Hello! The development team is happy to announce the release of the sixth major version of eZ Components: version 2008.1. Starting from this version, eZ Components requires PHP 5.2.1.
New Components In this release, there are three new components. Document The Document component enables you to convert documents between different formats. At the moment, it will convert ReST to XHTML and DocBook. DocBook will be the intermediate format for most of the conversions. However, the component allows shortcuts so that a conversion from ReST to XHTML does not first have to go through DocBook. ReST is the format that the eZ Components team uses to write all the tutorials and website documents, including this news item. In the next release, more formats will be supported, such as eZ Publish's XML format. Feed The Feed component parses and generates RSS1, RSS2 and ATOM feeds. RSS and ATOM feeds are often used to provide an easy way to publish frequently updated content, such as news items, podcasts, and so on. The Feed component supports many additional modules that live on top of those feeds, including iTunes (for podcasts), CreativeCommons (for licensing) and DublinCore (for content classification). Search The new Search component provides a unified interface to different search engine back-ends, quite similar to what the Database and PersistentObject components provide for database access. At the moment, only a Solr back-end is supported. Solr provides a powerful search engine based on the Lucene Java search library. Support for more engines will follow in subsequent releases. Other Improvements Main improvements in this release include an integration between the Translation and Template components to provide cached translated strings; complex datatypes, multiple relations to the same class, and binary data support in the PersistentObject component; integration between the Workflow and SignalSlot components; Cairo driver support for the Graph component; and hierarchical caching in the Cache component. For this release, the development team addressed 60 bugs, implemented 51 new features and completed 66 tasks - 177 issues in total. Please file the full announcement online: http://ezcomponents.org/resources/news/news-2008-06-16 regards, -- Derick Rethans eZ components Product Manager eZ systems | http://ez.no -- Components mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ez.no/mailman/listinfo/components
