XOOPS 2.5.0 Final Has Been Released

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The XOOPS Development Team is pleased to announce that a new stable version of the Top 5 Finalist of 2010 Packt Open Source CMS - XOOPS 2.5.0 Final is available for download.

ScreenshotThe XOOPS 2.5.0 release is a major redesign of the System Module which has been AJAX-ed with jQuery. Some of the new features are truly amazing, like the visual placement of blocks, and we're sure that the System Admins will love them

Other major improvements/additions include:

  • Help System for Admin and modules
  • 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)
  • Maintenance with Cache Clean-up, and Tables Maintenance
  • Visual module ordering with drag & drop
  • Visual block placement with drag & drop
  • Refactor all PHP code for use XOOPS API
  • Use template in the same way that front user, admin side for module can call a main template define in xoops_version.php
  • Allow override of template in admin theme like frontend if we set template in ADMIN_THEME
  • Manage editor for blocks, comments and for all module if module developper want to use it activate or deactivate system section
  • Choose number of line for admin section
  • Display or hide tips

For more info and download please click here

XOOPS 2.3.3 Final Released

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After over 25,000 downloads of its previous version in just three short months, the XOOPS Project, one of world’s leading Open Source CMS (Content Management System), is aggressively building on this success and has released a new version of its award winning software – XOOPS 2.3.3.

This release focused on bug fixes and usability improvements. Some of the major changes are:

  • improved profile and pm modules
  • improved installer
  • improved theme
  • improved tinymce editor

The improved installer is the highlight of this release, providing an easy way to install not only the program, but also important modules. The key for this new release was an active collaboration of XOOPS developers from around the world: China, France, UK, USA, Germany, Peru, Libya, Belgium, Netherlands, and several others. The worldwide XOOPS community is one of its strength, resulting in a quick translation of new releases into over 20 languages.

ImpressCMS 1.1.2 Final

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ImpressCMS 1.1.2 was released over the weekend.  Improvements and new additions to ImpressCMS since 1.1.1 was released include:

  • SMARTY was updated to the latest version - 2.6.22
  • Password encryption method can only be changed if the site is open and allows you to access the reset password page
  • Database factory improvement providing more protection against SQL injections when Protector 3.30+ is installed
  • SimplePie RSS generator
  • Updated HTMLPurifier Library from 3.2.0 to 3.3.0

New users should download the latest full version, users who already have a XOOPS or ImpressCMS site should get the latest upgrade packages.  More details can be found at the project's Website.

TikiWiki 2.0 Released

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It is with great pleasure that the TikiWiki community releases TikiWiki CMS/Groupware 2.0

Tiki 2.0 (previously known as Tiki 1.10) is the next generation of TikiWiki. Special thanks to the countless people that made this release possible. TikiWiki is truly a community success. Over 80 people contributed 6894 commits (code changes) to the source code of version 2.0 and so many more to testing, documentation, bug reporting, etc.

TikiWiki 2.0 offers countless (really!) new features & enhancements.

Joomla! 1.5.3 Released

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The Joomla! community has released a new version of their CMS, Joomla 1.5.3.

The Joomla! community is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla! 1.5.3 [Vahi]. This release is earlier than scheduled in order to correct a database name validation error introduced in 1.5.2. It has been a month since Joomla! 1.5.2 was released on March 23, 2008. The goal is to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla! end user community containing the latest bug fixes and minor enhancements.

Latest bug fixes and enhancements in this release includes:

  • Database name validation
  • xHTML compliance fixes
  • Help screen updates
  • JFilterInput infinite loop fix
  • PDF fixes for PHP 4
  • Minor CSS and RTL issues

Additional information about Joomla 1.5.3 as well as goals for a future release can be found at Joomla.org.

Wordpress 2.5

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Wordpress.org: WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code, concurrent post editing protection, full-screen writing, and search that covers posts and pages.

Official release of Joomla 1.5

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Joomla LogoI briefly wanted to mention that the stable release of Joomla! 1.5 has finally arrived! Needless to say, there are some very happy people in the open source community to see this version of the content management system go gold.

I haven't taken a serious look at Joomla! 1.5 since Beta 1 and Beta 2 were out the door. Needless to say, I'm looking forward to taking a look at the finished product over the course of the next few weeks. Until then, below is a brief glimpse from the announcement at Joomla.org of what you can expect from version 1.5.

Plone 3.0 Released

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Last week, Plone 3.0 was released.  Plone is the infamous content management system that runs on the Python-based Zope application server.   The install of Plone is known to be very easy with Plone, Python, and Zope already packaged together in the installer.

Highlights to the new features/improvements in Plone 3.0 that the Plone team would like to stress via their announcement are listed below.   I provided links to further details on those features I thought needed a better explanation or were just too exciting to leave alone.
  • Full version support, history and reverting to older revisions
  • Improved performance
  • Inline (Ajax) editing

Jaws 0.7.0 Released

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Jaws 0.7.0 was released this week.  Jaws is a framework and content management system for building dynamic web sites.  New features in Jaws 0.7.0 include:
  • Support for 12 languages
  • Database support for: MySQL(i), PostgreSQL, MSSQL and SQLite!
  • AJAX in all of the gadgets
  • Better antispam support: Captchas (simple and mathematician), Akismet and extra tools
  • Friendly URLs
Links for downloading Jaws 0.7.0 is available on the official Jaws download page.  The post at jaws-project.com announcing the stable release as well as the requirements for Jaws 0.7.0 is available by clicking here.

bbPress 0.8 Forum Released

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Version 0.8 for the forum application, bbPress, has been released.  This software is a "plain and simple forum" PHP application with roots out of Wordpress.  New features in this version of bbPress include:
  • Forum deletion
  • Multibyte tags
  • Custom locations for themes, plugins and config.php
  • Multiple theme support
  • Better timezone support; You’re no longer restricted to showing all your times in the timezone of your server (what an odd requirementthat was)
  • Whitespace preservation of `backticked` <code> blocks.
The software is available through the bbPress download page.  You can also get a little bit more information about bbPress by checking out the bbPress post announcing this new release.

Wordpress 2.1 on the move

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Matthew Mullenweg announced at Wordpress.org that Wordpress 2.1 "Ella" is available for download. Some of the new features and changes listed in this version of Wordpress that I think users will like include:

  • Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again. I'm a habitual browser closer before saving my work...so this will be a big one for for me!
  • A tabbed editor that allows you to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing instantly while writing a post.
  • The lossless XML import and export makes it easy for you to move your content between WordPress blogs.
  • You can set any “page” to be the front page of your site, and put the latest posts somewhere else, making it much easier to use WordPress as a content management system.
  • Much more efficient database code, faster than previous versions. Domas Mituzas from MySQL went over all our queries with a fine-toothed comb.
  • Pages can now be drafts, or private.
  • Comment feeds now include all the comments, not just the last 10.
  • A new version of the Akismet plugin is bundled.

Drupal New Year: Year of the Five

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On Drupal's sixth birthday Dries Buytaert announced that Drupal 5.0 has been released. The 5.0 version of the content management system is considered a very significant release by its open source community. Consider this, it's been almost half a decade since Drupal 4.0 was released.

After 8 months of development we are ready to release Drupal 5.0 to the world. Today is also Drupal's 6th birthday, so the timing could not be more perfect. Drupal 4.0 was released in 2002 and finally we feel confident to increase the major version number from 4 to 5.

Drupal powers sites across the web, ranging from the personal weblog of Tim Berners-Lee, podcast sites like TWIT.tv, community driven sites like SpreadFireFox.com, artist communities like Terminus 1525 to large media sites like TheOnion.com, MTV and even sites for NASA.

There are new features in Drupal 5.0 that current and new users will like in this new version of Drupal. A few of the new features in Drupal 5.0 being highlighted include:

Mambo V4.6 has been released

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Mambo users rejoice! Mambo 4.6 was released on Monday this week. In August, we discussed the some of the new features and enhancements you can expect in this new version of Mambo. Mambo 4.6 is the first major release of the content management system in two years.

For more information on the new features and download links you can check out the official announcement posted at MamboServer.org.

TYPO3 4.0.1 Released

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TYPO3 4.0.1 was released to address some bugs as well as make some slight improvements over last April's 4.0 release. The Enterprise content management system contains the following new features and improvements in 4.0.1:

  • Compatibility
    • Parameters for showpic can now be disabled
    • FORM submit buttons with images are now valid XHTML
  • Installation/Upgrade
    • The TYPO3 upgrade wizard better clarifies the upgrade process and functionality
    • typo3temp/ subdirectories are created automatically now
  • DBAL
    • Improved support for Oracle
    • Updated AdoDB to 4.90
  • Backend Skin
    • BE admin module provides better support for skins
    • The BE now correctly highlights the current page in IE6.
  • Bugfixes
    • Corrected some HTTP status codes
    • Charset for mails works now

The original announcement for TYPO3 4.0.1 can be found here. The page for downloading the new version can be reached by clicking here. Finally, for an additional list of new features that were included in 4.0 you can visit here.

I'm not a TYPO3 user, so I would be glad to hear from any readers who wish to leave comments about this new version of TYPO3 or TYPO3 in general.