1. Technical novelties in eXo Platform 5.0

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Upgrades
In the version , many tools/applications used by were upgraded to newer versions in order to benefit from their latest updates and improvements	Tomcat 8.5, JBoss EAP 7.0, Elasticseach 5.6, Infinispan 8, Groovy 2.4, JQuery 3.2 and Shindig 2.5.
Performances and scalability
In , we insisted on improving the performance and the scalability by changing some strategies, configurations and data storage.	Cache strategy and configuration New cache on organization service Files indexing in Elasticsearch Storage of all spaces members in Social database tables
Migrations
With , some data were migrated from JCR to database to improve performance and scalability	Notifications and settings in JPA dataset ECMS files are indexed in Elasticsearch Space members stored in Social database tables

Many other improvements and refinements were also done in :

Customizing skin: No more need to duplicate the whole project platform-ui.
Extending the IM list of user profile is now doable through UI.
When indexing JCR workspace, old indexes are always existing until the end of indexation.
An Mbean is added to reload Javascript.
A new minify attribute allowing to enable/disable the minification.
Compilation of Javascript scripts by Google Closure Compiler to ES5.
Improve the Upgrade plugin framework: Add configuration to define the target version.
Add the possibility to define a group of users able to manage all spaces.
eXo Platform 5.0 could be ran with Java9.
Improvements on Elasticsearch mappings.
Copying URL feature does not use Flash anymore but it relies on Javascript clipboard feature.
Javascript errors are no more logged into WebUI popups but in console.