The XOOPS Development Team is pleased to announce that a new version of the Top 5 Finalist of 2010 Packt Open Source CMS - XOOPS 2.5.0 RC is available for download.
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The XOOPS 2.5.0 release is a major redesign of the System Module which has been AJAX-ed with jQuery done mainly by Nicolas Andricq (ForMusS), Cointin Maxime (kraven_30), and Grégory Mage (Mage). Other major contributors include Trabis, Voltan, Kris_fr, and Marco. Some of the new features are truly amazing, like the visual placement of blocks, and we're sure that the users will love them 
Other major improvements/additions include:
- Help System for Admin and modules (see PM module)
- MySQL Dump in Maintenance
- New Redirect messaging
- Column sorting in tables
- Smarty plugin for icon pack
- Smarty plugin for breadcrumb navigation
- jQuery plugins for display popup or manage drag & drop
- File Manager (Plugin)
So what are the new features that will be included in WordPress 3.0. Personally, I'm excited about improvements in custom 

