The XOOPS Project, world’s leading Open Source CMS (Content Management System), has released recently the newest version of its award winning software – XOOPS 2.3.1.
The Project Leader, Mr. Jiang Taiwen, stated that this release is significant for two reasons: (1) it is merging the two existent XOOPS branches of 2.0 and 2.2 and (2) it is building a bridge towards the next generation of XOOPS – version 3.0.
The major improvements are addition of Extended Profile and Private Messages modules, and standardizing on one Extended DHTML editor as the default across all XOOPS modules. The administrators will also enjoy the addition of EXM Admin GUI.
There are always two perspectives to a “Content Management System” – the developer’s side, and the user’s side. And XOOPS 2.3 is breaking some more new grounds in both areas for the XOOPS community.
What's New for Developers
1. Improved XOOPS ORM by enabling extensible persistable object handler:
2. Improved text sanitizer
3. Custom Frameworks support such as PEAR and Geshi
4. Support for editor packages, incl. FCKeditor, TinyMCE, Koivi
5. CAPTCHA is built into XOOPS core
6. New Control Panel GUI is introduced with option for custom Themes
7. New file and folder engine, based on CakePHP.
8. New Cache engine based on CakePHP.
9. Some other improvements and new resources
What's New for Users
1. Default character set encoding has been changed to UTF-8;
2. Enabled "auto login"
3. CAPTCHA is enabled for registration and comment system;
4. Block clone enabled so that webmasters have more flexibility;
5. most visual editors are available, e.g. FCKeditor, TinyMCE, etc.;
6. Side-wide default editor;
7. Mask is added for start page;
8. Implemented new installer with user experience improvement experiments;
9. Permissions for access to user profile page is configurable.
10. Extended Profile module
11. Private Messages Module
12. Extended DHTML as default
13. EXM Admin GUI as an option
System requirements
Any PHP version >= 4.3 (PHP 4.2.x may work but is not officially supported, PHP 5.0+ is strongly recommended)
MySQL server 3.23+ (MySQL 5.0+ is strongly recommended)
Web server: Any server supporting the required PHP version (Apache highly recommended)
About XOOPS: Founded in 2002 by group of international team of software developers led by Onokazu from Japan, XOOPS quickly become one of world’s leading Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS). XOOPS received numerous International Awards and Recognitions, among them: the First Runner-Up status in the SourceForge.net's 2006 Community Choice Awards in the Development category, it was selected due to its reputation as Open Source CMS for testing by eWeek, and the latest in Awards/Recognitions in 2008 being from Germany's Chip Magazine (5 Stars), Adobe Edge Magazine(Top 3 content management system), and ONDD (one of top Open Source CMS for Medical Professionals). It was also the finalist of 2008 Source Forge Community Awards, and 2008 CMS Awards by Packt Publishing. XOOPS is the most active and downloaded CMS project on SourceForge.net
More info at: http://www.xoops.org