eZ publish 3.9 RC1 released

Yesterday we released eZ publish 3.9 Release Candidate 1. As the name implies, this release includes all features that will be included in the final version.

eZ publish RC1 download.

Status of eZ publish 3.9

While the release of the final version of eZ publish 3.9 was unfortunately delayed, we are now closing in. Regarding the release dates, in the past our policy has been to announce a fixed release date for final versions. Now, however, instead of having a fixed date for the final release, we will only have a fixed date for feature freeze. After the feature freeze we will work on testing and bugfixing, releasing beta versions and release candidates as we go along. When the codebase has been proven stable enough, we will release the official version. This means that we cannot predict the date when an official release will be available. However, based on experience, it will typically be one or two months after the feature freeze.

eZ publish 3.9 not only includes the features listed in the public feature list. In addition, it includes a new Website Interface that provides access to the content editing interface from a website's front end. While this interface will be new to most community members, numerous partners have already had a first look during recent partner events. In the process of merging this new functionality into the standard distribution we have experienced obstacles which caused the delay in the release date. However, with this Release Candidate we feel we are back on track and are excited to show this new look of eZ publish to all of you.

Because of our new release policy, we won't set a specific date for the final release. We expect to have it out in mid December (depending on the results of testing in the following weeks).

Forum Watch

• Some useful information about restoring a database after a crash - [ http://ez.no/community/forum/install_configuration/disaster_recovery ]
• Tip for how to remove index.php from a URL - [ http://ez.no/community/forum/install_configuration/getting_rid_of_index_php ]
• Information about migrating eZ publish to a new server - [ http://ez.no/community/forum/install_configuration/adopting_a_client_using_ezpublish ]
• Tip for how to enable the Online Editor for only one siteaccess - [ http://ez.no/community/forum/setup_design/online_editor_in_one_siteaccess_only ]
• Tip for how to translate the alternative text of an image - [ http://ez.no/community/forum/setup_design/translation_disable_for_image_but_enable_for_alt_tag ]
• Kristof gave an update about the new project section, feel free to join the discussion - [ http://ez.no/community/forum/general/projects_section_on_ez_no ]

News this week

• eZ publish Wins cmf2006 Web Idol Award
• MEDIATA Communications GmbH
• eZ publish 3.9 RC1 released
• Deutsche Bahntocher AMEROPA-REISEN fährt bei der K3 Innovationen GmbH ein
• Community newsletter 17/11/2006
• eZ Systems makes the EContent 100 list

Contributions

• TinyMCE xhtml editor
• Remove drafts
• Remove objects
• SimpleMail

Reported issues

eZ publish - Bugs

• New - required url class attribute should not require link text
• New - URL translator interface incorrectly handles new URL translation
• Confirmed - wrong doxygen comments in eZPDFExport
• New - Wrong Error Code Kernel (1) when DB not available - should be Kernel(50)
• New - sslzones redirect to non-ssl fails, trivial patch
• Closed - Typo in doc name
• Confirmed - User selfedit no longer works
• New - Bad variable naming
• Closed - "Translate from"-box in edit interface is rendered incorrectly
• Closed - Class/edit interface should have a store-button.
• New - 3.9 upgrade sql should specify type=innodb
• New - php 4.4.2 crashed installer
• Closed - ezodf extension must be enabled by default in eZ publish 3.9
• Closed - Errors on "Finished" page in wizard
• New - Wrong ui_context for user/activate
• New - Viewcache not working correctly for different CacheDir values
• Closed - ezwebin: contentclasses needs to be extended with installation script
• Assigned - Stylesheets of ezwebin_design package are empty
• New - Upgrade check on clean install gives warning
• New - Errors about override templates not being found
• New - Wevdav - creating objects based on mime type corrupts file download url
• New - Tip a friend - Email not send error message
• New - No port settings for multilingual site accesses

eZ Components - Bugs

• Closed - [Graph] Element references do not work with Gleam in SVG
• Assigned - There is no Mac Reader for SystemInformation, although it's referenced in the code.
• Assigned - PersistentObject doesn't handle sequence value generation right for Oracle
• Closed - GD scale/crop filters loose transparency
• Closed - Declared variables cannot be used as a 'received' variable in the include block.
• Closed - no hasData() method in class ezcMailVariableSet
• Closed - [Cache] ezcCacheStorageFile::delete on removes the first cache file found
• Closed - ezcSystemInfo - info_freebsd / info_linux differences

eZ publish - Enhancements

• New - Multilingual notification
• New - ezdir should make use of PHP constants

eZ Components - Enhancements

• New - Add cached queries to database
• Closed - [Mail] Imap capability command
• Closed - [Mail] Imap noop command
• Closed - [Mail] Imap append
• Closed - Make PersistentObjectDatabaseSchemaTiein work with databases directly
• - [Template] Please enhance ezcTemplateFileNotFoundException