ICE development is built on weekly engineering cycles. Each cycle in the roadmap, we build, test and pilot software and write documentation based on a set of tickets describing no more than one day's work. We do this using another open source system called Trac.

ICE 2.0 Beta now available

2008-04-07 ICE 2.0 Beta released
2007-12-04 ICE 2.0 Alpha released

New features and improvements

The biggest difference between version 1.2 and 2.0 is how ICE stores the different renditions of documents and their properties (i.e. PDFs, images etc). In ICE 1.2 document renditions and properties were stored as Subversion properties unfortunately this has limitations that were not meant to exist according to the Subversion documentation.

ICE now creates its own properties, as a result, there are less problems with Subversion and improved display times. Other major differences include:

• Interface updates designed around flexible workflow

  • One click to edit

  • Action icons

  • Functionality broken up into tabs

• Document rendering functionality available as a service

• Text searching

• Inline annotations

• Plugin functionality

• Multi-threading (render documents while viewing others)

• Able to run as either a server or client side application

• Inbuilt configuration files (skin and site behavior)

• Support for embedding HTML files inline

• Strict XHTML output improvements, etc.

• Lightbox support

View demos or specific changes as Trac tickets for ICE 2.0.

Known faults

Note: There are still many faults we are working through. If you find any major problems that we have not yet found nor ticketed, please contact us.