Nuxeo CPS 3.0 final released

The CPS team at Nuxeo is pleased to announce the final release of CPS 3.0. This release fixes a few remaining bugs that were found in CPS 3.0rc3. We wish to thank all the contributors (including the translators) and beta testers for their feedback on the beta releases.

About CPS3

Nuxeo CPS is an extensive collaborative Web content management system (CMS) implemented on top of Zope and the CMF, that enables organizations to easily, quickly and efficiently implement collaborative intranet, extranet or internet applications.

In addition to the standard Zope / CMF services, CPS provides:

Platform-independent authoring and publishing, including a WYSIWYG editor mode
Workspaces and publication sections:

Users elaborate content in workspaces
Content is published in sections after reviewer approval
Each section has its own workflow process, possibly with different reviewers

Interface customization and personalization using boxes (aka "portlets")
Through the Web document type creation:

Document definition using schemas, layouts and widgets
Flexible documents
Widgets include WYSIWYG editor using Epoz, date selection, internal links selection, etc.
Form validation
File indexing using external plugins (PortalTransforms)

Document versionning and archiving (check-in / check-out) so you can work on published documents and submit a new version without unpublishing them first
Interface internationalization (currently supported languages: english, french, italian (thanks to Paolo Dina), dutch (thanks to Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Belgium))
Content internationalisation with independent workflows for different document translations
Powerful group-based user management, optionally based on LDAP or a PKI
Workflow improvements (local workflows, built in states/transitions)
Third-party components integration, including the popular CPSSkins project by JM Orliaguet

Who uses it ?

CPS 3 is being used by Nuxeo, its partners and other entities in several high-profile projects. CPS3 has already been adopted as a standard offering by market-leading IT companies Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Unilog, Steria and SEMITA.

We will provide, after we get appropriate clearance from our customers, more information about some of those projects in the form of case studies.

Getting it and getting involved

Download it on http://zope.org/Members/nuxeo/Products/CPS3. CPS 3.0 has been tested with Zope 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.4 and 2.7.0. It is known not to work with Zope 2.6.3.

Discuss it on the cps-devel (developers), cps-users (english-speaking users) and cps-users-fr (french-speaking users) mailing lists. Feel free to ask if you believe other language-specific mailing list are needed.

Follow the ongoing development on CVS.

What's next?

A tentative roadmap for CPS 3.1 will be presented and discussed on the cps-devel mailing list.

Meanwhile, maintenance releases for CPS 3.0 will be made available on a regular basis.

Planned features

Here is a list of features we plan to provide either as add-ons for CPS 3.0 or in CPS 3.1:

New user interface
Workflow improvements (stack-based workflow)
Migration tool from CPS2 to CPS3 (CPSMigration)
Refactored installer (CPSInstaller)
MailBoxer integration (CPSMailBoxer)
Workflow editor (CPSWorkflowEditor)
Groupware tools (CPSCalendar and CPSWebmail)
Subscription framework (CPSSubscription) for mailing lists, events notification, newsletters...
Real-time chat (CPSChat)
Syndication support (CPSRSS)
Better OpenOffice.org integration
ERP5 integration
Synchronization, replication and staging
Refactorings, cleanups, optimisations
Automatic installation on popular OS platforms

Documentation

Tutorials and manuals should be available soon. You can already browse the API from api.nuxeo.org and read the documentation from the docs/ directories in the sources.

You can also get a nice developers tutorial in french from cps3book.zopefr.org.