[Zope-Annce] Infrae pre-announces Silva 1.2

[Martijn Faassen]

Infrae pre-announces Silva 1.2
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12 january 2004 – Infrae is pleased to announce that the Silva 1.2 beta 
will be released on january 21st. This release contains three major new 
features: expanded version management for XML documents, subscription 
functionality for all versioned content, and an internationalized Silva 
user interface, including Dutch and German translations. Infrae is 
actively seeking volunteers to translate Silva into other languages.

Version management
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Silva 1.2 exposes additional version management capability to the user 
interface. It leverages Silva’s powerful multi-version system, where 
content can be online while a new version is simultaneously prepared.

The version management feature allows:

* reviewing older versions of content objects

* comparing different versions side-by-side

* reverting to older versions of content

* removing of selected old versions

Subscriptions
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Silva 1.2 adds the subscriptions feature, which allows end-users to 
subscribe to public web pages. As soon as a new version of a page gets 
(re)published, the subscribed user receives an email notification. It’s 
even possible to subscribe to changes on a content hierarchy – but only 
if this has been allowed using the subscription management UI, which 
allows for fine-grained ‘subscribability’ for content. On the more 
technical side it is noteworthy that the subscription feature has been 
designed to be scalable over many subscribers.

Internationalization
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Silva 1.2 has now been fully internationalized. This means that the 
Silva user interface can now be presented a wide range of languages. 
Besides the original UI in English, Silva 1.2 will also ship with a 
German and a Dutch translation. We’re eager to have contributors help 
with the translation effort to other languages!

If you’re interested in providing translations to other languages, or if 
you wish to test an existing translation, please contact the Silva 
developers at:

http://lists.infrae.com/mailman/listinfo/silva-dev

and we will help you get started.

Release timing
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The Silva 1.2 beta will be released on the 21st of january. The final 
will be released one month later (beta testers please report test 
results by the middle of february, via the Silva Issue Tracker at 
http://issues.infrae.com/silva/; assign a topic of Silva-1.2 to any 
reports).

Upgrading
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The upgrade from Silva 1.1 to 1.2 is minor, requiring one click on an 
upgrade button. The upgrade doesn’t affect any data, so a content freeze 
is not necessary, and the upgrade can normally be completed within a 
single maintenance window. For more information see the UPGRADE.txt that 
will ship with the release.

What is Silva?
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Silva is an enterprise-class CMS for managing content for the web, 
print, and other media. Content is stored in clean and future-proof XML, 
independent of layout and presentation. Features include a multi-version 
workflow system, XSLT rendering support, integral WYSIWYG editor (Kupu), 
content reuse in multiple publications, sophisticated access management, 
extensive import/export facilities, fine-grained templating, and hi-res 
image storage and manipulation. Silva is entirely open source.

More information
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* http://www.infrae.com/products/silva

* http://www.infrae.com

Press Contact
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Martijn Faassen, faassen at infrae com