OpenCms 8.5.1 is an update which improves the content editor functionality as well as the Solr integration. This version also fixes a lot of issues that persisted in the 8.5.0 release.

Main improvements in OpenCms 8.5.1

• The content editor shows preview thumbnails for selected images.
• The content editor displays resource information like e.g. "Title" for selected files.
• The performance of the content editor has been improved significantly.
• The workplace property dialog has been replaced with the advanced HTML 5 dialog from the page editor.
• The Solr integration provides better performance, configurability and multi-language handling.

Please note: This version of OpenCms requires Java 6 because of library dependencies.

Please check out the release notes for further details of the changes in this release.

Who should use this OpenCms 8.5.1 distribution download?

Use this download to install the new version 8.5.1 of OpenCms from scratch. We recommend everyone who uses OpenCms to update to the 8.5.1 release. OpenCms 8.5.1 is fully backward compatible to all prior 8.x and 7.x versions. Templates and other OpenCms developed code these versions should work "out of the box" with version 8.5.1.

If you want to upgrade an existing OpenCms 8.5.0, 8.0.x, 7.5.x, 7.0.x or 6.x version, please use the OpenCms 8.5.1 upgrade Wizard download also available from this website. 

Please note: The *.jar files in this binary distribution have been compiled for Java 6.