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the Free CMSWire NewsletterBack in March Hippo CMS 7.5 (news, site) was released. That version was focused on localization and contextualization. This week, the open source WCM provider releases Hippo CMS 7.6, but this time, the focus is on supporting developers as they build their websites and applications.
Focusing on the Needs of Developers
Most of the time Web CMS vendors like Hippo focus their releases on new functionality and enhancements that make the lives of editors and website administrators easier and allow them to offer content and features to their customers. And this should be the focus of releases in most cases.
But sometimes you need to pay homage to the tons of developers who sit in the back rooms building the websites and web applications that use your web content management system. And this is what Hippo has done with its latest release out this week, Hippo CMS 7.6. So Hippo listened to the feedback coming out of its community and fixed a few things for developers, plus offered a few other things.
Hippo Trail - Developer Website
According to Ajre Cahn, CTO and Founder of Hippo, the Hippo Community has grown dramatically over the last few months. He told us that there is 3-4 times more traffic now than there was a year ago. So they wanted to step back and work on improving the developer experience.
One of the things Hippo has done is create a new developer website: the Hippo Trail.
Hippo Trail
The Hippo Trail offers improved documentation for all levels of developers from the beginners (Hippo Baby Steps) to the experts (Hippo Awesomeness).
Hippo Trail
The website includes documentation, source code, public forums, bug tracker, wiki and lots more. Says Cahn in a recent blog post:
I really want to stress that with our latest set of releases — including 7.5 and our newest 7.6 that we’re focusing a lot of attention on feedback that we’ve gotten both from beginner Hippo developers – all the way through to some of the most advanced developers out there.
A New REST API
They asked and they have received. Hippo CMS 7.6 includes a new HST REST API. The best news about this is that the developers can define how they want the API to look.
Hippo REST API
Relaxed CNDs
In prior versions of Hippo CMS, once you created a content type and launched it into production, you couldn't change it. Now Hippo offers relaxed CNDs (relaxed node types). Essentially, node types, or CNDs, are the same as schema definitions in an XML schema or table definitions in a relational database.
Saying they are relaxed, means that you are now able to change them in production.
Hippo relaxed CNDs
Now when you create document types using the document type editor in Hippo, simple CNDs are created. Hippo does say there may be instances when you still want to use strict typing of your document types. You can read more about this change on their website here.
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