OpenWGA 5.4 is about 2 and a half months old, so it's about time we talk about the next feature release that is coming up.

Unfortunately - at least for OpenWGA development - we had our share of busy times across the last months so we weren't able to progress in features as fast as we would have wanted to. Because of this we will have to break our usual 3-months-schedule for feature releases this time and add an extra month. We therefor plan to release OpenWGA 5.5 in the first days of December 2011.

However, we again have some very exciting things cooking for this release. So let's have a sneak peak at them.

Get them by the usual distribution forms, documented and available in our downloads section.

Two things are to be noted about the 5.4.3 update:

• It introduces the metadata field PAGEPUBLISHED (the date where the first version of a content was published) into the lucene fulltext index, allowing to query and - maybe more important - sort by it. However to benefit from this you need to rebuild the complete lucene index once after update (OpenWGA Admin Client > Menu "Runtime" >  Menu item "Status" > Button "Rebuild lucene index").
  
• It resolves a compatibility issue with Java Runtimes of the new version 7. We therefor now regard the usage of Java 7 with OpenWGA 5.4 as "safe".

See the full list of addressed issues:

• For OpenWGA 5.4.3
• For OpenWGA 5.0.16