Roadmap Magnolia 4.5

Simply the biggest release Magnolia has ever worked on, which includes new templating, security, integration and multichannel functionality. Here are a few highlights we're sure you'll enjoy.

Automatic mobile websites

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Mobile demo site

Every site developed with Magnolia's Standard Templating Kit 2.0 can automatically be rendered as a mobile version. Mobile support comes "free" thanks to Magnolia's Standard Templating Kit, a framework unique to Magnolia that standardizes content types, a prerequisite to be able to reuse content in a meaningful way for mobile sites.

The upshot of all the technology: you don't have to create separate mobile sites and can manage all of you channels from one authoring system. 

See more screenshots of the mobile demo site.

Multichannel management - create once, publish everywhere

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Manage your content across multiple channels

Online channels are developing faster than anybody could have predicted. Mobile is the most obvious example, but every day we are challenged to produce Web content in a multitude of formats: eBooks, PDFs, email, TV, audio, video, images.. the list keeps on growing.

Magnolia's multichannel management will allow you to define how your content will appear across a large number of different channels. By defining which content and how you want it to appear, together with the correct channel detection method, you will be able to render your content in an unlimited number of ways.

Channel preview

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Mobile preview

With Magnolia 4.5 you can define your own preview mode for different channels. Magnolia's STK ships with preview for the iPhone, iPad and web right in the page editing interface, so you know exactly which content will be rendered on which device, and how it looks like.

CMIS web-service API

One of Magnolia's strong points is its ease of integration. Magnolia 4.5 will build on this strong foundation and introduce CMIS. 

CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services), a standard that Magnolia co-sponsored and which has gained traction in the document management and ECM world, will make it easier to share access to Magnolia documents with other content management systems, such as Sharepoint and Alfresco.

View some screenshots of the Sharepoint integration in action.

Blossom 2.0

Blossom is simply the world's best framework to combine business logic developed in Spring with content management and multi-channel publishing. With Magnolia 4.5 we will release Blossom 2.0 to provide access to Magnolia's new tempting API to Spring developers working to create a virtual presence for their enterprise.

JCR 2.0

Magnolia 4.5 will run on the JCR 2.0 (a.k.a. JSR-283), the followup standard of the Java Content Repository API (JCR). This will make it much easier to add WebDAV access to the document management, asset management and web content management parts of Magnolia, in other words, it will be easy to access Magnolia content directly from your desktop / file system.

Inversion of Control (IoC)

Inversion of Control (or Dependency Injection) is recognized and accepted as a design principle which helps improve testability (and thus quality), code readability, maintenance and understandability. Specific benefits include loose coupling between components, more reusable classes, cleaner code and easier to test classes.

There are many other new features in Magnolia 4.5, including a new page editing interface that is even easier to use and friendlier on the eye, a new Templating API that is more powerful and easier to utilize, full support for Content Repository API 2.0 (JSR-283) so you can access all content through this API instead of Magnolia's content API, a new, secure activation mechanism to publish content, and a ton of updates with STK 2.0 including HTML5 video support.