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Well kids, after four years as one of the most popular content management systems on the ‘net, Joomla! 1.0.x is throwing in the towel.

Joomla! (news, site) recently announced the end of all development tasks, security upgrades and community support for the first version of the 1.0.x series. All energy will reportedly be refocused on the new 1.6 family.

Well kids, the title pretty much says it all: MiaCMS is done. Kaput. Finito. No more.

The final announcement of the platform's end of days came along with the last minor release, version 4.9, which will reportedly be maintained with major bug fixes and/or security patches for the foreseeable future.

MiaCMS is a fork of Mambo, which, the MiaCMS team admits, "is quite old at this point." It looks like MiaCMS has served its purpose of keeping the ancient platform alive well past what was expected of it, but now their number is finally up.

"We will focus all our development efforts from this point forward on the newly combined MiaCMS/Aliro project," wrote MiaCMS core developer Chad Auld on the team's blog page. The project aims to be a new, best of breed, next generation CMS.

"Building on top of Aliro will allow us to better serve the community and put out a CMS that is even more impressive, efficient, secure, and flexible than the one you currently enjoy," sang the development team.

Well, we're certainly always up for new players. For up to date news on what you can expect from the emerging platform, point your browser here.

It's been a long, difficult journey for the Joomla! (news, site) web content management community. Born from a project fork of the Mambo CMS, and with strong early ambitions, Joomla! has struggled at times with its place in the open source landscape, and with the ideas of what is best for both the project and the community.

Between license issues and striving toward a more open, welcoming process, the Joomla! community has had their work cut out for them. Along the way they've made mistakes, but they've also made a popular and powerful open source content management system that promises to only get better in the years to come.

We spent some time talking with various community members and piecing together the project history and current status. Here's the state of the project as we see it.
 

Mambo’s Peter Lamont, owner of the MamboXchange developer forge, has just assigned the domain and its accompanying websites to the Mambo Foundation.

The Mambo Foundation shouldered serious volatility in managing the Mambo project after the separation of Mambo and Joomla into separate entities in 2005. Life on the open source frontier isn’t always pretty.

“The Xchange rightly belongs with the Foundation who have demonstrated their ability and commitment to responsibly manage and grow the Mambo project and unite a large and growing community of dedicated Mambo users,” Lamont explained.

“I have no doubt that […] the new board will take Mambo from strength to strength under accountable and transparent leadership and governance.”

Cheers to the Foundation.

Since the breakup of Mambo into separate Joomla and Mambo projects on August 17, 2005, the Mambo project has been in a bit of disarray. The Mambo Foundation hopes to tighten things up by going from ruled-by-committee model to making Chad Auld the leader of the project.

Want to add some AJAXy goodness to your Joomla site? Don’t want to have to learn to program AJAX?. Open4G may have a solution for you.

Hot off the gossip wire: IBM is falling for Drupal. Hmmmm. ECM leader IBM has developed a series of nine tutorials for Open Source CMS Drupal. And as it turns out, Drupal runs rather well on IBM Linux servers while plugged-into IBM’s DB2 Express-C database. The final tutorial covers just exactly how to do that.