Liferay 4.3 Owen (June 2007)

Liferay the open source Leader Enterprise Portal, soon will release the new version 4.3
The most new features is very powerful and it is a collection of uptodate techs in both the web and Enterprise , and as the following

• Architecture
  
  • Portal Publishing & Staging Framework (Added Back)
    
  • Liferay Software Catalog
    • Provide a plug-in framework to install Liferay components
  • Sitemaps Protocol Support
  • Enterprise Search: OpenSearch Support
  • Microformat Support
    
  • Community-Scoped Roles (Sponsored Feature)
  • Tag / Folksonomy and Asset Management Framework (Sponsored Feature)
    
  • Expose REST-style JSON Web Services (Added)
  • Javascript Client Libraries for JSON Web Services (Added)
  • LAR Import / Export for Themes (Sponsored Feature)
  • Enterprise Password Policy Management w / Provisioning to LDAP (Added, Sponsored Feature)
• Performance improvements
  • Database tuning
  • Scalability -  optimize  memory usage
• Integration
  • Microsoft Exchange
    • iCal Support -  Import /  Export  from  Calendar  Portlet (Added)
  • Yahoo Maps
  • Full LDAP Synchronization (Moved to Spurgeon)
    
  • Full WebDAV Support
• Context-Sensitive Help
• Liferay Eclipse
  • Portlet Development
  • Portlet Deployment
• Blog Improvements
  • RSS Feed
  • User / Guest Comments
  • Browsable Categories
  • Tags / Labels
  • Entry Rating System
• Refactor Wiki Portlet
• Portlets
  • Address Book
  • Tags Admin (Sponsored Feature)
    
  • Tags Content (Sponsored Feature)
    
  • Tagify Existing Portlets (Sponsored Feature)
    
  • Chatroom (Moved to Spurgeon)
• Themes/Layout
  • Role-base Theme Management (Sponsored Feature)
    
  • Standardize on jQuery JavaScript Framework (Added)
    
  • Simplify Theme Development Process (Added)
    • Semantic and Non-Obtrusive Markup 
    • Standards Compliance
  • Free-form (WebOS) Layout
  • Link to Layout Type
  • Mobile Device Support (Added, Sponsored Feature)
    
  • Section 508 Compliance (Added, Sponsored Feature)

 
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