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

Welcome to July 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

The Alfresco (news, site) 3.2 Community Edition (note the absence of the term "Labs") is slated for release in early July (any day now actually). This version includes bug fixes, but more importantly a number of new features that should see Alfresco become much more popular in the enterprise. Some of these new features include:

• IMAP support
• Compliance with version 0.61 of the CMIS specification (Alfresco is the only ECM vendor who is fully compliant with the current version of CMIS)
• Policy-driven storage
• Updates to the forms engine

The second preview of this release is already available. If you want to stay on top of the latest updates, follow @alfrescoeng on Twitter.

Also, registration for Alfresco's first South American meetup in Sao Paulo, Brazil, opens during the first week of July. You can find more details on the Alfresco events page.

Drupal

Jeff Eaton at Lullabot pointed out two interesting tidbits related to Drupal (news, site). For one, Development Seed has announced Open Atrium, which is a customizable intranet system built on Drupal.

Eaton feels that this "freely distributable pre-built solution that uses Drupal, rather than a simple "recipe" that leaves the heavy lifting up to the person who wants to implement the site," is just one of many more products that we can expect to come out on top of Drupal.

Also, of course, the Drupal user experience redesign will continue to come together in July for Drupal 7. Features currently under development are system-wide support for AJAX popups and modal windows, and tools to use them consistently for in-place content editing.

eZ Publish

eZ Systems (news, site) reports that their eZ Conference attracted 250 attendees. As they work on eZ Publish 4.2 and 4.3, they've updated their online roadmap, which takes them well into 2010. This roadmap includes a commitment to putting out two releases per year.

Hippo CMS

Since the Hippo CMS (news, site) team released version 7.1 and the Hippo Site Toolkit 2 (HST2) in late June, many of their users will be exploring the new offerings in July. Hippo will also be demoing these two projects at OSCON in late July.

Hippo CMS 7.1 offers a context menu for folder actions, an improved workflow toolbar, better tab handling, a new plug-in communication mechanism and more.

KnowledgeTree

Those who need to integrate KnowledgeTree (news, site) with other ECM applications such as SharePoint might spend July exploring the new core API and RESTful interface included in the Knowledge Tree 3.6 Community Edition along with other improvements.

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Welcome to July 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.