Silva 1.6.b4 released

9 october 2006 – Infrae has just released the second public beta of version 1.6 of the Silva content management system. This release fixes a bug in SilvaMetadata. See below for the major changes in the 1.6 branch.

Major changes

Silva now uses ZCML for registration of Silva extensions and the content types they define. See doc/extension.txt for more information. See also doc/developer_changes.txt.

Many i18n changes:

• New languages
• i18n fixes

Lots of bugfixes

See HISTORY.txt in the Silva core package for more information about changes and bugfixes in Silva 1.6. For developer-level changes in Silva, see doc/developer_changes.

What is Silva?

Silva is an enterprise-class CMS for managing content for the web, print, and other media. Content is stored in clean and future-proof XML, independent of layout and presentation. Features include a multi-version workflow system, XSLT rendering support, integral WYSIWYG editor (Kupu), content reuse in multiple publications, sophisticated access management, extensive import/export facilities, fine-grained templating, and hi-res image storage and manipulation. Silva is entirely open source.

For more complete information, see the Silva Product Pages at https://infrae.com/products/silva.

Download

The package can be downloaded from https://infrae.com/download/Silva.

Links to developer mailing lists, the issue tracker, and info about SVN access can be found on the Silva Product pages.

Contact

FMI contact Eric Casteleijn, eric at infrae com, +31 10 243 7051.