Orbeon Forms Release History

Upcoming releases

See the roadmap.

Release strategy

• Why do we release often? We think more frequent releases are better because features and bug-fixes reach users faster. They also keep us almost always ready to ship, rather than having very large work in progress which can destabilize the product and then take weeks or months to fix. In short, we think that incremental development and releases are much better for everyone! Based on our experience since early 2013 when we introduced the new release schedule, we are so far (early 2015) very happy with the change.
• What do releases contain? Releases address both new features and bug-fixes. Point-releases, like 4.6.1, 4.6.2 essentially contain bug-fixes and sometimes very small features. They are done only when necessary, and only for the PE version of the product. Bigger features are for the bigger releases, like 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, and we try do those on a regular schedule.

Orbeon Forms 4.x series

Since Orbeon Forms 4.0, we have a fairly fast release schedule:

• 4.8.1 PE: February 2, 2015 (blog post)
• 4.8 PE and 4.7 CE: January 8, 2015 (blog post)
• 4.7.1 PE: December 1, 2014 (blog post)
• 4.7 PE and 4.7 CE: September 26, 2014 (blog post)
• 4.6.2 PE: August 7, 2014 (blog post).
• 4.6.1 PE: July 10, 2014 (blog post).
• 4.6 PE and 4.6 CE: June 24, 2014 (blog post).
• 4.5.1 PE: May 13, 2014 (blog post).
• 4.5 PE and 4.5 CE: April 7, 2014 (blog post).
• 4.4.1 PE: January 15, 2013 (blog post).
• 4.4 PE: November 4, 2013 (blog post).
• 4.3.1 PE: August 29, 2013 (blog post).
• 4.3 PE and 4.3 CE: August 14, 2013 (blog post).
• 4.2 PE and 4.2 CE: May 30, 2013 (blog post).
• 4.1 PE and 4.1 CE: April 18, 2013 (blog post).
• 4.0.1 PE: March 18, 2013 (blog post).
• 4.0.0 PE and 4.0.0 CE: February 22, 2013 (blog post).

Earlier Orbeon Forms releases

Previously we had in general one major release per year:

• 3.9.1 PE: February 8, 2012 (blog post)
• 3.9: May 15, 2011 (blog post)
• 3.8: May 14, 2010
• 3.7.1: June 1, 2009
• 3.6: December 7, 2007
• 3.5: February 20, 2007

Historical Orbeon PresentationServer releases

Orbeon PresentationServer was an open source, general-purpose XML processing and presentation platform.

• 3.0: January 17, 2006
• 2.8: March 10, 2005
• 2.7: January 21, 2005
• 2.6: November 18, 2004
• 2.5: July 13, 2004

Historical OXF releases

For the curious, these are releases of the Orbeon XML platform before it was open sourced!

• 2.2: November 17, 2003
• 2.1: September 16, 2003
• 2.0: July 10, 2003
• 1.5: March 17, 2003