Highlights of Cascade Server 6.0 Beta Release:

The new features in Cascade Server 6.0 include:

Sites

Sites are containers for organizing and separating Home and Administration area assets. Site administrators can grant access to Site content to specific Users and Groups in Cascade Server. They can also assign Users and Groups Site-specific Roles to grant or restrict their abilities on a particular Site.

The dropdown menu of all the site a user has access too

Site Management Area

The Sites are managed in the new Site Management area.  Sites can be created, edited, deleted, and published from the Site Management area. Sites assets, like most other assets, have Access Rights to control who can and cannot manipulate them. Only Users and Groups assigned assigned to the Site can enter the Site.

Site Migration Wizard

The Site Migration Wizard is a tool to assist moving a site out of the Global area and into its own Site.  The wizard will step through the necessary actions to move the content and administrative assets to a site.  The wizard has a "Test Migration" available to find any errors that may occur before performing the migration.

The first screen in the Site Migration Wizard

Roles

New Roles - New Roles can be created with different abilities, instead of modifying the five static roles.
Site Roles - Sites now have their own contextual roles (i.e. a user's abilities in one site can be completely different in another site).  This allows more control over the users interacting with different sites.

Site Role assignment

New System Menu

The System menu, represented by the Cascade Server logo, is located on the top left of the blue menu bar.  It is where non-site specific actions, tools, and preferences are located.  Most of what was on the Tools menu is now on the System menu, leaving the Tools menu with site-specific tools.

The System Menu dropdown

A complete list of the issues resolved can be found below.

Issues Resolved in 6.0 Beta

New Feature

• [CSCD-4713] - New Roles
• [CSCD-4714] - Sites
• [CSCD-4837] - Site Migration Wizard
• [CSCD-4880] - Contextual Roles in Sites
• [CSCD-4941] - NEW System Menu

Bug

• [CSCD-4936] - Don't allow jobs left in the publish queue to prevent future publishes

Upgrading to Cascade Server 6.0 Beta

DO NOT attempt to use Cascade Server 6.0 Beta in a production environment. Instead, install it in a test environment.

All Users: If you are running Cascade version 5.2.4 or earlier, you MUST UPGRADE to version 5.5 or a higher BEFORE upgrading to 6.0!  Cascade Server 5.7.3.1 is available for download here. When upgrading to 5.5 or higher, you must allow Cascade to boot until you're able to access the login screen. At that point, you should see the following in the log:

INFO: Server startup in 59457 ms

After the login screen is accessible, you can stop the server and install the 6.0 beta software. We're working on making this easier for the final release!

MySQL Users: Please verify that your MySQL database is using the InnoDB storage engine before upgrading (see Database Configuration).

Please follow every available release Upgrade Guide for every version you skipped during the upgrade.