The preview version on the MKDoc download site has been updated to the latest stable version of MKDoc-1.6.23.
This version of MKDoc is currently running smoothly on a number of servers and is suitable for production use.
New features
The following features are new to this release, you can find out more about other recent changes by reading the MKDoc 1.6 technology preview.
Easier configuration
Installation and configuration is now even simpler, tools have been optimised to speed the setup process and rationalise common systems-administration tasks – MKDoc is suited to management and maintenance of large numbers of sites.
E-commerce framework
The latest MKDoc includes substantial secure online-shop functionality, watch out for announcements or contact-us for more information.
Faster, more scalable
MKDoc now manages document caching using a fine-grained access control list policy; this allows sophisticated strategies, and reduces the range of documents that have to be served dynamically. Cached pages are served without any database access, making them exceptionally fast.
Database access for many operations has also been optimised, some activities are now ten times faster.
Further Open Source modularisation
MKDoc interacts with users via email, these modules have been migrated to the new Petal::Mail CPAN module.
Text components are now managed by MKDoc::Text::Structured which uses easily understandable rules to format text so users don't need to understand HTML – This module can now be found on CPAN.
The caching framework has been split into the MKDoc::Apache_Cache and MKDoc::Control_List modules.