OpenCms 7.5.2 release notes

This is the release of OpenCms 7.5.2. OpenCms 7.5.2 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of issues that persisted in the 7.5.1 version, including some OpenCms Workplace compatibility issues with newer browser versions.

Support for image cropping in image galleryNew galleries with advanced AJAX features available in structured content and free page editorGalleries dialog now also support grouping of elements by categorySupport for tabs in the XML content editorOffline search indexing without publishing in the Lucene based full text searchNew demo content "Wonderful World of Flowers"Fixed issue #1542: Links to exported files containing anchors are not resolved correctlyFixed issue #1782: Publish dialog in Project overview list hangsFixed issue #1787: Error when browsing the next result pages in the OpenCms backend searchFixed issue #1791: Template Two content external link check fails for two resourcesFixed issue #1800: Still not released resources are indexedFixed issue #1803: Template Two Demo Article links with target="_blank"Fixed issue #1802: CmsShell does not work in Linux with Tomcat 6Fixed issue #1807: CmsImportVersion7 contains a counter error in INFO log levelFixed issue #1808: OpenCms.getLinkManager().getOnlineLink(CmsObject, link) does not workFixed issue #1809: Left site tree view is shown duplicated when creating a new folder in any siteFixed issue #1815: Aborted publish job goes on before resources are finally initialized when OpenCms restartsFixed issue #1817: Fail to load Download/HTML/Link/Table Gallery from HTMLWidget on Websphere 6.1Fixed issue #1819: FCKeditor does not work with newer Firefox versionsFixed issue with cached CmsResource lists are not cleared after publishing a projectFixed issue that if an error occured while changing the user password in the preferences, it was not possible to close the error messageFixed incorrect Lucene search result scoreFixed list search filter caching problem in OpenCms Administration viewFixed 'go up' button in Account management viewFixed access to indirect group usersFixed double explorer action executionFixed not working resource type "xmlpage" in extended mode in WebDAVFixed issue with selected versions in the resource historyFixed issue that error occured when changing field structure in XSD from simple data type to optional nested contentFixed issue with wrong roles for indirect group users when updating OpenCms from version 6 to version 7Fixed issue with JSP repository not being purged automatically after module importAdded additional MIME typesUpdated EditArea syntax highlighting editor to version 0.8.2Updated Apache Commons Pool to version 1.5.4

We recommend everyone who uses OpenCms to update to the 7.5.2 release.

OpenCms 7.5.2 is fully backward compatible to all prior 7.5.x and 7.0.x versions. Templates and other OpenCms developed code from version 7.0 or 7.5 should work "out of the box" with version 7.5.2.

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 6.0, 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 7.5.2 release is tagged "build_7_5_2". 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 :-)