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In early September they told us it was going to happen, and now it has. eZ Systems (news, site) has just released eZ Publish 4.4 Enterprise. Let's have a look at what's new and improved.
Community vs Enterprise Editions
We went through the details of the new divsion of eZ Publish into Community and Enterprise Editions. According to Roland Benedetti, VP Product Management for eZ Systems, the needs of the community and the enterprise customer are not the same. The biggest difference is in the services and support enterprises need to ensure their web properties are running smoothly.
So while both editions run on the same foundation of open source web content management that eZ has always maintained, the Enterprise Edition will offer services and support via the eZ Network.
The latest release of eZ Publish — 4.4 — does sport a few new features that you can see and touch, and a few improvements that will make your website run better, but aren't obvious to the end-user. Add to this over 600 bug fixes and you have a pretty substantial release. Here's what's new:
eZ Publish 4.4 - What's New
eZ Systems is spending a lot of time and effort designing and improving the administration user interface to make it easier to create and manage content. Within eZ Publish 4.4. there are two new features that lend to this effort:
Image Editor
The new Image Editor allows administrators to select an image from an image gallery and edit it. There had already been the ability to edit the metadata of the image in prior releases. Now you can also edit the features of the image itself, including things like resize, crop, add watermark and all the basic editing capabilities you find in a standard image editor.
eZ Publish 4.4 - Image Editor
According to Benedetti, this feature was initiated by a customer in the media industry who needed to be able to pixelate faces out of pictures.
Support for HTML 5 Video
Version 4.4 of eZ Publish provides out of the box management of HTML 5 videos (mp4 videos). This is actually more of a configuration of eZ Publish than a new feature. For years, there was always the ability to configure how a video would run in the website. But now the functionality has been surfaced with a user interface.
eZ Publish 4.4 HTML 5 Video Support
You can upload a video and indicate whether you want it to run in the browser via HTML 5, using the HTML5 video datatype, or display it within the Flash Player. It also supports both the iPhone and iPad.
Additional Updates for the User
A few other notable improvements for the backoffice include:
- Native Support for reCaptcha with user generated content.
- Auto suggestion within eZ Find upon partial entry in the search field. Note this feature works on both the front-end and in the backoffice search.
- Easy configuration of fields viewed on the screen without a refresh of the interface, easier to move through large amounts of data — AJAX lends a helping hand here.
- Manage multiple items at a time.
- The button to create new content has been moved to the top of the interface.
According to eZ, 20-30% of any new release is always dedicated to usability improvements.
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