FarCry 5.1 Public Beta Released
We've recently released another public beta for FarCry 5.1. There's a full community distro, complete with FarCry CMS for your installing pleasure. What was originally just a series of UI improvements, i18n updates and friendly URLs overhaul has blossomed into a very significant release - over 200 issues resolved.
There may be another beta after this one, so check under "nightlies" for the latest bundle, for example "farcry-community-5-1-0-BetaB.zip":
Or you can pull it direct from the public Subversion repository:
(We use a bunch of externals to fish out the various code bases that make up a distribution.)
The underlying Core framework is already very stable - we've had live sites running on 5.1 since October. The Daemonites have spent the last few months enhancing the deployments of an array of different clients running the beta in production; knocking off a bunch of long standing bugs, and porting in some great feature enhancements.
Cool things to try out in the beta:
- Brand new friendly URL sub-system (ok FarCry has always had awesome SEO urls, only now you have complete control to tailor them however you please)
- The awkward, but aptly named, "floater" menu widget has been replaced by "the tray"; a greatly improved user experience.
- Much improved Railo and OpenBD support
- Internationalisation (i18n) improvements galore; we might actually get a bunch of translations done in the next release
- Big performance boost - createUUID() is woefully slow (especially on Windows), so we cobbled together our own super-speedy alternative
- Improved webskin (FarCry term for a view) caching, list views and more
When will be finished? Assuming we don;t get a last minute rush of reported issues, any day now I'd say. We probably could have released 5.1 in early December but we've wanted to find time to bring the non-Adobe CFML engine support up to speed. So if you're an OpenBD or Railo developer your feedback would be much appreciated.
Comments
shimju on 08 Jan 2009 06:51 PM
Is this version supports FLV by default. To clarify, does the editor have the provision to add flv file? Also is this version 100% compatible with Oracle, last time when tried FC verion 5.0 with oracle, there were lot of compatible issues.
Tomek on 13 Jan 2009 01:54 AM
@Shimju - I have been running FC5 on Oracle8i with only a few problems. Those that I did find, I reported and most (if not all) were fixed for the new version. So I would suppose Oracle support is better.
Shimju David on 13 Jan 2009 04:29 PM
FarCry 5 Jump Start Course is not having enough content to develop a website at least we needed a better doc like we had earlier for FarCry 4.0 CMS Developer Training Course. Rather than going through various Wiki's and blogs, if we have a PDF document like this how easy it will be for the developers to use this software. Why Daemon?? not listening to this- I certainly feel if you improve documentation the userbase for FarCry will go double in less time. Your hardwork is not getting fully noticed- We often can hear remarks like "FarCry CMS is TOO over the top for us" and I can undoubtfully say that it is due to lack of easy solid documents/books. My Request is this- Daeomon should have to work on this area and release beginner level and advanced level farcry ebooks at a price- no need to sell it as free!!