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Welcome to the December installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month.
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.
CMS Made Simple
In November, CMS Made Simple (news, site) won first place for Packt Publishing's (news, site) Overall Best Open Source CMS Award 2010.
DotNetNuke
In November, the folks at DotNetNuke (news, site) released version 5.6 for both their Professional and Enterprise Editions. This new release includes:
- A new Site Search feature
- Enhanced Google Analytics (news, site) support
- Enhanced Content Approval Workflow
- A new perpetual license option for the DotNetNuke Web CMS
The product also won Web Design and Development Tools Merit Award Winner in Visual Studio Magazine's 2010 Readers Choice Award, and the company held their fourth annual DotNetNuke Connections conference in Las Vegas.
Drupal
In November, Drupal 7 beta 3 was released with an upgrade to jQuery 1.4.4 and jQuery UI 1.8.6, along with numerous upgrade path fixes, accessibility fixes and fixes for all remaining critical bugs. This is the final beta before the first release candidate. The team wasn't prepared to go to RC since the major issue queue was five pages long, preventing them from preparing for RC1's string freeze (which means no changes to text strings marked for translation).
The Drupal documentation team now has two co-leads, Ariane Khachatourians and Jennifer Hodgdon, and Registration for DrupalCon Chicago is now open. The conference will be held from March 7 - 10, 2011. The next European DrupalCon will be held in London, from August 16 - 21, 2011. Tickets go on sale in the spring.
Drupal company Acquia (news, site) added styled, customizable drop-down menus to SaaS offering Drupal Gardens (news, site). The new menus allow site designers to offer nested menu navigation. They've also added the ability for site owners to send invitations to people to join their site, whether they use open or closed registration.
The company also added a data center in the EU for their European customers, and their team Fu ManDrupal raised over US$ 10,500 for the Movember Foundation.
Ephesoft
In November, Ephesoft (news, site) attended and sponsored Alfresco Software (news, site) DevCon. They also announced they're opening an office in the UK in early 2011 to support their partners in the UK, Europe and the Middle East.
Coming in December, expect Zonal OCR, handwriting recognition, form processing and scripting plugins to expand the product's feature set.
Hippo CMS
In November, the folks at Hippo CMS (news, site) published a video tutorial on publishing a Word document to both the web and mobile:
Hippo CMS publishing a Word doc to web and mobile from Arje Cahn on Vimeo.
The Dutch subsidiary of Capgemini, a large provider of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, announced a new alliance with six open source vendors: Hippo CMS, Ingres, Pentaho, Red Hat (news, site), SugarCRM (news, site) and Zarafa. This alliance was created to provide a single point of contact for Capgemini's customers who are using open source products.
Coming in December is the release of Hippo CMS 7.5, which offers:
- A new template editor
- Advanced multi-language support
- Microsoft Office integration
- A new REST interface
- An upgrade to JackRabbit 2.1
Those interested in a pre-release sneak preview of Hippo CMS 7.5, check out the free webinar on December 8, 2010.
Interactive Knowledge Stack
The Interactive Knowledge Stack's (news, site) first working demo, FISE The RESTful Semantic Engine was created by IKS consortium members at the IKS Semantic Engine Hackathon. In November, it was released by Nuxeo (news, site), was accepted by the Apache Software Foundation (news, site) as the new Apache Stanbol project. Acceptance should help accelerate early adoption of this semantic knowledge engine.
Joomla!
In November, the Joomla! (news, site) project launched Joomla! Ideas, where users can vote for features in future Joomla! releases. Each user gets 10 votes.
The project also released Joomla! 1.5.22, which contains security fixes for a low priority core but involving SQL injection information disclosure. They also released Joomla! 1.6 beta 14 and Joomla! 1.6 beta 15.
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