Roadmap

The roadmap is designed and planned with the community of Converge users and developers.

MilestoneRelease DateSummary
1.1.0   November 25, 2011

Support for media item renditions

Support for document management

See complete list of features and fixes

1.2.0   November, 2012

Upgraded for GlassFish v3 (Migration to Java Enterprise Edition 6)

Support for uploading to Drupal 7

Support for uploading to Joomla 2.5

Unification of Plugin Architecture to make it simpler to write plug-ins and enhance scheduling of tasks

2.0.0   January, 2013

Converge is split into two separate applications; Editorial and Newswire

Installer for making it easier to install and configure

2.1.0   February, 2013

UI overhaul. The UI will be re-developed using the Twitter Bootstrap UI framework

2.2.0   March, 2013

Translations (French, Arabic, Spanish and Danish)

2.3.0   May, 2013

Round trip integration with Adobe InDesign

2.4.0   June, 2013

Integration with Impreshin / AdBooker. The integration will allow the outlet planners to get an overview of stories and ads booked for each edition.

2.5.0   July, 2013

Integration with FlashCast. The integration will allow media owners to send stories to FlashCast for distribution to transit-passenger

2.6.0   July, 2013

Implementation of the NewsAPI (ANIC) specification.

2.7.0   July, 2013

Implementation of architecture for content creation plus integration with DataWrapper and Google Chart.