Last Week
Last week SSB (Statistics Norway, a government agency) launched their website about Norwegian statistics running on XP.
Enonic XP 7 is now in feature freeze! This means a first beta is released on our artifactory. With 7 we’ve focused heavily on the developers point of view, and one of the biggest new features will be the CLI. It will be possible to install it with brew - brew install enonic - from the terminal. After that you can spin up new project by just typing enonic project create and build it with enonic project build. Long gone will the days of having to manually structure your folders, set $XP_HOME variables, and keeping a hoard of different XP versions installed manually.
With the release of XP 7 we’ll also finally see the dawn of our new developer portal, the entry point for all our future documentation. Of course this portal is built on Enonic XP and uses our blazingly fast built-in search.
Other big changes with XP 7 is that we’ve heavily optimized the storage engine to take up less space on servers running XP. You could see up to a 50% disc optimasation depending on your installation. Basically we’ve made XP smarter when it comes to meta-data and version-data. We’ve also introduced a way for XP to know if version data is only draft data or actually published data (commited data), this will in future XP versions let us garbage collect unused versions further optimising disc space.
Last week we signed with frontend developer Sandra to join our team of Enonic Specialist during this spring. Our team of Enonic Specialist are now ready to help more customers and partners with making the best use of Enonic XP.
Psst! Know any Java-masters? Send them to our career-page.
Enonic Releases
Our latest release is Enonic XP 6.15.6!
As always, we appreciate feature requests and bug reports here in the forum and/or on our Github page for XP.
Enonic Market
Enonic Market had these updates last week:
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Live Trace 1.2.0 - XP7-ready!
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Content Studio 0.9.1 - XP7-ready (and part of our plan to move more things out of XP core).
Further reading
Here’s some interesting articles that surfaced last week, related to the web in general (not only development).
Send me a private message if you happen to stumble over something interesting this week.
Events
The following events are planned so far:
No current events.
Training
We provide professional training for developers, editors, and marketers. These training events are coming up, but more are available! Need custom training, or training on other dates, or other locations? Contact us!
- UK, London - Content 101: 27th of March
- UK, London - Developer 101: 3rd of April
- Content 101: 9th of April
- Developer 101: 7th of May
- Developer 201: 8th of May
- Content 101: 29th of August
Don’t forget to certify yourself as an XP developer!
That’s it for now. Stay in touch with us here in our forums and on our open Slack channels.
See you next week!