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Only a month after Injader released v2.3.2 of its web content management system, it has upgraded by almost a full point with release v2.4. This latest release comes with a couple of major improvements and assorted changes to the earlier version.

Originally created in 2005, under the name Majestic, to upgrade websites that were being coded by hand, the self professed goal of Injader is to create a system that enables everyone to build their own website.

Currently available for download at SourceForge, it dispenses with what its creator Ben Barden describes as ‘flashy’ technologies and offers sites that are not only easy to use for the owner, but for their public as well.

It's been a long time coming, but after all the talk over the past few months the latest version of MODx 1.0 (news, site), or at least the latest version of MODx Evolution 1.0, open source web content management system, is here.

Don't confuse it with MODx Revolution, which according to the MODx blog, will be released later this year. This week’s release is the final version of Evolution 1.0, which was unveiled in mid-June as a Release Candidate (RC), and which finally updates the non-English language files that are the principal difference between this version and the RC.

One can get a little confused when a vendor has a few different names for their solution. MODx (news, site), an open source web content management system, is one of these that, if you aren't really familiar with the product and grown with it, you might not fully understand why they have two different names for MODx: Evolution and Revolution.

Let's have a look at the difference between the two and talk about the latest Release Candidate for MODx Evolution.

We talked about the big changes coming for MODx (news, site) earlier this year and now we are seeing those changes come to fruition. Beta 1 of the new MODx Revolution 2.0 is ready to download and test and there are some major changes in this open source web content management system.

In December 2008 the MODx team announced an upgrade featuring several key fixes and the usual security updates. This upgrade to v0.9.6.3 is touted as the final release of the initial incarnation of the MODx CMS development framework.

What this means is MODx may be close to releasing a version with a whole number. A large batch of dedicated MODx users eagerly await this development. Will it happen in ‘09?

On the homepage of MODx, amongst an unusual but welcome absence of pseudo-corporate gibberish, lies a strange adducement. The system is, we are told, “100% buzzword compliant”.

I can think of better ways I would like my product to be regarded, but now the organization has a genuinely impressive claim for their product: they have just won Packt Publishing’s “Most Promising Open Source CMS” award, beating off strong competition from Typolight and dotCMS, amongst others, to secure the title.

If open source truly is the future, and these guys are the future of open source, then the news will make a lot of Web CMS industry people sit up and take notice.

Commerce and Kiwis are two wonderful things that just aren’t paired together often enough. ITema, Inc. has thankfully addressed this issue, at least in name, by releasing to the open source community KiweeCommerce, an e-commerce module for the MODx content management system.