We're very excited about today's release of DOCman 1.5 RC2 to our internal testers group. This is the final release candidate before we ship the stable version. Unfortunately, due to our decision to include a brand new theme, we are postponing the release until December 8th 9th, but it's going to be worth the wait!
As we explained in our presentation on the Italian Joomla Day , apart from Joomla 1.5 native compatibility, we focused this release on stability, performance and security. Your data is important, and you count on DOCman to protect it!
Instead of adding all kinds of crazy features, messing with the database schema and what not, we decided to take a conservative approach. We only change what we consider important for everybody, and every change is carefully tested, both by our team and a number of testers.
Performance
DOCman 1.4 was a huge step ahead in performance compared to v1.3. When all the big roadblocks have been cleared, it's hard to find ways to improve it even more. That's why we're all the more happy to say that we squeezed out a bit more. DOCman sites will run faster than ever before.
Brand new frontend theme
Good websites are not just about keeping confidential documents secure, and serving them with great performance. We all want our websites to look great as well! We're very happy to announce that Tom designed a shiny new default front-end theme for DOCman 1.5. Besides looking beautiful, it was developed to be fit smoothly into almost any Joomla template.
Testers and translators
We'd like to thank everybody who offered to help out with testing, we really appreciate it. We received a lot of requests, giving us reason to believe that DOCman is more popular than ever. We couldn't accept everybody, but not to worry, the wait is almost over.
