Announcement: Structr 2.0.0

Back from this year's GraphConnect in London, the Structr team and I are happy to finally announce the availability of the long-awaited 2.0 GA release of Structr.

Download

You can download the binary distribution from https://structr.org/download and also the Debian package from Maven Central:

https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/releases/org/structr/structr-ui/2.0.0/structr-ui-2.0.0-dist.zip
https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/releases/org/structr/structr-ui/2.0.0/structr-ui-2.0.0.deb

Documentation

The documentation has been completely reworked and can be found here: https://support.structr.com/.

Changes

The most important changes and new features in 2.0 are:

General

• Parallel Use of Neo4j Server
• Database abstraction layer
• Support for Java 8
• Performance and stability improvements
• Concurrent object instantiation

Improved Schema Support

• Export schema defintion to JSON Schema files
• Drag groups of schema nodes
• Custom schema methods
• Read/write code for Function property

Server-side JavaScript/StructrScript

• Many built-in functions
• Code completion

Security

• Domain-based access rights resolution
• Hide security-relevant attributes in any output
• Automatic removal of unused resource access grants

CMS Features

• Support for sites (virtual hosts)
• CORS support
• Improved HTML rendering performance
• Support for XMPP, Data and Web feeds (Atom/RSS)

ECM Features (new)

• Support for CMIS, SSH/SCP, FTP
• Fulltext indexing and text extraction
• Server-side audio/video conversion

Admin UI

• Improved pagers
• Rework of CRUD data editor
• Improved graph-based visualiation
• Reworked filesystem UI
• Right-click context menu to insert page elements
• Removed usage of localStorage

There are 2,280 commits with so many additions and improvements between 1.0.0 and 2.0.0. If you are curious, just use the git command git log --pretty=oneline 1.0.0..2.0.0 and see what happened in detail.