Diem 5.0

Diem first Open Source release

A CMS/CMF for symfony

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This is the main documentation for Diem.
It covers all aspects of site creation, from the installation to the more advanced customization tips.
Some symfony knowledge is recommended.

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What's new ?

Compared to the previous 4.5.x serie,

100% of the codebase has been rewriten
Symfony has been upgraded from 1.1 to 1.4
Propel 1.3 has been replaced by Doctrine 1.2
jQuery UI has been upgraded to 1.8
New look for admin and front editing
Dedicated user plugin, simpler, without profile class
Global performance boost
More functional and unit tests
Access to Google Analytics data ( with builtin charts )
Faster and better automatic search engine
Safer database migrations
Ability to drag&drop zones & widgets everywhere in the page
Stylesheets, templates and components are available in the front code editor
Internal logs added for events and requests
Much better extensibility thanks to the Dependency Injection Container
Added many events
Faster and more efficient stylesheet and javascript compression
Configuration panel
HTML5 support

And many other cool features like database & dependence graphs, admin module automatic search, sort on foreign columns, javascript CDN...