OpenCms

OpenCms 11.0 Beta provides you with a comprehensive overview about OpenCms 11. Try this pre-release version before OpenCms 11.0.0 is published, which is expected by the end of Q1 2019. Download OpenCms 11.0 Beta for an advance look of the great new ... [More] user interface and the other improvements in the next OpenCms generation. OpenCms 11 brings a major update for the workplace providing better usability and performance. Further enhancements include automated image generation, core support for dynamic contents lists and meta-mappings for SEO. Please note: OpenCms 11 also features many improvement for template generation. We are currently working on an updated demo template, which will be ready when OpenCms 11.0.0 ships. The template in this 11.0 Beta release is the unchanged template from version 10.5.x. 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. The most important new features in OpenCms 11 Completely restructured the workplace for improved usability using a modern GUI. All images in the workplace are now vector graphics with high resolution (retina) display support. New 'Lists' app for management of new default 'List configuration' content which allows easy front-end content list creation. New 'Resource types' app to create, read, edit and delete individual resource types. New 'Script terminal' app to interactively run OpenCms shell scripts in the workplace. New 'Sessions' app to manage current user sessions and send messages to users. Image now support a 'focal point' feature to allow automatic image cropping around this point. Added support for SVG in images galleries. New meta mapping feature allows to inherit values from XML contents to the page template, e.g. for SEO meta infos. Simple EL API allows automated creation of image variations for 'srcset' or 'picture'. The new 'List configuration' type provides standard filter and sort options for title / date / category / folder. Updating a module will now import only the changes instead of completely deleting and reinstalling the module. For automated management it is now possible to execute OpenCms shell commands in a running OpenCms instance using RMI. The flex-cache bucket feature allows selective purging of parts of the flex-cache. Provided support for Java 11. And much more... Please check out the release notes for further details regarding the changes in this release. General OpenCms features The page editor allows WYSIWYG inline editing of web pages and arrangement of content by drag & drop. The form based editor allows editing of structured content in a well defined form mask. The sitemap editor allows to create new pages and re-arrange the navigation tree by drag & drop. Content creation for mobile devices with preview and device specific content control. Structured contents can be defined using a simple XML schema. Easy to use "Online / Offline" workflow, changes must be approved before they become visible. Link management for all internal resources with broken link detection. Integrated image scaling and cropping. SEO features with automatic sitemap.xml generation and page alias support. Full featured user management that supports the concept of "Organizational Units" (OUs). Allows management of multiple websites within one installation. Contents can be served dynamically or exported to static HTML files. Direct access to the OpenCms content repository over a shared network drive. CMIS and WebDAV access to the OpenCms content repository. Integrates Apache SOLR for powerful content searching and noSQL like queries. Full text search for web pages as well as in office documents like PDF, MS Office and Open Office. Extensions can be added through a flexible module system. The "time warp" feature allows to view resources which are expired or not yet released. JSP integration for dynamic functionality in templates, dynamic forms etc. ... and many more We recommend everyone who uses OpenCms to test the 11.0 Beta release. OpenCms 11.0 Beta is fully backward compatible to all prior 9.x  and 10.x versions. Templates and other OpenCms developed code from these versions work "out of the box" with version 11.0 Beta. Users of Alkacon OCEE require a new OCEE version for OpenCms 11.0. There will be an updated OCEE package available for the final release of OpenCms 11.0. The update will be free for Alkacon customers with a valid OCEE update subscription. About OpenCms OpenCms is a market leading solution amongst Open Source CMS systems. The software has been in continuous development for the last 15 years and has an active community of Open Source developers. 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 license. 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 11.0 Beta provides you with a comprehensive overview about OpenCms 11. Try this pre-release version before OpenCms 11.0.0 is published, which is expected by the end of Q1 2019. Download OpenCms 11.0 Beta for an advance look of the great new ... [More] user interface and the other improvements in the next OpenCms generation. OpenCms 11 brings a major update for the workplace providing better usability and performance. Further enhancements include automated image generation, core support for dynamic contents lists and meta-mappings for SEO. Please note: OpenCms 11 also features many improvement for template generation. We are currently working on an updated demo template, which will be ready when OpenCms 11.0.0 ships. The template in this 11.0 Beta release is the unchanged template from version 10.5.x. 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. The most important new features in OpenCms 11 Completely restructured the workplace for improved usability using a modern GUI. All images in the workplace are now vector graphics with high resolution (retina) display support. New 'Lists' app for management of new default 'List configuration' content which allows easy front-end content list creation. New 'Resource types' app to create, read, edit and delete individual resource types. New 'Script terminal' app to interactively run OpenCms shell scripts in the workplace. New 'Sessions' app to manage current user sessions and send messages to users. Image now support a 'focal point' feature to allow automatic image cropping around this point. Added support for SVG in images galleries. New meta mapping feature allows to inherit values from XML contents to the page template, e.g. for SEO meta infos. Simple EL API allows automated creation of image variations for 'srcset' or 'picture'. The new 'List configuration' type provides standard filter and sort options for title / date / category / folder. Updating a module will now import only the changes instead of completely deleting and reinstalling the module. For automated management it is now possible to execute OpenCms shell commands in a running OpenCms instance using RMI. The flex-cache bucket feature allows selective purging of parts of the flex-cache. Provided support for Java 11. And much more... Please check out the release notes for further details regarding the changes in this release. General OpenCms features The page editor allows WYSIWYG inline editing of web pages and arrangement of content by drag & drop. The form based editor allows editing of structured content in a well defined form mask. The sitemap editor allows to create new pages and re-arrange the navigation tree by drag & drop. Content creation for mobile devices with preview and device specific content control. Structured contents can be defined using a simple XML schema. Easy to use "Online / Offline" workflow, changes must be approved before they become visible. Link management for all internal resources with broken link detection. Integrated image scaling and cropping. SEO features with automatic sitemap.xml generation and page alias support. Full featured user management that supports the concept of "Organizational Units" (OUs). Allows management of multiple websites within one installation. Contents can be served dynamically or exported to static HTML files. Direct access to the OpenCms content repository over a shared network drive. CMIS and WebDAV access to the OpenCms content repository. Integrates Apache SOLR for powerful content searching and noSQL like queries. Full text search for web pages as well as in office documents like PDF, MS Office and Open Office. Extensions can be added through a flexible module system. The "time warp" feature allows to view resources which are expired or not yet released. JSP integration for dynamic functionality in templates, dynamic forms etc. ... and many more We recommend everyone who uses OpenCms to test the 11.0 Beta release. OpenCms 11.0 Beta is fully backward compatible to all prior 9.x  and 10.x versions. Templates and other OpenCms developed code from these versions work "out of the box" with version 11.0 Beta. Users of Alkacon OCEE require a new OCEE version for OpenCms 11.0. There will be an updated OCEE package available for the final release of OpenCms 11.0. The update will be free for Alkacon customers with a valid OCEE update subscription. About OpenCms OpenCms is a market leading solution amongst Open Source CMS systems. The software has been in continuous development for the last 15 years and has an active community of Open Source developers. 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 license. 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 10.5.4 is ready and available for download. OpenCms 10.5.4 is a maintenance release for OpenCms 10.5. It adds some security improvements and fixes a number of issues that have been reported in the 10.5.3 release. Currently the Alkacon team is ... [More] working hard to finish OpenCms version 11, which will bring numerous new features. You can check out the progress of OpenCms 11 on GitHub. We expect OpenCms 11 to be ready by the end of 2018. Also available is an updated version of Alkacon OCEE for OpenCms 10.5.4. New in OpenCms 10.5.4 Improved security by always starting a new HttpSession on login. Improved security by using a client id token to prevent session hijacking. Added 'publish scheduled' option to page editor context menus. Please check out the release notes for further details regarding the changes in this release. New in OpenCms 10 Modernized the look & feel of the overall user interface New ready-to-use responsive Apollo Template based on Bootstrap Introduced the Launchpad as the central starting place for the user Drag and Drop of images directly in the page editor New file explorer with support for column sorting, filtering and large folders Developers can now export and import modules through a SMB network share New Git app allows pushing and pulling of module content directly from the workplace New tag combines SOLR based resource collection and full text searches New tag generates the output for a single resource with a selected formatter New tag allows editing of arbitrary resources based on UID Reuse groups allow reusing nested container structures on several pages Copy groups allow creation of boiler plate layouts with text / images Users are identified with an identicon or a personal image in the toolbar Improved the template editor with support for inherited and disabled templates Added a "reset password" option to the login dialog Nested container structures can now be copied using the clipboard Macro formatters allow to quickly compose new formatters from existing JSP Support for local configuration change sets based on XSLT Modules are exported with a reduced manifest.xml to avoid merge conflicts General OpenCms features The page editor allows WYSIWYG inline editing of web pages and arrangement of content by drag & drop. The form based editor allows editing of structured content in a well defined form mask. The sitemap editor allows to create new pages and re-arrange the navigation tree by drag & drop. Responsive demo template based on Bootstrap 3. Content creation for mobile devices with preview and device specific content control. Structured contents can be defined using a simple XML schema. Easy to use "Online / Offline" workflow, changes must be approved before they become visible. Link management for all internal resources with broken link detection. Integrated image scaling and cropping. SEO features with automatic sitemap.xml generation and page alias support. Full featured user management that supports the concept of "Organizational Units" (OUs). Allows management of multiple websites within one installation. Contents can be served dynamically or exported to static HTML files. Direct access to the OpenCms content repository over a shared network drive. CMIS and WebDAV access to the OpenCms content repository. Integrates Apache SOLR for powerful content searching and noSQL like queries. Full text search for web pages as well as in office documents like PDF, MS Office and Open Office. Extensions can be added through a flexible module system. The "time warp" feature allows to view resources which are expired or not yet released. JSP integration for dynamic functionality in templates, dynamic forms etc. ... and many more OpenCms 10.5.4 is fully backward compatible with all 10.5, 10.0, 9.5 and 9.0 versions. Templates and other OpenCms developed code from these versions should work "out of the box" with version 10.5.4. Users of Alkacon OCEE require a new OCEE version for OpenCms 10.5.4. The update is free for Alkacon customers with a valid OCEE update subscription. About OpenCms OpenCms is a market leading solution amongst Open Source CMS systems. The software has been in continuous development for the last 15 years and has an active community of Open Source developers. 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 license. 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]

May 17, 2018: OpenCms 10.5.4 is a maintenance release for OpenCms 10.5. It adds some security improvements and fixes a number of issues that have been reported in the 10.5.3 release. Currently the Alkacon team is working hard to finish OpenCms ... [More] version 11, which will bring numerous new features. You can check out the progress of OpenCms 11 on GitHub. We expect OpenCms 11 to be ready by the end of 2018. New in OpenCms 10.5.4 Improved security by always starting a new HttpSession on login.* Improved security by using a client id token to prevent session hijacking.* Added 'publish scheduled' option to page editor context menus. Items marked with * are considered important improvements in this version. Improved in OpenCms 10.5.4 Updated TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor to version 4.7.12. Updated CodeMirror code editor to version 5.37.0. Fixed issue with potential memory leak during PDF extraction. Fixed issue where sitemap modified and deleted lists could exceed the user "additional info" DB size limit. Fixed issue #513 where XML contents with locales not configured in opencms-system.xml would jeopardize the locale handling. Fixed issue #547 where selecting a date with the date picker failed. Fixed issue #548 where missing detail pages would lead to null pointer exceptions. Fixed issue #553 where adding a model group to a page failed, PR by koronchik. Fixed issue #558 where flying saucer PDF library was updated to improve security, PR by andreasrosdal. Fixed issue #564 with improved handling of invalid formatter configurations, PR by gallardo. Fixed issue #565 with improved logging in XML entity resolver, PR by gallardo. Fixed issue #570 with improved logging when creating of SOLR containers failed, PR by gallardo. Fixed issue #573 where displaying the gallery dialog failed due to missing explorer types. Fixed issue #590 where request parameters configured in the jsp-search configuration where not taken into account.   General OpenCms features The page editor allows WYSIWYG inline editing of web pages and arrangement of content by drag & drop. The form based editor allows editing of structured content in a well defined form mask. The sitemap editor allows to create new pages and re-arrange the navigation tree by drag & drop. Responsive "Apollo" default template based on Bootstrap 3 with many features. Content creation for mobile devices with preview and device specific content control. Structured contents can be defined using a simple XML schema. Easy to use "Online / Offline" workflow, changes must be approved before they become visible. Link management for all internal resources with broken link detection. Integrated image scaling and cropping. SEO features with automatic sitemap.xml generation and page alias support. Full featured user management that supports the concept of "Organizational Units" (OUs). Allows management of multiple websites within one installation. Contents can be served dynamically or exported to static HTML files. Direct access to the OpenCms content repository over a shared network drive. CMIS and WebDAV access to the OpenCms content repository. Integrates Apache SOLR for powerful content searching and noSQL like queries. Full text search for web pages as well as in office documents like PDF, MS Office and Open Office. Extensions can be added through a flexible module system. The "time warp" feature allows to view resources which are expired or not yet released. JSP integration for dynamic functionality in templates, dynamic forms etc. ... and many more Backward compatibility OpenCms 10.5.4 is fully backward compatible with all 10.5, 10.0, 9.5 and 9.0 versions. Templates and other OpenCms developed code from these versions should work "out of the box" with version 10.5.4. Notice for users of Alkacon OCEE Users of Alkacon OCEE require a new OCEE version for OpenCms 10.5.4. The update is free for Alkacon customers with a valid OCEE update subscription. Please contact Alkacon to receive the new version. About the Apollo Template The Apollo template is our main demo showcase. It is build using best practices of the latest OpenCms version. The Apollo template sources are available on Github at https://github.com/alkacon/apollo-template. Compatibility with Java versions, servlet containers and database OpenCms 10.5 has been written and tested for Java 8 and Java 7. We have tested with ORACLEs JDK as well as OpenJDK. OpenCms should run with all compliant JVMs. We have tested this release on the Tomcat servlet engine. OpenCms works "out of the box" with Tomcat 8 or 7, which we recommend. Others have reported deploying OpenCms successfully on other servlet containers like JBoss, WildFly, WebLogic, WebSphere, GlassFish and Resin. On the database side, we have tested with MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, DB2 and HSQLDB. Regarding version numbers and build tags The main OpenCms Git repository is available on Github at github.com/alkacon/opencms-core. In case you want to get the most current OpenCms 10.5 sources from Git, please check out branch_10_5_x. The 10.5.4 release is tagged build_10_5_4. How you can help Contributions to the OpenCms core development are most welcome. Please send us your pull requests directly on GitHub. Please report issues found in OpenCms using our GitHub issue tracker. Thank you for using OpenCms and have fun with OpenCms :-) [Less]

OpenCms 10.5.3 is ready and available for download. The update was developed by Alkacon Software supported by the international OpenCms community. OpenCms 10.5.3 is a maintenance release for OpenCms 10.5. This version fixes an issue introduced with ... [More] the Chrome 61 update that caused problems in the positioning of UI elements. A number of other issues have also been fixed. Also available is an updated version of Alkacon OCEE for OpenCms 10.5.3. This release also contains the Apollo Template. Based on Bootstrap, the Apollo Template is fully customizable without coding. Improved in OpenCms 10.5.3 Fixed issue #535 with UI element positioning in Chrome 61. Fixed performance issue with relations in PostgreSQL DB. Please check out the release notes for further details regarding the changes in this release. New in OpenCms 10 Modernized the look & feel of the overall user interface New ready-to-use responsive Apollo Template based on Bootstrap Introduced the Launchpad as the central starting place for the user Drag and Drop of images directly in the page editor New file explorer with support for column sorting, filtering and large folders Developers can now export and import modules through a SMB network share New Git app allows pushing and pulling of module content directly from the workplace New tag combines SOLR based resource collection and full text searches New tag generates the output for a single resource with a selected formatter New tag allows editing of arbitrary resources based on UID Reuse groups allow reusing nested container structures on several pages Copy groups allow creation of boiler plate layouts with text / images Users are identified with an identicon or a personal image in the toolbar Improved the template editor with support for inherited and disabled templates Added a "reset password" option to the login dialog Nested container structures can now be copied using the clipboard Macro formatters allow to quickly compose new formatters from existing JSP Support for local configuration change sets based on XSLT Modules are exported with a reduced manifest.xml to avoid merge conflicts General OpenCms features The page editor allows WYSIWYG inline editing of web pages and arrangement of content by drag & drop. The form based editor allows editing of structured content in a well defined form mask. The sitemap editor allows to create new pages and re-arrange the navigation tree by drag & drop. Responsive demo template based on Bootstrap 3. Content creation for mobile devices with preview and device specific content control. Structured contents can be defined using a simple XML schema. Easy to use "Online / Offline" workflow, changes must be approved before they become visible. Link management for all internal resources with broken link detection. Integrated image scaling and cropping. SEO features with automatic sitemap.xml generation and page alias support. Full featured user management that supports the concept of "Organizational Units" (OUs). Allows management of multiple websites within one installation. Contents can be served dynamically or exported to static HTML files. Direct access to the OpenCms content repository over a shared network drive. CMIS and WebDAV access to the OpenCms content repository. Integrates Apache SOLR for powerful content searching and noSQL like queries. Full text search for web pages as well as in office documents like PDF, MS Office and Open Office. Extensions can be added through a flexible module system. The "time warp" feature allows to view resources which are expired or not yet released. JSP integration for dynamic functionality in templates, dynamic forms etc. ... and many more OpenCms 10.5.3 is fully backward compatible with all 10.5, 10.0, 9.5 and 9.0 versions. Templates and other OpenCms developed code from these versions should work "out of the box" with version 10.5.3. Users of Alkacon OCEE require a new OCEE version for OpenCms 10.5.3. The update is free for Alkacon customers with a valid OCEE update subscription. About OpenCms OpenCms is a market leading solution amongst Open Source CMS systems. The software has been in continuous development for the last 15 years and has an active community of Open Source developers. 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 license. 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]

October 18, 2017: OpenCms 10.5.3 is a maintenance release for OpenCms 10.5. This version fixes an issue introduced with the Chrome 61 update that caused problems in the positioning of UI elements. A number of other issues have also been fixed. ... [More] Improved in OpenCms 10.5.3 Fixed issue #535 with UI element positioning in Chrome 61.* Fixed performance issue with relations in PostgreSQL DB.* Fixed issue with network share where files were not unlocked after deletion. Fixed issue with network share module export not handling non-folder module resources correctly. Fixed issue with explorer type attributes being lost when editing modules. Fixed issue with publishing moved folders from a different site. Fixed issue where changing a model group root element could lead to invalid formatter settings. Fixed issue with TinyMCE not being able to scroll to bottom of content in fullscreen mode. Fixed issue with TinyMCE not being able to open the gallery dialog when editing XML pages with Chrome. Fixed issue where switching the project in the explorer to an offline project caused the page editor to open. Items marked with * are considered important improvements in this version. General OpenCms features The page editor allows WYSIWYG inline editing of web pages and arrangement of content by drag & drop. The form based editor allows editing of structured content in a well defined form mask. The sitemap editor allows to create new pages and re-arrange the navigation tree by drag & drop. Responsive "Apollo" default template based on Bootstrap 3 with many features. Content creation for mobile devices with preview and device specific content control. Structured contents can be defined using a simple XML schema. Easy to use "Online / Offline" workflow, changes must be approved before they become visible. Link management for all internal resources with broken link detection. Integrated image scaling and cropping. SEO features with automatic sitemap.xml generation and page alias support. Full featured user management that supports the concept of "Organizational Units" (OUs). Allows management of multiple websites within one installation. Contents can be served dynamically or exported to static HTML files. Direct access to the OpenCms content repository over a shared network drive. CMIS and WebDAV access to the OpenCms content repository. Integrates Apache SOLR for powerful content searching and noSQL like queries. Full text search for web pages as well as in office documents like PDF, MS Office and Open Office. Extensions can be added through a flexible module system. The "time warp" feature allows to view resources which are expired or not yet released. JSP integration for dynamic functionality in templates, dynamic forms etc. ... and many more Backward compatibility OpenCms 10.5.3 is fully backward compatible with all 10.5, 10.0, 9.5 and 9.0 versions. Templates and other OpenCms developed code from these versions should work "out of the box" with version 10.5.3. Notice for users of Alkacon OCEE Users of Alkacon OCEE require a new OCEE version for OpenCms 10.5.2. The update is free for Alkacon customers with a valid OCEE update subscription. Please contact Alkacon to receive the new version. About the Apollo Template The Apollo template is our main demo showcase. It is build using best practices of the latest OpenCms version. The Apollo template sources are available on Github at https://github.com/alkacon/apollo-template. Compatibility with Java versions, servlet containers and database OpenCms 10.5 has been written and tested for Java 8 and Java 7. We have tested with ORACLEs JDK as well as OpenJDK. OpenCms should run with all compliant JVMs. We have tested this release on the Tomcat servlet engine. OpenCms works "out of the box" with Tomcat 8 or 7, which we recommend. Others have reported deploying OpenCms successfully on other servlet containers like JBoss, WildFly, WebLogic, WebSphere, GlassFish and Resin. On the database side, we have tested with MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, DB2 and HSQLDB. Regarding version numbers and build tags The main OpenCms Git repository is available on Github at github.com/alkacon/opencms-core. In case you want to get the most current OpenCms 10.5 sources from Git, please check out branch_10_5_x. The 10.5.3 release is tagged build_10_5_3. How you can help Contributions to the OpenCms core development are most welcome. Please send us your pull requests directly on GitHub. Please report issues found in OpenCms using our GitHub issue tracker. Thank you for using OpenCms and have fun with OpenCms :-) [Less]

July 12, 2017: OpenCms 10.5.2 is a maintenance release for OpenCms 10.5. This version fixes a number of issues that have been detected in OpenCms 10.5, and includes several performance and some security enhancements. New in OpenCms 10.5.2 Copy / ... [More] move dialog now allows naming of target files and better handles deleted and unreleased resources. Added option to configure multiple URLs for the workplace server. Improved in OpenCms 10.5.2 Updated TinyMCE to version 4.6.2 to fix issue #508. Performance: Reduced synchronization. Performance: Updated LRUMap implementation. Performance: Improved role inheritance to avoid unnecessary UUID generation. Performance: Improved workplace bundle access. Performance: Option to speed up XML unmarshalling by setting SAX parser configuration in system properties. Security: Fixed permission issue on account manager dialogs where non account manager users where able to view users list. Improved unique file name generator to also check for existing online resources too. ADE configuration initialization now happens at startup to avoid long response times on first page view. Fixed issue with accessing related resources from other sites in various workplace dialogs. Fixed issue where closing the HTML source view would introduce additional tags. Fixed issue #478 where validation state was not cleared on editor close. Fixed issue #484 where dynamic function content HTML was sometimes not replaced after edit. Fixed issue #485 where drop down menus in TinyMCE where shown at the wrong position in case of a body position 'relative'. Fixed issue #486 where location position was changed on picker dialog close. Fixed issue #487 where 'Show in device' preview would show edit tool bar. Fixed issue #488 where an optional scroll bar would reduce the screen size of the 'Show in device' preview. Fixed issue #490 where exceptions where written to the web server log and not to the opencms.log file. Fixed issue #491 where misleading API error message was shown in location picker widget if no default value was set. Fixed issue #493 where gallery dialog would fail in case of folders only configurations. Fixed issue #495 where a missing explorer type declaration would cause null pointers in the explorer view. Fixed issue #497 where export links where cached locale independent for sites using the single tree localization mode. Fixed issue #500 where parsing of the CmsShell command line would fail on special characters, PR by gallardo. General OpenCms features The page editor allows WYSIWYG inline editing of web pages and arrangement of content by drag & drop. The form based editor allows editing of structured content in a well defined form mask. The sitemap editor allows to create new pages and re-arrange the navigation tree by drag & drop. Responsive "Apollo" default template based on Bootstrap 3 with many features. Content creation for mobile devices with preview and device specific content control. Structured contents can be defined using a simple XML schema. Easy to use "Online / Offline" workflow, changes must be approved before they become visible. Link management for all internal resources with broken link detection. Integrated image scaling and cropping. SEO features with automatic sitemap.xml generation and page alias support. Full featured user management that supports the concept of "Organizational Units" (OUs). Allows management of multiple websites within one installation. Contents can be served dynamically or exported to static HTML files. Direct access to the OpenCms content repository over a shared network drive. CMIS and WebDAV access to the OpenCms content repository. Integrates Apache SOLR for powerful content searching and noSQL like queries. Full text search for web pages as well as in office documents like PDF, MS Office and Open Office. Extensions can be added through a flexible module system. The "time warp" feature allows to view resources which are expired or not yet released. JSP integration for dynamic functionality in templates, dynamic forms etc. ... and many more Backward compatibility OpenCms 10.5.2 is fully backward compatible with all 10.5, 10.0, 9.5 and 9.0 versions. Templates and other OpenCms developed code from these versions should work "out of the box" with version 10.5.2. Notice for users of Alkacon OCEE Users of Alkacon OCEE require a new OCEE version for OpenCms 10.5.2. The update is free for Alkacon customers with a valid OCEE update subscription. Please contact Alkacon to receive the new version. About the Apollo Template The Apollo template is our main demo showcase. It is build using best practices of the latest OpenCms version. The Apollo template sources are available on Github at https://github.com/alkacon/apollo-template. Compatibility with Java versions, servlet containers and database OpenCms 10.5 has been written and tested for Java 8 and Java 7. We have tested with ORACLEs JDK as well as OpenJDK. OpenCms should run with all compliant JVMs. We have tested this release on the Tomcat servlet engine. OpenCms works "out of the box" with Tomcat 8 or 7, which we recommend. Others have reported deploying OpenCms successfully on other servlet containers like JBoss, WildFly, WebLogic, WebSphere, GlassFish and Resin. On the database side, we have tested with MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, DB2 and HSQLDB. Regarding version numbers and build tags The main OpenCms Git repository is available on Github at github.com/alkacon/opencms-core. In case you want to get the most current OpenCms 10.5 sources from Git, please check out branch_10_5_x. The 10.5.2 release is tagged build_10_5_2. How you can help Contributions to the OpenCms core development are most welcome. Please send us your pull requests directly on GitHub. Please report issues found in OpenCms using our GitHub issue tracker. Thank you for using OpenCms and have fun with OpenCms :-) [Less]

OpenCms 10.5.2 is ready and available for download. The update was developed by Alkacon Software supported by the international OpenCms community. OpenCms 10.5.2 is a maintenance release for OpenCms 10.5. This version fixes a number of issues that ... [More] have been detected in OpenCms 10.5, and includes several performance and some security enhancements. We also have updated the OpenCms Docker image as well as the OpenCms documentation and the OpenCms demo site for this release. Also available is an updated version of Alkacon OCEE for OpenCms 10.5.2. This release also contains the Apollo Template. Based on Bootstrap, the Apollo Template is fully customizable without coding. Improved in OpenCms 10.5.2 Copy / move dialog now allows naming of target files and better handles deleted and unreleased resources. Added option to configure multiple URLs for the workplace server. Updated TinyMCE to version 4.6.2 to fix issue #508. Lots of other issues have been fixed (see the release notes for the complete list). Please check out the release notes for further details regarding the changes in this release. New in OpenCms 10 Modernized the look & feel of the overall user interface New ready-to-use responsive Apollo Template based on Bootstrap Introduced the Launchpad as the central starting place for the user Drag and Drop of images directly in the page editor New file explorer with support for column sorting, filtering and large folders Developers can now export and import modules through a SMB network share New Git app allows pushing and pulling of module content directly from the workplace New tag combines SOLR based resource collection and full text searches New tag generates the output for a single resource with a selected formatter New tag allows editing of arbitrary resources based on UID Reuse groups allow reusing nested container structures on several pages Copy groups allow creation of boiler plate layouts with text / images Users are identified with an identicon or a personal image in the toolbar Improved the template editor with support for inherited and disabled templates Added a "reset password" option to the login dialog Nested container structures can now be copied using the clipboard Macro formatters allow to quickly compose new formatters from existing JSP Support for local configuration change sets based on XSLT Modules are exported with a reduced manifest.xml to avoid merge conflicts General OpenCms features The page editor allows WYSIWYG inline editing of web pages and arrangement of content by drag & drop. The form based editor allows editing of structured content in a well defined form mask. The sitemap editor allows to create new pages and re-arrange the navigation tree by drag & drop. Responsive demo template based on Bootstrap 3. Content creation for mobile devices with preview and device specific content control. Structured contents can be defined using a simple XML schema. Easy to use "Online / Offline" workflow, changes must be approved before they become visible. Link management for all internal resources with broken link detection. Integrated image scaling and cropping. SEO features with automatic sitemap.xml generation and page alias support. Full featured user management that supports the concept of "Organizational Units" (OUs). Allows management of multiple websites within one installation. Contents can be served dynamically or exported to static HTML files. Direct access to the OpenCms content repository over a shared network drive. CMIS and WebDAV access to the OpenCms content repository. Integrates Apache SOLR for powerful content searching and noSQL like queries. Full text search for web pages as well as in office documents like PDF, MS Office and Open Office. Extensions can be added through a flexible module system. The "time warp" feature allows to view resources which are expired or not yet released. JSP integration for dynamic functionality in templates, dynamic forms etc. ... and many more OpenCms 10.5.2 is fully backward compatible with all 10.5, 10.0, 9.5 and 9.0 versions. Templates and other OpenCms developed code from these versions should work "out of the box" with version 10.5.2. Users of Alkacon OCEE require a new OCEE version for OpenCms 10.5.2. The update is free for Alkacon customers with a valid OCEE update subscription. About OpenCms OpenCms is a market leading solution amongst Open Source CMS systems. The software has been in continuous development for the last 15 years and has an active community of Open Source developers. 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 license. 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 10.5.1 is ready and available for download. The update was developed by Alkacon Software supported by the international OpenCms community. OpenCms 10.5.1 is a maintenance update for 10.5.0 installations that fixes several issues that ... [More] persisted in previous releases. This version focuses on performance and stability. We also have updated the OpenCms Docker image as well as the OpenCms documentation and the OpenCms demo site for this release. Improved in OpenCms 10.5.1 Rewritten and improved source search app. Apollo Template: Mayor optimization of all formatters, CSS and JavsScript. Rewritten and improved integrated source code editor. Page editor now offers filter options in most tabs of the "Add content" dialog. Lots of other issues have been fixed (see the release notes for the complete list). Please check out the release notes for further details regarding the changes in this release. New in OpenCms 10 Modernized the look & feel of the overall user interface New ready-to-use responsive Apollo Template based on Bootstrap Introduced the Launchpad as the central starting place for the user Drag and Drop of images directly in the page editor New file explorer with support for column sorting, filtering and large folders Developers can now export and import modules through a SMB network share New Git app allows pushing and pulling of module content directly from the workplace New tag combines SOLR based resource collection and full text searches New tag generates the output for a single resource with a selected formatter New tag allows editing of arbitrary resources based on UID Reuse groups allow reusing nested container structures on several pages Copy groups allow creation of boiler plate layouts with text / images Users are identified with an identicon or a personal image in the toolbar Improved the template editor with support for inherited and disabled templates Added a "reset password" option to the login dialog Nested container structures can now be copied using the clipboard Macro formatters allow to quickly compose new formatters from existing JSP Support for local configuration change sets based on XSLT Modules are exported with a reduced manifest.xml to avoid merge conflicts General OpenCms features The page editor allows WYSIWYG inline editing of web pages and arrangement of content by drag & drop. The form based editor allows editing of structured content in a well defined form mask. The sitemap editor allows to create new pages and re-arrange the navigation tree by drag & drop. Responsive demo template based on Bootstrap 3. Content creation for mobile devices with preview and device specific content control. Structured contents can be defined using a simple XML schema. Easy to use "Online / Offline" workflow, changes must be approved before they become visible. Link management for all internal resources with broken link detection. Integrated image scaling and cropping. SEO features with automatic sitemap.xml generation and page alias support. Full featured user management that supports the concept of "Organizational Units" (OUs). Allows management of multiple websites within one installation. Contents can be served dynamically or exported to static HTML files. Direct access to the OpenCms content repository over a shared network drive. CMIS and WebDAV access to the OpenCms content repository. Integrates Apache SOLR for powerful content searching and noSQL like queries. Full text search for web pages as well as in office documents like PDF, MS Office and Open Office. Extensions can be added through a flexible module system. The "time warp" feature allows to view resources which are expired or not yet released. JSP integration for dynamic functionality in templates, dynamic forms etc. ... and many more OpenCms 10.5.1 is fully backward compatible with all 10.5, 10.0, 9.5 and 9.0 versions. Templates and other OpenCms developed code from these versions should work "out of the box" with version 10.5.1. Users of Alkacon OCEE require a new OCEE version for OpenCms 10.5.1. The update is free for Alkacon customers with a valid OCEE update subscription. About OpenCms OpenCms is a market leading solution amongst Open Source CMS systems. The software has been in continuous development for the last 15 years and has an active community of Open Source developers. 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 license. 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]

February 15, 2017: OpenCms 10.5.1 is a maintenance update that fixes several issues that persisted in the 10.5.0 release. This version focuses on security and stability, also adding some new features and enhancements. New in OpenCms 10.5.1 Rewritten ... [More] and improved source search app. Apollo Template: Mayor optimization of all formatters, CSS and JavsScript. Rewritten and improved integrated source code editor. Page editor now offers filter options in most tabs of the "Add content" dialog. Improved in OpenCms 10.5.1 Apollo Template: Improved CSS, reduced size by more then 100kb. Apollo Template: Optimized and rewrote most JavaScript functions. Apollo Template: Updated to jQuery 3.1.1, Bootstrap 3.3.7, Font-Awesome 4.7.0. Page editor: Added access to context menu in element settings dialog. Page editor: Added option to configure the element deletion default in the "remove element" dialog. Localization: Formatter names can now be localized. Localization: Bundle translator now stores message properties in alphabetical order. Localization: Bundle translator now offers a direct publish button in the toolbar. Localization: Allowing locale specific detail only container contents. Sitemap editor: Copy function now allows manual editing of target folder. Template API: Added multiple utility functions to the taglib. Detail pages: Settings on matching elements are now reused for detail content display. Detail pages: tag now supports manually forcing a specific detail page. Properties: Added text area widget option for editing properties. Improved the project management app. Improved writing of container pages to store containers and element settings in a reproducible order. Improved handling of model groups. Improved handling of locales with country variant. Improved email validation regex to allow more valid email addresses. Improved touch function to use automatic XML correction. Improved copy element function to use automatic XML correction. Improved link generation for static resources to use VFS prefix settings. Updated CMIS Java libraries. Defined calendar mime-type for .ics files, PR provided by gallardo. Removed password output from standard out, PR provided by adrianrm. Improved message in delete dialog if deleting is not allowed, PR provided by AnnJul. Renamed copy dialog label 'Target folder' to 'Target', PR provided by gallardo. Fixed issue with element settings not being saved on newly placed content elements. Fixed issue with double conversion of dates in search field mappings for attributes. Fixed issue with order of content elements mapped to multi-valued Solr-fields. Fixed issue with context menu for deleted resources in publish dialog not displaying correctly. Fixed issue with project tool tip not being displayed in file tables. Fixed issue #408 with permanent redirects. Fixed issue #457 in the Apollo template where user blog articles generation failed. Fixed issue #462 where gallery dialog would not open on preselected values. Fixed issue #475 where dynamic functions disappeared from a containerpage. Fixed issue #477 where create containerpage with content elements would not work for non Admin users.   General OpenCms features The page editor allows WYSIWYG inline editing of web pages and arrangement of content by drag & drop. The form based editor allows editing of structured content in a well defined form mask. The sitemap editor allows to create new pages and re-arrange the navigation tree by drag & drop. Responsive "Apollo" default template based on Bootstrap 3 with many features. Content creation for mobile devices with preview and device specific content control. Structured contents can be defined using a simple XML schema. Easy to use "Online / Offline" workflow, changes must be approved before they become visible. Link management for all internal resources with broken link detection. Integrated image scaling and cropping. SEO features with automatic sitemap.xml generation and page alias support. Full featured user management that supports the concept of "Organizational Units" (OUs). Allows management of multiple websites within one installation. Contents can be served dynamically or exported to static HTML files. Direct access to the OpenCms content repository over a shared network drive. CMIS and WebDAV access to the OpenCms content repository. Integrates Apache SOLR for powerful content searching and noSQL like queries. Full text search for web pages as well as in office documents like PDF, MS Office and Open Office. Extensions can be added through a flexible module system. The "time warp" feature allows to view resources which are expired or not yet released. JSP integration for dynamic functionality in templates, dynamic forms etc. ... and many more Backward compatibility OpenCms 10.5.1 is fully backward compatible with all 9.0, 9.5, 10.0 and 10.5 versions. Templates and other OpenCms developed code from these versions should work "out of the box" with version 10.5.1. Notice for users of Alkacon OCEE Users of Alkacon OCEE require a new OCEE version for OpenCms 10.5.1. The update is free for Alkacon customers with a valid OCEE update subscription. Please contact Alkacon to receive the new version. Compatibility with Java versions, servlet containers and databases OpenCms 10.5.1 has been written and tested for Java 8 and Java 7. We have tested with ORACLEs JDK as well as OpenJDK. OpenCms should run with all compliant JVMs. We have tested this release on the Tomcat servlet engine. OpenCms works "out of the box" with Tomcat 8 or 7, which we recommend. Others have reported deploying OpenCms successfully on other servlet containers like JBoss, WildFly, WebLogic, WebSphere, GlassFish and Resin. On the database side, we have tested with MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, DB2 and HSQLDB. Regarding version numbers and build tags The main OpenCms Git repository is available on Github at github.com/alkacon/opencms-core. In case you want to get the most current OpenCms 10.5.1 sources from Git, please check out branch_10_5_x. The 10.5.1 release is tagged build_10_5_1. How you can help Contributions to the OpenCms core development are most welcome. Please send us your pull requests directly on GitHub. Please report issues found in OpenCms using our GitHub issue tracker. Thank you for using OpenCms and have fun with OpenCms 10.5.1 :-) [Less]