From: "magnolia" Received: from [213.173.174.10] (HELO [10.0.0.107]) by mail.obinary.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.5) with ESMTP id 5333243 for magnolia-news@obinary.com; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:32:36 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <6A764E60-2450-11D9-979E-0003938AEFB0@obinary.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: magnolia-news@obinary.com Subject: Announcement: Magnolia 2.0 Final Beta released Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:32:58 +0200 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) ============================================================ M A G N O L I A For Content Management Announcement October 22nd, 2004 http://www.magnolia.info/ ============================================================ ----------------------------------------------- Magnolia 2.0 Final Beta Released ----------------------------------------------- Dear members of the Magnolia mailing list, we are proud to announce the immediate availability of the free Open Source J2EE content management system Magnolia 2.0 final beta. ----------------------------------------------- Magnolia 2.0 Final Release Date: November 15th ----------------------------------------------- The release date of the Magnolia 2.0 has been fixed to November 15th, 2004 - exactly one year after the first public release of Magnolia. ----------------------------------------------- Release Party on November 15th at obinary ----------------------------------------------- We will honor the occasion with a release party at obinary. You are invited to join us for an evening of discussions, networking, free beer and great music. For details on the party please visit http://www.magnolia.info/party ----------------------------------------------- Magnolia 2.0 Final Beta Release Details ----------------------------------------------- Magnolia is the first Open Source CMS based on JSR-170, and its outstanding ease-of-use has already attracted a wide industry following, with implementations ranging from russian travel sites over the number one web application security site owasp.org to industry leaders like Siemens Enterprise. We are therefore extremely happy about the progress that has been achieved going from the first to the second generation of Magnolia. Some highlights of Magnolia Release 2: * a new JCR repository browser and editor that lets you configure your application completely through the GUI * customized and customizable KUPU rich text editor. Besides the usual stuff you expect from a rich text editor, ours lets you define your own CSS classes to be available as markup in the editor, thus guaranteeing adherence to the corporate design / corporate identity while at the same time giving editors the freedom and ease of use they always wanted. * updated the Java Content Repository (JCR) to a significantly newer release * improved caching - Magnolia now caches compressed content. This results in response times that are at least twice as fast as static content served from a standard Apache web server, while at the same time retaining the flexibility of a dynamic website. * completely rewritten GUI that is both easily extensible as well as outstanding in its easy-of-use. We truly believe there is no open source web administration GUI out there that even comes close to Magnolia 2.0. At the same time, the new controls library allows you to add custom controls and use them exactly like the build-in controls. * modularized - it is very easy to write and add modules to Magnolia 2.0 without the need to touch the code base of the core CMS. With Magnolia 2.0, we invite you to participate in the future growth of Magnolia. ----------------------------------------------- Magnolia 2.0 Final Beta Download, Documentation & Feedback ----------------------------------------------- The download comes complete with API documentations, source code, and a two instance setup (author & public) Download now: http://www.magnolia.info/en/community/download.html For know bugs and new bug reports, please use http://jira.magnolia.info For discussions about the beta, please use the beta-list. Please see the bet-list information at http://www.magnolia.info/en/community/developer/beta.html for details. For beta documentation see http://www.magnolia.info/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=BetaTricks as well as upcoming information on magnolia.info for the 2.0 final release. Thank you very much for using Magnolia Boris Kraft, Pascal Mangold the Magnolia Development Team obinary ltd.