A first glimpse on new features
For those of you who like to be the first to test new features ... the pimcore SOAP API has entered the testing stage. A brief introduction and some examples can be found in the wiki.
This new feature is available in the latest nightly builds. But since it is a rather complex feature to test, it will remain in beta stage for some time until we have some real world experience with it. Consider yourselves warned - we are still testing this feature and the SOAP API might be subject to changes ;-)
Sometimes users tend to be forgetful and seemingly oblivious to password managers. It can be painful continuingly having to reset user passwords in the database. Administrators take a deep breath: pimcore has been outfitted with a lost-password service.
That's been the latest news from the developer front. Have a great weekend :-)
Pimcore Release 1.2.2
Whilst working on the pimcore SOAP API, which will be availabe with pimcore 1.3.0, we decided to postpone the 1.3.0 release for some weeks and launch the maintenance release 1.2.2 instead. Pimcore 1.2.2 includes almost all issues which were scheduled for 1.3.0. The full list of release notes can be found here.
A major step beween pimcore 1.2.1 and 1.2.2 is the upgrade to ExtJs 3.3. The migration to ExtJs 3.3 went rather smoothly and we are looking forward to utilizing some of the new ExtJs features soon. Moreover, We integrated some of the great ideas coming from the pimcore community: Tooltip on object fields, the extension of the pimcore user, set new documents/objects parked, ... Just to list some of them. Besides the new features, this release includes bugfixes and improvements inspired by users and our daily work with pimcore.
Now we will roll up our sleves and dig into some planned refactorings, mostly closely related to the new API. More information and documentation on the SOAP API will follow shortly, keep posted ..
MOST PROMISING OPEN SOURCE PROJECT 2010
Pimcore Wins the 2010 Most Promising Open Source Project Award
Birmingham, UK. 15 November 2010
Packt Publishing is pleased to announce that Pimcore has won the Most Promising Open Source Project Award category in the 2010 Open Source Awards. The Most Promising Open Source Project Award, sponsored by OpenCandy, is a revamped category for the Award this year, featuring Open Source projects, whose first release date is less than two years from 9 August, 2010.
“Winning this Award is a huge boost”, said Dietmar Rietsch, the founding member of Pimcore. “It’s not simply about the money either, it’s the recognition of a year of hard work and dedication from the team and Pimcore’s community.”
“Pimcore is an exciting content management system framework which has great long-term prospects. The project is growing at a fast rate and has good support from its community.” Added Marc Delisle, system administrator and one of the judges for the 2010 Most Promising Open Source Project category. “Pimcore is an easy to use new solution and a high sense of professionalism can be found in everything from the project website to the documentation.”
While Pimcore occupied the top spot in the 2010 Most Promising Open Source Project category, TomatoCMS came in at the first runners up position, while the second runners up position was secured by social networking software package BuddyPress.
With this announcement, the 2010 Open Source Awards has five more categories left, including the Open Source Graphics Software category, for which results will be announced from November 16th through to November 19th.
For detailed results on each category and more information about the Award, please visit: https://www.packtpub.com/open-source-awards-home
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About the Open Source Awards
The Open Source Awards is an annual online event held by Packt Publishing to distinguish excellence among Open Source projects. The Award, formerly known as the Open Source Content Management System (CMS) Award, is designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward a wide range of Open Source projects.
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