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These pages contain the Daisy 1.3 documentation. The main Daisy site can be found here.

In continuous development for the past 6 months, Daisy packs many new features while providing improvements and bugfixes to ensure easier implementation and integration.

Most notable new features in this release are:

• the introduction of document variants, to support different document branches and multi-linguality
• document tasks for the automation of batched document operations
• easier installation with more defaults and less configuration work
• scriptability using JavaScript (based on Rhino)
• support for multiple authentication schemes (ships with LDAP and NTLM support)
• multi-value fields for management of keyword-like metadata fields
• a faceted navigation browser for metadata-based exploration of large document sets
• improved role management providing "group"-based access control organization
• a totally revamped and vastly improved skinning and publishing mechanism, allowing easier creation of custom look-and-feels, and easier implementation of custom Daisy-based applications
• preliminary RSS feed support
• a detail list of changes, new features and improvements is linked from the upgrade instructions.

Daisy 1.3 is available free of charge and under the ASL 2.0 license.