More information about the 5.3 RC release candidate

[sfermigier]

Hi,

as promised two days ago, here are some additional information about  
the current release.

1. We have now an official announcement that sumarizes the main  
impovements over the 5.2:

http://www.nuxeo.com/en/about/news/nuxeo-dm-53

In other words:

Standards for Social Business: Support for OpenSocial allows the  
creation of gadgets to build web mashups within enterprise  
applications. Nuxeo DM 5.3 can serve as both publisher of gadgets as  
well as be an OpenSocial container, allowing the Nuxeo DM repository  
to host and participate in enterprise mashups.

Windows Sharepoint Services support: Access Nuxeo DM 5.3 via Microsoft  
Sharepoint for basic library services. Native integration with Windows  
Explorer ensures information workers can use familiar browsing habits  
to access Nuxeo DM content and perform common file operations.  
Microsoft Office integration allows files to be opened or saved  
directly to/from Nuxeo DM and lets users see information about their  
content directly from the Document Panel in Microsoft Office.

SaaS-ready with Nuxeo DM Cloud Edition: Nuxeo DM 5.3 is also available  
in a secure, on-demand cloud ECM offering. Organizations can get a  
deployment up and running in minutes with no need to invest in any  
costly IT infrastructure.

Federated publishing: Centrally control and publish content to remote  
Nuxeo applications, file systems, HTTP servers, web portals, and more  
thanks to a pluggable and unified Publishing Service. It is suited to  
deployments with a distributed information architecture, balancing  
ease of publication with requirements to for content control.

Tagging Services: Enhanced metadata capabilities ensures information  
workers can categorize their content in ways that make sense for  
average users. Tagging recommendations and tag cloud support enrich an  
organization's ability to describe and retrieve their information  
assets.

New Performance Record for Large Deployments: Faster search and  
retrieval benchmarks for Nuxeo DM repositories holding several million  
items for hundreds of concurrent users using inexpensive commodity  
hardware specifications.

Email Capture Enhancements for MS Exchange and Gmail: Improved support  
for email folders. Fetch email from Microsoft Exchange or Gmail to/
from the Nuxeo DM 5.3 email archive folders to ensure contextual  
management of business communication.

CMIS Support: Ensure true interoperability across multiple ECM, ERP  
and search systems, Nuxeo DM 5.3 offers a CMIS Server via an add-on  
component, based on the CMIS draft 0.62.

Search/Indexing Improvements: Granular metadata search and indexing  
allows users to find and retrieve content based on one or more fields.


2. This a a release candidate, which should be tested as much as  
possible before the final (GA) release.

10 bugs have discovered so far, and are being actively exterminated by  
our diligent development team:

http://jira.nuxeo.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&mode=hide&sorter/order=DESC&sorter/field=priority&resolution=-1&pid=10011&fixfor=10812

Your help is needed to find more (assuming there are any).

You can check out the recent screencasts (videos) here:

http://www.nuxeo.com/en/products/dm/nuxeo-dm-5.3

that present the most recent features (those that need the most  
testing to ensure we get a very solid GA).

Thanks for your help,

   S.


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