News about Alkacon and OpenCms

An article by Damian Carvill of Packt Publishing, who observes an increasing popularity of OpenCms in education.

Alkacon Software has finished work on the third public binary alpha release of OpenCms 6.0. This alpha 3 release improves the features of the new XML content and adds support for Java 1.5

Alkacon Software has finished work on the second public binary alpha release of OpenCms 6.0. This alpha 2 release also includes advanced demonstration modules for the new 6.0 features.

Alkacon Software has finished work on the first public binary alpha release of OpenCms 6.0. OpenCms 6.0 is a major upgrade, and it vastly expands the features of OpenCms 5.0.

Packt Publishing has released a book titled “Building Websites with OpenCms”. The book covers OpenCms version 5.0.x and has been written by Matt Butcher. Matt is a well known in the OpenCms community for his work on the OpenCms Lucene search module.

Information about the current development status on the next major OpenCms release, developed by Alkacon Software - The OpenCms experts.

Alkacon Software has finished work on the final release of OpenCms 5.0.1, the open source content management system.

Alkacon Software offers an Upgrade Distribution to upgrade a running OpenCms 5.0.0 system to 5.0.1 without having to re-install OpenCms.

By popular demand, the Modules sandbox has been added to the Download section. Preliminary but still useful versions of OpenCms modules developed by the community can now be made available in the sandbox.

The OpenCms online user help is now available in German.