OpenCms 7.5.1 release notes

This is the release of OpenCms 7.5.1. With OpenCms 7.5.1, some additional features have been added to the core system. Moreover, a number of issues have been fixed, including some reported security problems that affected the OpenCms Workplace.

Added context menu entry "Publish scheduled" to publish files at a specified dateAdded context menu entry "Comment content" to view and change the default properties of all files in a folderAdded improved search dialog and delete resource option to all galleriesAdded selectable start galleries to user preferences and possibility to set start galleries in Workplace configurationAdded option to export the VFS into a folder structure instead of a .ZIP fileAdded option to hide "Advanced" button of property dialog depending on the current users groupsAdded support for servlet container Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v2.1 and v3.0 (preview release)Added content tool "Property viewer" to view properties from resources in specified folderAdded content tool "Language node copier" to copy language nodes in XML contents in specified folderAdded content tool "Convert XML contents" to convert XML contents in specified folderAdded feature #1636: SMPT ports are now configurableAdded feature #1741: Out of the box support for JBOSS servlet containerImproved HTML widget button configuration and unstructured content button configuration optionsAdded option to set global default widget configurationsAdded option to limit full text search to certain resource types onlyAdded detection of email addresses in editor link dialogUpdated FCKeditor to version 2.6.5Updated Lucene to version 2.4.1Added fields query option to full text search by which you can search for different terms in several fieldsAdded backup re-indexing option to Lucene index generationAdded option to use the current site macro in the template one form moduleSwitched icons from ascending/descending order in listsFull text search in documents: exceptions are now catched while extracting the text from documentsImproved detection of the context-root path (support for GlassFish)Fixed issue #1708: User creation settings 'enabled' and 'selfManaged' were not savedFixed issue #1711: HtmlDecorator problem with html-entitiesFixed issue #1734: normalizePath will now remove leading double slashes of the pathFixed issue #1735: Resolved problems with CmsLinkManager and absolute internal linksFixed issue #1739: Deleted or moved project resources cannot be removed from projectFixed issue #1740: Synchronization of empty folders with real file systemFixed issue #1743: Cached users for groups are not invalidated when writing userFixed issue #1744: Concurrency issue of CmsImportExportManager resolvedFixed issue #1759: Fixed XSS security issues reported by Security Focus (Bugtraq ID 35979)Fixed issue #1775: Endless loop on project namesFixed issue #1779: Resolved problem with import of additional CSS stylesheet for template twoFixed issue with OU users being unable to work after OU resource has been renamedFixed issue with pointer targets stored in XML contents (instead of the URI to pointers) when selecting them in a link galleryFixed issue with transfer permissions of a deleted user to another userFixed issue with consumed exception messages for email sendingFixed issue with noAutoCloseTags attribute of tag only supporting DIV

We recommend everyone who uses OpenCms to update to the 7.5.1 release.

OpenCms 7.5.1  is fully backward compatible to 7.5.0 and all prior 7.0.x versions. Most templates and other OpenCms developed code from version 7 or 7.5 should work "out of the box" with version 7.5.1.

OpenCms 7.5 has been written and tested using Java 1.5 / 1.6. 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 works "out of the box" with Tomcat 5.5, which we recommend. Others have reported deploying OpenCms successfully on other servlet containers like JBoss, BEA, Websphere, Glassfish and Resin Professional. 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, MS SQL Server 2000 / 2003, DB2 9.1 and HSQLDB 1.8.0. The automatic update wizard for OpenCms 7 supports MySQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL.

In case you want to check out OpenCms from the CVS, please keep the following in mind: The CVS tag numbers for all OpenCms 7.5 final releases are "build_7_5_x", so the 7.5.1 release is tagged "build_7_5_1". Development of maintenance releases is currently done in CVS HEAD.

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 7.5 :-)