gabbana demanded total freedom and creativity in their website design, while at the same time their editors requested an easy to use system. The clean separation of content en design in Hippo CMS provided in this. The site was entirely designed around creating different content overviews based on tags. Other requirements where obviously high availability and performance, Hippo CMS was integrated in a Akamai delivery environment to provide fast load times round the globe. The implementation of the Swide website in Hippo CMS and full content migration from the old system was done in under 8 weeks by Italian service provider Killnine.

Dennis Valle, Executive Director of Group Digital Marketing and Communication at Dolce&Gabbana said: "Hippo CMS provides us with a stable platform that allows our editors to focus on their strength: bringing the best of style to our readers. The system is indeed very easy to use. We are very happy that we can rely on Hippo's professional support, this gave us peace of mind deploying the solution."

In the selection process Dolce&Gabbana's technical team did extensive performance testing of various CMS solutions. An other important requirement was the adaptability and flexibility of the CMS user interface. Hippo's plug-in based architecture allowed them to streamline the user experience and to integrate with other systems in the future.

Jeroen Verberg (CEO of Hippo) said: "We are excited to work for such a well known and high regarded brand as Dolce&Gabbana, it shows the maturity of our solution. I was also impressed by the fact that whole migration was done so smoothly and that the site went live a week ahead of the original schedule".

Hello! We would like to give you the heads-up to the Magnolia CMS second annual Magnolia Conference 2010, in Basel, Switzerland, September 16-17, 2010.

Please help us get the word out that Magnolia is accepting technical and business talk proposals through June 13^th  2010 (www.magnolia-cms.com/conference).

Early bird registration through June 30, 2010, receive a 30% discount.