Orbeon Forms 4.0 RC1

Today we released Orbeon Forms 4.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1)! Like 4.0 Beta 3 and the previous milestone builds this is not a final release, but we are really getting there!

Here is the overall list of changes since Beta 3:

• Form Builder
• Edit Source: don't allow empty document (#815)
• IE9: Buttons editors in Builder cause crash (#812)
• Form Runner
• Currency/number prefixes don't show in view mode (#783)
• PDF template: xf:output not supported (#792)
• Include W-9 sample form (#791)
• Fix possible XPath error when saving attachments (553c0d145c)
• Samples: remove unneeded buttons (686b945264)
• fr:grid doesn't evaluate remove-constraint in context of iteration (#795)
• Controls form: i18n issue with section template (#738)
• Controls form: Dynamic Data Dropdown needs some data (#650)
• IE7: Navbar content misaligned in Noscript mode (#733)
• Upgrade to TinyMCE 3.5.8 (09b185a35c)
• Toolbar images of the Formatted Text are not shown, under proxy portlet, on IE9 (#798)
• View mode: incorrect breaking of text (#804)
• Bootstrap and Orbeon styles have effect outside the portlet (#805)
• MySQL: free text search search doesn't return any results (#821)
• Captcha doesn't show (#822)
• Recaptcha doesn't work anymore (#825)
• IE9: fr:us-phone shows "undefined" in field (#810)
• Lots of small CSS fixes
• XForms engine
• Update of switch label with for updates wrong label (#793)
• XPath error when hiding section (#799)
• Chrome: JS error when going back to Form Runner home (#716)
• Upload gets stuck on IE10 (#802)
• Occasional NPE on portlet initialization (#819)
• Can't focus on captcha (#823)
• Setfocus on XBL with mode="focus" focuses on nested control (#824)
• IE7/IE8: JavaScript placeholder with initial focus doesn't remove placeholder (#811)
• Other
• Coding error for socket timeout (#801)

More information is available in the in-progress release notes for 4.0.

You can download the builds using these links:

• PE version: orbeon-4.0.0.rc1.201302120214-PE.zip
• CE version: orbeon-4.0.0.rc1.201302120301-CE.zip

Don't forget to grab a trial license for the PE version.

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