Inside eZ Publish 4.1.0 there is a new documentation directory listing all backwards compatibility (BC) changes for this release. This directory is located under 'doc/bc' folder within the eZ Publish root. Here you can find important information about BC changes which help with the upgrade process from previous eZ Publish versions, as well with your extensions.

Introduced in eZ Publish 4.1 is a performance enhancement (http://issues.ez.no/14273) which loads modules more intelligently.

All available modules must now be registered through module.ini and [ModuleSettings].ModuleList array.

If your extension uses custom modules and you receive an an error similar to this:

The alpha version of the eZ Multiupload extension has been released and is ready to be downloaded and tested. The eZ Multiupload extension enables users to upload multiple files - such as images, documents, and binary files - at once, via the front-end of an eZ Publish website.

One of the many new features in the upcoming Online Editor 5.0 is the support for GUI interaction for the selection of custom attributes. Together with custom tags, this provides many possibilities. Consider the following example, where we want to have a few words or sentences within a paragraph to be a different color or style.

One of the new features in the upcoming eZ Publish 4.1 release is an enhanced content edit handler, which enables you to implement custom validation rules. Based on Kristof Coomans' "Object validation" extension, eZ Publish 4.1 will include the possibility to insert custom validation methods in the content object storing process.