One of new features but a bit forgotten in eZ Publish 4.1 is the improved way to override translations and locale files. Previously, you had to override entire translation files, whereas with eZ Publish 4.1, you can selectively override specific strings. Let's take a look at a practical example, where we will override a default eng-GB translation (which is the default language in eZ Publish) by creating an extension to contain a translation file that has only a few strings that we want to override.

The PHP Development team has recently released PHP 5.3.0. Early reports indicate there is a performance boost simply from upgrading from a previous version.

From community feedback it appears that eZ Publish using Windows is about 30% quicker with PHP 5.3.0. I decided to validate these reports and confirm the performance of eZ Publish using PHP 5.3.0 with a linux environment.

A short summary of the tests performed can be found below.

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.