Roadmap

Vision

Here is the roadmap for the Nuxeo 5 projects: Runtime, Core and EP.

This roadmap is guided by the following principles:

Quickly integrate into the main codeline functionalities that are developed for customers projects (when this makes sense for the generic product, and with the agreement of the customers, of course)
6 months iterative release cycles, so as to get quick feedback from our customers and the community
Whenever possible, new functionalities are developed as add-ons (plugins) to a stable release
Keep up with the main upstream technologies we are using (JBoss Seam, Jackrabbit, etc.)

This roadmap is tentative, in the sense that priorities may change over time, depending on customers demand and community contributions, so we will update this page accordingly.

If you want to speed up the implementation of some features, don't hesitate to join the community and start helping.

Upcoming releases

Nuxeo EP 5.1.4 (February 2008)

This release will focus on maintenance. Some of the Nuxeo EP 5.2 new features (see below) will be available as new add-ons.

Nuxeo Runtime 1.5 (March 2008)

Noteworthy new features:

Glassfish v2 support
JBossAS 4.2 and 5.0 support
Java 6 support
Better integration with Eclipse native extension point system (goal: full compliance)

Nuxeo EP 5.2 (March 2008)

Noteworthy new features:

Based on Nuxeo Runtime and Core 1.5
Based on the latest Seam (2.x), Compass and Lucene releases
Full web services (WS-*) API based on the JAX-WS stack
XML-RPC API
Duplicate content detection
Web widgets, using the Netvibes API (Jean-Marc Orliaguet)
Video management
Enterprise blog / wiki engine
Tag management / folksonomies
Instant messaging / presence integration
Microsoft Office 2007 support
Better integration with MS-Office and OpenOffice (Nuxeo LiveEdit v2)

Nuxeo Runtime 2.0 (July 2008)

Noteworthy new features:

BEA WebLogic support
Better integration with Eclipse native extension point system (goal: full compliance)
OSGi Descriptive Services compliance
Google Guice dependency injection framework integration

Nuxeo Core 2.0 (July 2008)

Noteworthy new features:

Based on Nuxeo Runtime 2.0
Native repository engine, JCR2 compliant
Distributed repositories support
Repositories synchronization (using SyncML)
XQuery support

Nuxeo EP 5.3 or 6.0 (September 2008)

Noteworthy new features:

Based on Nuxeo Runtime / Core 2.0
Repository synchronization
Integration with a groupware server (mail/calendaring/contacts)
PDF Forms support
Digital signature of documents and workflow actions
Full support of Microsoft Office 2007 collaboration features
Connector for SAP ERP
Automatic document analysis and classification
Geo-location support
Native PHP libraries
UIMA integration

Past releases

Nuxeo Runtime 1.0 (September 2006)

Nuxeo Runtime is the foundation of Nuxeo 5’s infrastructure. It handles deployment and extensibility of components to target platforms. This component allows the whole Nuxeo 5 infrastructure to be easily ported between Java platforms (Java EE, OSGi, .NET/IKVM, etc.) and features an easy plug-in mechanism that any component can use to declare extension points (that can be used by another component to extend the previous one).

Nuxeo Runtime uses the OSGi component model internally.

Noteworthy features of this releases:

OSGi-based component model
OSGi deployer/adapter for JBoss 4
JBossAS 4 and Eclipse RCP support (through native OSGi support)
Platform-independent extension system (allowing any component to seamlessly offer extension points and to extend existing ones)

For more information, see the Nuxeo Runtime project on this site.

This milestone has been met on 2006/09/17.

Nuxeo Core 1.0 (October 2006)

Nuxeo Core is an embeddable document management engine, based on Nuxeo Runtime. It provides all the necessary low-level services to define, store, manage, audit, request and search content. It is the kernel of Nuxeo 5 and can also be embedded in third-party applications to provide advanced content management features. It can run on any Java platform and can be easily extended using plug-ins (thanks to Nuxeo Runtime).

Noteworthy features of this releases:

Full-featured document/content management engine
Java Content Repository (JCR) support
XMLSchema-based content schema manager
NXQL engine (NXQL is a subset of SQL to query Nuxeo’s repository)
Eclipse RCP and JBoss AS 4 support
Eclipse BIRT adapter (to use Nuxeo Core as BIRT’s data source)
POJO and Java EE 5 API

For more information, see the Nuxeo Core project on this site.

This was done on 2006/10/23.

Nuxeo EP 5.0 (February 2007)

This is the first stable release of Nuxeo EP 5.0. It includes all the features described on the features list:

Workspaces
Documents lifecycle and versionning
Access rights and users directories
Basic search
Relations
BPM integration (workflow)
Transformation
Audit
Seam views extension system
WYSIWYG theme / look editor
MS-Office, MS-IE and Firefox plugins

Nuxeo 5.0.0.RC (release candidate) was released on 15 November. It features the complete Nuxeo 5.0 EP stack and API, and a web client showcasing the main features of the platform (content creation, edition, relations management, users and rights management, workflow and document lifecycle).

Nuxeo 5.0.0.GA (final release) was released on 5 February 2007.

For more information, see the Nuxeo EP project on this site.

Nuxeo Core 1.1 (February 2007)

Noteworthy features:

Bug fixes
NXQL improvements
Better content schemas management

Nuxeo Core 1.1 was included in Nuxeo 5.0.0.GA.

Nuxeo Core 1.3 (Jul 2007)

Noteworthy features:

Import / Export

Nuxeo EP 5.1 (Aug 2007)

This release improves the overall ECM Platform and adds several interesting features.

Noteworthy features:

Physical archive management
Images management
Meta-directory manager (LDAP and SQL)
Full-featured relation engine (RDF-based)
User notification framework
Better BPM integration
OpenOffice 2 and Microsoft Office 2003 plugins
Notifications
Comments
Workspace templates
ATOM and RSS syndication
Jobs scheduling
Rules engine integration
External search service integration
RESTful web service API
Uses Seam 1.2 and Jackrabbit 1.3

Nuxeo 5.1.M1, the first milestone towards Nuxeo 5.1, was released on 2 March 2007.

Nuxeo 5.1.M2, was released on 11 May 2007.

Nuxeo 5.1.M3, was released on 5 June 2007.

Nuxeo 5.1.0.GA, was released on 24 August 2007.

Nuxeo Runtime and Core 1.4 (January 2008)

Noteworthy new features:

Improved XML schema support
Command-line shell for administrative tasks
Scripting languages support (JavaScript, JRuby, Jython, Groovy)
Pluggable permission service
Import / export API
Ordered folders support
Based on Jackrabbit 1.3.3

Nuxeo EP 5.1.3 (January 2008)

Noteworthy new features (some of them provided by add-ons):

Based on Nuxeo Core 1.4
New layout / forms services
Portlet (JSR-168) integration
Full RESTful web services support
WebDAV support
Single sign-on (SSO) and NTLM authentication
Anonymous login
Flexible mandatory access control (MAC)
Scripting support (JavaScript, JRuby, Jython, Groovy)
XSLT transformations support
Document rendering via FreeMarker
Virtual / multi-dimensional navigation
PDF generation
Picture management / thumbnails browser
Trash box management
Deputy management
Personal workspaces
Performance optimizations
Updates to Italian translation (Mirto Silvio Busico)
New translations: Arabic (Taieb Felfel), Russian (Jane Smorodnik), Japanese (Damien Dupraz), Spanish (Daniel Tellez)