Escenic Content Engine History

Below are the highlights of the various Escenic versions as well as release dates.

Please see the Product Roadmap for more information about each release. Customers may read each release's release notes on Escenic Technet.

5.0-8, September 2009

There have also been 11 "fixpacks" released for this version, adding new minor features and enhancements.

5.0-7, July 2009

Numerous improvements based on feedback from customers. Please see the Escenic Content Engine 5.0-7 announcement for details.

5.0-6, June 2009

Maintenance release with enhancements and improvements.

5.0-5, May 2009

Maintenance release with enhancements and improvements.

5.0-4, May 2009

Maintenance release with enhancements and improvements.

4.3-5, May 2009

More than 50 improvements and bug-fixes, both to Escenic Content Engine and Escenic Content Studio.

5.0-3, April 2009

Introducing soft crops: Escenic Content Engine 5.0-3.

5.0-2, March 2009

Escenic Content Studio 5.0-2 includes several minor enhancements, and improvements to some of the guides.

5.0-1, October 2008

Escenic Content Studio 5.0-1 enables writers and editors to complete all work, including more peripheral tasks within the same work space. Advanced personalized search and information panels are also integrated, enabling each individual writer or editor to have continuously updated external or internal feeds and information directly on their own screen.

The new focus of allowing the writer and editor to complete all their tasks without having to leave the Escenic Content Studio work desk has been strengthened. To extend this even further for the multimedia specialists, editing in dedicated expert tools have become a seamless operation. For more advanced editing of e.g., images in Photoshop, simply click on a button in Escenic Content Studio 5.0, edit the image, and the changes are automatically saved back into the work space-

Please see: Escenic launches major upgrade of core CMS software, as well as Escenic Content Engine and Escenic Content Studio.

4.3-4 , January 2009

A maintenance release of Escenic Content Engine 4.3, including the following improvements:

Improved Responsiveness of Content Studio
Support for Microsoft Active Directory 2003
Import and Export Improvements
tested on Tomcat 6 and Java 6 (JDK 1.6)
Other smaller bug fixes and improvements

4.3-3, March 2008

Escenic Content Engine 4.3-3 contains some major enhancements and a long list of improvements and bug-fixes. Major changes include a new article list implementation, support for thousands of sections, deploy configuration in the EAR, updated third-party libraries and improvements to the XML import and export.

4.3-2, October 2007

Maintenance release. Please see the release notes on Technet for the list of improvements.

4.3-1, February 2007

The main new feature of Escenic Content Engine 4.3 is file system independence for web applications
A new Assembly Tool for building the Escenic Content Engine enterprise application "engine.ear" and the web applications
Simplified installation
Publication configuration is managed in the database
Images are stored in a separate, dedicated file location
The web applications are more loosely coupled with the publications
Several enhancements to the Escenic Content Studio user interfaces
Improved web cache invalidation service
Updated documentation

4.2, October 2006

Content Studio is started with Java Web Start, ensuring up-to-date version every time
Web Studio has been competely renewed
Content Studio has an integrated video editor
Added support for Tansa advanced proofing tools in Escenic Content Studio

4.1-6, October 2006

Added support for multiple schedule-fields on articles
Added new library, jdom.jar. This must be added to your classpath
Fixed some problems causing Escenic Content Content Studio to freeze in some situations

4.1-5, March 2006

Added support for MySQL and Caché databases
Added support for Apache Tomcat application server
Added JSP realtime statistics utility
Added support for dynamic image creation
Added support for decorators of PresentationPool
Added support for autoflow in pools

4.1-4, March 2005

New Profile Web Service
IBM DB2 support
Implemented single sign-on support for Oracle Portal in Escenic Web Studio

4.1-3, October 2004

Added Agreement support
Core: Added support for XML export of sections
Webstudio: Added functionality for displaying the 5 latest articles the user has edited
Admin-studio: Added admin wizard to be able to regenerate lost LDAP users
Core: Workaround for the 250 section limit on Sybase and the 1000 section limit on Oracle

4.1-2, June 2004

Improved cut and paste in XHTML editor in Escenic Content Studio
Core: Improved search performance
Core: Added upgrade scripts for Oracle and MSSQL
Core: Added upgrade documentation

4.1-1, May 2004

Added support for Profiles
Added calendar support in neo.xredsys.api, Escenic Content Studio and Escenic Web Studio
Added support for reports from XML import
Added possibility for decorators of PresentationArticles
Added new search interface

4.0-7, October 2003

Escenic Content Studio: Many Improvements to XHTML editor
Escenic Content Studio: Person Editor now validates e-mail, address and phone numbers
Escenic Web Studio: Support for Norwegian translation
Core: Added support for JDK 1.4
Core: Studio is now packaged as a stand-alone WAR file, instead of plain files
Core: The server component now ships with fewer JAR files than previously
Core: Cleaned up the default "web.xml"
Taglibs: A new tag library (with one tag) was backported from the next major version of Escenic. The publication:use tag is now available
Admin: Added a field support tool to view all system properties in the server: Component Browser
Admin: Made it easier to use the "view loglevels" tool