We are very proud to announce that a few moments ago, the django CMS
team released the final release for version 2.1.0. This new version adds
new exciting features to our CMS and fixes many issues.
Whats new in 2.1?
- Frontend-editing. This is probably the most noticeable new feature,
allowing you to edit your CMS pages directly on the page, rather than in
the admin panel. This feature even works for non-CMS pages, if they use
the newly introduced Placeholder Fields, see the next point.
- Placeholder Fields. A new model field allowing developers to use the
full power of the CMS plugin system on their own models. This feature is
already used in some third party extensions, such as the cmsplugin-blog,
which even uses the full power of plugins and placeholders to provide
multilingual content.
- Improved Menu. With the new menu, it is easy for developers to extend
the menu tree with custom menu nodes, to link to non-CMS content on
their websites.
- Better Apphooks. Apphooks are the CMS way to integrate third party
Django applications into the CMS. Coupled with the new menu and possibly
Placeholder Fields, it is as easy as never before to make your Django
application integrate seamlessly into the django CMS. You can even make
your application CMS-ready, without having the CMS as a dependency!
- Better tests. We've increased our test coverage a lot and have more
robust continuous integration, building against Django 1.2 and Django
trunk as well as Python 2.5 and 2.6. We also decreased the time required
to run the test suite by a lot, making it easier for developers to test
their code.
- Better documentation. We've listened to all the feedback we got on our
documentation and carefully improved and extended it. It is also hosted
on readthedocs.org now, allowing us to provide you with multiple
versions of our documentation with ease.
- More core developers. We increased our bus factor by adding more core
developers, so welcome Ųyvind Saltvik and Eric Robitaille to the django
CMS team! Of course we're looking forward to welcome more developers in
our team. So go ahead and fork us on github and start hacking!
At this point, we would like to thank the over 150 people who
contributed to the django CMS, without you, there would be no 2.1
release today! We're looking forward to your future contributions and to
all the developers contributing to the CMS.
Together with this new release, we also release our new django-cms.org
website. We've update the design and integrate with amazing services
such as djangopackages.com and readthedocs.org. Also, we now have a
proper demo set up, which allows you to play around on a fresh django
CMS instance. The demos are generously hosted by ep.io.
In the name of the django CMS developer team,
Jonas Obrist
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