World's leading Open Source CMS speeds up development

Feb. 1, 2010 - XOOPS Projects is enjoying a strong increase in popularity, measured by number of new users, as well as new developers joining the XOOPS Team. According to Alexa.com, the XOOPS' reach increased by 57% over the last three months.

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Thanks to this influx of new developers, XOOPS Project has been able to release updates to its CMS on a monthly basis since August 2008, and to start parallel development of new versions. While one team focuses on the maintenance of 2.4.x series, a new team from France and Switzerland is working on 2.5.x series, with main focus on redesigning the Admin with jQuery. At the same time, the work continues on on revising architecture for the new XOOPS 3.0 version, led by Dr. Taiwen Jiang, the Project Leader.

The XOOPS 2.5 Alpha has been released on February 1, 2010, only one week after the 2.4.4 Final release.

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XOOPS CMS usability is getting much better today with the release of XOOPS 2.4.0 : it just got a completely new themeable admin interface, in addition to lots of new features and improvements. XOOPS came also with a support for WCAG 2.0 which make it more ready to adopt for government websites in many countries including New Zealand, Canada, Europe, and Japan. Below the press release :

After over 25,000 downloads of its previous version in just five short months, the XOOPS Project, world’s leading Open Source CMS (Content Management System) and #1 CMS System hosted on SourceForge.net, is aggressively building on this success and has released a new version of its award winning software - XOOPS 2.4.0.

This release is focused on usability and productivity improvements. Some of the major changes are:

* new user friendly Admin GUI
* new mechanism to modularize and extend Core via Preloads
* central support for jQuery
* improved Installer
* WCAG 2.0 - Sight Impaired Assisted Forms
* Themeable Admininstration area
* support for WYSIWYG Editors: CKEditor, wymeditor, Xinha, and Spaw2
* new System License Key
* Support to PHP 5.3
* Security updates

The new Admin GUI and the Preloads extension mechanism are the highlight of this release. 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.

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RavenNuke™ CMS: flexibility of PHP-Nuke with advanced security, features, & support

Raven PHP Scripts released version 2.4.0 of the RavenNuke™ CMS, which features an improved static content module, new project management module, a new W3C compliant theme, dynamic HEAD section generation with on-page overrides of title, meta description and meta keywords tags. It also includes numerous security improvements, a simplified approach to loading CSS and JS designed to simplify future upgrades and the use of add-ons, as well as improved installation and upgrade utilities. The RavenNuke™ team also introduced the RavenNuke™ Wiki.

RavenNuke™ CMS was originally based on PHP-Nuke 7.6, but has evolved with its focus on security, performance, standards compliance and significantly enhanced functionality.

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After over 25,000 downloads of its previous version in just five short months, the XOOPS Project, world's leading Open Source CMS (Content Management System), is aggressively building on this success and has made available a release candidate of its award winning software - XOOPS 2.4.0.

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

* new user friendly Admin GUI
* new mechanism to modularize and extend Core via Preloads
* central support for jQuery
* improved Installer
* WCAG 2.0 - Sight Impaired Assisted Forms

The new Admin GUI and the Preloads extension mechanism are the highlight of this release. 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.

XOOPS has not only a very loyal base, as the number of downloads suggests, but is also highly respected in the industry. In 2008 it was a finalist in SourceForge Community Awards and in the CMS Awards by Packt Publishing. It also won the prestigious 2008 China Open Source Software Contest Award.

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London, United Kingdom, 10 September, 2009 - Asbru Software has released version 7.1 of the Asbru Web Content Management system designed to provide control and simplicity for non-technical users while maintaining flexibility and power for developers.

This latest major upgrade to the Asbru Web Content Management system enables organizations to easily deliver content tailored for different devices such as mobile phones and PCs. This release also includes several new features for online stores and many significant improvements for system integrators and developers.

Deliver Content to Mobile Phones

The new version 7.1 enables organizations to easily deliver content tailored for different devices such as mobile phones and PCs.

The content management system's flexible template system already lets organizations build several versions of their websites. The new functionality now enables organizations to easily configure, which version of a website to display for specific devices.

So an organization can for example build and display a simplified mobile friendly version of their website to mobile phone users and another version of their website with a layout to fit larger screen sizes to other users. The new functionality enables organizations to configure special website versions for as many different devices as required.

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In a new and very interesting initiative "Tree for Bugs", Kentico software announced that they will plant a tree for every bug reported in Kentico CMS 4.1 by clients. The company promises also to fix all reported bugs within 7 days. Hats off for the idea to promote the product, help in its development and discover bugs, and finally a great benefit for the planet with new trees.

Below the press release :

Kentico Software, the Web content management system vendor, today announced it will plant a tree for every bug found in the latest version of Kentico CMS for ASP.NET. The company also promises to fix all reported bugs within 7 days.

Nashua, NH (PRWEB) August 30, 2009 -- Kentico Software will plant a tree for every bug in Kentico CMS 4.1 reported by clients and it al"We are very confident about the quality of our Web Content Management platform. Although we can hardly eliminate all bugs, our goal is to minimize their number and fix them within 7 business days, so that we can provide a stable and reliable solution to our clients," explains Petr Palas, Kentico CEO. "We want to encourage our clients to report all bugs they encounter. And we decided to give back something that everyone on the planet will benefit from - new trees," he adds.

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