concrete5

While most CMSs around are focused on building small to medium projects, concrete5 is for developers that work regularly on larger projects.

concrete5 features a very malleable site structure that can be used to build anything from social networks, to portals, Intranets, online marketplaces, e-newspapers and so on.

concrete5 is truly a top-shelf solution when it comes to CMSs, benefiting from years of development, a dedicated open source community, lots of add-ons & themes, enterprise support and lots of awards garnered through the years.

The concrete5 team has even bothered to make a small introduction video to convince you on how easy and advanced their CMS is. Take a look below.

What is new in this release:

• Page Theme classes can specify layout presets, which can use classes contained in grid frameworks or use their own custom classes.
• Layouts now have design controls available to them, including custom templates and custom CSS classes.
• Added a new custom template "Parallax Image" available to layouts that employ a background image.
• Grid frameworks can now specify hiding classes for responsive breakpoints, which can be controlled through block and area design settings.
• Grid containers that wrap around blocks based on their type can now be disabled or enabled on a per-block basis through the block design palette.
• Elemental now provides two layout presets - Left Sidebar and Right Sidebar.
• You can now set an RSS feed to be filtered by a particular topic
• You can now add an image to an RSS feed
• If you register a site that requires approval before logging in, you will receive an email letting you know this is the case (thanks ounziw)
• You can now turn off help via a checkbox in the Dashboard on the Accessibility page.
• The file block now contains an option to force download (thanks Mesuva)
• Next/Previous Block now supports reverse ordering options (thanks UziTech)
• You can now run concrete5 jobs from the command line using concrete/bin/concrete5 c5:job (thanks ChrisHougard!)
• You can now choose the background image for full-image background pages with the 'concrete.white_label.background_url' config option (thanks myconcretelab)
• Redactor rich text editor has been updated to version 10.2.2,. fixing many bugs and adding some small features.

What is new in version 5.7.5.5:

• Page Theme classes can specify layout presets, which can use classes contained in grid frameworks or use their own custom classes.
• Layouts now have design controls available to them, including custom templates and custom CSS classes.
• Added a new custom template "Parallax Image" available to layouts that employ a background image.
• Grid frameworks can now specify hiding classes for responsive breakpoints, which can be controlled through block and area design settings.
• Grid containers that wrap around blocks based on their type can now be disabled or enabled on a per-block basis through the block design palette.
• Elemental now provides two layout presets - Left Sidebar and Right Sidebar.
• You can now set an RSS feed to be filtered by a particular topic
• You can now add an image to an RSS feed
• If you register a site that requires approval before logging in, you will receive an email letting you know this is the case (thanks ounziw)
• You can now turn off help via a checkbox in the Dashboard on the Accessibility page.
• The file block now contains an option to force download (thanks Mesuva)
• Next/Previous Block now supports reverse ordering options (thanks UziTech)
• You can now run concrete5 jobs from the command line using concrete/bin/concrete5 c5:job (thanks ChrisHougard!)
• You can now choose the background image for full-image background pages with the 'concrete.white_label.background_url' config option (thanks myconcretelab)
• Redactor rich text editor has been updated to version 10.2.2,. fixing many bugs and adding some small features.

What is new in version 5.7.5.2:

• Page Theme classes can specify layout presets, which can use classes contained in grid frameworks or use their own custom classes.
• Layouts now have design controls available to them, including custom templates and custom CSS classes.
• Added a new custom template "Parallax Image" available to layouts that employ a background image.
• Grid frameworks can now specify hiding classes for responsive breakpoints, which can be controlled through block and area design settings.
• Grid containers that wrap around blocks based on their type can now be disabled or enabled on a per-block basis through the block design palette.
• Elemental now provides two layout presets - Left Sidebar and Right Sidebar.
• You can now set an RSS feed to be filtered by a particular topic
• You can now add an image to an RSS feed
• If you register a site that requires approval before logging in, you will receive an email letting you know this is the case (thanks ounziw)
• You can now turn off help via a checkbox in the Dashboard on the Accessibility page.
• The file block now contains an option to force download (thanks Mesuva)
• Next/Previous Block now supports reverse ordering options (thanks UziTech)
• You can now run concrete5 jobs from the command line using concrete/bin/concrete5 c5:job (thanks ChrisHougard!)
• You can now choose the background image for full-image background pages with the 'concrete.white_label.background_url' config option (thanks myconcretelab)
• Redactor rich text editor has been updated to version 10.2.2,. fixing many bugs and adding some small features.

What is new in version 5.7.4.2 / 5.7.5 RC1:

• A new help system, with guided walkthroughs, multiple videos and more.
• Much improved conversation block support, including better support for non-logged-in users, notifications on new messages, new message moderation, better conversation display in the Dashboard including contextual menu for acting on messages, Gravatar support.
• Our rich text editor, Redactor, is updated to version 10. We now include an undo/redo plugin, special characters palette plugin and better lightbox support.
• Improvements to mobile editing
• 5.6 features return: File manager success dialog window dialog (much improved interface); Add block for page area menu
• 20+ other improvements
• 100s of bug fixes and developer updates

What is new in version 5.7.4.2:

• A new help system, with guided walkthroughs, multiple videos and more.
• Much improved conversation block support, including better support for non-logged-in users, notifications on new messages, new message moderation, better conversation display in the Dashboard including contextual menu for acting on messages, Gravatar support.
• Our rich text editor, Redactor, is updated to version 10. We now include an undo/redo plugin, special characters palette plugin and better lightbox support.
• Improvements to mobile editing
• 5.6 features return: File manager success dialog window dialog (much improved interface); Add block for page area menu
• 20+ other improvements
• 100s of bug fixes and developer updates

What is new in version 5.7.3.1:

• Now when you are editing an existing page in composer, the URL slug field is read only, unless you click the edit pencil next to the slug.
• Image block now only displays images in the file manager when launching the file manager.
• You can now click the pixel values in the area and block custom design palette (rather than being forced to only use the slider.)
• Dialog windows are resizable again.
• FAQ block now contains an instance of Redactor rich text editor rather than plain text.
• We won't generate .mo files for empty languages for Multilingual websites (fixes a bug with Zend Translation that doesn't work well with these).
• Google Maps block now provides support for scroll wheels.
• Modal windows should behave better on small screens.
• Location lists now includes Japanese states.
• Validation and HTML improvements to the Image Slider blocks.
• Add block panel can now be pinned and will remain open (by clicking on the add block panel and clicking again.)
• Better checking on installation for the mbstring library (which is required due to a bug in the Patchwork i18n library).
• Form block now scrolls to the proper position on page.
• File manager now lets you choose how many results you want per page.

What is new in version 5.7.2:

• We now detect InnoDB table support on installation.
• Added a search button to the marketplace themes and add-ons pages.
• Added stack name to the stack detail page (thanks akodde).
• Default administrative route actions are now protected by canAccess - not just the view and submit actions.
• Significant performance improvements by tuning database queries and caching.
• Can now enable database query logging from within the logging settings area of the Dashboard. This can be useful for developers. There is a new "Database Query Log" report in the Dashboard > System > Optimization section of the dashboard.
• Fixed inability to choose local file to upload into the file manager ( you had to drag and drop or us an alternate uploading method.)
• Maintenance mode now works again.
• Fixed bug where SMTP settings weren't being honored when sending email.
• Fixed bug where user selector couldn't be used in a block or accessed in a dialog window.
• Fixed "Undefined class constant" error when activate page templates from a theme where those templates didn't have a corresponding icon in the core.
• Fixed page attribute display block breaking when being used with a file/image attribute type.
• Fixing bug where group sets couldn't be used in advanced permissions.
• Fixed bug grid handle resizing when adding grid-based layouts to areas that don't have the container enabled.
• Fixed bug where you could insert a link or an image into the Redactor rich text editor instance in the Image Slider block.
• Fixed dashboard errors when asset cache was turned on and social links attribute was used. (thanks Mnkras).
• Fixed bug where old database updates would attempt to be re-run by the Migrations scripts.
• Fixed bug where "Force upgrade" didn't work (thanks mlabrum)
• Miscellaneous bug fixes to account profile private message system.
• Fixed bug where "Exclude from Page List" custom attribute wasn't actually excluding pages from page lists (thanks SaschaGalley)
• Fixed bug where automatic header/footer assets from menu items were being included on pages and tools scripts where they weren't being displayed.
• Fixed bugs in user attribute sort and attribute set sorting.

What is new in version 5.7.1:

• concrete5 can now once again connect to the concrete5.org marketplace to download themes and add-ons. The experience takes place through the dashboard and is much smoother than before.
• Community authentication is available as an authentication type. Attach a community authentication token to your concrete5 site through concrete5.org, and you an login with your concrete5.org account to your concrete5 site.
• You can now set your site's time zone through the Timezone settings page. Developers can set it through a configuration value.
• Sitemap Flat View is now available in the Dashboard again.
• You can now search for a specific block type in the add block panel.
• You can now override block type caching settings on a block-specific basis, through the Advanced menu option in the block menu. This menu also houses the Block name field now.

What is new in version 5.7.0.2:

• Broke out debug settings into two separate settings: Display errors and Error Detail level (message vs. stack trace.) Defaulting to show error messages in a nice way (not the detailed stack trace).

What is new in version 5.7.0.1:

• Form submissions "today" now respects user's local time zone (thanks mlocati).
• Fixed some untranslated strings and dates (thanks mlocati)
• Added detail error message when attempting to use grid methods on areas in themes that don't support them.
• Fallback to GD if Imagemagick is older than version 6.2.9 (which previously triggered errors.)
• Context menu on sitemap, file manager and more moves to the right if there isn't enough room to display top or bottom.

What is new in version 5.6.3.1:

• Better mobile support for dashboard.
• Improved performance when running concrete5 on a site that uses multiple languages.

What is new in version 5.6.2.1:

• New Features:
• Great new UI Improvements to the Select Attribute.
• Bug Fixes:
• Fixed broken queue operations on systems that didn't have the MySQL PDO extension installed.
• Removed Main area from Page Forbidden because it was causing problems in certain advanced permissions setups and the page object isn't set to a Page Forbidden single page anyway, so the intended behavior would never work correctly.
• Upgrade issue with moving from 5.5.2.1 to 5.6.2.1.
• Page version update of block permission edit.
• Error message with invalid Page Type handle.
• Translation compilation error.

What is new in version 5.5.1:

• New Interface Settings page in Systems & Settings that lets you control your dashboard background image, and the behavior of the quick nav.
• Newsflow One is now located at /dashboard/news. /dashboard now houses a table of contents for the dashboard. You can navigate to this by clicking the dashboard button.
• Page attributes that are setup to be viewed by default will now show when adding pages of that type. Better add page experience (more page types, etc...)
• Improved the marketplace browsing experience by simplifying and increasing the number of results in a given request. Now able to filter by compatible marketplace packages.

What is new in version 5.4.2.2:

• Bug Fixes & Security Improvements:
• Fixed SQL security bug in ItemList::sortBy
• Fixed path disclosure bug in RSS tools in page list block
• Fixed path disclosure bug in block passthrough.
• Fixed XSS bug in RCID value on login page.
• Fixed minor XSS bugs in the guestbook block view after post
• Fixed minor XSS bugs in Add/Edit Page Types (Dashboard)
• Fixed minor XSS bugs in Single Pages (Dashboard)
• Fixed minor XSS bugs in Dashboard Groups (Dashboard)
• Fixed minor XSS bugs in User Create
• Make it so that blocks can be loaded from core packages (thanks Mnkras)
• Fixed Attribute Type tool so an invalid action doesn't result in an error
• Localization fixes (thanks concrete5russia)
• Made package tools overrideable in the root level tools folder
• Updated JavaScript ccm_addHeaderItem() to be more reliable with CSS in Internet Explorer (thanks Shotster)
• Fixed bug where a packaged block couldn't be refreshed if it was overridden in the core (thanks Shotster)
• Fixed missing quotation in form block that could cause nesting problems on post (Thanks arcanepain)
• jQuery UI datepicker uses LANGUAGE instead of ACTIVE_LOCALE (thanks concrete5japan)
• Removed second type attribute in form block edit interface (thanks Christiaan)
• Fixed default date format retention bug in rss_displayer block (thanks janscarton)
• Fixed bug in file properties dialog that would cause the properties to become un-editable if a user was deleted and there was a statistic record for that user and file
• Fix bug where setting email address as user name in login form when logging in via email would strip certain characters (pull request by Mnkras)
• Behavioral Improvements:
• Added index / db schema change to: Pages and CollectionVersionBlocks to speed up Block::getOriginalCollection() method
• Setting LANGUAGE constant in the default core themes (pull request by patrickheck)
• Allow any header item to be added to JavaScript addHeaderItem function.
• Automatically populate additional URL with old URL (only used in JavaScript when editing page paths through the UI) (thanks xenyz)
• Added site URL before page path (thanks melat0nin)
• If a page is edited by a user, that information is present in the edited by overlay now (thanks 12345j and Mnkras)
• Change attribute "Searchable" checkbox labels to be more informative (thanks jordanlev)
• Added youtubeBlock class to the YouTube video block so it can be styled by CSS (thanks christiaan)
• Added max username validation length to the concrete5 User validation helper. (thanks Mnkras)
• Zend_Locale data will now be stored with the default cache files (pull request by stefangr)
• Fixes occasional issue when downloading files via any web browser. File size was showing up as unknown and the progress bar wouldn't work. (pull request by hi-voltage)

What is new in version 5.4.2.1:

• Fixing bug where custom template changes would be immediately visible on a live site.
• Fixed bug where editing a custom style would display the wrong style name in the confirmation area.
• Updated security "regenerateSession" function to work better in IE than php's built-in session_regenerate_id() function.
• User Attribute cache was persisting even when it was supposed to be cleared, leading to unsortable user attributes, data retention, etc...
• Fixed bug in the mail helper where interaction with new helper code could lead to many duplicate emails being sent if they all are sent in one request.
• Reverted a fix for zip_open failing on larger archives on 64-bit linux. Rewrote solution to hopefully fix both problems. Should fix problems with zip not unpacking marketplace archives.
• Fixed bug where renaming a block in a scrapbook with a space in it fails to work
• Fixed bug with layouts where spacing wasn't being honored.
• Fixed bug where Zend Framework would complain if it already appeared with the include_path before concrete5 loaded.
• File downloads should no longer hang the active session
• Fixed nav bar in the settings section (thanks 12345j)
• Fixed some bugs in the sample content (thanks 12345j)
• Fixed bug when getting page by path with a trailing slash (shouldn't happen through front-end request, only through API)
• Fixed places where strings weren't being translated.
• Fixed http://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-4-2/filemanager-sets-can-type-when-add-to-set-isnand039t-selected/
• Fixed bug where add-ons wouldn't download under certain circumstances.
• Composer sometimes wouldn't publish the latest version when clicking "Publish," due to a conflict with autosaving. This is fixed.
• Sometimes previewing a page in composer wouldn't have the most up to date copy of the page.
• Fixed bug in advanced permissions where blocks couldn't be reverted to area permissions because the button didn't exist.

What is new in version 5.4.2:

• New Features:
• Composer Beta, a single page editing interface for publishing content. Ideal for blogs, the concrete5 way.
• Multilingual Improvements, including added GUI for setting default language for site, user-specific interface translation, settable on login. Low level support for free multilingual add-on for running multilingual sites
• Form block contains new HTML5 field types (thanks 12345j)
• Bug Fixes & Security Improvements:
• Fixed common bug displaying a message that sitemap couldn't be loaded on certain systems
• Fixed bug where Google Map and certain other blocks would display edit mode views when in display mode.
• Fixed bug where form couldn't be emailed to multiple people.
• Fixed bug with sites that contain apostrophes not installing correctly (Thanks Mnkras)
• Fixing bug on editing a block in the scrapbook after rename (http://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-4-1-1/edit-scrapbook-after-rename/)
• Fixes for PHP 5.3 deprecation compatibility.
• Fixed bug in autonav where Breadcrumbs do not show all pages
• Fixed bug in autonav where home page is always selected by nav-path-selected
• added a title and alt attribute to page list rss icon
• Fixed ordering bug in form block questions
• Fixed bugs in the sample content (thanks Mnkras)
• Fixed bugs with certain strings not translated
• added width/height in attributes when installing without sample content
• getting rid of validation token message when editing file sets on multiple pages of file set results
• Form export to excel no longer has incorrect file URLs when a site isn't in a root level directory.
• Insert link to page when paginating through sitemap no longer dies.
• Cache Local no longer fails to delete if cache is disabled

What is new in version 5.4.1.1:

• Feature Updates:
• Better file upload details box. Remove the blank metadata since some of that can be imported. Instead use the bulk metadata tools. Fix bulk metadata tools so that they do a better job showing multiple values.
• Add an "install packages" task permission and set it to the Administrators group.
• Bug Fixes:
• Fix the task permissions so that administrators the group have access to them.
• Fix issue with upgrading from 5.3.3.1 to 5.4.1
• Made single pages uncacheable unless explicitly cached in the page properties.
• Fixing JavaScript error in TinyMCE with the image editor window
• Including cPath, cvName and atSelectOptionID in indexes on their tables
• Advanced permissions: Click permissions tab on the top of the page, close it, then click on the block, and you're unable to add users/groups
• Lack of "default 0" on ocID column in Files table was causing problems in Windows.
• Fixed bug when CollectionAttributeKey::getByID would return a valid attribute even if akID was NOT a collection attribute key
• Fixed bug in presentation of search block where multiple search blocks on a page would display search results on both.
• Fixed bug when uploading a file in IE resulting in a blank page.
• Fixed bug where user could not be updated in Internet Explorer
• Fixed bug where date nav "under another page" option didn't work.
• Fixed bug in select attribute when server didn't have the JSON extension installed (resulting in no page add or edit button being displayed at certain points.)
• Fixed javascript errors when working with select attribute types in IE
• Added EmulateIE8 to IE7 to get it to work better in the dashboard
• Improved file sets list view in IE7
• No longer installing broken marketplace themes page (that you couldn't navigate to using the menus but would show in the sitemap when clicking "show system pages")
• Better button display in non-default uses of TinyMCE
• Create blog_entry page type on upgrade
• Search block's default simple search now can handle indexed attributes
• Adding a trailing slash on the end of a secondary URL will now correctly route to the original post
• Better unique ID generation when dealing with presets on design

Requirements:

• PHP 5.2.4 or higher
• MySQL 5 or higher
• PHP Safe Mode Off
• PHP Modules: CURL, zip, mcrypt, openssl, GD (with freetype), mysql, mbstring, iconv (iconv needed for Zend Locale)