Magnolia 5.7 reached extended end of life on May 31, 2022. Support for this branch is limited, see End-of-life policy. Please note that to cover the extra maintenance effort, this EEoL period is a paid extension in the life of the branch. Customers who opt for the extended maintenance will need a new license key to run future versions of Magnolia 5.7. If you have any questions or to subscribe to the extended maintenance, please get in touch with your local contact at Magnolia.

The following software components have been tested to work with Magnolia Enterprise Edition and the Jackrabbit repository.

Operating Systems

Linux distributions running kernel 2.6 and later.

  • Ubuntu - all currently supported LTS releases.
  • SuSE Linux Enterprise Server - all releases with existing (SuSE) general support.
  • Fedora - latest two releases.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
    • For Magnolia 5.x: All releases with full support or maintenance support.
    • For Magnolia 6.x: RHEL 7 (and later) with full support or maintenance support.
  • CentOS 6 and 7
  • Debian - all currently supported LTS releases.

Windows

  • Windows Server
    • 2012 R2
    • 2019 Standard or Datacenter
  • Windows 10

Other

  • FreeBSD 11.1 and higher
  • Mac OS X 10.12 and later

Are you running Magnolia on an OS that is not listed here? Let us know by leaving a comment at the bottom of the page or post to the forum and mailing lists.

Java

You need a Java Development Kit (JDK) or a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) on your system to run Magnolia and either the Tomcat application server that ships with the bundle or a Java EE 8 / Jakarta EE 8 compliant server.

JRE is an implementation of the Java Virtual Machine which executes Java programs. JDK is a bundle of software that you can use to develop Java based applications. If you plan to write your own Java code get the JDK. If you just want to run Magnolia then JRE is sufficient.

Magnolia releases run on the active Java version at the time of the first release.


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*Supported by Magnolia 5.7.2+.

Oracle JDK and OpenJDK are interchangeable alternatives. Use whichever one you feel more comfortable with. However, please be aware that as of January 2019, Oracle stopped contributing to the OpenJDK 8 Updates project. Together with OpenJDK 11, the OpenJDK 8 project is maintained by RedHat, for more details see Leadership of OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 11 Transitions to Red Hat.

(warning) If you are using AdoptOpenJDK on macOS 10.15, be aware that this build of OpenJDK is currently facing a segmentation fault problem issued as https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk-build/issues/1315, which also affects our Periscope module. Until the issue is fixed in the AdoptOpenJDK project, you can bypass it by excluding the magnolia-periscope-result-ranker artifact from your instances, temporarily losing the functionality the result ranker provides.

If you want to build Magnolia yourself, you must use Java 8.
Enabling compilation with Java 9 and Java 10 is next:  BUILD-303 - Getting issue details... STATUS .

Application servers

  • Tomcat. Please check Apache's Apache Tomcat - Which Version Do I Want? page to find out about compatibility between Tomcat and Java versions. We recommend you use the latest version of Tomcat 9.
  • Wildfly 11 and later
  • JBoss EAP 7.0 and later
  • IBM WebSphere Application Server 9 and later
  • IBM WebSphere Liberty 18.0.0.3 and later
  • Oracle WebLogic Server version 12c and later

Notes:

  • Oracle WebLogic and IBM WebSphere are supported only with the special Magnolia package for Oracle WebLogic and IBM WebSphere.
  • Oracle WebLogic and IBM WebSphere are supported only with Magnolia Enterprise Edition Pro.

Browsers

Back end: AdminCentral and editing functionality

Desktop

Tablet

Smartphone

Modern browsers

IE11/Edge

iPad

Android


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* We support Chrome, Firefox, Safari and IE versions that are not older than 2 years. As of 2016-06-13, Admincentral does not work properly on Windows 8 with the Chrome browser. 
** Microsoft ended support for Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 on January 12, 2016. These browsers are not supported on Magnolia. Internet Explorer 11 works, however a few bugs are known on the respective minor versions.
*** Android tablets with Chrome generally work well but we don't fully support Android just yet.

Front end: sites built with Magnolia Templating Essentials

Magnolia Templating Essentials (MTE) supports all CSS3/HTML5 compatible browsers and includes a ready-to-use solution for making all the functionality and design available in IE7 and IE8 as well.

Databases

Embedded

  • H2 1.4.200 and later
  • Derby 10.3.1.4 (the packaged version)

External DB

  • MySQL 5.5 and later
  • Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition and later
  • PostgreSQL 9 and later

Notes:

  • Derby DB 10.3.1.4 is supported only as an embedded database, packaged version for low volume use only
  • InnoDB storage engine for MySQL is supported by Magnolia, MyISAM is not. InnoDB is the default in MySQL 5.5 and later.
  • Oracle 10g, 11g, and 12c Enterprise Edition is supported as an external database.

Repositories

  • Apache Jackrabbit 2.18

Summary

The certified stack can be summarized as follows:


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