SilverStripe 2.4 was released this week. According to Brian Calhoun, SilverStripe CEO, this release is an important milestone for the open source CMS.
We're excited to tell you that we just released SilverStripe version 2.4! This is a major new release and an important milestone for the SilverStripe community, the open source project, and our company.
SilverStripe 2.4 is the culmination of over a year's worth of development. We fixed 391 tickets and had over 1,400 changelog entries. A large number of the patches that went into 2.4 have come from you, the community, and we're especially happy that there's been increasing community involvement.
Significant new features in SilverStripe 2.4 include:
- Hierarchical URLs (Yes, I too am surprised that this wasn't a feature already in SilverStripe)
- Microsoft SQL Server database support
- PostgreSQL database support
- Performance and memory use optimizations - the CMS backend interface for the "Site Content" section easily scales to well over 10,000 pages
- Introduction of user roles which make it easier to manage more complex security configurations
- More secure against brute force login attempts
- Broken internal links auditing via the WYSIWYG editor
Additional information about this latest version of SilverStripe can be found on the official announcement at SilverStripe.org.