Last night I uploaded to the site the latest upload of the HomePortals framework. Current release is 3.1.570. This release mostly contains bug fixes and some enhancements, but it also includes some interesting new features such as smart default, context object and the new 'text' content renderer.

Also this will be the last release on the 3.1 branch (unless any critical bugs appear), as I will start now working on version 3.2. So if anyone has some ideas, requests, or any other comments as to the direction of HomePortals please let me know on the comments or even better by joining the Google Groups mailing list.

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The latest release of the HomePortals framework included the brand new CMS Plugin, which can be used to add a live authoring interface to any HomePortals based application.

Read more about the plugin and see some screenshots here

The HomePortals Wiki has been moved to the HomePortals Trac site. The previous CodeX-based wiki is no longer available. The reason for the move was to consolidate HomePortals resources, and provide a single place to deal with documentation (wiki), ticket/issue tracking and source code browsing.

The URL for the Trac site is: http://wencho.svnrepository.com/homePortals/trac.cgi

One of the weakest points in the HomePortals project is the lack of documentation still. However to address that issue I have been working on setting up a wiki for HomePortals to provide developers with information about the framework, where everything is, and how to develop applications for it.

The new wiki is located at http://wiki.homeportals.net and is powered by the promising CodexWiki from Luis Majano and Mark Mandel. So far I have only been able to complete a few pages on the wiki but work is in progress and hopefully it will be more complete very soon.

Feel free to checkout the wiki and if you have suggestion of topics that you would like to see there please let me know by leaving a comment here.

This post is to announce that a new update to the HomePortals framework is now available. The current version is now 3.0.189.

This update focused on fixing compatibility issues for running in BlueDragon/OpenBlueDragon and for case-sensitive OSes like linux.

The update extends the range of supported CFML engines to:

* Adobe ColdFusion 7 * Adobe ColdFusion 8 * Railo 2 * BlueDragon 7 * OpenBlueDragon

Regarding OpenBlueDragon, the only problem that I still have is running on the VMWare image that has been making the rounds. I still get some weird errors there but not sure if those are related to OpenBlueDragon, Jetty or something else.

As always, testers and bug reports are more than welcome,

Have fun!