eZ Platform "Alpha4" available for testing
Quick links
- Installation instructions
- Requirements (currently same as eZ Publish Platform 5.4)
Upgrading: As this is a alpha release, there is no upgrade instructions yet, this is planned for Beta.
Download: See share.ez.no/downloads, or see Install for how to install via composer.
The fourth alpha release of eZ Platform,15.07, builds upon the 15.05 July release. It most noticeably adds support for Solr, as well as many UI enhancements and additions. It also contains most improvements and fixes that are part of the 5.4.3 and 5.4.4 enterprise releases.
Highlights
With the many improvements and fixes listed at the bottom, the main changes are:
RichText editor improvements
Content language display selection
Translate content
Roles management UI prototype
An UI to manage Roles and Policies has been started, and can be previewed.
It is currently limited to listing, creating and deleting roles, without policy management, even though policies can already be viewed.
Epic: EZP-24071
As can be seen in the epic, this feature is being worked on, and will quickly evolve over the next weeks.
Other UI changes
- Details of locations can now be viewed from the backoffice: content id, creator, modification date, remote id... (EZP-24512)
- Interactive confirmation messages as well as notifications can now be triggered by server side admin pages (EZP-24652, EZP-24536)
- AlloyEditor has been updated to 0.5.x (EZP-24712)
- Section Management has been reworked, and moved from ezsystems/platform-ui-bundle to ezsystems/repository-forms (EZP-24380)
- Configuration can now be sent to the PlatformUI JS app (EZP-24129)
Native Solr support
Until now, the SearchService was using the Legacy database search implementation. It was quite limited, and performed very badly. The Solr implementation has been worked on since last summer, and finally made it into the product.
After configuration and setup, Solr will be used by the SearchService for all of your Location, Content and ContentInfo queries. It has very advanced multilanguage capabilities, and will offer great performances whenever you need to grab Content or Locations from the Repository.
Note that as it is lifts off many limitations, this feature will also be made available to Enterprise customers eZ Publish Platform 5.4 via a specific update.
Documentation: https://doc.ez.no/display/EZP/Solr+Search+Engine+Bundle
Source: ezsystems/ezplatform-solr-search-engine
Epic: EZP-22944
Other Platform changes
- Locations returned by the REST API will now include the ContentInfo. This should avoid quite a few calls only to get the name, or basic info about the Location's Content (EZP-24672)
- The REST API will now let you search for Location in addition to Content. While the existing resource remains valid, note that
/viewsshould be used instead of/content/views(EZP-24671)
Changelog
Changes (Stories, Improvements and bug fixes) can be found in our issue tracker: 67 issues (some are still pending additional documentation changes)
Known issues & upcoming features
List of issues specifically affecting this release: 35 issues
General "Known issues" in Platform stack compared to Legacy: 8 issues
Epics tentatively* planned for first stable release: 7 issues
Epics tentatively* planned for first LTS release: 0 issue
'* Some of these features will not be in the stable releases, the once we first and foremost will aim for having in the release are those mentioned on the Roadmap.