dotCMS 2.0 Improves Java-based Web Content Management

dotCMS, an open source, Java-based web content management system, is pleased to announce the release of v2.0.  This latest release continues dotCMS’s pursuit of providing one the most scalable, powerful and easy-to-use web content management platforms in the marketplace today.   No spin or catchy titles, just good, meaningful tools and functionality for both commercial-grade and multi-tenant content driven web applications. 

“dotCMS 2.0 is our response to the on-the-ground, real needs of both business users and developers,” announced Will Ezell, CTO of dotCMS.  “We have exciting plans for the 2 series, which will continue to rapidly improve upon our already robust enterprise content platform”.

Alkacon OAMP GeoMap Module 2.0 for OpenCms 8 released

With version 2.0 of the OAMP GeoMap Module, which is available now for download from alkacon.com, you can add a full-featured and highly customizable Google map widget to your OpenCms 8 installation without knowledge of HTML. Add a GeoMap to any page in OpenCms 8 just by Drag & Drop. With the ADE Editor all changes are made directly on your website.

The National Governors Association Launches with Jahia 6.5

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.

Training courses to make switching to OpenCms 8 easy

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.

New OpenCms 8 from Alkacon Software

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.

Alkacon and OpenCms logo

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.

Alkacon Software launches OpenCms 7.5.4

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

Alkacon and OpenCms logo

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.

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