This space hosts concepts, the roadmap and the backlog. It is not meant for content related to developing projects with Magnolia. For this kind of information the community space should be used.

• Backlog
• Concepts
  • Concepts - drafts and proposals
    • Concept Demo-Content — Draft for STK2.1/Magnolia 5.0? - Discussion points on a simple and consistent way to maintain and provide demo content for both STK and ETK, and non-mandatory modules.
    • Concept Deployment — Draft for Magnolia 4.x - Discussion points on deployment and access.
    • Concept - Event mechanism — Draft for ? - Discussion points on the need for a generic events mechanism after the introduction of IoC components.
    • Concept - In Page Statistics, Empower the Authors — Draft for ? - Proposal to view statistics of a page in context, accessible in the in-site editing mode. Moved to BACKLOG-4@jira
    • Concept LDAP authentication for more servers — Draft for 4.5.x - Proposal solution for LDAP/AD authentication against more than one server.
    • Concept Security and ACLs — Draft for ? - Collection of security related issues and improvements
    • Content2Bean suggestions — Draft for ? - Collection of proposed additions or improvements to Content2Bean
    • Jaas and UserManagers — Draft for ? - Discussion points on the review and cleanup of JAAS usage.
    • Magnolia Portal module - gadget container
    • RenderingModel population by content — Draft for 4.5? - Change how RenderingModel instances are populated on rendering
    • A-B and Multi-Variate Testing — Draft for 5.n - Collection of thoughts about testing content variations
    • Concept - Improvements on Form Module, PUR and Commenting — Draft for 4.x/STK 2.0 - Mindmap for improvements to and streamling of the Form, Public User Registration and Commenting modules.
    • Concept - Rendering Context — Draft for ? - Discussion points about rendering context.
    • Concept - Separation of repository implementation from core — Draft for ? - Discussion points about uncoupling.
    • Concept - uuid or permanent links — Draft for ? - Discussion points on uuid vs path.
    • Proposal - merging of URI2RepositoryMapping and VirtualURIMappings — Draft for 4.x ? - Discussion points on merging URI2Repository and VirtualURI mapping.
    • Proposal - overhaul and refactoring of AggregationState — Draft for 4.x ? - Discussion points on AggregationState.
    • Proposal - prefixing or namespacing of certain properties in paragraphs — Draft for 4.x ? - Rationale on prefixing or namespacing properties.
    • Project definition concept — Draft for 4.x ? - Propsal for coordinating multiple sites.
    • Concept Public Versioning — Draft for 3.7 - Summary of finding and ideas identified while looking at possible ways to implement MGNLDMS-137@jira
    • Concept Static Publishing — Draft for x - Static publishing provides a way to publish to static html instead of dynamically publishing from a public Magnolia server..
    • Concept C2BDoc — Draft for 4.0 - Discussion points on implementing c2b specific documentation.
    • Proposal - core packages — Draft for 4.x or 5.0 ? - Proposal on renaming packages.
    • Concept Module downloader updater — Draft for Magnolia 4.1+ - Proposal to simplify updates of Magnolia instances
    • Concept Standalone bundles — Draft for Magnolia 4.2+ - Proposal for better/simpler bundling. See MAGNOLIA-2686@jira for status.
    • Concept Diagnostics — Draft for 4.2? - Proposal for a tool in AdminCentral providing an all-in-one zip file for reporting issues.
    • OSGi notes — Draft for x - Discussion notes on using OSGi in Magnolia.
    • Concept Form Handler — Draft for 4.0.1+ or 5 - Proposal for an improved Form module
    • Spam handling — Draft for form module 1.1? - Discussion on pluggable mechanism for user content verification.
    • Concept Caching In Clustered Env — Draft for 4.1 - Summary of findings and ideas for cache configuration for JR clustered installations.
    • Concept - Cache Improvements — Draft for ? - Proposal for cache improvements.
    • Google AppEngine and Magnolia+JCR — Draft for ? - Discussion about Google AppEngine.
    • Concept License Mechanism — Draft for 4.2? - Proposal for more flexible license mechanism.
    • Concept Recovery — Draft for ? - Proposal for partial backup and restore solution.
    • Concept - Serving content based on recency decay bias — Draft for 4.x - Proposal on serving content based on recency decay bias.
    • Social publishing — Draft for ? - Discussion points on social publishing.
    • Concept Import Handler — Draft for ? - Discussion points on refactoring/rewriting of the ImportHandlers in Data module.
    • Concept Activation — Draft for 5.x - Proposal for rewriting/improving existing activation.
    • Module Descriptor Generator (maven plugin) — Draft for ? - Proposal for generating Magnolia module descriptors based on Maven POM files
    • Parallel Activation — Draft for 5.x - Ideas for improving the publishing experience for big sites by increasing activation speed of big trees.
  • Concepts - planned
    • Concept Activation Authentication — In progress for 4.5 - Implementation tracked in MGNLXAA-27@jira
    • Concept - Cache Header Negotiation — In progress for 4.4.6/4.5 - Templates and paragraphs should be able to influence caching. Implementation tracked in - phase 1: MAGNOLIA-3699@jira and phase 2: MAGNOLIA-3902@jira.
    • Concept - Multi Channel — In progress for 4.5 - Implementation tracked in MAGNOLIA-3895@jira.
    • Concept - selectors — In progress for 4.5 - Implementation tracked in MAGNOLIA-3895@jira.
    • Mobile Website - Concept — In progress for 4.5 - Progress tracked in SCRUM@jira
    • OpenId — In progress for 4.? - Implementation tracked in MGNLOPENID@jira.
    • STK Blog Template — In progress for 4.? - Implementation tracked in MGNLBLOG@jira.
    • Concept taglib cleanup, extraction, rewrite — In progress for 4.x - Simplification of the current tag library. Implementation tracked in MAGNOLIA-2993@jira.
    • Templating - Proposal — In progress for 4.5 - Introduces new templating in preparation for Magnolia 5.0. Implementation tracked in SCRUM@jira.
  • Concepts - implemented
    • Concept Google SiteMap — Implemented in 4.5.3 - Google-sitemap module .
    • Concept Backup — Implemented in 4.1 - Backup module ensures the proper backup of data from inside of Magnolia.
    • Concept Transactional Activation — Implemented in 3.6 - See Transaction Activation module documentation.
    • Support multiple HttpClientCallback by default — Implemented in 4.5 - Simplifies configuration of login callbacks and allows simpler WebDAV and RSS support. See MAGNOLIA-3858@jira and MAGNOLIA-3863@jira.
    • Concept Caching — Implemented in 3.6 - Cache module module employs a web cache to store server responses and Advanced Cache (EE) provides a collection of advanced cache strategies.
    • Concept mixin versionable — Implemented in 3.6 - Solved by using Solution C
    • Concept Observation module — Implemented in 3.5 - Observation module facilitates registering interest, monitoring and responding to events in a workspace.
    • Concept i18n next steps — Implemented in 4.3 - For more information see blog posts: Authoring support and implementation/video
    • Imaging module — Implemented in 4.1 - See Imaging module documentation.
    • Concept Short-urls — Implemented in 3.6 - See MGNLSHORTURLS@jira MGNLMODSTR@jira
    • Concept Multi-value — Implemented in 3.7 - Support for multi-values introduced
    • Concept Page Locking — Implemented in 4.4 - Soft Locking module provides concurrent editing capabilities.
    • Concept WebDAV — Implemented in 4.2 - See WebDAV module documentation.
    • Concept Tags & TagClouds — Implemented in 4.1 - Categorization module integrates with Data module to provide content tagging.
    • Concept Link Resolving — Implemented in 4.0 - Page describes the problem prior to resolution
    • Concept Commenting — Implemented in 4.0 - Commenting module (built on Forum module) provides the commenting feature on any page.
    • Concept Synchronization — Implemented in 4.4.5 - Synchronization module synchronizes a target instance with a source instance.
    • Node builder API — Implemented in 4.2 - See MAGNOLIA-2897@jira.
    • Magnolia Data Module Extensions - Mixed type hierarchies — Implemented in 4.2/Data 1.4 - See Data module - Heirarchical types/data.
    • Concept Google Analytics — Implemented in 4.3 - Google Analytics for STK module integrates Magnolia CMS websites with Google Analytics.
    • Concept provided users roles and groups — Implemented in 4 - Base roles included in specific modules where necessary.
    • Concept field based saveHandler — Implemented in 3.6.1 - Mechanism allowing users to define custom save hanlers for individual controls introduced.
    • Concept - simplified content config updates — Implemented in 4.2 - See MAGNOLIA-2828@jira.
    • Concept Content API review or rewrite — Implemented in 4.3 - Major steps already implemented. For planned improvements see (MAGNOLIA-3015@jira) which is split into several subtasks.
    • Unicode support status — Implemented in 4.3 - See Technical Guide > i18n and l10n.
    • Concept Groovy Support — Implemented in 4.3 - Groovy module adds Groovy capabilities to Magnolia.
    • Apache Solr - Magnolia integration — Implemented in 1.0 - magnolia-solr-module on forge. See documentation
    • Concept - multi site support — Implemented in 4.3 - See Extended Templating Kit documentation.
    • UTF-8 page names — Implemented in 4.3 - See i18n and l10n - Unicode in the Technical Guide.
    • Module store — Implemented in 4.3 - store is accessible via the AdminCentral
    • Concept - Rendering Engine — Implemented in 4.3 - Implemented without using a rendering context. See Technical Guide - Rendering Engine and blog post:Rendering Engine and Context.
    • Concept - Requests to Content Snippets (like Paragraphs or Areas) — Implemented in 4.3 - URI to paragraphs returns rendered paragraph/snippet
    • Module's localization process — Implemented in x - See Internationalization effort on Documentation site.
    • Concept Preexecution of paragraph models — Implemented in Magnolia 4.4 - Functionality provided by Blossom module.
    • Concept Multi-step forms — Implemented in 4.4/Form 1.2 - See Form module documentation
    • Concept - Uncoupling deletion and de-activation — Implemented in 4.4 - See Deletion approval and undo.
    • Concept - Cache Streaming — Implemented in 4.4 - Big binaries should be streamed form a BlobStore and not read into the memory
    • Concept forum synchronizer — Implemented in Forum 2.0 - Provides synchronization of Magnolia-based forums with other means of communication, such as mailing-lists. See MGNLFORUM-130@jira.
    • Concept - ModeShape repository backend — Implemented in 4.4 - Experimental ModeShape support introduced. See Jan Haderka's blog posts: MM: Magnolia and ModeShape and Magnolia and ModeShape.
    • Google Spreadsheet Exporter for Content Translation Module — Implemented in 4.4 - See Content Translation Support module documentation.
    • Concept - Account lockout — Implemented in 4.4 - See Security > Users documentation
    • Concept Web Shop Module — Implemented in 4.4 - Shop module integrates a product catalog and shopping cart functionality.
    • Concept - CMIS integration — Implemented in 4.5 - See CMIS
    • Magnolia Module Device Detection — Implemented in 4.5 - Implementation tracked in DEVDECT@jira.
    • Concept IOC in Magnolia — Implemented in 4.5 - Introducing IoC in Magnolia. Implementation tracked in MAGNOLIA-2569@jira
• Conference notes
  • Clustering
  • conference - caching session
  • conference - i18n session
  • User Generated Content
  • Versioning
• Developer information
  • Coding Conventions
    • Code Style
    • Javadoc
    • Unit-Test style
  • Git usage
    • Git repositories structure
    • Git tips and tricks
  • Jira notifications
  • Jira usage
  • Links for developers
  • Maven repository
  • Maven setup
  • Moving modules from EE to CE
  • Naming conventions
  • Releases
  • Svn structure
    • Previous SVN structure
  • UML Diagrams
• Development Tips & Tricks
  • BANNED dependencies
  • Converting Easymock-Tests to Mockito
  • Converting JUnit3 tests to 4-style
  • Customer Project Setup
  • Eclipse
  • Eclipse and Groovy Editor Plugins
  • GWT development mode in Eclipse
  • How servlet request wrapping works
  • Intellij IDEA
  • New Developer Primer
  • Testing Magnolia
  • URI encoding in Tomcat
  • Using JRebel
• Performance
  • Performance Magnolia 4.2.1
    • resource download breakdown
• Presentations
• Roadmap
  • Minor Releases
  • Roadmap 4.0
    • 4.0 Templating notes
    • Dev Samples Module
    • Form module — This topic is now covered in Form module.
    • Mail Module
    • Newsletter Module
    • Other API breaking changes for 4.0 — – moved to documentation site
    • Statistics module
  • Roadmap 4.1
  • Roadmap 4.1.1
  • Roadmap 4.2
  • Roadmap 4.3
    • API changes in 4.3
  • Roadmap 4.4
  • Roadmap 4.5
    • API changes in 4.5
    • Bugfixing for Magnolia 4.5
    • Changelog - Content API
    • Changelog - Security
    • How to migrate your project
  • Roadmap 5.0
• Setting up eclipse and developing magnolia without maven or ant
• Standard Templating Kit
  • STK 2.0 - Frontend
  • STK Introduction
  • Commenting
  • Digital Asset Management (DAM Support)
  • Features Screen Cast
  • FreeMarker and STK
  • FreeMarker Primer — moved to http://documentation.magnolia-cms.com/reference/templating/freemarker.html
  • Javascripts used in STK
  • Renderer, Model and Template Definition
  • STK 1.2 Maintenance
  • STK 2.0 Workshop
  • STK Documentation Material
  • STK Imaging
  • STK Training Outline
  • STK User Training Outline
    • Exercises
  • Themes — This topic is now covered in ETK > Themes.
• Vaadin for "Early Birds"

Blogs

Magnolia team members are blogging (contributors in alphabetical order):

Andreas - Revisiting the Magnolia UI

Boris - BetterFasterBigger

Daniel - Magnolia CMS and related stuff

Federico - The joys of craft

Greg's ramblings

Jan - rah003's blog

Philipp - Magnolia CMS and beyond

http://philipp-baerfuss-magnolia.blogspot.com

Teresa - Teresa @ Magnolia

http://tmiyar.blogspot.com

Tobias - Tobias Mattsson (Magnolia)

by Daniel Lipp (11 hours ago) Git repositories structure (Magnolia Development)

by Jan Haderka (12 hours ago) Minor Releases (Magnolia Development)

by Eric Hechinger (14 hours ago) Concept Google SiteMap (Magnolia Development)

by Antti Hietala (17 hours ago) Migration FAQ (Magnolia Development)

by Grégory Joseph (11 May) Git usage (Magnolia Development)

by Grégory Joseph (11 May) Git tips and tricks (Magnolia Development)

by Jan Haderka (11 May) Concept Demo-Content (Magnolia Development)

by Antti Hietala (10 May) Roadmap (Magnolia Development)

by Eric Hechinger (10 May) Modules Migration (Magnolia Development)

by Zdenek Skodik (10 May) Changelog - Security (Magnolia Development)

by Antti Hietala (10 May) Roadmap 4.5 (Magnolia Development)

by Boris Kraft (09 May) Re: Concept Google SiteMap (Magnolia Development)

by Boris Kraft (09 May) Re: Concept Google SiteMap (Magnolia Development)

by Boris Kraft (09 May) Re: Concept Google SiteMap (Magnolia Development)

by Eric Hechinger (08 May) SiteComponentPorperties.png (Magnolia Development)

Popular labels: