Alert: What's Coming for Open Source CMS in March 2010

Welcome to the March installment of our what's coming from the open source CMS 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.

Alfresco

In February, Alfresco (news, site) released version 3.2r of Alfresco Enterprise. New features include:

• Browse the collaboration area and general document management area of your repositories from Alfresco Share
• Deploy web content to an Alfresco Document Management repository
• Browse the document repository using folders, cloud tags, category lists or favorites
• Better control the file transformation process with the new OpenOffice transformation subsystem, configured through the JMX
• The open source fully-certified Alfresco Records Management component updated to the 5015.02 standard

They've also moved the Alfresco repository to the LGPL.

DotNetNuke

In February, DotNetNuke (news, site) released version 5.2.3, which focused on:

• Stabilizing the installation experience
• Improving error handling for the new New Module Wizard
• Adding the ability to use the PayPal sandbox for validating PayPal configurations
• Security updates

DotNetNuke Corp. also landed $8 million in Series B Funding from new investor UV Partners and existing investors August Capital and Sierra Ventures. The company states that the money will be used to "accelerate product development and expand marketing and sales."

Drupal

In February, the folks behind DrupalCon (news, site) accepted proposals from those wanting to present at the conference. Voting is now open to determine which sessions will take place in San Francisco from April 19 - 21.

As of mid-month, 1,300 people have purchased tickets to the conference. Robert Douglass of Acquia () says that they're on track for a record attendance of over 2,000 people. There were 1,422 last year in Washington, DC. Conference organizers are still looking for corporate sponsors. Go here for more information.

The Drupal 7 release continues to make progress. January saw the first alpha release. The second alpha release came out this week (download here). There is a "Drupal 7 Launch" item on the schedule for the San Francisco Drupalcon, however the official line is that Drupal 7 will be released when it's ready. Current speculation puts "ready" at some point in Q2 or maybe Q3 of 2010.

eZ Publish

eZ Systems, makers of the eZ Publish (news, site) commercial open source Web CMS continue with the bi-annual "heartbeat" schedule of releases. Version 4.3 is scheduled for release at the end of March. This update contains a significant make-over of the administrative user interfaces, some enhancements to RSS publishing capabilities, updates to the eZ Find search plug-in — adding better support for multilingual content repositories, and a number of bug fixes and performance improvements. Stay tuned as we bring you more info on the 4.3 release in the coming weeks.

Hippo CMS

Hippo (news, site) has released Hippo CMS 7.3 for download, focusing on advanced features and ease of use improvements, along with fixes and an automatic upgrade path from 7.2.

With CMS 7.3 you can:

• Allow site users to 'discover' and slice and dice content through the faceted navigation mechanism
• Click an edit button in the (preview) website and automatically open the cms interface at the right location to edit - no more searching or browsing in the content structure. We call this 'surf and edit'
• Easily build web-forms straight from the CMS interface
• Define readable, search engine friendly URLs for your web-pages
• Employ a smart, rule-based, replication process to guarantee security and speed up your system

There are also plans to put the Apache Jetspeed 2.2.1 Portal on the map as a new media integration engine to support the demand for integration with online apps (leveraging all the widgets and OpenSocial apps available now).

• Support for Open ID offers easy integration with Open ID supporters such as Google, Yahoo and Myspace. Open ID support is provided by the Apache Shindig project, a recent graduate from the Apache Software Foundation incubator
• Integration of Wookie, still in incubator phase at the Apache Software Foundation. This promising new technology will bring W3C Widgets, OpenSocial applications and Google Wave to the enterprise portal space

Joomla!

In February, Louise Landry announced that the Joomla! (news, site) project will soon allow developers to register accounts with the Joomla! Developer Network so they can directly commit code to the subversion repositories. Right now they're in a request for comments phase on the Joomla! Contributor Agreement that each developer will need to sign before being able to commit.

Along with this step toward opening the project to more contributors, Joomla! reached its 15 millionth download. A topic no doubt mentioned at their Joomla!Day in Melbourne on February 12 through 14. Another topic discussed at this event was what to expect in new features from Joomla! 1.6.

Also, four other Joomla! projects have passed the million download mark:

• JEvents
• Joomla! Spanish
• DOCman
• Joom!Fish multilingual extension

Coming up in March is Joomla!Day France on the 21st in Bordeaux.

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Welcome to the March installment of our what's coming from the open source CMS 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.