Cascade Server 6.2 Beta Packed with New Enhancements

With initial plans for a single release in late Summer, our development team has doubled the fun with not one, but two Cascade Server releases slated for release in the Summer of 2009. The first of these two releases comes out today, with the release of the Cascade Server 6.2 Beta. Packed with new features and enhancements that build upon the release of Sites in Cascade Server 6.0, the 6.2 Beta is available for download from our Success Community now.

Most of the features in the 6.2 Beta release aim to improve upon Cascade's new Site(s) component released earlier this year, the first of these major enhancements being the ability to share templates across Sites. Because templates control the look and feel of a Site and are used to maintain brand consistency, it made sense to make it possible for Site Managers and Administrators to manage templates in a central place and share them across Sites.

In addition to template sharing to promote a consistent look and feel across web sites, the next major addition to the existing Sites functionality in Cascade is the ability to link across them. With the release of Cascade Server 6.2 Beta, users are provided with a variety of ways to seamlessly link to assets across Sites with link resolution taking place behind the scenes.

Keeping seamless link resolution in mind, the Cascade 6.2 Beta also offers up new folder copy and content wizard folder creation logic to ensure links are resolved automatically. This and Site-specific Dashboard customizations mark some of the smaller improvements in the Beta release.

The last major addition with the 6.2 Beta are some hefty improvements to Cascade's Velocity capabilities and Script Formats.The release's Velocity improvements will allow users to accomplish much of what they previously could with XSLT, by making some useful utilities available to script writers. Velocity is a procedural language, so developers with a background in PHP, ASP.NET, and other popular web programming languages, should be more familiar with it and may find it easier to use than XSLT.

For more information on any of the features mentioned above, check out the Cascade Server 6.2 Beta Release Notes. If you download the 6.2 for testing, please be sure to provide us with feedback about the beta!

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