SilverStripe 3.0 alpha 2 is here

Posted by Kerstin Schuman on 11 January 2012

The last step before beta; SilverStripe CMS 3.0 alpha 2 is ready to download and test.
We have come a long way and we are half way there!



Here is what’s new in alpha 2:

CMS

  • CMS JavaScript performance and perceived rendering improvements
  • New dedicated "Add page" interface with page type descriptions
  • Improved "Insert Link" dialog with cleaner styles
  • Selected tabs and collapsed panels are now stored in a Cookie for a more consistent interface when returning later to the CMS

Framework

  • Support for multi-byte page URLs (e.g. with German Umlauts). Flexible URL filtering through new URLSegmentFilter API
  • Customisable HTML attributes on Form and FormField (which allows better usage of HTML5 and data attributes)

ORM

GridField


Download the CMS and Framework here.

And as a side note, 3.0 alpha 1 will be no longer available to download.

If you test it, please report any bugs you find to http://open.silverstripe.org/

Thanks a lot to everyone who made this happen. To everyone who joined the Hackfest or submitted pull requests over the last few weeks.

If you want to be part of 3.0 beta, join the next Hackfest. Otherwise tell us what you think and feel free to help out where you can.

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  • Hey MirrorBall, please have a look at our upgrading guide in case you're overwriting an existing (earlier) SilverStripe version: http://doc.silverstripe.org/sapphire/en/installation/upgrading

    Posted by Ingo, 9 days ago @chillu

  • I install it, but can't go to the admin page because of the following error:

    "[User Warning] None of these templates can be found in theme '': CMSMain_SilverStripeNavigator.ss, LeftAndMain_SilverStripeNavigator.ss"

    Posted by Mirrorball, 10 days ago

  • Hi,

    I'm playing around with the alpha2 release. I try to extend the cms with new pagetypes, adding fields to the cms etc (like in the 2.4days). But that code doesn't seem to work anymore (creating new pages with the new pagetype fails, custom fields don't show up in the cms etc). Is there any information available on what has changed...

    guy

    Posted by guy van bael, 22 days ago

  • As others have mentioned adding, navigating around pages has become a chore. One of the strengths of SS over alternatives e.g. Wordpress was how quick it was to move around the site and get things done.



    Posted by Andrew, 22 days ago

  • I'm developing a lot for designers and there clients. they decided to leave typo3 cause of silverstripes light backend-ui...
    i know they will go somewhere else... if this ui won't change

    Posted by someone, 26 days ago

  • Sadly very disappointing backend :( ... please do some user testing now!

    be easy to do basic backend usability testing rather than bitch about it here. has any been done?

    Posted by mike, 1 month ago

  • It's very slow. Always loading something... and that's local!

    Drag and Drop page onto itself results in going to the page. Bit of an issue for those times you grab the wrong page.

    It's actually rather horrible, I prefer Concrete5, sadly. I like working with SilverStripe code more but clients love the look and feel of Concrete5 more.

    Please ditch this and try something else!

    Posted by Jason, 1 month ago

  • @Hendrik, Unfortunately we haven't spent very much time on the modules yet. Once we come to the stage that Beta is up and running it will be important to upgrade the modules as well. But we will mention that again with the Beta release in a few weeks time.

    @Nathan, We renamed 'Sapphire' to 'SilverStripe Framework' a while ago. http://bit.ly/oszbdz
    But it can very well be that there still some folders around where the name hasn't been changed yet. If you share them with me I will change the names. Cheers kerstin@silverstripe.com

    Posted by Kerstin, 1 month ago @silverstripe

  • Why is there a "sapphire" folder if the name has changed to "SilverStripe Framework"? Might as well just name it "framework".

    Posted by Nathan J. Brauer, 1 month ago @NathanBrauer

  • I didn't like it. The backend is not intuitive and CMS is going away to become user friendly.

    Trying to Add/Edit a Page, now is a real pain. You need to think that backend must be simple, you need to force the user to never miss. Too many steps, too many options... SilverStripe is going to the Drupal way.

    Imagine i got 50 different page types and 1000 published pages... how is that gonna work? Administrators will go crazy.

    But that's just a layout point of view.

    I really loves the fully migration to jQuery/jQuery UI idea, and sure... with new possibilities and new technologies inside, we're very excited to the 3.0 coming ;)

    Posted by Miroke, 1 month ago

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