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the Free CMSWire NewsletterWelcome to the October 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.
Don't forget that the Packt Publishing (news, site) 2010 Open Source Awards are open for voting as well!
Alfesco
In September, Alfresco Software (news, site) hired a new Chief Marketing Officer, Todd Barr, with six years at Red Hat (news, site) as part of his background.
CMS Made Simple
In September, the folks behind CMS Made Simple (news, site) became finalists for the "Favorite Open Source CMS" category of the Packt Publishing 2010 Open Source Awards. Coming in October is the release of CMS Made Simple version 1.9, which will offer complete URL flexibility and improved navigation performance.
DotNetNuke
In September, DotNetNuke Corp. (news, site) added Frank Artale to their Board of Directors. He had previously served on the Board of Advisors. They also opened voting for their DotNetNuke Community Choice Awards 2010. Voting closes on October 22, 2010.
Drupal
In September, the Drupal (news, site) community continued its march toward Drupal 7. According to Drupal founder Dries Buytaert, there are only around 20 critical bugs left.
In order to speed up the development process, Drupal company Acquia (news, site), has committed one full-time engineer toward fixing critical bugs in Drupal 7. As of Buytaert's announcement, which engineer would be chosen was not yet decided.
Buytaert has invited other Drupal companies to follow suit, stating that, "The release of Drupal 7 is important to all of us, our businesses, and growing both adoption and our community, so something more must be done." He invites anyone who wants to pitch in but doesn't know where to start to contact him.
Acquia itself continues to enjoy growth in SaaS offering Drupal Gardens (news, site), having passed the 20,000 site mark which is double the number two months ago. New features added to this service include image and video galleries that support:
- Bulk file uploads
- Configurable lightbox displays
- Drag and drop image rearrangement
- Keyboard support for moving between images
- Bulk tagging
- Auto-advance slideshows
The company has also added memcache support to their high availability cloud architecture, Acquia Hosting.
Ephesoft
In September, Ephesoft (news, site) released version 6 of their Intelligent Document Capture platform. Notable new features include:
- CMIS integration with ECM systems, certified with Alfresco 3.3.2 using the Ephesoft CMIS Export Plugin
- Key-Value extraction for fields
- Fuzzy database match-up to allow users to rely less on extraction rules and match incoming documents to an existing database
- Searchable PDF support with hidden text over images
eZ Publish
In September, eZ Publish (news, site) 4.4 Enterprise was released. New features in 4.4 include:
- A new image editor letting administrators edit images within galleries
- Support for HTML 5 video
- Native reCaptcha support for user generated content
- Managing multiple items at once
- A new tab in the Backoffice interface called "Service Portal," which lets administrators quickly access the services and support included with their Enterprise license (Enterprise version only)
- New session management features
- An archiving toolkit for moving old content into an archive while keeping it read-only available through eZ Find
- Section management improvements
- A developer preview of the new eZ Publish API for mobile devices
eZ Publish 4.4 - Image Editor
Hippo CMS
In September, the folks behind Hippo CMS (news, site) released version 7.4.1 with free text and XPath search support for faceted navigation. This addition allows visitors to refine search results through faceted navigation and vice versa. Hippo CMS was also nominated for Best Governmental IT Project 2010 in the Netherlands by Computable Magazine.
They've also added some new videos, including this one for getting started with Hippo:
1. Getting Started from Arje Cahn on Vimeo.
Another is on quick editing with Hippo:
2. Quick edit from Arje Cahn on Vimeo.
In October, they'll work toward release 7.5, which contains:
- Advanced translation management
- Page composition mangement
- REST interfaces
- An upgrade to JackRabbit 2.1
Joomla!
On September 1st it was officially 5 years since Joomla! (news, site) split from the Mambo project. In celebration, Joomla, the movie was released, featuring people from around the world saying what they use Joomla! for in their own languages. Also, a 5 Years with Joomla! InfoGraphic was produced by JoomlaBlogger. (There's a Spanish version too).
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