[OSCOM] Open Source CMS Daisy 1.2 released

February 14th 2005: Open Source CMS Daisy 1.2 released

Zwijnaarde, Belgium

Adding onto the Valentine's Day festivities, Outerthought released 
Daisy 1.2 as of today. Daisy is an Open Source content management 
system, composed of a standalone, ReST-accessible repository server, 
and a powerful Wiki-on-steroids editing and publishing application.

New in this release are:

In the Daisy Wiki:

* an easy-to-use graphical site navigation tree editor to define site 
hierarchies and navigation
* user self-registration with password and account reminder
* a general document commenting facility with public and private 
comments
* enhanced support for human-readable website URLs

In the repository:

* comprehensive support for arbitrary-sized document parts (or 
"BLOBs"), with streaming support both on front- and backend (making 
Daisy capable of hosting media libraries)
* generalized database access layer to easily run Daisy on top of any 
standards-conforming relational database engine
* improved full-text indexing support for MS Office document formats

And of course, many other minor feature enhancements, issues and 
performance improvements have been implemented as well.

For the next release (summer 2005), planned features are:

* publish-only website publishing for easy publication of non-editable 
Daisy sites (using the Wiki as a powerful editing application)
* Daisy Books: management and production of manuals and paper 
documentation
* more sophisticated repository versioning and querying
* support for facetted classification and navigation using Daisy's 
metadata support
* furthermore, we expect to upgrade Daisy's internals to reflect the 
current state of the art in component containers and messaging 
frameworks

Daisy is available under the Apache License 2.0 from 
http://cocoondev.org/daisy/, with commercial support services available 
from http://outerthought.org/daisy.html

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