Hot on the heels of SilverStripe 2.3.0 comes an update that resolves some bugs, adds support for six more languages in the CMS, and launches two great new features.

• Addtional languages supported include: Catalan (Andorra), English (United Kingdom), Spanish (Mexico), Indonesian (Indonesia), Bokmål (Norway), and Serbian (Serbia).
• Mollom is a smart and cheap way to reduce unwanted comments and other website spam. It uses a combination of bayesian filters and CAPTCHAs to protect forms on your website.
• This means you can now install SilverStripe on Microsoft IIS 5.1 and 6.0 (which don't have native URL Rewriters). It also helps those having difficulties with the free URL rewriters on Apache and Lighttpd.

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Netcraft, reports that last month saw the largest increase of sites ever since it began the surveys. The reason for the jump? They say partially it was due to blogging sites:

The Internet experienced its strongest site growth ever last month, powered by a surge in blogs and free web sites. In the June 2006 survey we received responses from 85,541,228 sites, a gain of 3.96 million sites from the May report. This is the largest one-month increase in sites in the history of the Netcraft survey, surpassing a gain of 3.3 million in March 2003, although the 2003 gain was larger in percentage terms (8.5%, compared to 4.7% this month).

You can read more about it in their June 2006 Web Server Survey.