Outerthought released Daisy 2.1, their flagship open source CMS.
The 2.1 release contains numerous feature additions and productivity enhancements, and is the result of Daisy being used in an increasing number of real-world projects by both Outerthought and selected partners.
Most notable additions are:
* a new Spring-based runtime container for the document repository that makes developing additional or third-party components a lot easier, backed also by a simplified build setup
* support for document variables, i.e. for managing parametrized content
* the addition of a document pre-save interaction hook which can be used for eSignature support in controlled authoring environments
* a WYSIWYG (HTML-based) document version diffing tool which has been developed in collaboration with the Google Summer of Code program
* various important improvements of the Daisy query language and publishing environment
Daisy supports jBPM-based workflow and sports a set of content migration tools since the last release. The development of Daisy 2.1 has been supported in parts by customer projects, by a number of funding customers, and by Outerthought itself.
All things Daisy can be found at www.daisycms.org.
