Magnolia releases CMS 4.4

Open source content management vendor Magnolia has announced CMS 4.4, which includes new tools designed to enable enterprise Web authors to collaborate in the quick creation of professional-grade, multilingual sites.

The company says new facilities in the Magnolia 4.4 release include collaboration controls to coordinate concurrent editing activities, convenient source language export and re-import of translated content and multistep forms that allow visitors to step forward and backward without losing their data.

The new release also provides dependency management of content elements to ensure that required data from various sources will be available when the page is published, non-immediate deletions so that an author can easily restructure a site and activate changes only once all activities are done, workflow controls for approval of deletions and undos, redlining to compare page versions and Web-based spell checker support.