Nuxeo CPS 3.4.2 released

A new stable version of CPS, CPS 3.4.2, has been released this week. Since it concerns the stable branch of CPS, it contains mostly bugfixes and minor improvements, that are however important for the CPS user community. A couple of new packages, useful for applications developers, have been also integrated: CPSDashboard (a tool to build flexible and easily configurable search results views) and CPSBayes (a tool to perform naive bayesian inference).

Source code is available here:

http://www.cps-project.org/static/src/ or http://www.cps-project.org/sections/downloads/

No binary installer for Windows has been recreated yet (due to lack of time, help on this matter will be appreciated). An installer for CPS 3.4.0 is still available here:

http://www.cps-project.org/static/windows/CPS-3.4.0-3.exe

Please read the following for more information on CPS and CPS 3.4.

What is CPS?

CPS is an Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform that provides developers with a rich toolkit to create applications in the fields of: Web Content Management (WCM), Document Management (DM), Collaboration (CSCW), Workflow and Business Process Management (BPM) and corporate portals.

CPS may be compared to proprietary solutions like Documentum by EMC, LiveLink by OpenText, or SharePoint by Microsoft.

For more information, check:

Marketing material at: http://www.nuxeo.com/en/products/cps/

Prerequisites to installation

Zope 2.9.4 is mandatory for installation from the source code.

Some third-party Python librairies may also be needed, depending on the components you will want to activate on instanciation.

For more information, check:

http://svn.nuxeo.org/trac/pub/file/CPS3/trunk/INSTALL.txt http://svn.nuxeo.org/trac/pub/file/CPS3/trunk/README.txt

Upgrading

In any case, DON'T DO THIS DIRECTLY ON A PRODUCTION SITE. Make backups first, or run the procedure on a copy.

If you are running a recent version of CPS, go to portal_setup at the root of your CPS (from the ZMI) and see, from the "Upgrades" tab, if some upgrades need to be run.

If you are running an older version (no portal_setup), start by adding a "CPS Setup Tool" (not a "Generic Setup Tool") from the "CPS Tools" ZMI menu item, before running the upgrades.

For more information on upgrades, please join one of the CPS users mailing lists (see below).

About CPS

CPS is the most advanced Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform.

It is based on the Zope application server, the CMF content management framework, is the result of important CMS, ECM and workflow projects carried out in the public administration and the private sector, and of the collaboration of dozens of open source developers.

For more technical information:

http://www.cps-project.org/ and http://svn.nuxeo.org/

For marketing material:

http://www.nuxeo.com/en/products/cps/

For technical information about this release:

http://svn.nuxeo.org/trac/pub/file/CPS3/trunk/doc/tech-notes.txt

Getting involved

Please join the CPS users, developers or translators mailing list on http://lists.nuxeo.com/

Please report issues or requests for enhancements ont the CPS trac at: http://svn.nuxeo.org/

If you'd like to add a translation to your native language, besides the current 11 ones (en, fr, ca, de, it, es, pt_br, ro, mg, eu, ml), or to improve an existing one, we welcome your contribution.

A new version, CPS 4, based on the Apache JackRabbit Java content repository (JCR) and the Apache Lucene index engine, is planned for Q4 2006, and currently lives in the Nuxeo SVN http://svn.nuxeo.org/trac/pub/browser/CPS4.

FAQ

Q: Is CPS really open source? Aren't there any proprietary extensions that are sold on top of the platform?

A: CPS is 100% open source / free software. You can use it, modify it and redistribute it, under the terms of the GPL license. We (Nuxeo) don't sell licenses, but we do sell support and develop customers projects on top of CPS Platform. And if you are a free software developer, you are very welcome to join the project as a tester, bugfixer, third-party product developer or core developer.