Hello, The development team is happy to announce the release of the seventh major version of eZ Components: version 2008.2.
New Components The main new development of this release is focused on the MvcTools (and accompanying) components. MvcTools The MvcTools component implements the tools for an framework. Instead of dedicating the structure of the application, it provides a dispatcher, two request parsers (one for HTTP, and one for e-mail message through the Mail component), two routing methods, two views handlers (one through plain PHP scripts, and one through the Template component) and a response writer for HTTP. The tools that are currently implemented, will in later releases be used by a Framework component. There are currently two example applications available in the eZ Components SVN repository. A simple HelloMvc application, as well as a more advance application called TheWire that implements a twitter like internal-messaging system. The HelloMvc application is also described in the MvcTools tutorial. Other Improvements Main improvements in this release include support for more formats in the Document component and support for Webdav locking and authentication. Document The Document component enables you to convert documents between different formats. Previously, it would convert ReST to XHTML and DocBook. DocBook is intermediate format for most of the conversions. In this release more formats are implemented, such as three different wiki formats (Confluence, Creole and DokuWiki), the eZ Publish XML formats, as well as reading XHTML (before it could only output to XHTML) and writing ReST (before it could only parse ReST). The wiki parser can easily be extended for other wiki formats. Webdav The Webdav component now supports authentication and authorization as well as support for integration of authentication mechanisms into your already existing systems. In addition, it supports shared and exclusive write locks, even with your custom storage back-ends. Statistics For this release, the development team addressed 55 bugs, implemented 43 new features and completed 14 tasks - 112 issues in total. For the full ChangeLog, please refer to the full release announcement that you can find online here: http://ezcomponents.org/resources/news/news-2009-01-05 with kind regards, -- Derick Rethans eZ components Product Manager eZ systems | http://ez.no -- Components mailing list Components@lists.ez.no http://lists.ez.no/mailman/listinfo/components
