dotCMS Releases 1.9.2

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Miami, Florida (March 29, 2011) —  dotCMS has made 1.9.2 available to the community and general marketplace.  This is the second major release of new features and improvements since dotCMS rolled out the 1.9 series back in July of 2010 and features a number of improvements geared toward performance, scalability and ease of use.

“1.9.2 represents a leap forward for dotCMS.  We and our global network of partners have established a solid pace in rolling out features and community plugins,” commented Will Ezell, CTO of dotCMS. “We are seeing the 1.9 series take a strong hold in the marketplace and the changes in 1.9.2 speaks to dotCMS’ continued focus on the meeting the needs of both the enterprise and of their end user.”

1.9.2 has also been benchmarked on both cloud and physical servers and shown to scale extremely well horizontally and vertically – serving over 4,600 transactions a second across a variety of page types.  The complete performance report can be found here: http://bit.ly/eaxUuS

New Features Include:

  • Online Image Editor allows content contributors to edit images without needing additional software.  Users can resize, crop, rotate, "save as" different image types and adjust hue, saturation, brightness and coloration of images stored in dotCMS.
  • New Image Renditions and Clipboard allows content editors to use edited versions (renditions) of source images without having to store multiple versions of the same image.  An Image clipboard allows users to create the rendition they want to use, add it to their clipboard, and paste it into their content for re-use.
  • Inline Editing allows content editors frictionless editing of site content, inline, without needing to return to the admin portal.

Magento 1.3 brings performance improvement

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A new version of the eccomerce platform, Magento, was released on these last days of March. New features and improvements included in Magento 1.3 since the release of version 1.2 include:

  • Added support for customer file upload and date/time/datetime custom options
  • Described all methods in WSDL for SOAP web-services to improve compatibility with .NET, Java and other languages
  • Frontend Flat Catalog and improved performance. From early test and benchmarks the developers are seeing up to a 40% performance improvement when comparing to Magento 1.2.x both in page loads and memory usage.

That 40% improvement is substantial and the Magento folks are promising the release of more formal resting results soon.

Case Study: Scaling of a Drupal intranet for a large multinational corporation

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2bits.com: "The intranet used a lot of [Drupal] contributed modules, with 35 custom developed modules for this application. It would serve a user base of more than 80,000 employees. Testing of the application showed that only 30 concurrent users can be active simultaneously, falling well short of the requirement for 200 users to be active at any given time...

...We quickly found that we could not go beyond around 50 users, and starting diagnosing the problems with the application that prevents it from scaling. Here are the findings, and the solutions..."

Joomla 1.5 & Drupal 6.1 Performance Comparison

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Alldrupalthemes.com did a performance comparision between Joomla 1.5 & Drupal 6.1. As the author of the post infers, the numbers collected may not mean much to the user in the "real world" and limitations in the test results should be noted. Nevertheless, numbers that compare Drupal and Joomla performance are always interesting.

The conclusions drawn from the results are:

    1. Drupal is significantly faster than Joomla in all 4 setups
    2. Drupal cuts down pageload time by ~74% when caching is enabled on the fresh install and ~86% with the more populated setup
    3. Joomla cuts down pageload time by ~23% on the fresh install and ~20% on the more populated setup

      These numbers are interesting and I bet the study pulls in a lot of visitors for All Drupal Themes. Not only are Drupal and Joomla users interested in these type of posts, but so are potential users shopping around the first time for a CMS. As always, you should judge a CMS by what it does for you and not what it does for others.

      Drupal 6: More than a feeling

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      A few days ago, I mentioned that "Drupal 6 feels ready to me" for public release. Evidently, that was more than feeling as Drupal 6 was released early Wednesday morning.

      As a user of Drupal, let me start by saying thank you to all the developers and advocates that brought Drupal 6 to light. I've been watching Drupal 6 grow from a distance this past year and have made some observations. There is a lot more sweat, tears, and love put into Drupal than most outsiders realize. Those of us that have used Drupal during the past six years owe a lot to those of you active in the Drupal community.

      You can check out the release announcement at Drupal.org for all the new features and enhancements that have been rolled into Drupal 6. Let's look at some of the highlighted features in Drupal 6 which I've listed below.