Ibexa DXP
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| Developer(s) | Ibexa |
|---|---|
| Stable release | |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Platform | PHP, Full Stack Symfony Framework |
| Type | Content management system |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | https://www.ibexa.co/ |
Ibexa DXP is an open-source enterprise PHP content management system (CMS) and Digital eXperience Platform (DXP) developed by the company Ibexa (known previously as eZ Systems), which has headquarters in Oslo, Norway. The OSS edition of Ibexa DXP is freely available under the GNU GPL version 2 license, while the Headless, Experience and Commerce editions are available under proprietary licenses that include commercial support as well as access to additional features. The commercial versions of the software extend the capabilities of the open-source core with features such as personalization, e-Commerce and additional editorial and development capabilities.
The initial version of Ibexa DXP, then known as eZ Platform, was released on December 15, 2015.[2]
On April 2, 2020, the then named eZ Systems released eZ Platform Version 3, the next generation of its Digital eXperience Platform (DXP).
The latest stable and long-term supported version was released on February 13, 2024.[1]
Name change
[edit]On April 27, 2020, eZ Systems announced its name change and rebranding to Ibexa.[3] This was reflected in the main product name on October 26, 2020, when the follow-up release to eZ Platform 3.1 was released under the new name Ibexa DXP 3.2.[4]
Origins of Ibexa DXP
[edit]Ibexa DXP is the successor to eZ Platform, which is the successor to eZ Publish, an Open Source CMS in development since 1999. The eZ Publish 5 release was a hybrid approach with old code as well as rewritten code.[5] eZ Platform drops all the legacy code from the software and completed the transition to a complete new code base built on the Symfony Full Stack Framework.[6] The content repository core and user interface are rewritten, but retains the same concepts as the previous eZ Publish software as well as adding more functionality.[7]
Since October 26, 2020, eZ Platform was renamed to Ibexa DXP, following the change in the name of the company. Since then the product is released in different editions with different licenses and feature sets. At first these where OSS, Content, Experience and Commerce. In the 4.6 release, Content was renamed to Headless.[1]
Features and relation to the Symfony Framework
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Ibexa DXP is built on the Symfony Full Stack Framework.[8] Since Ibexa DXP is based on the complete framework, developers can integrate any Symfony extension (i.e. bundle) into Ibexa DXP to add more functionality and, vice versa, Symfony developers can integrate Ibexa DXP into their Symfony projects. Ibexa DXP itself is — in Symfony terms — a number of bundles standing on top of Symfony which add features[9] such as:
- A content repository with multilingual capabilities and versioning
- A User Interface for managing the content repository
- REST and GraphQL[10] APIs for interacting with the content repository using JavaScript or other clients
- A Siteaccess configuration model for matching URLs to provide views to the repository
- User and permission management to control access into the repository
- Integrated Solr search engine for performance and search features[11]
Relation to former eZ Platform Enterprise Edition
[edit]eZ Platform core is free software, but it also served as the engine of eZ Platform Enterprise Edition,[12] Ibexa's commercially supported Digital eXperience Platform (DXP). eZ Platform Enterprise Edition consisted of eZ Platform Open Source core and a set of additional features by Ibexa. Features for content creation and collaboration and landing page management included automated content scheduling, drag-and-drop blocks and in-page editing using the APIs provided by eZ Platform. This set of features was previously named eZ Studio, but Ibexa has abandoned that name [13]
Since the renaming, the OSS edition of Ibexa DXP corresponds to the former eZ Platform, while the Headless (Content), Experience and Commerce editions of Ibexa DXP correspond to the former eZ Platform Enterprise Edition.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Ibexa DXP v4.6 LTS". Ibexa.
- ^ "eZ Systems Reveals Major Web CMS Release". CMS Wire.
- ^ "eZ Systems Announces Company Name Change to Ibexa". Ibexa.
- ^ a b "Product Launch: Introducing Ibexa DXP 3.2". Ibexa.
- ^ "eZ Publish: The past, the present, and the future". Making Waves.
- ^ "Symfony2 meets eZ Publish 5". Symfony.
- ^ "eZ Platform Overview and comparison". Symfony-CMS.net.
- ^ "Symfony Community (join, meet, contribute and learn from one of the biggest PHP communities)". symfony.com. Retrieved 2016-06-11.
- ^ "What eZ Platform adds to Symfony". Symfony Finland.
- ^ Dunogier, Bertrand. "Graphql support".[permanent dead link]
- ^ "eZ to launch enhanced search engine and recommendation service". The CMS Connection.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Systems, eZ. "eZ Enterprise". ez.no. Retrieved 2016-06-11.
- ^ "eZ Launches New Content Management Solutions, eZ Platform & eZ Studio". CMS Critic. Archived from the original on 2016-06-01. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
