Latest Open Source CMS News & Articles

Crafter Rivet is now Crafter CMS as Rivet Logic has spun off a company called Crafter Software to promote its the Web content and Web experience management system.

Personalization with content targeting feature in Crafter CMS.
 

Open source CMS provider dotCMS released version 2.3 this week with a clear eye towards mobile devices. This update includes the very popular responsive themeing, and added tools like a link checker (just like what it sounds like) and a feature called time machine that shows what older site designs or even future site designs look like.

Responsive themes allow for an all in one design across websites or across devices.
 

.NET based CMS Orchard has reached the 4,000,000 download mark for modules and themes (the CMS itself has 480,000 downloads), and is now readying its next release, version 1.7, for a June 2013 launch. It's a major release, and it will debut features like drag and drop multiple image imports, image processing and integrated slideshows.

When two ecosystems get together, the result can be a bigger landscape. This week, enterprise portal vendor Liferay announced a new partnership with infrastructure provider TIBCO Software that is intended to simplify Liferay Portal’s integration with SAP, SharePoint, JD Edwards, Peoplesoft, Lotus Notes, Siebel and other systems. 

Every month we like to serve up a little open source CMS roundup, and like most months in this busy segment, May is packed with interesting tidbits.

One thing enterprises like in a technology vendor is reliability, and open source CMS provider eZ Systems certainly has that in its new CEO. Not only is Aleksander Farstad the new CEO of eZ Systems, he's also a co-founder.

Like posting content to Drupal sites from an iOS device? Acquia, the commercial provider of Drupal Web CMS services, has released the code base for building native iOS apps that can post content right to a Drupal website — the first of its kind.

Open source CMS provider Nuxeo has debuted native mobile apps on iOS and Android devices, and developers now have access to tools for building feature specific hybrid apps of their own.

Welcome to this month's wrap up of what's to come in open source CMS projects when we offer some highlights of what to look forward to in the open source world in April.

For most people, a web content management system (Web CMS) is a tool for the day-to-day chores of running a website. For Sourcefabric, a non-profit organization based in Prague, a Web CMS is a weapon for press freedom. Recently, CMSWire.com spoke to Sourcefabric’s head of communications, Adam Thomas, about his organization’s efforts to support the 21st century version of the small printing press. 

To help struggling news organizations in areas that have a history of media censorship, the Prague-based non-profit Sourcefabric has developed a free and open source CMS, Newscoop. The organization recently released version 4.1, which features fast search functionality, and was developed in partnership with independent news organizations in the highly challenging media environment of Georgia. 

WordPress 3.5 has been remade to be Retina ready for the iPad, and long sought after media editing tools have been added as well.

Welcome to the November 2012 installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month. If you feel that your project was left out, we invite you to email us at pr@cmswire.com to have a project representative added to the list of people we contact for updates.

Joomla! continues its rise as one of the most popular Web CMS systems in the world, let alone one of the most popular open source versions.

TYPO3, an open source Web CMS platform, has taken the wraps off v6.0, and the release adds cloud storage and PHP 5.3 support, but the underlying code has been updated to make future changes much easier as well.

 More pictures of the test version of BlackBerry's BB10 smartphone are now out in the wild, as RIM's boss Thorsten Heins and other troops are sent out to butter up the press ahead of next year's launch. 

Older versions of the Joomla! open source CMS are susceptible to takeover hacking attempts, according to a three month study by website security service Incapsula. Incapsula has now released an integrated Joomla! module to stop these dangerous attacks on one of the most popular open source Web CMSs in the world.

Blogging platform Movable Type has 39 plug ins available now that the entire set has been fully translated over from the original Japanese.

The Open Source Alliance of Canada (OSACAN) organization is not only launching this week, but they've also established established a “centre of excellence” that will promote and support open source technology within the country.

Cloud services provider Acquia has commissioned a Forrester report on open source WCM, and while the results are not overwhelming, it does show more enterprise companies are employing open source systems.