OpenCms

Version 7.5.2 of OpenCms is now 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 ... [More] community. OpenCms 7.5.2 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of issues that persisted in the 7.5.1 version, including some OpenCms Workplace compatibility issues with newer browser versions. Main fixed issues in OpenCms 7.5.2 Fixed issue #1542: Links to exported files containing anchors are not resolved correctly Fixed issue #1787: Error when browsing the next result pages in the OpenCms backend search Fixed issue #1800: Still not released resources are indexed Fixed issue #1802: CmsShell does not work in Linux with Tomcat 6 Fixed issue #1807: CmsImportVersion7 contains a counter error in INFO log level Fixed issue #1808: OpenCms.getLinkManager().getOnlineLink(CmsObject, link) does not work Fixed issue #1809: Left site tree view is shown duplicated when creating a new folder in any site Fixed issue #1815: Aborted publish job goes on before resources are finally initialized when OpenCms restarts Fixed issue #1817: Fail to load Download/HTML/Link/Table Gallery from HTMLWidget on Websphere 6.1 Fixed issue #1819: FCKeditor does not work with newer Firefox versions Fixed issue with cached CmsResource lists are not cleared after publishing a project Fixed incorrect Lucene search result score Fixed list search filter caching problem in OpenCms Administration view Fixed access to indirect group users Fixed double explorer action execution Fixed issue with JSP repository not being purged automatically after module import Added additional MIME types Updated EditArea syntax highlighting editor to version 0.8.2 Updated Apache Commons Pool to version 1.5.4 Please check out the release notes for further details of the changes in this release. General Features of OpenCms 7.5 "Direct Edit" allows editing of content directly from a web page. Structured contents can be defined using a simple XML schema. XML content Editor for structured content / pages generated automatically from an XML schema. Support for grouping of content in tabs in the XML content editor. Includes editor with syntax highlighting functionality for all text based files (e.g. XML, HTML, JSP) WYSIWYG editor available for unstructured pages. Easy to use "Online / Offline" workflow. All changes or new pages must be approved / published first before they become visible "Online". Our "Content Relationship Engine" (CRE) allows management of relations / links in the system. Full internal link management for all resources. If files (or folders) are moved, all links to these files are kept intact. Native support for WebDAV access to the OpenCms VFS. Integrated image processing / scaling and cropping. Image and other content is organized in galleries with advanced AJAX features. Gallery dialogs support grouping of content by category or based on folder. Integrated full text search for web pages, but also in PDF, MS Office documents etc. Offline search indexing for changes that are not published. Full featured internal user management that supports the concept of "Organizational Units" (OUs). It is possible to delegate management of users / groups in OUs to Sub-Administrators. User permissions based on a complete set of system "Roles". Extensions can be added through a full featured module system. A "time warp" feature in the Workplace allows users to view resources with date expired / date released settings. JSP integration allows standards based creation of dynamic functionality in templates, dynamic forms etc. Support for Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, DB2, AS400 and HSQLDB databases included. Distribution includes a complete demo website "Wonderful World of Flowers". ... and many more OpenCms 7.5.2 is fully backward compatible to all prior 7 versions. We recommend everyone who uses an earlier version of OpenCms to update to the 7.5.2 release. OpenCms 7.5 is largely backward compatible with version 6. An easy to use update wizard for OpenCms Version 6 and prior 7 installations for MySQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL is available. About OpenCms Independent research has shown OpenCms to be a market leading solution amongst Open Source CMS systems. The software has been in continuous development for the last 9 years and has an active community of Open Source developers. More than 100 international IT companies have been registered as official OpenCms Solution Provider on the OpenCms website. A steadily growing list of reference sites also shows the increasing use of OpenCms. OpenCms is an enterprise - ready web content management solution build in Java and XML from open source components. OpenCms can easily be deployed on almost any existing IT infrastructure and provides powerful features especially suited for medium and large enterprise internet or intranet applications. OpenCms is open source software distributed under the LGPL licence. Alkacon Software GmbH is the company responsible for the development of OpenCms. Today OpenCms is a leading open source CMS solution in widespread use all over the world. Many businesses and organizations use OpenCms as a cost effective, professional alternative to expensive license products. Alkacon Software GmbH offers its customers training, support and add-on products for OpenCms. This gives our customers a layer of security and convenience often required for mission critical OpenCms installations. Please see the Alkacon product overview for more details. The team at Alkacon Software - The OpenCms Experts wants to thank everyone who has contributed to this release of OpenCms. [Less]

Alkacon OCEE for OpenCms is a commercial extension for OpenCms that offers Support for LDAP, Clustering, Replication and improved performance. Full information about OCEE is available on the Alkacon website. The latest OCEE release version 2.1.1 is ... [More] an important update that fixes a number of potential issues and introduces some new features and additions to OCEE version 2 for OpenCms 7.0 / 7.5. The most important new features in OCEE 2 are: Support for multi-staging scenarios with the OCEE Replicator: You can configure a "development" server that first pushes all generated content to a "staging" server e.g. for approval, and then afterwards to the "delivery" server. This is freely configurable, and there is no limit on the number of stages. Centralized configuration of servers with the OCEE Cluster: You can now edit the scheduled jobs, search index configuration and module parameters for all individual servers in the cluster from a common GUI in the workplace server. Support for OpenCms OUs in the LDAP Connector: It is now possible to connect each OpenCms OU with an individual path in the LDAP Server. Improved performance with the OCEE Accelerator: A much improved cache policy in the Accelerator now selectively flushes only certain cached items after a publish instead of just flushing everything. This OCEE release has the following version numbers: OCEE 2.1.1 for OpenCms 7 - OCEE 1.0.17 for OpenCms 6 Please see the OCEE release notes for a full descriptions about the new features and changes in this version. [Less]

This is the release of OpenCms 7.5.1. With OpenCms 7.5.1, some additional features have been added to the core system. Moreover, a number of issues have been fixed, including some reported security problems that affected the OpenCms Workplace. New ... [More] features and improvements in OpenCms 7.5.1 Added context menu entry "Publish scheduled" to publish files at a specified date Added context menu entry "Comment content" to view and change the default properties of all files in a folder Added improved search dialog and delete resource option to all galleries Added selectable start galleries to user preferences and possibility to set start galleries in Workplace configuration Added option to export the VFS into a folder structure instead of a .ZIP file Added option to hide "Advanced" button of property dialog depending on the current users groups Added support for servlet container Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v2.1 and v3.0 (preview release) Added content tool "Property viewer" to view properties from resources in specified folder Added content tool "Language node copier" to copy language nodes in XML contents in specified folder Added content tool "Convert XML contents" to convert XML contents in specified folder Added feature #1636: SMPT ports are now configurable Added feature #1741: Out of the box support for JBOSS servlet container Improved HTML widget button configuration and unstructured content button configuration options Added option to set global default widget configurations Added option to limit full text search to certain resource types only Added detection of email addresses in editor link dialog Updated FCKeditor to version 2.6.5 Updated Lucene to version 2.4.1 Fixed issues and other changes in OpenCms 7.5.1 Added fields query option to full text search by which you can search for different terms in several fields Added backup re-indexing option to Lucene index generation Added option to use the current site macro in the template one form module Switched icons from ascending/descending order in lists Full text search in documents: exceptions are now catched while extracting the text from documents Improved detection of the context-root path (support for GlassFish) Fixed issue #1708: User creation settings 'enabled' and 'selfManaged' were not saved Fixed issue #1711: HtmlDecorator problem with html-entities Fixed issue #1734: normalizePath will now remove leading double slashes of the path Fixed issue #1735: Resolved problems with CmsLinkManager and absolute internal links Fixed issue #1739: Deleted or moved project resources cannot be removed from project Fixed issue #1740: Synchronization of empty folders with real file system Fixed issue #1743: Cached users for groups are not invalidated when writing user Fixed issue #1744: Concurrency issue of CmsImportExportManager resolved Fixed issue #1759: Fixed XSS security issues reported by Security Focus (Bugtraq ID 35979) Fixed issue #1775: Endless loop on project names Fixed issue #1779: Resolved problem with import of additional CSS stylesheet for template two Fixed issue with OU users being unable to work after OU resource has been renamed Fixed issue with pointer targets stored in XML contents (instead of the URI to pointers) when selecting them in a link gallery Fixed issue with transfer permissions of a deleted user to another user Fixed issue with consumed exception messages for email sending Fixed issue with noAutoCloseTags attribute of <cms:parse> tag only supporting DIV Backward compatibility We recommend everyone who uses OpenCms to update to the 7.5.1 release. OpenCms 7.5.1  is fully backward compatible to 7.5.0 and all prior 7.0.x versions. Most templates and other OpenCms developed code from version 7 or 7.5 should work "out of the box" with version 7.5.1. Compatibility with Java versions, Servlet containers and Databases OpenCms 7.5 has been written and tested using Java 1.5 / 1.6. We have tested only with SUNs version of the JDK. However, OpenCms has no dependencies to sun.* packages so it should in theory run with all compliant JVMs. We have tested this release on the Tomcat servlet engine. OpenCms works "out of the box" with Tomcat 5.5, which we recommend. Others have reported deploying OpenCms successfully on other servlet containers like JBoss, BEA, Websphere, Glassfish and Resin Professional. We appreciate any feedback regarding other servlet containers. On the database side, we have tested with MySQL 4.0.x, MySQL 4.1, MySQL 5.x, Oracle 9.x and Oracle 10.x, as well as PostgreSQL 8.2.x and 7.4.x, MS SQL Server 2000 / 2003, DB2 9.1 and HSQLDB 1.8.0. The automatic update wizard for OpenCms 7 supports MySQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL. Regarding version numbers and CVS build tags In case you want to check out OpenCms from the CVS, please keep the following in mind: The CVS tag numbers for all OpenCms 7.5 final releases are "build_7_5_x", so the 7.5.1 release is tagged "build_7_5_1". Development of maintenance releases is currently done in CVS HEAD. How you can help Contributions to the OpenCms core development are most welcome. Please contact the core development team on the opencms-dev mailing list in case you are interested in supporting the development of OpenCms. Please use our Bugzilla to report bugs in this release: http://bugzilla.opencms.org/ Thank you for using OpenCms and have fun with OpenCms 7.5 :-) [Less]

Version 7.5.1 of OpenCms is now 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 ... [More] community. OpenCms 7.5.1 adds several new features to the core system. Moreover, a number of issues have been fixed, including some reported security problems that affected only the OpenCms Workplace. Main new features / improvements in OpenCms 7.5.1 Fixed issue #1759: XSS security issues reported by Security Focus (Bugtraq ID 35979) Added context menu entry "Publish scheduled" to publish files at a specified date. Added context menu entry "Comment content" to view and change the default properties of all files in a folder. Added improved search dialog and delete resource option to all galleries. Added selectable start galleries to user preferences and possibility to set start galleries in Workplace configuration. Added option to export the VFS into a folder structure instead of a .ZIP file. Added option to hide "Advanced" button of property dialog depending on the current users groups. OpenCms now works with servlet container Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v2.1 and v3.0 (preview release). Added content tool "Property viewer" to view properties from resources in specified folder. Added content tool "Language node copier" to copy language nodes in XML contents in specified folder. Added content tool "Convert XML contents" to convert XML contents in specified folder. Added feature #1636: SMPT ports are now configurable. Added feature #1741: Out of the box support for JBOSS servlet container. Improved HTML widget button configuration and unstructured content button configuration options. Added option to set global default widget configurations. Added option to limit full text search to certain resource types only. Added detection of email addresses in editor link dialog. Updated FCKeditor to version 2.6.5. Updated Lucene to version 2.4.1. Please check out the release notes for further details of the changes in this release. General Features of OpenCms 7.5 "Direct Edit" allows editing of content directly from a web page. Structured contents can be defined using a simple XML schema. XML content Editor for structured content / pages generated automatically from an XML schema. Support for grouping of content in tabs in the XML content editor. Includes editor with syntax highlighting functionality for all text based files (e.g. XML, HTML, JSP) WYSIWYG editor available for unstructured pages. Easy to use "Online / Offline" workflow. All changes or new pages must be approved / published first before they become visible "Online". Our "Content Relationship Engine" (CRE) allows management of relations / links in the system. Full internal link management for all resources. If files (or folders) are moved, all links to these files are kept intact. Native support for WebDAV access to the OpenCms VFS. Integrated image processing / scaling and cropping. Image and other content is organized in galleries with advanced AJAX features. Gallery dialogs support grouping of content by category or based on folder. Integrated full text search for web pages, but also in PDF, MS Office documents etc. Offline search indexing for changes that are not published. Full featured internal user management that supports the concept of "Organizational Units" (OUs). It is possible to delegate management of users / groups in OUs to Sub-Administrators. User permissions based on a complete set of system "Roles". Extensions can be added through a full featured module system. A "time warp" feature in the Workplace allows users to view resources with date expired / date released settings. JSP integration allows standards based creation of dynamic functionality in templates, dynamic forms etc. Support for Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, DB2, AS400 and HSQLDB databases included. Distribution includes a complete demo website "Wonderful World of Flowers". ... and many more OpenCms 7.5.1 is fully backward compatible to all prior 7 versions. We recommend everyone who uses an earlier version of OpenCms to update to the 7.5.1 release. OpenCms 7.5 is largely backward compatible with version 6. An easy to use update wizard for OpenCms Version 6 and prior 7 installations for MySQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL is available. About OpenCms Independent research has shown OpenCms to be a market leading solution amongst Open Source CMS systems. The software has been in continuous development for the last 8 years and has an active community of Open Source developers. More than 100 international IT companies have been registered as official OpenCms Solution Provider on the OpenCms website. A steadily growing list of reference sites also shows the increasing use of OpenCms. OpenCms is an enterprise - ready web content management solution build in Java and XML from open source components. OpenCms can easily be deployed on almost any existing IT infrastructure and provides powerful features especially suited for medium and large enterprise internet or intranet applications. OpenCms is open source software distributed under the LGPL licence. Alkacon Software GmbH is the company responsible for the development of OpenCms. Today OpenCms is a leading open source CMS solution in widespread use all over the world. Many businesses and organizations use OpenCms as a cost effective, professional alternative to expensive license products. Alkacon Software GmbH offers its customers training, support and add-on products for OpenCms. This gives our customers a layer of security and convenience often required for mission critical OpenCms installations. Please see the Alkacon product overview for more details. The team at Alkacon Software - The OpenCms Experts wants to thank everyone who has contributed to this release of OpenCms. [Less]

OpenCms Days 2009 did take place from Monday, June 15 to Tuesday, June 16, 2009 in Cologne, Germany. This year's conference did focus on how OpenCms can be used to deliver top notch web projects and help to successfully overcome shrinking IT and ... [More] marketing budgets. About 100 OpenCms users and developers gathered for this 2 day OpenCms conference and expo. This was the best opportunity this year to meet and mingle with leading OpenCms experts such as core developers, experienced consultants, executive decision makers and other OpenCms users. We hope everyone who attended had a great time at OpenCms Days 2009. See you again next year for OpenCms Days 2010! For those who missed the event, the presentation slides from the conference sessions are now available for download from the opencms-days.org website. There is also an image gallery with photos from the conference. [Less]

June 15, 2009: This is the first release of OpenCms 7.5 (7.5.0). OpenCms 7.5 is an incremental update for OpenCms 7.0 with a focus on backward compatibility. With OpenCms 7.5, several new features have been added and a lot of issues and security ... [More] problems that persisted in the 7.0.5 release have been fixed. Main new features of OpenCms 7.5 Support for image cropping in image gallery New galleries with advanced AJAX features available in structured content and free page editor Galleries dialog now also support grouping of elements by category Support for tabs in the XML content editor Offline search indexing without publishing in the Lucene based full text search New demo content "Wonderful World of Flowers" Updated external editor components to latest stable versions Further improvements in OpenCms 7.5 Added support for decentralized categories Added event which is fired after a user was modified CmsTimeFrameCategoryCollector now allows line breaks and whitespaces in param attribute Undo changes operation now shows an additional warning dialog with option to cancel in case siblings are found Extended authorization configuration and handling in order to allow support of alternative mechanisms Improved exception handling on login of disabled users Added support for alternative lib folder structure of tomcat on windows for cmsshell Extended dialog for cleaning historical versions with an option to clean all versions of deleted files New feature in EL XML Content wrapper allows accessing the raw XML of a value using .xmlText(...) Added definition of exclude links for internal link check - internal links defined this way are handled like external links New scheduled job to delete expired resources Removed 2GB size limit for average and maximum flex cache size Added support for new Microsoft document types to upload applet Improved handling of secure site configuration errors Fixed issues and other changes in OpenCms 7.5 Fixed issue #1016: JSP send mail example out of order Fixed issue #1122: JSTL Examples do not work in the Alkacon Documentation Fixed issue #1173: Misuse of saveSiteRoot causes synchronizing to fail but is wider problem Fixed issue #1125: Admin user in Guest Group causes issues Fixed issue #1144: Prevent jsp files to be cached in setup Fixed issue #1177: Language selector in editor shows too much entries for certain locales Fixed issue #1181: Change Element Locale - Content Tool does not display country locale variants Fixed issue #1182: Import of pure user data fails Fixed issue #1209: Webusers should be able to delete themselves from the system Fixed issue #1210: Changing ACL to a resource does not set the "last modified" date Fixed issue #1220: CmsJspTagContentLoad cannot be constructed with PageIndex nor PageSize Fixed issue #1231: Blocking scenario for simultaneous content editing using direct edit Fixed issue #1232: Intermittent template JSP compile error Fixed issue #1258: No logging if secure page is requested without a secure site configured Fixed issue #1665: CmsExtractorPdf does not remove control characters Fixed issue #1268: Trouble getting AdditionalInfo for user Fixed issue #1269: FileChooser manipulation replaces servleturl AND path Fixed issue #1270: Can not embed Flash animation for Firefox Fixed issue #1277: Problem with MIME type settings Fixed issue #1281: CmsUser.isSystemUser() fails to identify system user Fixed issue #1282: Problem with duplicate "exportname" properties Fixed issue #1283: Link button missing in FCK widget Fixed issue #1284: Use short name by default in Admin view Fixed issue #1285/1310: Scroll position lost in XML content editor (IE) Fixed issue #1295: Gallery widgets should not allow specifying target in XML editor Fixed issue #1297: Rendering of top bar in XML editor can fail Fixed issue #1298: Tab key in FCK widget behaves badly in IE Fixed issue #1311: editoptions in opencms-modules.xml inhibits the import Fixed issue #1696: Categories collector throws unexpected nullpointer exception Fixed issue #1697: Fixed incompatibility of templateone form with OpenJDK 1.6 (Fedora 10) Fixed issue #1728: Fixed direct edit problems with Internet Explorer 8 Fixed issue #1738: CmsShellCommands.uploadFile(...) not working Fixed issue with HTML-decorator when tagging the second level Fixed issue with security in the history handler Fixed issue with JSP hard includes when using site relative paths Fixed issue with performance when serving JSP pages Fixed issue with SQL query not running on MS SQL server Fixed issue with cleaning up threads for publish progress dialog Fixed issue with &lt; and &gt; in extended HTML import Fixed issue with deleting historical versions when date is specified Fixed issue with cmsshell commands that have arguments of type long not working Fixed issue with historical versions of deleted files never being deleted Fixed issue with VFS driver where a file like "xy.html" could be read like a folder "xy.html/" Fixed issue with <cms:jquery> not working for authenticated web users Fixed issue with wrong redirect for http - requests to https secured resources Fixed issue with object other than String in user.additionalInfo causing the csv export to fail. Fixed issue with publish queue hanging up if the connection to the database is lost Fixed issue with moved files where the previous folder was deleted Fixed issue with advanced properties Fixed issue with CmsMultiselectWidget keeping previous values when trying to unselect every entry Fixed issue with copy locale dialog of XML content editor being too small for Internet Explorer on Vista Fixed issue with failing database export in case of deleted relation / category Fixed issue with rendering of template two in webkit based browsers (Konqueror, Chrome, ...) Fixed issue with duplicate openoffice document type in opencms-search.xml Backward compatibility with version 7.0 We recommend everyone who uses OpenCms to update to the 7.5 release. OpenCms 7.5  is fully backward compatible to all prior 7.0.x versions. Most templates and other OpenCms developed code from version 7 should work "out of the box" with version 7.5. Compatibility with Java versions, Servlet containers and Databases OpenCms 7.5 has been written and tested using Java 1.5 / 1.6. We have tested only with SUNs version of the JDK. However, OpenCms has no dependencies to sun.* packages so it should in theory run with all compliant JVMs. We have tested this release on the Tomcat servlet engine. OpenCms works "out of the box" with Tomcat 5.5, which we recommend. Others have reported deploying OpenCms successfully on other servlet containers like JBoss, BEA, Websphere and Resin Professional. We appreciate any feedback regarding other servlet containers. On the database side, we have tested with MySQL 4.0.x, MySQL 4.1, MySQL 5.x, Oracle 9.x and Oracle 10.x, as well as PostgreSQL 8.2.x and 7.4.x, MS SQL Server 2000 / 2003, DB2 9.1 and HSQLDB 1.8.0. The automatic update wizard for OpenCms 7 supports MySQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL. Regarding version numbers and CVS build tags In case you want to check out OpenCms from the CVS, please keep the following in mind: The CVS tag numbers for all OpenCms 7.5 final releases are "build_7_5_x", so the 7.5.0 release is tagged "build_7_5_0". Development of maintenance releases is currently done in CVS HEAD. How you can help Contributions to the OpenCms core development are most welcome. Please contact the core development team on the opencms-dev mailing list in case you are interested in supporting the development of OpenCms. Please use our Bugzilla to report bugs in this release: http://bugzilla.opencms.org/ Thank you for using OpenCms and have fun with OpenCms 7.5 :-) [Less]

Version 7.5.0 of OpenCms is now available for download. OpenCms is one of the most popular Open Source Content Management Solutions. The new version was developed by Alkacon Software GmbH with the support of the international OpenCms developer ... [More] community. With OpenCms 7.5.0, new features were added and a lot of issues and security problems that persisted in the 7.0.5 release have been fixed. New Features in OpenCms 7.5.0 Support for image cropping in image gallery. New galleries with advanced AJAX features available in structured content and free page editor. Galleries dialog now also support grouping of elements by category. Support for tabs in the XML content editor. Offline search indexing without publishing in the Lucene based full text search. New demo content "Wonderful World of Flowers". Updated external editor components to latest stable versions. New scheduled job to delete expired resources. Added support for decentralized categories. It is now possible to access the raw XML of a structured content in a JSP using the EL content wrapper. Several other improvements and component updates. Lots of reported issues have been fixed. General Features of OpenCms 7.5 Support for Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, DB2, AS400 and HSQLDB databases included. The internal link management has been greatly improved. If files (or folders) are moved / renamed, all links to these files are now kept intact. Deleting a resource that is linked by other resources does now display a warning / confirmation dialog. The new "Content Relationship Engine" (CRE) allows defining arbitrary relations between OpenCms resources. Native support for WebDAV access to the OpenCms VFS has been added. Publishing of resources is now done using a queue, so a user can continue to work after publishing has started. The concept of "Organization Units" (OUs) has been added to the internal user management. System permissions are now based on a complete new set of "Roles". It is now possible to delegate management of users / groups in OUs to Sub-Administrators. A "switch user" (su) function for Administrators in the OpenCms Workplace is now available. Many usability improvements for the OpenCms Workplace have been made, especially concerning the handling of other users locks. Many dialogs in the OpenCms Workplace are more responsive because of the use of Ajax technologies. The context menus in the Workplace are now cascading and can be configured individually based on the users permissions. A new "Undelete" function is available on the context menu to restore deleted resources, including complete deleted subtrees. The full text search has been greatly improved so that individual resource properties or fields from XML content can be searched directly. A "time warp" feature in the Workplace now allows users to view resources with date expired / date released settings. Auto correction for structured XML contents now allows changes to the XML schema of existing resources. A configurable search tool is now available for content managers in the Workplace. ... and many more Please check out the release notes for further details. OpenCms 7.5.0 is fully backward compatible to all prior 7.0.x versions. We recommend everyone who uses an earlier version of OpenCms to update to the 7.5.0 release. OpenCms 7.5 is largely backward compatible with version 6. An easy to use update wizard for OpenCms Version 6 and prior 7.0.x installations for MySQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL is available. About OpenCms Independent research has shown OpenCms to be a market leading solution amongst Open Source CMS systems. The software has been in continuous development for the last 8 years and has an active community of Open Source developers. More than 100 international IT companies have been registered as official OpenCms Solution Provider on the OpenCms website. A steadily growing list of reference sites also shows the increasing use of OpenCms. From June 15 to June 16, 2009, the OpenCms Days conference and expo will bring together the OpenCms community to discuss the present and future of OpenCms. More information is available on the event website opencms-days.org. OpenCms is an enterprise - ready web content management solution build in Java and XML from open source components. OpenCms can easily be deployed on almost any existing IT infrastructure and provides powerful features especially suited for medium and large enterprise internet or intranet applications. OpenCms is open source software distributed under the LGPL licence. Alkacon Software GmbH is the company responsible for the development of OpenCms. Today OpenCms is a leading open source CMS solution in widespread use all over the world. Many businesses and organizations use OpenCms as a cost effective, professional alternative to expensive license products. Alkacon Software GmbH offers its customers training, support and add-on products for OpenCms. This gives our customers a layer of security and convenience often required for mission critical OpenCms installations. Please see the Alkacon product overview for more details. The team at Alkacon Software - The OpenCms Experts wants to thank everyone who has contributed to this release of OpenCms. [Less]

The first version of the OAMP DocCenter Module is now available. The OAMP Webform Module, which is available now for download from alkacon.com, extends an OpenCms installation with the capability to easily create highly configurable download areas ... [More] (similar to apache directory listings) with the look and feel of your custom template where editors just has to upload documents to make them accessible. Features: A new resource type “Alkacon Document Center” allows to create a new document center on the fly. Within a download center the files are served similar to an apache web server with directory browsing enabled but with the look & feel of the template used and more features. Documents may be assigned in categories. Full text search may be configured for each document center. Document types are identified by icons. These icons may be customized and / or extended by further types. Also the link titles for these documents may be customized. New and Modified documents are marked with a special overlay icon. This may be turned off. The time range for modified and for new documents (related to date last modified and date created attributes) may be configured globally. The same content may be offered in different forms (.docx, .pdf,...) which will be offered via different links to types of the listed document. ... and many more.   The module is available with full source code and documentation. All Alkacon OAMP modules are released as full Open Source under the GNU GPL version 3. The source code of the modules is freely available in the public CVS of cvs.opencms.org. [Less]

The beta version of OpenCms 7.5 is now available in the public CVS (tag "build_75beta_1"). OpenCms 7.5 is a major update that adds several new features to the OpenCms core. OpenCms 7.5 final will be released June 15 at OpenCms Days 2009 in Cologne ... [More] , Germany. OpenCms lead architect Alexander Kandzior will present the new features of OpenCms 7.5 at his conference keynote session. He will also explain the further development roadmap towards OpenCms 8, which is scheduled for late 2010. Several other sessions at OpenCms Days 2009 will be explaining the new features of OpenCms 7.5 in detail. Main features of OpenCms 7.5: Much improved image galleries now feature integrated cropping and zooming of image parts. The XML content editor can now split large XML structures in several tabs. The full text search is now able to index changed documents in the offline projects "on the fly". Expired resources can now be automatically deleted after a configurable time. Categories can now be defined per site in addition to the global categories. It is now possible to access the raw XML of a structured content in a JSP using the EL content wrapper. New demo content for Template 2 called "The Wonderful World of Flowers" is available. All external editors (FCKeditor, EditArea) have been updated to their newest versions, fixing several display issues in later browsers. Several other improvements and component updates. Lots of reported issues have been fixed. A wizard for updating an OpenCms 7.0 installation to OpenCms 7.5 will be provided with the final release. The main development on OpenCms 7.5 is done by Alkacon Software with contributions from the OpenCms community. This beta version has been made available May 18, 2009. [Less]

A new version of the popular OAMP Webform Module is now available, with new features and a lot of issues fixed. The OAMP Webform Module, which is available now for download from alkacon.com, extends an OpenCms installation with the capability to ... [More] easily create highly configurable online input forms without knowledge of HTML. The data entered may be sent to an email account and / or stored in the OpenCms database. Important new features and fixed issues are: New math captcha (maptcha) for verfication of human beings filling out the form. Fixed issues with CmsEmptyField stored to database. UUID and webform path are stored in DB now. ... and many more. The module is available with full source code and documentation. All Alkacon OAMP modules are released as full Open Source under the GNU GPL version 3. The source code of the modules is freely available in the public CVS of cvs.opencms.org. [Less]