eZ Publish 4

This week, we updated the roadmap for future eZ Publish releases. The highlight is eZ Publish 4.0, which can be expected towards the end of this year or early next year.

eZ Publish 4.0 will run on PHP 5 and use eZ Components. This is the first step towards the next generation of eZ Publish. A PHP 5 version of eZ Publish has been requested by the community and partners and this updated plan will have it in place about one year ahead of the original plan.

Even though we have updated our plan, we are not changing our vision and goals. The platform and solution strategy introduced last year is still our focus. We will continuously innovate top down through our solutions and bottom up through our platform strategy.

We will grow eZ Platform gradually from our current eZ Components base, and eZ Publish will be continuously updated to include the base systems and components. Currently, we will not make a separate application server, but work towards our long term vision and goals of a complete stack.

eZ Publish Russian Community Portal

Russian-speaking eZ Publish users can share their information on a new community portal. Valuable resources concerning the Open Source Enterprise CMS can be found at www.ezpublish.ru in the forum and in articles.

The forum is for all sorts of questions, whether they are technical or general. The articles are for all users, from beginners to advanced users.

The portal was set up by the bronze partner Internet Bureau and based on eZ Publish. Everyone is invited to participate and contribute!

Forum Watch

• Tip on how to change the root node of a siteaccess - [ http://ez.no/community/forum/suggestions/a_way_to_change_the_root_node_of_a_siteaccess/re_a_way_to_change_the_root_node_of_a_siteaccess__1 ]
• Interesting discussion about the Tidy output extension - [ http://ez.no/community/forum/developer/tidy_output_extension ]
• Tip on how to preserve whitespaces in block text - [ http://ez.no/community/forum/general/how_to_keep_whitespaces_entered_in_a_bloc_text ]
• Tip on how to include external sites in XML block fields - [ http://ez.no/community/forum/setup_design/external_site_in_ezpublish_cms ]
• Tip on how to hide the "Tip a friend" and PDF download links in article pages - [ http://ez.no/community/forum/setup_design/hide_tip_a_friend_and_pdf_download_in_article_page ]

Do you have news to share with the eZ community? A conference presentation, an article, an interesting new site or helpful blog post? Send it along to community-newsletter@ez.no and we'll include it in the newsletter. Share your information!

News this week

• Russian-speaking community website has been launched
• Youmix.de in preview mode
• New Partners from January
• New Silver Partners
• IntranetBox - Enterprise Collaboration System

Contributions

• feed parser
• switchlang
• ezstringindexed
• Simplified Chinese translation for ezpublish 3.9.0 (Alpha)
• Map Address
• URL alias name pattern
• eZ Keywords Nodes

Reported issues

eZ Publish - Bugs

• New - ezhttp_hasvariable and ezini_hasvariable not registered for autoloading
• Feedback - Cannot create user class!
• Feedback - Country sensitive VAT Rules broken
• New - database validation problem with kickstart.ini
• New - Database table Join problem with role definition
• New - Wrong item count in best sell list fetch
• New - Changes in eZPublish cause extended attribute filters to fail - Possible BC break
• New - Inconsistency in extension (overrides)
• New - Hiding objects in Admin site
• New - Clean data minor inconsistency
• New - Fatal error in ezdomnode: import package
• New - 3.9 Plain site logo image string not writing
• Closed - Cannot select class in template override
• New - Javascript Error
• New - Cannot remove untouched drafts
• New - Incoherent output in loops when {delimiter} and {continue} are used

eZ Publish - Enhancements

• New - suggestion for a quicker way of uploading site packages
• New - a quicker way of uploading images during the site style package wizard run
• New - content tree and list fetch function flag to disable content attribute preloading
• New - simple fetch list / tree performance improvment
• New - Mark identifier as not translatable/Disable translation
• New - Add pre and post triggers to all operations
• New - Status of newly registered user based on ini setting
• New - Make trigger information available to events
• New - Split in generateObjectViewCache() two functions
• New - SSLZone ModuleViewAccessMode wildcard support

eZ Components - Enhancements

• - Cache PO-definitions
• Closed - Typo at tutorial, and suggestion as query example.