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@ahilles107 ahilles107 released this 06 Nov 08:27
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New in Newscoop 4.3

RESTful API

We are trying to make Newscoop ready for all newspaper challanges and be able to exchange all content with all needed system and applications. In Newscoop 4.3 you can find improved response objects, and a lot of new endpoints.

Enhanced plugins system

In new plugins system we allows for plugins developers to extend or replace almost every part of cms.

Currently plugins can:

  • Create/manage and work with database tables
  • Add admin routes and controllers
  • Add custom frontend routes and controllers
  • Introduce custom smarty functions/blocks/lists
  • Add own dashboard widgets
  • Hook into some parts of Admin UI
  • Work with users permissions
  • Introduce and manage background jobs

Read our documentation for plugins here: http://docs.sourcefabric.org
Find our plugins created by us here: https://github.com/newscoop

New UI for users management

Better way to filter and search you regitered users. Find out how many your users use login with Facebook.

Improved performance

Newscoop 4.3 supports new cache providers, we fixed also a lot of database slow queries, and non eficient code.

Find more about our current work on dev-blog: http://dev-blog.sourcefabric.org/

Upgrade to Newscoop 4.3 from Newscoop 4.2.3

For upgrade from Newscoop 4.2.3 or 4.2.4 please follow instruction from this file