1. Created by: Jamie Neil,Technical Director, GPMD Ltd SilverStripe 2.4 Highlights

3. SiteConfig

4. Nested URLs

5. Roles

6. Files & Images

7. Shortcodes

8. Databases

9. Performance + caching

10. i18n

13. Cached install page problem seems to be fixed

15. Tagline – The site strapline

17. Extending SiteConfig SiteConfigDecorator.php: class SiteConfigDecorator extends DataObjectDecorator { function extraStatics() { return array ( 'db' => array ( 'Copyright' => 'Varchar(255)' )); } function updateCMSFields(& $fields ) { $fields ->addFieldToTab( "Root.Main" , new TextField( "Copyright" , _t( 'SiteConfig.COPYRIGHT' , "Copyright" ))); } } _config.php: DataObject::add_extension( 'SiteConfig' , 'SiteConfigDecorator' );

30. [shortcode arg="example" /]

32. [sitetree_link id=42]

33. Means that changes to url segments or even position in sitetree won't break links

34. Registering Shortcodes Page.php: class Page extends SiteTree { public static function test_shortcode_handler( $args ) { if ( isset ( $args [ 'string' ])) { return strrev( $args [ 'string' ]); } } } _config.php: ShortcodeParser::get( 'default' )->register( 'page_test' , array ( 'Page' , 'test_shortcode_handler' ));

36. PostgreSQL >= 8.3

37. SQLite3

44. Translatable::set_default_locale('en_GB');

49. Dependent Pages

50. ModelAdmin stable

51. Lots of bugs fixed!

52. Contact GPMD Ltd http://www.gpmd.co.uk [email_address] Tel: 020 7183 1072