Editing OpenCms (section)

== Versions ==
OpenCms has been under continuous development as an open source project since the year 2000. Currently a major version is released every 6 months in April and October. The [[Distributed revision control|revision control]] of the OpenCms [[source code]] is done using [[Git (software)|Git]] on [[GitHub]].<ref>[https://github.com/alkacon/opencms-core OpenCms source code on GitHub]</ref> The following table provides an overview of all major OpenCms releases.<ref>[https://github.com/alkacon/opencms-core/blob/master/history.txt Overview of all OpenCms releases in the history.txt file on GitHub]</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Overview of major OpenCms releases
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! width="5%" | Version 
! width="10%" | Release&nbsp;date
! width="85%" | Important new features
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| {{Version|o|4.0}} || 2 Feb 2000 || Online / offline [[workflow]], [[WYSIWYG]] editor for web pages, explorer, user management
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| {{Version|o|5.0}} || 5 May 2002 || Page templates in [[JavaServer Pages|JSP]] with own &lt;cms:&gt; [[tag library]], extended [[Web cache|caching]] and static export of pages
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| {{Version|o|5.3}} || 11 Dec 2003 || Full text search using [[Lucene]], direct edit of web pages
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| {{Version|o|6.0}} || 30 Jun 2005 || Updated user interface, storage of content in [[XML]] files based on [[XSD]], management of multiple sites
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| {{Version|o|6.2}} || 31 Mar 2006 || Integrated [[image scaling]], visual comparison of document versions
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| {{Version|o|7.0}} || 04 Jul 2007 || Support for [[WebDAV]], automatic link management, category tags for all content files
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| {{Version|o|7.5}} || 15 Jun 2009 || Content galleries, extended support for creating JSP using expression language
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| {{Version|o|8.0}} || 8 May 2011 || Enhanced user interface allowing [[drag and drop]] of elements in the page and sitemap editor, support for mobile devices
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| {{Version|o|8.5}} || 24 Sep 2012 || "Inline" editing of web pages, integration of [[Apache Solr]], [[CMIS]] support, [[SEO]] features
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| {{Version|co|9.0}} || 08 Nov 2013 || Preview for mobile devices, accessing the content repository using a [[Server Message Block|network share]], visual site management interface, demo template based on [[Bootstrap (front-end framework)|Bootstrap]]
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| {{Version|co|9.5}} || 03 Nov 2014 || Nested containers allow template and layout creation with drag and drop, user generated content, [[PDF]] creation, extended editor roles, spell checking in the WYSIWYG editor, visual management of galleries, categories and templates
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| {{Version|co|10.0}} || 23 Mar 2016 || Modernized administration workplace, added Apollo Template, new file explorer, [[Identicon]]s for users, direct commit of changed templates to [[Git (software)|Git]], drag and drop of images, enhanced Solr based content search
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| {{Version|co|10.5}} || 15 Feb 2017 || Improved localization tools for side-by-side comparison of sitemaps, support for generating pages as JSON fragments, asset connection for external data sources, font icons in the user interface
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| {{Version|co|11.0}} || 30 Apr 2019 || Redesigned user interface, meta mappings for SEO, new Mercury Template, default content list generation with predefined Solr searches, bookmarks in the explorer, new apps for resource type and sessions management 
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| {{Version|co|12.0}} || 12 Oct 2021 || [[Headless_content_management_system|Headless]] JSON API for REST content access, greatly improved Mercury Template, template variants, updated [[WebDAV]] implementation.
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| {{Version|co|13.0}} || 03 Apr 2022 || New plugin system, search by geo coordinates, extensions to template variants, improved Mercury template.
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| {{Version|co|14.0}} || 11 Oct 2022 || XML schema versioning with automatic content rewrite, two factor authentication (2FA) in the user login, source code editor widget for multi-line text inputs, Mercury template updated to Bootstrap 5.2.
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| {{Version|co|15.0}} || 25 Apr 2023 || Role-based control for sitemap access and new editor for modifying selected sitemap attributes, app "Person data search" reveals personal user data in the VFS, improved Mercury template.
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| {{Version|co|16.0}} || 02 Oct 2023 || New app "Unused contents" finds and deletes content not actively used, individual detail pages based on categories, option to reset the password for all content managers, improved Mercury template.
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| {{Version|co|17.0}} || 09 Apr 2024 || New app "Date search", export a selected site for archiving, hide "sensitive" content in the Offline project, support for Java LTS 17 and 21, improved Mercury template.
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| {{Version|co|18.0}} || 08 Oct 2024 || New “Place element” mode in the page editor, markers for reused content, automatic typographical correction of quotation marks, improved Mercury template.
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| {{Version|c|19.0}} || 02 Apr 2025 || New tools for website translation, image preview and filename validation in the upload dialog, improved content validation, fast access to categories.
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| colspan="3" | {{Version|l|show=011110}}
|}