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

Welcome to the November 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 for your project updates.

Alfresco

In October, Alfresco (news, site) achieved U.S. Department of Defense 5015.2 certification, making it the first open source Enterprise CMS to do so. The certification is specifically for their Records Management Module, and means that Alfresco's solution has passed mandatory operational, legislative and regulatory requirements for records management in government. The Alfresco Records Management module is available with both the community (free) and enterprise (not free) versions of Alfresco.

DotNetNuke

In October, DotNetNuke (news, site) announced the winners of the First Annual OpenForce Community Choice Awards in the OpenForce Europe Division. The winners for the best DotNetNuke web sites in this division are:

• Inter Digital for Best Overall Site
• Inter Digital for Best Informational site
• Structures Sonores for the Most Creative/Original Site
• Le Bazar de Wally for the Best eCommerce Site

For November, DotNetNuke is gearing up for OpenForce '09 Connections from November 9 - 12 in Las Vegas, Nevada, which is being held in conjunction with the Microsoft DevConnections conference at the Mandalay Bay Hotel. This conference brings together DotNetNuke and Microsoft .NET developers to meet and learn about the latest developments in the DotNetNuke world. Speakers this year include DotNetNuke Co-Founder and Chief Architect, Shaun Walker, and topics include insights into DotNetNuke module and skin development, and administration.

The First Annual OpenForce Community Choice Award winner in the Connections Division will be announced at the show. Voting is open for the Connections Division until November 4.

Drupal

In October, the Drupal (news, site) project reached its API code freeze point for Drupal 7, making exceptions only for 10 high-priority items such as RDFa. Drupal 7 is now in its "strictly polish" phase, where the only allowed changes involve usability, accessibility, testing, documentation and performance.

Around November 15th (we all know things are subject to change), the team is scheduled to enter string and UI freeze, which involves releasing the first alpha and entering the bugs and release blockers only phase. This phase will continue until all release blocker bugs are fixed, during which betas and RCs will be let into the wild.

eZ Publish

In October eZ Systems (news, site) announced a new full-time community manager, Nicolas Pastorino, formerly an expert consultant at eZ Systems Western Europe, eZ Labs Engineer and member of the Product Management Team. This move comes in preparation for launching a new community platform in November.

According to Bertrand Maugain, VP Marketing at eZ, they're investing more in supporting their community because, "We want to give more value to developers, freelancers and community partners. More activities will be launched, more events and even a community committee will be created."

Note: The eZ Publish team is presenting a webinar on Nov 18th at 11am Eastern titled Optimizing Enterprise Search with eZ Find.

Joomla!

In October, Joomla! (news, site) released its final alpha for Joomla! 1.6. This alpha brings:

• Access Control List (ACL) http://www.cmswire.com/news/topic/access%20control enhancements such as access management for global permissions as well as content item-specific permissions, variable usergroups, user members of more than one usergroup and fast permission inheritance
• Extendable user profile, profile view in the frontend and extendable user parameters
• Tableless com_content layouts
• Improved com_content modules
• An article linker plugin for editors
• A new frontend template
• A new backend template
• A new uploader for the media manager

KnowledgeTree

October marked the release of a community-developed integration that adds a KnowledgeTree (news, site) upload widget to the Zimbra Collaboration Suite's user interface. This widget (or Zimlet in Zimbra-speak) allows users to upload emails and attachments to KnowledgeTree by dragging and dropping, and supports the transfer of key fields from emails to KnowledgeTree document properties.

Magnolia

In October, Magnolia (news, site) released its first milestone for Magnolia 4.2, providing access to the Templates Repository introduced in Magnolia 4.0 through WebDAV. Doing so provides an easy entry path to Magnolia template creation, letting anyone create, edit, and manage templates without having to touch Java.

Additional changes for 4.2 include:

• Standard Templating Kit (STK) 1.2 with many minor improvements and significant improvements in accessibility
• Public User Registration (PUR) migrated to use the form module, added username and password validators and provided STK integration
• New simplified node-builder API
• Data Module extended to allow hierarchal data types
• Updated to Jackrabbit 1.6

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Welcome to the November 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 for your project updates.