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the Free CMSWire NewsletterWelcome to the February 2011 installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month. If you feel 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.
Composite C1
In February, the folks at Composite C1 (news, site) reached beta. This is the first major update since the release of the free, open source version five months ago. According to the project, the most notable new features are:
- Free access to the SQL Server provider due to .NET developer requests
- Full support for all modern browsers, including Internet Explorer 7 and 8
- 30-day trial of fully-featured commercial packages
- Improvements to the visual editor and code editor
- More public APIs
- MVC 3 support
- The ability to edit Razor views from the web client
- The ability to deploy the CMS on both standard Windows Server and Azure without tweaking or code changes
The company has also released a tool for easy migration from standard Windows to Windows Azure. As for the Composite C1 community, members have contributed back Russian translations for the admin UI and the documentation. The first community patches were also integrated into the source code and developer ratings. Additional free feature patches also started arriving this month, such as a collection of Google (news, site) integration features (Google Maps widget, Google Site Search, and Google Custom Search).
Coming in March, expect the final version of Composite 2.1.
DotNetNuke
In February, the folks at DotNetNuke (news, site) announced that they're migrating from Visual Basic to C#. The first C# version will be available to look at in the second quarter of 2011, with the first beta coming in early March. The company also acquired Active Modules, a provider of social collaboration tools for DotNetNuke. It plans to open-source some of the features, such as the Active Forum modules and parts of Active Social, and add them to all versions of DotNetNukewhile. Other parts, such as Active Purchase and the remaining features, will go into DotNetNuke Professional and Enterprise Editions.
Finally, it's announced that the company had 400% year-over-year growth for 2010, tripling its worldwide customer base for Professional and Enterprise editions to over 1,000, growing its open source community to over 800,000 registered members, reaching 8,000 products listed on its third-party app marketplace and nearly 50,000 completed purchases, and tripling membership in the DotNetNuke Corp. Partner Program to 125.
Drupal
In February, Drupal (news, site) founder Dries Buytaert released his Drupal 7 Development Process Retrospective, saying, "I have been thinking about a number of solutions, or experiments, that I would like to try during the Drupal 8 development cycle." It's a worthy read for insights into what worked and what didn't work for the company.
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