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We’re very excited to announce the latest release of eZ Platform and eZ Studio: 2016.04. The second Fast Track (FT) release since the launch of our next generation content platform  back in December, 2016.04 delivers a whole slew of new features, improvements and bug fixes.

If you are a customer, you can access the new eZ Enterprise 2016.04 release (eZ Platform and eZ Studio) through our service portal (as well as via Composer update). Partners, you can access the trial version of eZ Enterprise in the Partner Portal, As always, the open source eZ Platform is available for free download at share.ez.no.

Without further ado, let’s dive into some of the great features, improvements and bug fixes we have in store with 2016.04. If you want more details, please visit our Documentation site for the official eZ Platform and eZ Studio 2016.04 release notes.

eZ Platform has an API exposed to PHP developers through the Symfony service mechanism. The eZ Platform documentation is getting better by the day and there are comprehensive references for the core functionalities like...

• eZ Platform Criteria Reference
• eZ Platform Limitations Reference
• eZ Platform FieldTypes Reference
• eZ Platform Twig Functions Reference

PHP 7.0 was a large release of the popular programming language and platform powering large parts of the web. The new release of PHP brings performance improvements and new features. The PHP community goes to great lengths to make sure that the release is backwards compatible. To a large part this is true, but there are certain incompatibilities which are described in the official Migration Guide.

Symfony is a general collection of PHP components and an all purpose open source web application framework. During 2015 Symfony was downloaded over a million times per month and with a community of over 300,000 developers, Symfony is very much a global phenomenon.

Nowadays, a website is not only a simple HTML page. Your visitors expect dynamic, personalized information fast and you need a scalable way to deliver content as quickly as possible. This, of course, puts significant pressure on page loads and response time. In this series of posts, we’ll explore eZ’s system architecture and provide recommendations on how you can optimize caching and decrease response time with eZ software.

A new major content platform is out today. eZ Platform has reached its first independent stable milestone. It’s a major leap for the eZ Community, and a stepping stone for much more to come.

As we get ready to release the next generation of eZ software, our eZ Support team is moving its focus to eZ Platform and eZ Studio. While they’ll continue to support existing customers on eZ Publish Enterprise, they’ll stop working on the community versions of eZ Publish (5.x and earlier). Read on for how this affects further development of legacy code.

The  event is now part of eZ's History and is attracting more and more people every year.

Timon Schroeter just published a great blog post about his usage of eZ Publish 5, and more precisely how eZ Publish comes in very handy for Symfony2 developers with our configResolver. Read his blog post at the following URL: http://www.php-schulung.de/2014/ez-publish-config-resolver/

As you may have gathered, we've been doing quite a lot of internal work at eZ over the last year. Aleksander came back as CEO and we have been rethinking and strengthening  eZ’s Organisation and Product Strategy (which is where most of my involvement came in), and also how we articulate our business model on top of an open-source project.