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On June 6th in Paris, Jérôme, from our engineering and R&D team will enlighten us on Concurrency and Scalability, illustrating the talk with his experience on eZ Publish, and most particularly the latest developments of eZ Publish 5.

Today is “Release Day” for Enterprise Edition!

While eZ Publish Community Project is updated and published every month  - which is a regular expression of what we, the eZ Community & eZ Engineers, are building very successfully, we have our share of guilty pleasure in the release of the Enterprise Edition.

The Share Team is responsible for maintaining the eZ Community portal http://share.ez.no. Until now the team has taken on each task that came along primarily on their own, without help from any other community members, exception to be made of the amazing design contest. This approach is going to change.

Each time there’s a need to get a list of articles/users/comments in eZ Publish, we use fetch functions. Fetch function can be used in a template (http://doc.ez.no/eZ-Publish/Technical-manual/4.x/Reference/Modules/content/Fetch-functions/list, http://doc.ez.no/eZ-Publish/Technical-manual/4.x/Reference/Modules/content/Fetch-functions/tree) and PHP code (https://github.com/ezsystems/ezpublish/blob/master/kernel/classes/ezcontentobjecttreenode.php#L1837). That’s why problems may arise, when you need to fetch a lot of nodes.

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Settings, directories, AcitveExtension, ActiveAccessExtension, etc.. Use them in the wrong order and go slightly mad.

Mix them up in the right quantities and in the right order, add a touch of patience and you have the recipe for easily updating an extension!

Last time I wrote about the first steps we took to launch the extension ‘eZ Multitasking One’ on the eZ Market. In this blog post I will describe why we chose to develop our extension as much as a self-contained product, relying on the eZ Publish kernel. But first, did you perhaps join the webinar of the eZ Publish Enterprise 4.7 ‘Etna’ release yesterday? Then you should have seen a glimpse of our extension in the presentation, being described as ‘revolutionary’ for eZ Publish, or as the news-page of eZ describes it: ‘The possibility of editing and working on multiple articles or content items at any given time revolutionizes the way eZ Publish Enterprise clients can operate freeing up operators to concentrate on the quality of content creation which is their core business.’ Yes, that made me proud, and also gave me extra energy to write this blog post today.

Please get acquainted with these three new, low-severity security advisories, and patch your instances : 

• EZSA-2011-02: Cross site scripting (XSS) issue in the ezoption datatype
• EZSA-2011-03: Cross site scripting (XSS) issue in the ezstarrating extension
• EZSA-2012-006: XSS exploit on eZJSCore RUN command when using Firefox

Launched at the beginning of April, open for a bit over one month, this campaign brought amazing results. Read on to get the full report !

I have checked Netbeans and now it comes with SmartyTemplate syntax highlighting by default, which is compatibly with eZ tpl language, so it's not more necessary to install the extension I was developing and it's not recommended for a while as long it's conflicting with SmartyTemplate highlighting.

The volume of contributions is constantly increasing in our Community. Primed by the move to Github, the trend is set, and the number of pull-requests merged in last year was multiplied by several dozens (no, there is no typo) compared to the previous year. The trend is confirmed this year, and as more and more pull-requests are submitted, the Community Project Board decided to back the existing set of tools & resources with a dedicated team: more care, more responsiveness, more fun...and more innovation !