OpenCms

Perfect for building Intranet, Extranet or plain Internet sites.

OpenCms can then be used in maintaining and managing the created site and its content.

Using OpenCms is fully browser-based, coming with a full-blown admin panel, enabling moderators to create highly customized layouts and themes.

What is new in this release:

• Drag & drop template and layout creation with nested containers.
• User generated content for website visitors.
• Editors don't need to access the workplace anymore.
• Managing of galleries, categories and templates in the sitemap editor.
• Greatly enhanced documentation.
• Generate PDF documents on the fly.
• Grid based responsive demo website build with Bootstrap.
• Integrated Spell Checker for the WYSIWYG editor component.
• New roles for fine grained access to the content management functions.
• Element views allow easy grouping and permission setting for content types.
• Create, copy or reuse options when using existing contents.

What is new in version 9.5.1:

• Drag & drop template and layout creation with nested containers.
• User generated content for website visitors.
• Editors don't need to access the workplace anymore.
• Managing of galleries, categories and templates in the sitemap editor.
• Greatly enhanced documentation.
• Generate PDF documents on the fly.
• Grid based responsive demo website build with Bootstrap.
• Integrated Spell Checker for the WYSIWYG editor component.
• New roles for fine grained access to the content management functions.
• Element views allow easy grouping and permission setting for content types.
• Create, copy or reuse options when using existing contents.

What is new in version 9.0.0:

• Access to the content repository over a shared network drive.
• Detail pages now allow individual content to be added with drag & drop.
• A new site management tool allows simple configuration of multiple sites.
• Automated / scripted setup option, great for continuous integration builds.
• Optimized build process using Gradle.
• Improved configuration for content formatters.*
• Updated responsive demo template based on Bootstrap 3.*
• Improved "in place" editing of web pages for text and also for images and other content types.
• Enhanced support for different devices with preview and device specific content control.

What is new in version 8.5.2:

• Improved IE10 compatibility.
• Improved lock behaviour for group editor.
• Improved offline indexing to index content changes immediately.
• Improved PDF extraction with new library version.
• Improved module import by pausing offline indexing while importing or deleting modules.
• Improved purging of container pages after publish.
• Updated CodeMirror source code editor to version 3.14.
• Updated commons DBCP library.

What is new in version 8.5.0:

• The form based content editor has been completely rewritten for improved speed and ease-of-use.
• Integration of SEO features with automatic sitemap.xml generation and page alias support.
• Integration of Solr for improved search and noSQL like content queries.
• Integration of CMIS access to the content repository.

What is new in version 8.0.4:

• Added TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor with support for IE 9.
• Added Italian localization.
• Added Russian localization.

What is new in version 8.0.3:

• With the introduction of "Function Pages", JSP based dynamic pages can be added with simple drag and drop in the sitemap editor.
• The sitemap editor's improved "Create Page" dialog offers a wider choice of types distinguishing "Container Pages", "Type Pages" and "Function Pages".
• It is now also possible to select the page model when using the sitemap editor's context menu option "Create Sub-Page".
• The available container page models can be accessed for editing directly from the "Create Page" dialog in the sitemap editor.
• The sitemap editor executes the "Show Page" action if the page icon in the sitemap is clicked.
• JSP function elements can now have multiple formatters to be used in different containers.
• The element option bar displays a "Resource is currently locked" icon if an element is currently edited by another user.
• The content galleries have been improved with a text search field to directly search for "Galleries" and "Categories".

What is new in version 8.0.2:

• It's now possible to easily enable drag & drop for any existing JSP. Just create a reference to the JSP with the new ADE resource type "Dynamic Function". See the "Login Box" or "Search Box" in the Template III demo for examples.
• Refined element permissions for ADE now support Elements dragable by everyone, but editable only with special permissions.
• The sitemap editor now displays status information such as title and VFS location above the currently edited sitemap. It also features a "go to the parent sitemap" button in the toolbar.
• Group containers now have a "Break Up" option which removes the group and places all elements individually on currently edited page, making it easier to create pages with slightly different configurations.
• If a content is previewed in the ADE content gallery, it can now directly be dragged & dropped from the content preview to the current page.
• The legacy direct edit provider for pages using "old" templates now allows to open the "Property" dialog to edit the page properties in direct edit mode. Moreover, it also features a "Logout" option.
• A full demo of the content subscription engine has been added to Template III.

What is new in version 8.0.1:

• New features and improvements:
• The sitemap and ADE configuration has been greatly simplified and improved.
• The properties of a page can now be modified directly in the ADE editor.
• The full text search now also works on MS Office Open XML based documents (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx).
• German content was added to the Template III flower showcase to demonstrate a possible multi language setup.
• A "log out" option has been added to the menu in the ADE editor.
• In the sitemap editor there is a new option to go back to the last page viewed in the ADE editor.
• The sitemap editor now displays the lock status of pages and sub-pages and handles lock conflicts.
• A dialog in the sitemap editor allows to display and change the lock status of all sub-pages of a page.
• The sitemap editor now shows different icons for container pages and detail pages.
• The boundaries of a group container are now highlighted when the elements in the group are edited.
• Modules can now automatically add new resource types to the sitemap configuration with default settings.
• It's now possible to disable selected resource types in the configuration of sub-sitemaps.
• A development demo (dev.demo) module and content has been added to document the new OpenCms 8 features for developers.
• Container element settings are accessible in a formatter JSP using the EL with ${cms.element.settings}.
• Localization strings can now be directly added to an XSD schema for an XML content document.
• The model files for new XML content elements have been replaced by the XSD schema based creation with default values.
• The full text search extraction is now based on the Apache Tika library.
• GWT has been updated to version 2.3.
• Fixed issues:
• Fixed issue with the ADE editor overlay that sometimes crashed and / or could not be closed.
• Fixed issue with group containers not being properly saved after editing.
• Fixed issue where an idle user's browser session expired even if the ADE editor was open.
• Fixed issue where two users that open a page in the ADE editor concurrently could overwrite each other's work.
• Fixed issue with concurrent lock states in the sitemap editor.
• Fixed issue with recent list not being properly updated if the individual settings where edited.
• Fixed issue in the new property dialog where an inherited or shared value remained visible and changeable.
• Fixed issue with full text extraction of MS PowerPoint (.ppt) documents.
• Fixed issue with the CSS layout for Template III.
• Fixed issue #1981: Static export after publish fails on exporting template resources with parameters.

What is new in version 8.0.0:

• New Features:
• The "Advanced Direct Edit" mode allows to create page content by drag & drop.
• The new sitemap editor allows to create new pages and rearrange the navigation tree by drag & drop.
• A multiple file enabled upload dialog all based on HTML replaced the old "Upload Applet".
• The new "Content Subscription Engine" allows to inform users when important documents have changed.
• The XML content editor now support <xsd:choice> elements.
• The new publish dialog supports session based selection of content as well as add/remove of individual resources.
• Extended support for creation of content for mobile devices with the <cms:mobile> tag.
• A central "Shared Folder" has been added that is available from all sites for sharing content.
• JPA support has been added to the database layer, so there's support for 10+ additional databases.

What is new in version 7.5.4:

• Updated Apache PDFBox to version 1.5.0 and added fontbox-1.5.0.
• The content tool "Change Property Values" now allows more than one placeholder.
• FCKEditor compatible with Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4.
• Collectors "allInFolderNavPos" and "allInSubTreeNavPos" only collect resources with property "NavPos" set.
• Added new optional CmsShell start parameter to load additional commands.

What is new in version 7.5.3:

• Fixed issue #1872: Anchor of URL being encoded incorrectly.
• Fixed issue #1886: Error when displaying historic version after a resource has been moved.
• Fixed issue #1889: Keep browser based authentication text when rewriting the opencms-system.xml.
• Fixed issue #1890: History version functionality also works for files with expired date now.
• Fixed issue with broken dialog when trying to edit a group that is part of an organizational unit.
• Fixed issue with displaying HTML in the "Title" "and NavText" column of explorer view.
• New workplace content tool to update the structure of XML contents without changing the modification date.
• The workplace content tool "Change Property Values" now allows to use wildcards in the old and new value.
• Removed validations for XML content element actions: add, remove, move up, move down.
• Improved user driver, during user login only the last login date is written to database.
• Updated Apache Commons Email to version 1.2.