Folks, I want to put together a simple historical roadmap of features back to FarCry 3.x. While we have a bunch of very detailed release notes for point and patch releases, there's nothing really succinct and marketing oriented giving people the broad strokes reasons for upgrading. Would like to get something like this onto the website.
This is a quick refresher on key points since 3.x off the top of my head. Am I missing anything? I know I am! Let me know your favourite features over the years. # 4.x (codename: Gonzales) Very significant release -- separated farcry core (the framework) from a lot of the CMS features (released as farcrycms plugin). Essentially FarCry became a true framework. Introduction of the awesome "formtool" technology for building and rendering content types. # 5.x (codename: Fortress, Motley et al) Series of security updates, performances improvements and a multitude of behind the scenes changes. # 6.0 (codename: Formality) In 6.0 FarCry introduced jQuery, jQuery UI as the standard libraries for the webtop. A significant series of UI and usability enhancements for contributors. Also a ton of related plugins were published: http://plugins.farcrycore.org 6.0 also introduced image manipulation built into the CMS (specifically when using formtools), leveraging the CFIMAGE capabilities of CF8. And in later versions (like 6.0.9 or something) it introduced even better image tools like jCrop and ajax auto-upload and processing of images. A ton of other features (like JS/CSS combine helps tremendously with front end site performance, caching in general. If you're not on at least 6.0 its hard to understand just how far the FarCry publishing platform has come. # 6.1 (codename: Mayonnaise) Major features include managing database precision, indexation and schema changes in the framework ORM as well as easier type and rule deployment. Updated caching models with integrated support for reverse proxy servers (eg Varnish) and EH Cache. Awesome for developers, minimal impact for editors. For example, we run the entire Australian Olympics portfolio on this platform -- performing well in the lead up to London 2012 :) # 6.2 (codename: Fandango) The most recent release -- nice and pretty UI changes :) Incorporates support for automated mobile theming, a revamp of all security interfaces for editors and developers, lots of usability enhancements. All round a nice release for users in the same way 6.1 was a release for developers. Many thanks in advance for your help! -- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/ skype. gb.daemon twitter. @modius -- -- You received this message cos you are subscribed to "farcry-dev" Google group. To post, email: [email protected] To unsubscribe, email: [email protected] For more options: http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev -------------------------------- Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/farcry
