Welcome to the dotCMS documentation site.  These pages make up a living document, intended to help the dotCMS community to use the dotCMS platform as effectively as possible.  If there is something missing, or you would like to contribute to this site, please let us know.

What's New in dotCMS 2.0

• New Customizable/Extendable Workflow Engine
• Files as Content
• Metadata Extraction/Indexing
• ElasticSearch replaces (wraps) lucene for performance and horizontal scalability
• Pessimistic Content Check-in / Checkout
• Content Editing UI improvements
• Key/Value Field Type
• Configuring the dotCMS Cache
• Data Model/API Improvements
• Searching within all Content Type fields using: _all
• Velocity Logging
• RESTful API to Manage Indexes
• Upgrading to dotCMS 2.0
• Auto Updater in dotCMS 2.0
• OSGI Implementation in dotCMS
• System Info Tab
• ROOT Folder in Plugins

Looking for the documentation for previous versions? You can find them here:

• dotCMS 1.9.5
• dotCMS 1.9.3
• dotCMS 1.7