Alert: What's Coming for Open Source CMS in August 2009

Welcome to the August 2009 installment of our what's coming from the open source CMS projects in the next 30 days.

If you're looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at pr@cmswire.com with a pointer to who we should contact at your project for updates.

Alfresco

Alfresco (news, site) marked a record month for downloads with its July release of Alfresco Community Edition 3.2. This release lays the groundwork for Records Management features added in preparation for US Department of Defense 5015.2 certification coming in September 2009.

For more information about this release, see Alfresco CTO John Newton's blog or watch the following webinar:

DotNetNuke

DotNetNuke (news, site) released version 5.1.1 of both its community and professional editions at the end of July. This release focuses on stabilization, providing enhanced stability and performance for this Microsoft .NET-based open source web CMS.

eZ Publish

The folks at eZ Publish (news, site) aren't relaxing too much this summer. Instead, they're spending it revamping their partner program and updating their community site, using feedback they gained at their conference from developers and partners.

By the end of August, expect to see the beta for eZ Publish 4.2 with their first official support for the CMIS standard. You can see the expected features by checking out their roadmap.

The engineering teams are also working on eZ Flow 2.0 to update their media portal management offering, and eZ Find 2.1.

KnowledgeTree

In July, the RATP (French national rail) contributed a number of extensions to KnowledgeTree (news, site). Nine of these were feature extensions developed by KnowledgeTree's French partner, iNet Process:

• Column Sorter: Advanced sorting of property columns in browse and search result views
• Document Extraction: Downloads a zip archive containing a collection of documents and then deletes the selection
• Document Shortcut Improvements: Improve document shortcuts, including increased information during deletion and linking
• Folder Properties: Add metadata properties to folders
• Multi-select Property Fields: Create multi-select document property fields
• Property Sheet: Create documents without a document attachment and upload the document later
• View by Document Type: Browse by document properties rather than through the folder structure
• Web Browser Type Tree: Display a browsable AJAX folder tree for quick access through the web interface
• Workflow Mass Update: Update workflow states on an entire collection of documents at once

Right now, KnowledgeTree is considering adding a few of these to the core community distribution. The rest will be released into the KnowledgeTree Community Forge as plugins for download.

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Welcome to the August 2009 installment of our what's coming from the open source CMS projects in the next 30 days.

If you're looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at pr@cmswire.com with a pointer to who we should contact at your project for updates.