[Erp5-dev] New release (5.4.7) is comming

[Rafael Monnerat]

Hi,

I would like to announce that I'm starting to prepare a new erp5 release 
5.4.7.

This release will introduce some significant replacements:

   - Zope 2.12 replace zope 2.8
   - Mariadb replace MySQL for Indexation
   - LibreOffice replace OpenOffice for Office Conversions (To be Confirmed)
   - CloudOOo replace oood as a Conversion Service
   - ERP5 Products will be distributed as eggs (Under test)

The buildout now includes all softwares which can be used or related to 
a ERP5 implementation like:

   - For web: apache, haproxy and varnish
   - Full-text engines: Groonga and sphinx
   - Caching: kumofs, memcached and flare

Everything can be compiled by the buildout and ERP5 is going to be more 
and more distribution independent. And for those who only want a 
"minimal" ERP5 release and use distribution native packages, this will 
also be possible with specific buildout profiles.

There will also be new features to improve ERP5 user experience:

   - ERP5 Configurator: default ERP5 configuration used by "One Student 
One ERP" (OSOE)
   - SphinxSE Engine integration: for high performance full text indexing
   - JQuery Support: for improve user experience
   - UNG Docs: providing Spreadsheets, SVG and calendar to ERP5.

I'm also very happy this release includes significant contributions from 
community:

   - Russian Translation (Boris).
   - Experimental Audio and Video support (Gabriel Lima, IFF)
   - Luxembourg Accounting plan
   - CloudOOo from IFF students (Gabriel Monnerat when he work at IFF)

Moreover, OSOE Documentation (http://www.osoe-project.org/lesson) and 
user documentation (http://www.erp5.com/documentation/user) should now 
be available in portuguese thanks to ERP5 BR community.

Any help to fix unit test suite is welcome.

Regards,
Rafael Monnerat