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We are proud to announce the release of OpenACS 5.9.0.
This release contains many security and performance improvements as well as new functionality. The new release differs from OpenACS 5.8.1 in the following points:

• PostgreSQL enhancements and cleanups to improve performance and maintainability of the basic data model
• Greatly improved HTML validity and protection against XSS attacks.
• Improved theming support to create responsive interfaces.
• Various new functionalities to ease debugging and to improve performance.

Altogether, OpenACS 5.9.0 differs from OpenACS 5.8.1 in more than 100,000 modifications contributed by 4 committers. All packages of the release were tested with PostgreSQL 9.4.* and Tcl 8.5.*.

Many thanks to all who helped in this effort via direct contributions, bug-reports or testing!

Release Announcement, ChangeLog, Download

We are proud to announce the release of OpenACS 5.8.1.
The new release differs from OpenACS 5.8.1 in the following points:

• Compatibility of OpenACS core and 78 application packages with PostgreSQL 9.1+:
  The new version installs without any need for special parameter settings in all recent PostgreSQL versions.
• Major cleanup: removal of calls to deprecated code, using recent Tcl byte compiled instructions rather than legacy constructs, following more closer to Postgres recommendations.
• Functional improvements in core and application packages
• Various performance and scalability improvements
• Various bug fixes
• The packages can be installed online from the OpenACS repository. The list of network-installable packages contains also DotLRN (for the full list of packages, see the full announcement).
• Altogether, OpenACS 5.8.1 differs from OpenACS 5.7.1 in about 100,000 modifications (6145 commits) contributed by 5 committers.

Many thanks to all who helped in this effort via direct contributions, bug-reports or testing!

Release Announcement, ChangeLog, Download