What's new is a focus on building modern web pages, easier customization and more options for mobile.

Redesigned User Interface

First off, we've redesigned our rendering engine with ZURB Foundation in mind. HTML output is now much simpler and cleaner. Our portal technology nests rows and columns, and uses the Foundation grid system to create powerful multi-device layouts quickly and easily. Foundation gives our sites a responsive framework so that web pages look good on desktop, tablets and phones. Implementing Foundation also allowed us to refresh our templates with a new, modern look. Under the covers there's Foundation web components and JQuery. We've updated the HTML content editor to TinyMCE's HTML5 editor. The Concursive image library plugin for TinyMCE has been redesigned with thumbnails and enhanced capabilities for colors, fonts and sizes. All of Connect's modules and portlets have been updated for Foundation.

Configuration Packs

Customers and partners are able to customize Connect using configuration packs and plug-ins. Connect achieves this through run-time discovery of configuration files, components and portlets. Adding your own functionality has never been easier.

Mobile-First Possibilities

With ConcourseConnect 6 you can launch Apps, mobile-first. User registrations, user settings, push notifications and module functionality are all accessible via the restful API.

Functionality Improvements

• Interactive onboarding capability when a user registers
• Blog posts can have file attachments
• Private messages can have email compliance CC configured
• Wiki forms have a multi-select checkbox field type
• Users can request to be added to a managed badge
• "Badge Admins" can be configured to manage all badges
• Listings can be approved by users with a configured badge
• Listings can be archived by users with a configured badge
• Domain name expiration monitoring
• An extendable community statistics module has been added including widgets for user and profile activity