OpenCms

OpenCms has been nominated as one of the finalists in this years edition of Packt Publishings annual award to find the best open source Content Management System. Voting for the winner of the Open Source CMS Award 2007 continues until October 26. ... [More] The final winner is selected from the public votes and from the votes of an independent panel of judges. Many thanks to everyone who has nominated OpenCms! Now it's time to vote for the winner. Vote for OpenCms now! OpenCms has been nominated in the "Best Other Open Source CMS" category of the award. Please cast your vote for OpenCms as the winner of this category. It is your vote that counts! Help us to further establish OpenCms as the leading Open Source CMS solutions in Java. Every OpenCms user will benefit if we get more public recognition, and this award may certainly help! [Less]

With the upcoming release of OpenCms 7.0.2, Alkacon Software now offers extended professional support for the databases PostgreSQL and MS SQL Server. Alexander Kandzior, CEO of Alkacon Software: I am happy to announce that we can now offer the full ... [More] range of our OpenCms professional services and products to customers using PostgreSQL or MS SQL Server. Our standard OpenCms incident support, as well as our premium support, is now available for these databases. Moreover, we have also added support for PostgreSQL and MS SQL Server to the latest version of our OpenCms Enterprise Extension (OCEE) software. It’s great to see increased adoption of OpenCms with other databases and platforms. We will continue to expand our professional OpenCms services and products in the future based on customer demand. The following database versions are supported: PostgreSQL from version 8.x MS SQL Server 2000 and 2005 The extended support services and OCEE products from Alkacon Software for these databases require OpenCms 7.0.2 or newer. [Less]

The latest news from the opencms.org and alkacon.com websites are now available as RSS 2.0 feeds. The feeds can be subscribed using the standard RSS feed readers. Moreover, RSS feeds have been generated for the latest reference sites, as well as for ... [More] the current OpenCms downloads. We invite everyone to subscribe to these feeds to stay tuned with the lastest developments in OpenCms.The following feeds are currently available: [Less]

After several weeks of additional testing, Alkacon OCEE for OpenCms version 7 is now available. The Alkacon OpenCms Enterprise Extensions (also called OCEE) are a commercial extension for OpenCms. Alkacon OCEE adds features to OpenCms that are often ... [More] required for running OpenCms in a medium or large Enterprise, where data consistency, security and fail over are highly important. Alkacon OCEE for OpenCms version 7 has the same great features as the version for OpenCms 6. The new version is required because of the improvements and additions in the database structure of OpenCms 7. Alkacon customers which have purchased a valid OCEE update subscription from Alkacon can request the new OCEE version free of charge. Please use the Alkacon contact form, or send an email to the regular Alkacon support address. [Less]

Packt Publishing has launched this years edition of their annual award to find the best open source Content Management System. Please nominate OpenCms for the Open Source CMS Award 2007. Nominate OpenCms now! This years award has 5 categories. We ... [More] suggest you nominate OpenCms for the following 3 categories, in that order: Best Other Open Source Content Management System Most Promising Open Source Content Management System Overall Winner, Open Source CMS Award We belive our best chances to get nominated are in the "Other" category, since from last years award we know the PHP based systems will likley collect more votes for the "Overall" and possibly also for the "Most Promising" category. It is your vote that counts! Help us to further establish OpenCms as the leading Open Source CMS solutions in Java. Every OpenCms user will benefit if we get more public recognition, and this award may certainly help! [Less]

Development of OpenCms 7 has reached the last milestone before public release as the second and final release candidate (RC 2) of OpenCms 7 is now available. The main development on OpenCms 7 is done by Alkacon Software with contributions from the ... [More] OpenCms community. This OpenCms 7 RC 2 Preview release is available as binary package from the Download section on opencms.org. The source code is available in the public CVS in the "DEV_7_0" branch (Tag "build_7rc_2"). Features of the OpenCms 7 RC 2 release: An experimental update Wizard for OpenCms 6 installations on MySQL is available [new in RC 2]. Support for the PostgreSQL database now included [new in RC 2]. Improved backward compatibility with OpenCms version 6 [new in RC 2]. 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. Link management support has been added in editors for standard HTML tags 'area', 'object' & 'embed'. 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 comlete 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 user 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. A permalink handler for resources is available for external references in case a resource is moved or renamed. The core database structure has been optimized. JSP 2.0 and Servlet 2.4 are now used by default. Who should use this OpenCms 7 RC 2 distribution download? It is recommended for heavy OpenCms users, developers and contributors to install and try out this release candidate version, in order to prepare for the upcoming OpenCms 7 final release. Users looking for a stable installation should use the latest 6.2.x version now and upgrade to OpenCms 7 when the final release is available. Please note that there will be no update wizard provided for any release candidate (RC) version to the final release of OpenCms 7. OpenCms 7 release plan: OpenCms 7.0 final will be released July 4, 2007. Compared to the RC 2 version, we expect no changes except fixes for bugs or other issues that have been found in the RC 2 release. This version will also contain the update wizard for Oracle. Please note that this feature list and release plan for OpenCms 7 comes without any warranty and it is subject to change without notice. Updates will be published on the OpenCms website and the opencms-dev mailing list. [Less]

Development of OpenCms 7 has reached another milestone as the first release candidate (RC) of OpenCms 7 is now available. The main development on OpenCms 7 is done by Alkacon Software with contributions from the OpenCms community. This OpenCms 7 RC ... [More] 1 Preview release is available as binary package from the Download section on opencms.org. The source code is available in the public CVS in the "DEV_7_0" branch (Tag "build_7rc_1"). Features of the OpenCms 7 RC 1 release: 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. Link management support has been added in editors for standard HTML tags 'area', 'object' & 'embed'. 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 comlete 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 user 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. A permalink handler for resources is available for external references in case a resource is moved or renamed. The core database structure has been optimized. JSP 2.0 and Servlet 2.4 are now used by default. Please note that this feature list of OpenCms 7 is subject to change until we reach the "Release Candidate 2" stage (please see below). Keep in mind that most development on OpenCms 7 is sponsored by customers. That means some features may be dropped and other features may be added until the feature freeze. Who should use this OpenCms 7 RC 1 distribution download? It is recommended for heavy OpenCms users, developers and contributors to install and try out this release candidate version, in order to prepare for the upcoming OpenCms 7 final release. Users looking for a stable installation should use the latest 6.2.x version now and upgrade to OpenCms 7 when the final release is available. Please note that there will be no update wizard provided for any release candidate (RC) version to the final release of OpenCms 7. OpenCms 7 release plan: The second and final public release will be OpenCms 7 RC 2, available June 6, 2007. This version will contain bug fixes and the final and stable core API for version 7. It will also contain the first version of an update wizard for version 7. The goal is to be able to update all released stable OpenCms 6.0 and 6.2 versions to OpenCms 7 using this update wizard. This release will also mark the beginning of the "feature freeze" period, which means no new features will be added to the core after the OpenCms 7 RC 2 release. OpenCms 7.0 final will be released July 4, 2007. Compared to the RC 2 version, we expect no changes except fixes for bugs or other issues that have been found in the RC 2 release. This version will also contain the final and tested version of the update wizard. Please note that this feature list and release plan for OpenCms 7 comes without any warranty and it is subject to change without notice. Updates will be published on the OpenCms website and the opencms-dev mailing list. [Less]

This is the release of OpenCms 7.0.1, a maintenance release which fixes a critical issue in 7.0.0 that made it impossible to apply permissions to resources outside the /system/ folder. A number of other issues reported by the OpenCms community ... [More] since the release of 7.0.0 have also been fixed. OpenCms 7 is a major upgrade, and it vastly expands the features of OpenCms 6. Features of the OpenCms 7 release An update Wizard for OpenCms 6 installations on MySQL and Oracle is available. Support for the PostgreSQL database now included. Improved backward compatibility with OpenCms version 6. 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. A "permalink" handler for resources is available for external references in case a resource is moved or renamed. Link management support has been added in editors for standard HTML tags 'area', 'object' & 'embed'. The core database structure has been optimized. JSP 2.0 and Servlet 2.4 are now used by default. Fixed issues and improvements in OpenCms 7.0.1 Fixed critical issue that makes it impossible to apply permissions to resources outside the /system/ folder. Fixed issue with broken support for MySQL version 4.0. Fixed issue with project state flag not displaying correctly in explorer view when resources are not locked. Fixed issue with upload applet failing when uploading large amounts of files. Fixed issue with display of resources across sites in the "show siblings" and "show relations" dialogs. Fixed issue with lost relations on folders. Fixed issue with history displaying only control code for xmlpages and XML contents. Fixed issue with wrong resource filter preventing permission check on deleted resources. Fixed issue with an empty lock check dialog appearing in some special cases when publishing. Fixed issue with switching on/off descriptions in the "create new resource" dialog. Fixed issue with gallery buttons not working after pressing "save" in FCKeditor. Fixed issue with "create new project" dialog in Admin view forgetting the selected resources for the project. Fixed issue with CmsDisplayWidget validation sometimes failing, validation is not longer performed. Fixed issue 1459: Wrong default value for property content-conversion. Improvement: Prevent displaying of temporary files in WebDAV repository view. Improvement: Improved handling of overwriting inherited locks (including disabling menu entries). Improvement: Added favicon.ico for OpenCms Workplace login page. Improvement: Permissions column in explorer now also takes into account the users roles. Improvement: Added jdts.jar by default, this is the JDBC driver for Microsoft SQL Server. Improvement: Updated alkacon-simapi.jar to version 0.9.5, fixed an issue with scaling of screenshots Backward compatibility We recommend everyone who uses an earlier version of OpenCms to update to the 7.0.1 release. OpenCms 7.0.0 has a critical bug that makes it impossible to apply permissions to resources outside the /system/ folder. In case you are using one of the previous versions (OpenCms 7 alpha, beta or release candidates), there have been a lot of issues fixed in the final release. OpenCms 7 is largely backward compatible with version 6. Most templates and other OpenCms developed code from version 6 should work "out of the box" with version 7. A number of API methods from OpenCms 6 have been marked as "deprecated". In case you have made extensive use of OpenCms internal classes and APIs from version 6, there may be some changes required in your code. However, in most cases this should not take longer than a couple of hours. Please note that since OpenCms 7 uses JSP 2.0 and Servlet 2.4 standards by default, you may have to change that back to JSP 1.2 / Servlet 2.3 so your existing OpenCms JSP templates run without change. You must edit the "web-app" node in the OpenCms web.xml file to do that. Compatibility with Java versions, Servlet containers and Databases OpenCms 7 has been written and tested using Java 1.5 / 1.6. It works well with Java 1.4 using the optional "Java 1.4 compatibility package". It won't work with Java 1.3. 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 7.0.1 works "out of the box" with Tomcat 5.5, which we recommend. Others have reported deploying 7 development versions successfully on other servlet containers like JBoss, BEA and Websphere. 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. The automatic update wizard for OpenCms 7 supports MySQL and Oracle. 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 final releases are "build_7_0_x", so the 7.0.1 release is tagged "build_7_0_1". Development of maintenance releases (like 7.0.1) 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 7.0.1 :-) [Less]

Version 7.0.1 of OpenCms is now available for download. This is a maintenance release which fixes a critical issue in 7.0.0 that made it impossible to apply permissions to resources outside the /system/ folder. A number of other issues reported ... [More] by the OpenCms community since the release of 7.0.0 have also been fixed. 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 an international OpenCms developer community. OpenCms 7 contains many enhancements and improvements compared to older OpenCms versions. Major new features in OpenCms 7 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. 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. Because of the use of Ajax technologies, the OpenCms Workplace is more responsive. A new "Undelete" function is available on the context menu to restore deleted resources, including complete deleted subtrees. A "time warp" feature in the Workplace now allows users to view resources with date expired / date released settings. Many other improvements... Important improvements in 7.0.1 Fixed critical issue that makes it impossible to apply permissions to resources outside the /system/ folder. Fixed issue with broken support for MySQL version 4.0. Please check out the release notes for further details. OpenCms 7 is highly backward compatible with version 6. An easy to use update wizard for OpenCms Version 6 and 7.0.0 installations based on MySQL and Oracle is available. OpenCms already in widespread use 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 7 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 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 website for more details. The team at Alkacon Software - The OpenCms Experts wants to thank everyone who has contributed to this release of OpenCms. [Less]

This is the first stable release of OpenCms 7. OpenCms 7.0.0 contains many enhancements and improvements. Features of the OpenCms 7.0.0 release The internal link management has been greatly improved. If files (or folders) are moved / renamed ... [More] , 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. A "permalink" handler for resources is available for external references in case a resource is moved or renamed. Link management support has been added in editors for standard HTML tags 'area', 'object' & 'embed'. The core database structure has been optimized. JSP 2.0 and Servlet 2.4 are now used by default. An update Wizard for OpenCms 6 installations on MySQL and Oracle is available. Support for the PostgreSQL database is included. Support for the MS SQL Server database is included. Many other improvements... Backward compatibility We recommend everyone who uses OpenCms to update to the 7.0.0 release. OpenCms 7.0.0 is highly backward compatible with version 6. Most templates and other OpenCms developed code from version 6 should work "out of the box" with version 7. A number of API methods from OpenCms 6 have been marked as "deprecated". In case you have made extensive use of OpenCms internal classes and APIs from version 6, there may be some changes required in your code. However, in most cases this should not take longer than a couple of hours. Please note that since OpenCms 7 uses JSP 2.0 and Servlet 2.4 standards by default, you may have to change that back to JSP 1.2 / Servlet 2.3 so your existing OpenCms JSP templates run without change. You must edit the "web-app" node in the OpenCms web.xml file to do that. Compatibility with Java versions, Servlet containers and Databases OpenCms 7.0.0 has been written and tested using Java 1.5 / 1.6. It works well with Java 1.4 using the optional "Java 1.4 compatibility package". It won't work with Java 1.3. 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 7.0.0 works "out of the box" with Tomcat 5.5, which we recommend. Others have reported deploying 7.0.0 development versions successfully on other servlet containers like JBoss, BEA and Websphere. We appreciate any feedback regarding other servlet containers. On the database side, we have tested with MySQL 4.1, MySQL 5.x, Oracle 9.x and Oracle 10.x, as well as PostgreSQL 8.2.x and 7.4.x and MS SQL Server 2000 and 2005. The automatic update wizard for OpenCms 7.0.0 currently supports MySQL and Oracle. 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 7.0.0 :-) [Less]