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A new release candidate of SMF 2.0 is now available for testing. This is the 3rd release candidate for what will soon become Simple Machines Forum 2.0.
Highlights of this release include:
<ul>
<li>Several security-related fixes.</li>
<li>Better compatibility with <abbr>RTL</abbr> languages.</li>
<li>Added curvy headers to loads of tables throughout SMF for the best Curve experience.</li>
<li>Fine-tuned conversation view in the personal messages section.</li>
<li>Improved read tracking of topics; e.g. topics are now marked as read by pages, to allow easier resuming of reading.</li>
<li>Several tweaks to the WYSIWYG editor; now automatically disabled on mobile devices.</li>
<li>Post screens (new topic, etc) are center aligned again.</li>
<li>Buttons are now aligned much more consistently throughout SMF.</li>
<li>Row color alternation to most of the tables in the administrative areas.</li>
<li>Redesigned profile statistics centre.</li>
<li>Fixed install and upgrade script for PostgreSQL.</li>
<li>Updated help section.</li>
<li>Revamped SSI examples page.</li>
<li>Rephrasing of several error messages.</li>
<li>Improvements to the package manager's archive extraction algorithm.</li>
<li>Toggling of full size versions of resized images.</li>
<li>Altered styling for quotes and code blocks.</li>
</ul>
You can help test this release by downloading it from <a href="http://download.simplemachines.org/">http://download.simplemachines.org/</a>

Simple Machines Forum 2.0 RC3 Available

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A security issue was introduced with phpBB 3.07 which allowed users to bypass permission settings if any of the following conditions were met:
<ul>
<li>Feeds are enabled</li>
<li>Any of the posts or topics feeds are enabled</li>
<li>The unauthorised user – or one of the groups they are a member of – have forum permissions set on a private forum</li>
<li>If you have excluded a forum from the list of forums that provide feeds, it is unaffected</li>
</ul>
The full announcement:
<blockquote>
We are sorry to announce the immediate release of phpBB 3.0.7-PL1 to address a security issue which was introduced in 3.0.7, unfortunately the issue wasn't noticed during testing and has only surfaced a week after the release of 3.0.7.
We promised working feeds for phpBB 3.0.7. Sadly, we were not able to deliver on that promise – a critical bug in the permission handling for feeds slipped past. To all people who already have updated to 3.0.7, it is of critical importance to update to 3.0.7-PL1.
</blockquote>
You can do so by downloading the latest release from <a href="http://www.phpbb.com/downloads/">their website</a>.

phpBB gets update to counter security hole caused by introduction of feeds

<a href="http://www.vyre.com">VYRE</a> Ltd, developer of award winning content management platform VYRE Unify, is pleased to announce a new strategic partnership with publishing software specialist Wave2 Media Solutions Ltd. The two companies have signed an OEM agreement for VYRE to license Wave2’s core product, The Wave2 Publishing Platform, for integration within VYRE Unify.
The Wave2 Publishing Platform is a highly scalable and powerful rules engine for the automatic creation of any type of document from simple display ads through to highly creative layouts and complex multi page documents. It allows publishers, marketers and content providers to create their own advertising and marketing material whilst enabling them to both save costs and generate new revenue.
Chris Hodges, founder of Wave2, says. “We are very pleased to have formed this relationship with VYRE. The combination of the Wave2 Publishing Platform and the VYRE Unify product will create an unbeatable solution for anyone needing to implement a multimedia brand management service. From the very beginning of our discussions with VYRE, it was obvious to us that our respective products would be a perfect fit. They share the same architecture and technology, as well as complement each other perfectly in terms of functionality. As a result, the integration work is already very advanced”
VYRE is integrating The Wave2 Publishing Platform into its next release of VYRE Unify version 4.5.1 to provide its own automated creative functions.  VYRE Unify 4.5.1 will be available in spring 2010.
Andy Peters, CEO of VYRE, explains: “Integrating this kind of technology into the VYRE Unify platform has been a part of the overall development strategy for a while, but finding the right partner and solution was key. We looked at more than 25 different partners before we decided on Wave2. In the end it had become increasingly clear that Wave2 stood out head and shoulders above the competition, for all sorts of reasons: the flexibility of the solution, the development environment, the attitude of Wave2 themselves and the understanding that they brought to the table of our needs and our clients’ all being critical.”
Andy continues: “We have had a number of clients express a need for this technology, and we are confident that, as an integrated component of VYRE Unify, we will be able to deliver fast, efficient, high quality and highly cost effective solutions to our clients that will allow them to gain more control over the production of their marketing and other collateral. It will improve their speed to market, their overall production quality, their brand consistency, their bottom line and ease their workload. We are delighted to be working with Wave2.”

VYRE to partner with Wave2 Media Solutions

Tiki has released updates for both current release branches: 3.5 and 4.2. Both updates include bug fixes, feature polishing, and security updates. All Tiki sites are strongly encouraged to update to the latest version to take advantage of security fixes and updates. See http://tikiwiki.org/download to determine which branch (3.x or 4.x) best suits your needs.
Coming Soon: Tiki 5 The next major release, Tiki 5, is planned for April 2010 and will include many new features including shopping cart and payment support, improved translation/multilingual support, an advanced rating and scoring system, workspaces, performance improvements, and much more. See http://doc.tikiwiki.org/Tiki5 for additional information on this upcoming release. Early adopters can obtain pre-release versions of Tiki 5 directly from the SVN repository. http://dev.tikiwiki.org/Daily+Build
About Tiki TikiWiki CMS/Groupware is a full-featured, web-based, multilingual (35+ languages), tightly integrated, all-in-one Wiki+CMS+Groupware, Free Source Software (GNU/LGPL), using PHP, MySQL, Zend Framework, jQuery and Smarty. Actively developed by a very large international community, Tiki can be used to create all kinds of Web applications, sites, portals, knowledge bases, intranets, and extranets. For more information, visit <a href="http://tikiwiki.org">http://tikiwiki.org</a>.

Tiki Announces 3.5 and 4.2 Releases

Generis has released version 3 of its <a href="http://www.generiscorp.com/cara.html">CARA</a> product – the world's full functionality document management web application that provides a single interface to all CMIS-compliant repositories. Generis has released CARA3 for Documentum, SharePoint and Alfresco, with releases for the file system, FileNet and LiveLink in the coming months. CARA3 connects to the repositories using the very latest CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services) functionality agreed by the major content management vendors which allows building of a common set of functionality to be used on the multiple repositories. Functions that are missing in CMIS support for individual repositories are either built by Generis (and will be replaced once that platform fully supports CMIS) or not available. Each repository implementation also features many additional features not yet part of the CMIS specification.
Built on the Google Web Toolkit, using the <a href="http://www.extjs.com">EXT JS</a> extensions CARA3 provides full authoring, review, approval and publishing functionality to end users together with:
<ul>
<li>Faster performance</li>
<li>Improved ergononmics, including many functions reduced from 7+ clicks to 1 click, and from 3 screens to 1 screen.</li>
<li>Functionality for complex documents in true multi-user environment.</li>
<li>Ease of use which reduces training and implementation costs.</li>
<li>Easy and rich configurability through the <a href="http://www.generiscorp.com/docconfigurator.html">DocConfigurator</a> product</li>
</ul>
More info: <a href="http://www.generiscorp.com">http://www.generiscorp.com</a>

Generis releases CARA3 - first single UI to multiple repositories using CMIS

Two new releases of Drupal are available for download. Version 6.16 and 5.22 can be attained from the Drupal.org website.
The full list of changes between the 6.15 and 6.16 releases can be found by reading the <a href="http://drupal.org/node/732000">6.16 release notes</a>. The full list of changes between the 5.21 and 5.22 releases can be found by reading the <a href="http://drupal.org/node/732004">5.22 release notes</a>.
Drupal 5.22 and 6.16 were released in response to the discovery of security vulnerabilities. Details can be found in the official security advisory:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://drupal.org/node/731710">SA-CORE-2010-001</a></li>
</ul>
To fix the security problem, you can either (1) upgrade Drupal or (2) patch Drupal.
More info: <a href="http://www.drupal.org">Drupal.org</a>

Drupal CMS versions 6.16 and 5.22 are now available

TopNotchThemes, whose themes are used by nearly one in ten of all Drupal sites, has just released their new <a href="http://fusiondrupalthemes.com">“Fusion” line of premium Drupal themes at Fusion Drupal Themes</a>.
More than 25,000 business owners, developers, and site builders–as well as <a href="http://acquia.com">Acquia</a>–rely on Drupal themes from TopNotchThemes, and feedback from this large user base has been instrumental in shaping the Fusion theming system. The goal for the new themes was to deliver more of Drupal’s power and advanced features, without needing a coder or designer.
For instance, Fusion themes address the need for easier layout with point-and-click page design on a new “Easy-Grid” that supports both fixed and fluid width web designs without editing files. The new styling system also provides a variety of pre-configured styles that can be easily applied to a variety of page elements without having to modify any CSS. All Fusion Drupal themes also come standard with built-in support and styling for the popular ecommerce module, Ubercart.
The Fusion base theme is GPL, available on <a href="http://drupal.org/project/fusion">drupal.org</a>, and is already being used and improved upon by more than 4,000 people.
Fusion Drupal Themes also adds professional support for users and developers. The staff have created a large and growing library of documentation to help customers learn about their new themes and assist with more advanced tasks, including modifying and creating themes. The new themes are also backed up by lifetime free updates and 120-day satisfaction guarantee.
Another support option is <a href="http://fusiondrupalthemes.com/join-fusion-pro">Fusion PRO</a>, a theme consulting service for development shops, solo developers, and advanced users. Developers can get one-on-one consulting on advanced theming questions from a staff of professionals. Fusion PRO also provides developers with a substantial discount on multiple licenses for themes they purchase.

TopNotchThemes unveils new Fusion-powered Drupal theme store

<a href="https://www.flashmint.com/">FlashMint</a> is glad to announce the launch of the new flash product – <a href="https://www.flashmint.com/show-template-2790.html">Mint Editor</a> – a revolutionary desktop content management software for editing and customizing FlashMint XML flash templates.

Among the multiple advantages of this application our clients usually point out the following:
<ul>
<li>No dependence on Internet connection</li>
<li>No server time lag and drop outs</li>
<li>No pain from FTPs and admin panels</li>
</ul>
What makes Mint Editor so exciting is that you won't need any additional programs to manage XML and upload files to the server. The Mint Editor interface is very intuitive and to get started you just have to launch the application, enter your hosting information, make all the changes and customizations needed and simply hit the Upload button. The program will do all the rest for you.
Mint Editor is supplied with a full-blown WYSIWYG environment which enables editing text, images, and color scheme, as well as graphic and audio contents of the website. Giving lots of options for template customization, the application is very simple at the same time and you can use it even if you have no idea what actually XML is or how a flash website works. You don't have to be a developer or an advanced internet user to manage the flash XML templates any longer. Mint Editor is an application that will do all the work for you.
<a href="https://www.flashmint.com/show-template-2790.html">Mint Editor</a> templates are available under special offer now. You can get an amazing template with the 50% discount if you order it now! Additional information is available <a href="https://www.flashmint.com/">here</a>.

Amazing Mint Editor by FlashMint

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The XOOPS Projects has released Alpha 2 of its upcoming XOOPS 2.5.0 release.
This new release a major redesign of the Administration module which has been AJAX-ed with jQuery. Some of the new features are breaking a new ground for XOOPS, like the visual placement of blocks, and we're sure that the users will love them. The 2.5.0 release will be definitely the most innovative XOOPS release in years.

Some of the major improvements/additions include new Help System for Admin and modules, MySQL Dump function, Tables Maintenance and Cache Clean-up in Maintenance, new Redirect messaging system, and Column sorting in tables.
The focus on improved usability resulted in more visual administration using drag &amp; drop, among them module ordering and block placement, and direct access to files for editing and folder management via a new File Manager.
The developers also did a lot of code refactoring to use the latest XOOPS API.
You can see a video with overview of the main new features on YouTube (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn_qK9PAM-M">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn_qK9PAM-M</a>)
For more info and download links, please visit XOOPS Site (<a href="http://www.xoops.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=5249">http://www.xoops.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=5249</a>)
About XOOPS: Founded in 2002 by group of international software developers, XOOPS quickly become one of world’s leading Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS). Known and loved for its ease of use and countless powerful modules, XOOPS received numerous International Awards and Recognitions, among them: the First Runner-Up in the SourceForge 2006 Community Choice Awards in the Development category, 5 Stars from Germany's Chip Magazine, Top 3 content management system from Adobe Edge Magazine, one of top Open Source CMS for Medical Professionals by ONDD. It was also the finalist of 2008 Source Forge Community Awards, and 2008 and 2009 CMS Awards by Packt Publishing. In January 2009 it received the 2008 China Open Source Software Contest Award, and in Oct.2009 won the Grand Prize of OSS Challenge in Korea . XOOPS is the most downloaded CMS project on www.SourceForge.net More info at: http://www.xoops.org

XOOPS 2.5 Alpha 2 Released

Systems Alliance Inc., a regional systems integrator providing high-value IT and business consulting services, today announced the release of Enhancement Pack 7 (EP 7), a software update for version 4.1 of the company's SiteExecutive™ Web content management system (CMS). EP7 adds support for <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/">Adobe ColdFusion 9</a> and Android-based smart phones, as well as other user-requested enhancements.
Support for the ColdFusion 9 Platform 
To address immediate customer requirements, Systems Alliance has tested and certified SiteExecutive 4.1 on ColdFusion 9, released by Adobe in October 2009. ColdFusion 9 includes a number of enhancements which Systems Alliance will leverage in forthcoming versions of SiteExecutive, including:
·         Microsoft Office file interoperability
·         Microsoft Office SharePoint integration
·         Built-in support for Java portlet standards: JSR 168 and JSR 286
Enhancing the Mobile Web User Experience 
SiteExecutive includes several <a href="http://www.siteexecutive.com/sem/mobile-friendly-website-now.html">capabilities which make it easy to deliver mobile-friendly Websites</a>, including the auto-detection of leading mobile devices, such as the iPhone and Blackberry. EP7 enhances this process to ensure support for Android-based devices (on February 16, 2010 <a href="http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/02/16/google-now-shipping-60000-android-handsets-per-day/">Google announced that 60,000 Android cell phones are shipping per day</a>), such as the Verizon Droid and Google Nexus One.
User-Requested Enhancements 
EP7 includes a number of customer-requested enhancements, including: 
· Support for Firefox 3.6 
· New configuration options for Site Outline module (used for auto-creating site maps) 
· Performance and usability improvements 
 
A complete list of EP7 enhancements is available on the <a href="http://support.siteexecutive.com/">SiteExecutive Support Center</a> (requires login).

Latest Site Executive release adds support for Adobe ColdFusion 9 and Android-based Smart Phones

eZ Systems today announced the availability of a beta version of eZ Publish 4.3, the forthcoming new version of its flagship software.

Moving from alpha to beta, this new pre-version of eZ Publish is making one step further towards the final release expected on March 30th.
This new version of eZ Publish provides a wide range of improvements in various fields. It includes a redesign of its administration interface in order to provide a more efficient and easy to use experience to editors, some improvements to RSS publishing, better User Generated Content (UGC), improvement into the Enterprise Grade Search Plug-in <a href="http://ez.no/ezfind">eZ Find</a> to offer more capacity to handle multilingual content repositories, the full certification and support for eZ Teamroom, the collaborative solution built on top of eZ Publish and a wide set of enhancements and fixes to improve the overall quality of the solution.
Read the <a href="http://ez.no/developer/news/ez_publish_4_3_0_beta1_released">developer release note</a> to learn more about the content of the release. You can find the downloadable files via this <a href="http://ez.no/download/ez_publish/ez_publish_4_unstable_releases/4_3">link</a>. If you are interested in discussing this alpha release, feel free to participate in our community forum on that topic, on share.ez.no. If you are interested in discussing this beta release, feel free to participate in our community forum on that topic, on <a href="http://share.ez.no/forums/discussions/ez-publish-4.3.0-beta1-released">share.ez.no</a>.
The beta release period is also the time for external translators who would like to contribute to finalize and submit their work to eZ Systems engineering team. More information on the <a href="http://share.ez.no/blogs/ez/call-for-translations" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">dedicated page</a> on our community website.

eZ Publish CMS version 4.3 beta has been released

According to a recent post on the Exponent CMS website, a large number of websites running Exponent CMS have been successfully attacked by hackers.
From the post:
The type of hack and process for execution has been identified. With the combination of some clever SQL passed through via url to certain Exponent Modules lacking proper request value sanitation, the hackers were able to pull up information from the user table. The password for Exponent users are converted to an MD5 hash before being saved to the database, but if the password isn't strong enough, the hackers were able to easily take the MD5 hash to any number of websites that will <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=reverse+md5&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reverse the md5 hash</a>, giving the hacker's the access they need to mess with an exponent site to their liking.
Details about how this hack was accomplished, and how to protect your site against these attacks are <a href="http://www.exponentcms.org/index.php?module=bbmodule&amp;section=75&amp;action=view_thread&amp;id=10269&amp;src=@random44ca678e9ecf0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">explained in detail on this thread</a>.

Sites running Exponent CMS are under attack

A new release of the open source cms, e107 has been made available. See below for an except from the post by McFly of the dev team:
This is a non-urgent upgrade. We've produced this release for a few reasons:
1) As part of the move to subversion, we changed the headers of most files to contain the new svn related keywords. Unfortunately this means that all users must replace their current files with the new ones, otherwise the file inspector won't like it. You will notice the upgrade packages are much larger for this upgrade.
2) I have a script that I wrote that creates the builds from cvs. I was able to set a few values in a configuration file, kick of the script, and have nice release files a minute or so later. Well, obviously the cvs related commands are no longer valid. I've recoded most of the script and it now uses svn commands. It can now also handle 0.7 and 0.8 builds (previous version could not). It was used to create this build, so it needs live testing.
3) We needed to get everyone upgraded successfully to .19 with the new build system, just in case we needed to get a security release out quickly (nothing known about currently). Allowing everyone to carefully upgrade now as they find time is much easier than trying to do it quickly later.
Please carefully perform your upgrades and let us know of any problems you find.
As always, you can find the link to downloads here: <a href="http://e107.org/edownload.php">http://e107.org/edownload.php</a>

e107 CMS version 0.7.19 is out

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