OpenCms 8.5.2 is an important update that fixes several issues that persisted in the 8.5.1 release. This version also contains security improvements against XSS attacks.

Main improvements in OpenCms 8.5.2

• Improved IE10 compatibility.
• Improved lock behavior for group editor.
• Improved offline indexing to index content changes immediately.
• Improved PDF extraction with new library version.
• Improved module import by pausing offline indexing while importing or deleting modules.
• Improved purging of container pages after publish.
• Updated CodeMirror source code editor to version 3.14.
• Updated commons DBCP library.

Please note: This version of OpenCms requires Java 6 because of library dependencies.

Please check out the release notes for further details of the changes in this release.

Who should use this OpenCms 8.5.2 distribution download?

Use this download to install the new version 8.5.2 of OpenCms from scratch. We recommend everyone who uses OpenCms to update to the 8.5.2 release. OpenCms 8.5.2 is fully backward compatible to all prior 8.x and 7.x versions. Templates and other OpenCms developed code these versions should work "out of the box" with version 8.5.2.

If you want to upgrade an existing OpenCms 8.5.x, 8.0.x, 7.5.x, 7.0.x or 6.x version, please use the OpenCms 8.5.2 upgrade Wizard download also available from this website. 

Please note: The *.jar files in this binary distribution have been compiled for Java 6.