Orbeon Forms 4.0 Beta 2

Today we released the second Beta release of Orbeon Forms 4.0! Like 4.0 Beta and the previous milestone builds this is not a final release.

In this release, we fixed a number of Internet Explorer issues (in particular for IE 7, which we don't recommend to use but which we still support, but also some IE 8 and IE 9 issues), some improvements to the Form Runner Wizard view, and more. Here is the overall list of changes since the first Beta:

• Form Builder
• Also add Italian and Korean among top languages
• Form Runner
• Wizard: truncate long section titles to the left (#711)
• Non-relevant sections show in wizard view (#699)
• Blank oxf.fr.default-logo.uri causes invalid request (#713)
• Call the search API without app/form returns no documents (#709)
• IE8: licence plate digits appear vertically (#705)
• IE7: Navigation boxes around arrows not tall enough (#723)
• IE7: Navbar is too high(#721)
• IE7: Wizard: too much space in TOC (#722)
• IE7: Unbalanced padding with input fields (#727)
• IE7: Bootstrap add-on misaligned (#728)
• IE7: Grid cell content not top-aligned (#729)
• IE7: fr:box-select too wide (#730)
• IE7: Upload control too wide (#731)
• ClassCastException when using Oracle persistence layer on JBoss 7 (#726)
• XForms engine
• Regression: XML parsing error with IE9 after fix to #682 (#717)
• IE9: Checkboxes misaligned (#704)
• xf:output with date type outputs timezone (#689)
• Better radio/checkboxes alignment
• Other
• Set Xerces SecurityManager (#686)

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.beta2.201301160348-PE.zip
• CE version: orbeon-4.0.0.beta2.201301160141-CE.zip

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

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