Release Notes for OpenCms 10 Beta

February 25, 2016: OpenCms 10 Beta provides a complete look at OpenCms 10. This is the final pre-release version before OpenCms 10.0.0 arrives.

Please note This beta version is considered feature complete! All important functionalities are in place. Some minor GUI improvements, as well as improvements to the demo template, will be made for the final release. In case you plan to upgrade to OpenCms 10 when it's released, we recommend to use this beta for testing your templates in the new version.

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New in OpenCms 10.0.0

• Modernized the look & feel of the overall user interface
• Introduced the Launchpad as the central starting place for the user
• 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 committing of module content directly from the workplace
• New cms:search tag combines SOLR based resource collection and full text searches
• New cms:display tag generates the output for a single resource with a selected formatter
• New cms:edit tag allows editing of arbitrary resources based on UID
• Drag and Drop of images directly in the page editor
• 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
• Support for local configuration change sets based on XSLT
• Modules can be exported with a reduced manifest.xml to avoid merge conflicts
• Optimized resources types, formatters and views in the demo template application
• Updated the responsive demo template based on Bootstrap

Improved in OpenCms 10 Beta over Alpha 2

• Added permission dialog to the new explorer
• Added history dialog to the new explorer
• Added "step through" feature to the properties dialog
• Added "copy stack trace" function to the error dialog
• Added cms:display tag for output generation in search list results
• Added personal user image upload to the toolbar user info dialog
• Added replace dialog to the new explorer
• Added edit pointer dialog to the new explorer
• Added tool tips for disabled context menu entries in the new explorer
• Added option to edit the current sitemap configuration from the sitemap editor
• Added publish queue dialog to new explorer
• Added siblings tab to info dialog in the new explorer
• Added optional text info fields for tabs in the form based editor
• Added support for grouping content types in sub views for the "add new" dialog
• Added template select widget to the site manager "add new site" dialog
• Added options to SOLR search for multiple facets on one field
• Added support for macro formatters
• The Git integration app now allows to pull and import selected modules
• The improvements / fixes made in OpenCms 9.5.3 have been integrated in 10 Beta
• Improved and unified error dialog layout
• Improved container page XML cleanup on save
• Improved toolbar buttons to be disabled in online project
• Removed no longer required core modules
• Separated old workplace classes and resources from standard core

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

Backward compatibility

OpenCms 10.0.0 Beta is fully backward compatible with all 9.x versions. Templates and other OpenCms developed code from these versions should work "out of the box" with version 10.0.0 Beta.

Notice for users of Alkacon OCEE: OpenCms 10.0.0 Beta will not work with current versions of Alkacon OCEE. There will be an updated OCEE available for the final release of OpenCms 10. The update will be free for Alkacon customers with a valid OCEE update subscription.

Compatibility with Java versions, servlet containers and databases

OpenCms 10.0.0 Beta 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 7 and 8, which we recommend. Others have reported deploying OpenCms successfully on other servlet containers like JBoss, BEA, Websphere, Glassfish and Resin Professional.

On the database side, we have tested with MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, DB2 and HSQLDB.