eZ Publish 4.0 highlights

• Complete PHP-5 compatibility
• Full support for using eZ Components, eZ’s PHP enterprise components library
• Performance improvements
• Improved internal XML handling for increased performance and reduced memory usage
• Updated Website Interface with new graphical design and enhancements

eZ Flow 1.0

In addition to eZ Publish, the eZ Flow extension provides the following capabilities and functionality, mainly targeted at news and media organizations:

• Pre-plan the content publication schedule
• Support for revenue streams with advertising and paid content
• Easy-to-use graphical user interface
• Rich multimedia content
• Send content to mobile devices, including the iPhone

This extension is included as an optional install in the eZ Publish 4.0 distribution

Video presentation

For eZ Publish and eZ Flow in particular, we invite you to have a look at our new video presentation

Requirements

eZ Components

Before you install or run extensions other than those provided with eZ Publish 4.0.0, you must install eZ Components. (In the future we will bundled eZ Components with eZ Publish for your convenience). Refer to the documentation for instructions on installing eZ Components using PEAR.

PHP 5

The recommended version of PHP-5 is the latest stable release (PHP5.2.5 as of this writing). PHP5.1 is currently also supported.

The date.timezone directive must be set in php.ini or in .htaccess. For a list of supported timezones please see http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php

Webserver

You can use Apache 1.3 or Apache 2.x in pre-forking mode. For Windows, Apache 1.3 is the only recommended option.

Unicode

All eZ Publish versions in this family require Unicode enabled in the database. For MySQL, this means the minimum version is MySQL 4.1. The latest stable version is recommended. Please note that support for Oracle is planned, but not available yet.

Release notes

eZ Publish 4 autoload generation (requires eZ Components installed)

In eZ Publish 4 we use the PHP-5 autoload feature to load classes. This means
that when new classes are introduced to the system, the autoload arrays need
to be updated.
There are several situations when a user might want to regenerate the
autoload-arrays:

1. After upgrading eZ Publish, to recognise new classes in the eZ Publish kernel
2. When adding a new extension to the site, to make its classes available to eZ Publish.

Two methods are provided: a command-line version and through the Administration Interface. For more information, consult the documentation (which will be updated soon).

eZ Publish 4 translatable nice URLs

In eZ Publish 4, the default URL alias setting is 'urlalias', meaning that URLs will be created with mostly ASCII characters. The case of the text will be preserved, and dashes (and other characters) are available as a word separator. However, other settings are available, such as 'urlalias_iri', which is the same as above but which will also include unicode characters in the URLs (this was the default in the 4.0 alpha, beta and rc releases).

Deprecated features in eZ Publish 4

In eZ Publish 4 certain features have been deprecated. These will gradually be removed in a future release, when we have better replacements ready.

The following datatypes are deprecated:

• Enum (upgrade script available)
• Ini setting
• Subtree-subscription
• Multi-option (replaced with Multi-option2 in 3.10)
• Package

The following views have been deprecated:

• PDF view
• PDF export
• Global settings
• kernel/form

The follow kernel libraries have been deprecated:

• ezxml
• kernel/common/ezoverride.php

Download

You can download the archives of eZ Publish 4.0.0 (which includes eZ Flow as an option during installation) here

The full changelogs are available too

Bug reports

• Please file bug reports in our issue tracking system