Two useful new template operators are present in this new release:

• addTimingPoint - adds a custom timing point that will be part of debug info
• numQueries - returns the number of queries executed so far (either in main db or the cluster db)

Have you already started to try out these new storage/database things commonly referred to as NoSQL? (For you google-bot, I'm talking about CouchDB, Cassandra, HBase, Hadoop, Hypertable, MongoDB, Tokyo Cabinet, etc). Well, it's one thing to install and use them but another to understand all the computer science background about them.
Therefor many developers around the world thought to make this summer a NoSQL summer. Local meetings are held in many cities: London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, lake constance ...
If you like to meet for a beer and learn and discuss about some of the hottest stuff in computing, then come around! Please select the dates when you can join and the papers you'd like to discuss. You can subscribe to email announcements or ical and rss feeds at the lake constance nosql summer page.

This is the second part of this tutorial to demonstrate how you can access and extract user information from your eZ Publish database using PHP. Part One of the tutorial provided ways to extract individual users and demonstrated how to display all of the user information. It also demonstrated some of the built in ways [...]

There are specific cases where you need to pull the eZ Publish information directly in your PHP scripts. There are options available for both users and nodes. There is already an excellent article about doing this here. This guide extends this by providing a detailed guide to extracting User Information through a script and going [...]

Version 0.9.3 of the PDF catalogue has just been released. This release comes with several new features for the dedicated PDF catalogue, supports better customization of the common PDF catalogue and contains a minor bug fix related to the titles in the table of contents. A demonstration of the dedicated PDF catalogue is available here: http://www.alexander-block.net/eng/Business/eZ-Systems/Personal-PDF-Catalogue

Netgen Suggest is a eZPublish extension developed on top of eZFind and implements a drop down for suggestions on search fields using Solr facets. When a user starts to type letters in the search box suggestions are shown in the drop down bellow. Suggestions are sorted by number of occurances in the search index. When a next word is entered new suggestions are based on words entered before.

More background information about this extension on Netgen Blog.

The new release is now available with many changes.

Highlights:

• added a module and view to highlight any file within the eZ Publish root dir
• updated bundled GeSHi lib to 1.0.8.6 (many new languages supported)
• improvements to the eztemplate language file
• improvements to the ezini language file

Version 0.7.1b of nvNewsletter published.

Fixes a bug found in previous release:
- Fix for URL checking when URL is in newsletter sub node.

eZ Upgrade has been extended, supporting upgrades of eZ installations as old as 3.5.0, and upgrading them up to 4.3.0.
Now there's no excuse for not moving your 3.x site over to that shiny, new PHP 5 server. :)