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The Top 10 AI Tools for Small Business: From Automation to a Coordinated Team of AI Agents

matt-garrepy

A new version of the popular open-source social networking CMS, Elgg has been released!  1.7.2 is primarily a bugfix release.
Here is a brief list of some of the more annoying bugs that were squashed:
<ul>
<li>Saving drafts and previewing blogs works as expected.</li>
<li>Page titles can now be edited in the Pages plugin.</li>
<li>Group names no longer show up in Friends Collections.</li>
<li>Added a group member listing page.</li>
<li>Group forum topics can be edited.</li>
<li>User data for usernames with UTF8 characters are correctly migrated to the new data scheme.</li>
</ul>
Plugin developers will be pleased to know that a number of bugs in the API were also fixed.  These include:
<ul>
<li>Numerous bug fixes to the elgg_get_*() functions.</li>
<li>Added a generic email sending function (elgg_send_email()).</li>
<li>Added ability to remove river items by ID (remove_from_river_by_id()).</li>
<li>Added a generic excerpt function (elgg_get_excerpt()).</li>
</ul>
Want to learn more? We did an <a href="/elgg-social-networking-cms-review-and-commentary/">Elgg review</a> not too long ago that you can peruse for more details or catch up on all of our <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/tag/elgg/">Elgg news</a>. Last but not least, visit them at <a href="http://elgg.org">http://elgg.org</a>

Elgg, the open source social networking CMS announced version 1.7.2

mike-johnston

Team Jaws have announced a new version of their open-source CMS, Jaws.  If you haven't used Jaws, it's a very simple and unique (and small!) CMS that you should definitely at least try once to see if it fits your needs. We did a review recently that you can read prior to downloading if you like: <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/jaws-cms-review/">Jaws CMS Review</a>.
Version 0.8.14 brings with it the following changes:
<ul>
<li>Added backup feature to Jaws(database and data directory)</li>
<li>Added yearly archive to Blog gadget</li>
<li>Added support url shortening, in LinkDump gadget</li>
<li>Added some new features to Datagrids in all gadgets</li>
<li>Added a new captcha generator: HKCaptcha</li>
<li>Added Paging to FileBrowser output result</li>
<li>Added support favicon</li>
<li>Added SMTP verification option to mail settings</li>
<li>Added custom map extension to Jaws UrlMapper</li>
<li>Added some new emblems to Emblems gadget: XHML validation, CSS Validation</li>
<li>Added Microsoft driver for MS-SQL Server(not supported unicode)</li>
<li>Added new ACL to Languages gadget for restrict modifying language's data</li>
<li>Added interface for popular entries limit count in Blog gadget</li>
<li>Added Support free cookie domain for jaws data urls</li>
<li>Added support tar, tar.gz, bz2, tar.bz2, tgz, tbz into extract archive files method</li>
<li>Improved pgsql driver to work with lesser database permission</li>
<li>Improved mssql driver to support large text filed and unicode data with FreeTDS extension</li>
<li>Improved e-mail content message in Contact gadget</li>
<li>Improved Users gadget ACLs</li>
<li>Improved Glossary gadget to support non-english glossaries</li>
<li>Improved multi instance support</li>
<li>Fixed error in Languages gadget</li>
<li>Fixed list sorting in Faq gadget</li>
<li>Fixed cross-platform newline issue in auto-paragraph method</li>
<li>Fixed duplicate files in archive generator</li>
<li>Removed JAWS_DPATH and JAWS_IPATH constants</li>
<li>Better handle http error like 404,403,…</li>
<li>and many more enhancement and minor bug fixes</li>
</ul>
Phew! That's quite the hefty list. Interested in checking it out? You can do so here: <a href="http://www.jaws-project.com">http://www.jaws-project.com</a>

Jaws CMS version 0.8.14 available

The first alpha release of TYPO3 4.5 has been announced and we're having a contest for TYPO3 developers (or users). To help celebrate this release, we're giving away a copy of “TYPO3 Extension Development” by Packt Publishing. All you have to do to enter is retweet (<a href="http://www.twitter.com/cmscritic">@cmscritic</a>) any of our articles from today and let us know you want the book and the first person to do so gets it. Simple as pie (everyone loves pie right?).
On with the announcement:
Today, the TYPO3 community released the first alpha version of TYPO3 4.5. This marks the start of our journey to the first TYPO3 release ever to have long term support (LTS). Release 4.5.0 will be ready by January 2011. This alpha version is a “developer snapshot” to show the progress so far.
What happened so far?
After the kick-off for the 4.5 development during the TYPO3 Developer Days 2010 on July the release team consisting of Ernesto Baschny (release manager) and Steffen Kamper (technical leader) started contacting individuals and teams that were already working on projects that were planned for inclusion in 4.5.
The release team decided to hold weekly meetings together with the TYPO3 product manager (Ben van ‘t Ende) and the core team leaders. These meetings turned out to improve productivity of the team a lot.
Development progress
The release plan for 4.5, the schedule and the planned projects are detailed in the <a href="http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v45-projects/wiki" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">project wiki on forge</a>.
For details about this particular release and the current progress, please read up on:
<a href="http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v45-projects/wiki/TYPO3_450alpha1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v45-projects/wiki/TYPO3_450alpha1</a>

TYPO3 CMS 4.5alpha1 released and we're having a contest!

The Umbraco team have announced that Umbraco 4.5.2 beta which fixes 46 bugs that have been reported by our awesome community. Please download it today and help us test it so we can get a fast release. You'll find a full change log in the downloads.
This brings the total number of bug fixes up to 88 since we released Umbraco 4.5 two months ago. There's no way we could have achieved this without the many people who've helped testing, reporting and submitting patches to the issues. Thanks a million!
With Umbraco 4.5.2 we'll finally have an ultra stable version of Umbraco 4.5!
In retrospect – did we release v4.5 too fast?
With almost a hundred bug fixes in just two months it's tempting to question whether we should have released v4.5 at all. It's hard to say as most of the issues was reported after Umbraco 4.5 was released and we've had a beta versions for quite some time. There'll always be bugs in software and when you push the release button is always a question of when it's good enough. If you never push the button, there'll never be a release.
However, I personally think we made a couple of mistakes. That's alright. If we turn the mistakes into lessons learned it means progress for the team and the project. And we're doing our very best to learn. Here's what we've found so far:
<ul>
<li>First of all our test cases were too simple, too narrow and didn't change at all. We had a checklist of various editing actions in combination with testing the Runway and Creative Website Starter packages. This was very helpful in order to find and fix bugs along the way, but this should have been combined with random install of community packages in the Repository.</li>
<li>Unit testing won't find everything. With Umbraco 4.5 we finally added a testing suite with more than 100 unit tests and loads of hidden bugs were found. However, a simple test suite will never be able to cover the many scenarios where Umbraco is used and as such should only be a foundation. This is a no-brainer, yet crucial to remember. With the many things covered by unit tests, there's no longer a Core Team member not believing in Unit tests as heaven sent. But robots will always be the smartest of idiots.</li>
<li>Enthusiasm is awesome but never overshadow the pursuit of attention to detail. One of the things that always have given me the biggest thrill is when tiny details in Umbraco gets improved. In the enthusiasm of the major UI and performance enhancements added to Umbraco 4.5 it was (too) easy to forget this craving for nano management. But it's one of the things makes Umbraco special – even though it can seem silly to spend days on minor things. heck, I even wrote a blog post about this four years ago.</li>
<li>Don't live in a silo. While Umbraco might work perfect for the scenarios used by members of the Core Team, we're only a fraction of the active users. This means that we should be much better to use 3rd party implementations, packages and un-official “tricks” when testing a release. In addition to this, we should involve 3rd party package developers as early as possible and help with a plan on how to ensure that their packages work when we release. Today an Umbraco implementation is often the sum of the Core combined with a number of packages. If they don't work together it can leave a beautiful Core useless.</li>
<li>Raise the community to take even more responsibility. As a community member who's business depending on Umbraco, it's only natural to become disillusioned when a new release doesn't work, forces you to change habits or makes an upgrade impossible. Believe me, the Core Team have no intention on doing this on purpose and it hurts badly when seeing people frustrated. But we're no better than the information given us. So be active. Tell us about what doesn't work and log issues in the Codeplex issue tracker with thorough steps to reproduce. Good bug reports take a lot of effort but in return you get better software. And even better – participate in our beta programs. Many of the bugs reported and fixed the past two months could have been discovered weeks before the release if only we had gotten help with better and more extensive testing. So help us, helping you.</li>
</ul>
We'll use this knowledge while we're building Umbraco 5. You'll see more blog postings, more videos and more documentation about the next version than ever before. We've learned a lesson.
Their website: <a href="http://umbraco.org">http://umbraco.org</a>

Umbraco CMS 4.5.2 beta is out

e107 v.0.7.23 is now available. This release is primarily aimed at reducing vulnerabilities and increasing e107's protection against exploits. (a special thank you to Justin Klein Keane (“MadIrish”) for alerting us to the vulnerabilities, and commenting on the fixes.) One of the changes will also affect users who include youtube videos or other embedded media within their site; please see the included readme for more information.
This release also includes some minor feature enhancements:
Download Flood Protection (simultaneous downloads) Found in admin under downloads-&gt;options. Option to prevent a user from downloading multiple files within a short time-period.
YouTube bbcode ([youtube][/youtube]) Allows you to easily add youtube videos to pages of your website. A conversion script is provided for those who have utilized html-code from Youtube already and wish to convert to the bbcode equivalent. (see included README.txt for details). By default, ‘dangerous' HTML (such as the 'embed' code used with many media) is neutralised when it is displayed. This traps malicious code that may have entered the database before the latest updates were put in place. This filter can be disabled through the preference ‘Filter HTML content'.
Language-pack Creator Found in admin under languages-&gt;tools. For those who are translating e107 into other languages, this tool will zip up your core language files into the standard language-pack format so that they can be shared easily with the e107 community. Important information on using this tool can be found <a href="http://wiki.e107.org/index.php?title=How_can_I_post_my_e107_language_file%3F">here</a>.
Support for security include scripts. e107 now supports 3rd-Party security includes such as ZB Block without having to manually modify core scripts. Just install them in your root directory as you would normally. To include ZB Block, you would add the following to e107_config.php: $CLASS2_INCLUDE = ‘zbblock/zbblock.php'; . e107 would then automatically include it in every page of your site.
The full changelog can be found <a href="http://www.e107.org/svn_changelog.php?version=0.7.23">here</a> We recommend that everyone upgrades to this new release as soon as possible.<a href="http://www.e107.org/edownload.php"></a>
Visit their website to learn more : <a href="http://e107.org">http://e107.org</a>

e107 open source CMS version 0.7.23 Released

BigBlueButton and Multilingual Improvements Emerge from TikiFest Ottawa
At the most recent TikiFest in Ottawa, Canada, several Tiki Community members met to socialize and contribute their talents to the future of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. For four days (August 15 – 18), the attendees (including several remote participants) discussed, planned, and coded many features and enhancements planned for Tiki 6.
The TikiFest ended with a wine-and-cheese social at the Code Factory in Ottawa, hosted by Citadel Rock, Blindside Networks, Pondstone Communications, and AvanTech.net, all of whom are active participants in the Tiki and BigBlueButton communities.
The cornerstone of the TikiFest was to improve the integration between Tiki and BigBlueButton that was first introduced in Tiki 5. Additionally, a full day of the event was reserved for various internationalization (i18n) topics, including:
<ul>
<li> Establishing a collaborative multilingual glossary</li>
<li> Creating a translation server</li>
<li> Making it easier for the Tiki Community to contribute translations</li>
</ul>
See <a href="http://tiki.org/TikiFestBigBlueButton">http://tiki.org/TikiFestBigBlueButton</a> to review all items from this event (including pictures and video from the event).
Several TikiFests are planned for the upcoming months in Montréal, New York City, and Berlin. See the Tiki Community calendar at http://tiki.org for details.
For information on Tiki 6, the next generation of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware (planned for October 2010), see <a href="http://dev.tiki.org/tiki6.">http://dev.tiki.org/tiki6.</a>

BigBlueButton and Multilingual Improvements Emerge from TikiFest  Ottawa

You're going to love the new features in Thesis 1.8. It's easier to use, smarter, more powerful, and more flexible than ever before!
While you should ALWAYS upgrade to the latest version of Thesis, this one is special (and fun!) for three reasons:
1. New Header Image and Favicon Uploaders
With each new release, Thesis gets easier to customize, and Thesis 1.8 is no exception. The brand-new header image and favicon uploaders will allow you to add a personal touch to your site in seconds. You'll LOVE how easy these things are to use!
2. New Fonts from the Google Font Directory
In May, Google released an extremely cool library of fonts that can be embedded into any website. Thesis 1.8 harnesses the power of the Google Font Directory and now provides you with 28 new fonts to use on your website!
3. New Security Enhancements
Thesis 1.8 not only incorporates WordPress nonce field protection, but it also boasts a refined data-handling system that will help keep your sits both safe and stable. Take advantage of it the additional security by upgrading now!
And don't forget to check out our revamped blog to see the complete list of what's new and hot in Thesis 1.8!
Check out all of the new features at the <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/thesis">Thesis website</a>.

Thesis 1.8 for WordPress now available

Call Tracking + AI 

Call Tracking + AI that Turns Calls into Leads

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The Joomla Project is proud to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 beta 8. IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a beta version and is not intended to run any type of production site. It is intended to be used for evaluation purposes only.
Since the Joomla 1.6 beta 7 release on August 9, we have fixed approximately 90 issues in the tracker. This progress is directly related to the continued efforts of the Joomla! Bug Squad. Thanks for all your hard work in bringing us one increment closer to stable!
More info available at <a href="http://www.joomla.org">http://www.joomla.org</a>

Joomla CMS 1.6 Beta 8 Now Available

The latest release of OpenCMS has been announced. OpenCMS is a professional, easy to use website content management system. OpenCms helps content managers worldwide to create and maintain beautiful websites fast and efficiently.
The fully browser based user interface features configurable editors for structured content with well defined fields. Alternatively, content can be created using an integrated WYSIWYG editor similar to well known office applications. A sophisticated template engine enforces a site-wide corporate layout and W3C standard compliance for all content.
OpenCms is based on Java and XML technology. It can be deployed in an open source environment (e.g. Linux, Apache, Tomcat, MySQL) as well as on commercial components (e.g.  Windows NT, IIS, BEA Weblogic, Oracle).
With OpenCms 7.5.3, a number of issues that persisted in the 7.5.2 release have been fixed. Some new features have been added as well.
Main new features of OpenCms 7.5
<ul>
<li>Support for image cropping in image gallery</li>
<li>New galleries with advanced AJAX features available in structured content and free page editor</li>
<li>Galleries dialog now also support grouping of elements by category</li>
<li>Support for tabs in the XML content editor</li>
<li>Offline search indexing without publishing in the Lucene based full text search</li>
<li>New demo content “Wonderful World of Flowers”</li>
</ul>
New features and improvements in OpenCms 7.5.3
<ul>
<li>External Links (pointers) now support handling of request parameters</li>
<li>New workplace content tool to update the structure of XML contents without changing the modification date</li>
<li>New XML content element type “CmsXmlPlainTextStringValue” that removes HTML code for the search results</li>
<li>The workplace content tool “Change Property Values” now allows to use wildcards in the old and new value</li>
<li>In the workplace content tool “Change Property Values” if “Include all subfolders” is checked, also the properties of the folder itself are changed</li>
<li>Added new CmsShell command to import resources with a third parameter to control if permissions should be kept</li>
<li>Improved localized text for undo changes dialog</li>
<li>A new created search index in the workplace is now checked for invalid characters in the index name</li>
<li>Removed validations for XML content element actions: add, remove, move up, move down</li>
<li>Renamed context menu entry “Comment content” in “Edit metadata”</li>
<li>It is now possible to “Undo changes” after changing the availability of a resource</li>
<li>Improved user driver, additional infos are now stored in the database in a more efficient way</li>
<li>Improved user driver, during user login only the last login date is written to database</li>
<li>Updated Apache Commons Email to version 1.2</li>
</ul>
You can download this release or learn more at: <a href="http://www.opencms.org/en/news/100818_v753_releasenotes.html">http://www.opencms.org/en/news/100818_v753_releasenotes.html</a>

OpenCMS version 7.53 has been released

DotNetNuke Corp., the company behind the most widely adopted Web Content Management Platforms for Microsoft .NET, today announced the release of the DotNetNuke Enterprise Edition. The Enterprise Edition includes the new DotNetNuke Content Staging feature that allows users to edit and approve content on a staging server prior to pushing the site to production. In addition, the DotNetNuke Web CMS includes a new Content Localization feature that enables easy management of multi-language web sites. The Content Localization feature is included in all Editions of the platform including the Enterprise, Professional and Community Editions. News Highlights
Exclusive to the Enterprise Edition, Content Staging allows users to create a separate staging server where all intended production web site changes can be implemented and tested before being published to the production server. Ideal for organizations with many content contributors and tight restrictions on web site content publishing and review, the highly advanced system compares the staging server configuration to the production server to identify missing components and provides a detailed view of all planned changes. Other features include:
<ul>
<li>An audit tool that creates a record of all publishing events</li>
<li>A “white list” in which users can define which modules should push both their settings and content during publishing and which should push only the module settings</li>
<li>A simple, secure publishing function which allows users to easily push their site from staging to production</li>
</ul>
All Editions of DotNetNuke including the Enterprise, Professional and Community, now feature a new Content Localization capability that helps users manage translated versions of all or some of their web pages. Ideal for multi-language web sites, the feature includes management and configuration-mapping tools to keep translated pages synchronized across a web site.
With the introduction of the Enterprise Edition, DotNetNuke will no longer offer the Elite Edition, which will now comprise the Professional Edition plus Elite Support. The new Elite Support option – available for the Professional and Enterprise Editions – features extended support hours, faster guaranteed support, priority management of support tickets, installation upgrade assistance, and source code access to the proprietary Professional or Enterprise Edition modules.
DotNetNuke is the fastest growing open source web CMS ever with nearly 900 subscription customers, 33,000 Snowcovered marketplace customers, and 400 percent year-over-year growth. Connect with us online: Twitter.com/dnncorp (company) or Twitter.com/dnnsc (Snowcovered marketplace); DotNetNuke blogs; and the DotNetNuke Community LinkedIn Group.
“The new DotNetNuke Enterprise Edition includes Content Staging which allows organizations to edit and approve web site changes on a staging server prior to publishing to production. Content Staging meets the requirements of our mid-sized and large customers who have formalized rules, guidelines and policies around publishing content. We also added a new Content Localization feature to the DotNetNuke core. The availability of Content Localization in our Community Edition demonstrates our continued commitment to the open core model and to the community at large. Content Localization will benefit our users who build, deploy, and maintain multi-language web sites.” – Navin Nagiah, CEO About DotNetNuke Corp.
DotNetNuke Corp. is the steward of the DotNetNuke open source project, the most widely adopted Web Content Management Platform for building web sites and web applications on Microsoft .NET. Organizations use DotNetNuke to quickly develop and deploy interactive and dynamic web sites, intranets, extranets and web applications. The DotNetNuke platform is available in a free Community and subscription-based Professional and Enterprise Editions with an Elite Support option. DotNetNuke Corp. also operates Snowcovered where users purchase third party software apps for the platform. Founded in 2006 and funded by Sierra Ventures, August Capital and Pelion Venture Partners, DotNetNuke Corp. is headquartered in San Mateo, Calif. For additional information, visit <a href="http://www.dotnetnuke.com">www.dotnetnuke.com</a>.

DotNetNuke Corp. Introduces Enterprise Edition of Industry Leading Web Content Management Platform

Symphony is a powerful and versatile XSLT-powered open source content management system. We recently reviewed this great CMS, you can read the review here: <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/symphony-cms-review/">Symphony CMS Review</a>.
They just announced a new release of Symphony CMS, version 2.1.1. Highlights of this release include:
<h4>Bug Fixes</h4>
<ul>
<li>#341: Clarify copy on limits in DS editor.</li>
<li>#374: Fixes Random sorting bug.</li>
<li>#375: If the appendFormattedElement() function gets NULL data, it will return before attempting to create an XMLElement object.</li>
<li>#375: Using isfile() instead of fileexists(), as the later returns true if the path is a directory or file.</li>
<li>#376: Section editor menu-hiding copy tweak.</li>
<li>#379: Initialising ExtensionManager before calling isLoggedIn(). This prevents fatal error thrown when trying to set authors non-english language preference.</li>
<li>#380: Removing a file now works as expected.</li>
<li>#381: Don’t overwrite file when page is a duplicate.</li>
<li>#385: Fixed logic in Session class, which was faulty and caused regular logout.</li>
<li>#387: Changed length of ‘validator’ fields for Input, Taglist and Upload fields to 255 instead of 50.</li>
<li>#389: Fixed event manager. Was incorrectly assigning the event source to a variable ‘type’. This has been renamed to ‘source’.</li>
<li>Tweaked updater so it would not keep adding ‘-Indexes’ to the htaccess Options.</li>
<li>Fixed rewrite base issue on windows. Also fixes logout issues on windows.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Minor Updates</h4>
<ul>
<li>This tweak allows the DS editor to keep custom sort values, instead of forcing ‘asc’, ‘desc’ or ‘random’. This is handy if you want to use dynamic values. E.G. {$order:asc} and still be able to edit the DS via the admin interface. The custom value will show as an item in the select box. So long as it is not changed, the value will persist.</li>
<li>Added ‘image/pjpeg’ to the list of image mime types.</li>
</ul>
Learn more or download at <a href="http://www.symphony-cms.com">http://www.symphony-cms.com</a>

Symphony CMS 2.1.1 has been released

In a rather bleak posting on the toendaCMS website, the author has stated that toendaCMS is finished and that he intends to let the project die. For those who may be interested, there is a chance to take this project over and continue it.
From the announcement:
<blockquote>
After weeks and months of my inactivity, i decided to let toendaCMS die completely. I have put a lot of time and effort into this project, but unfortunately were not achieved the desired goals. Other projects have made it (WordPress, Mambo, Joomla, Typo3, etc.), toendaCMS remained small and niche product. Since I have no desire to put all my time in an otherwise dead project, I let it rest now. If anyone wants to take it, he can do that.
And so I say goodbye at this point.
</blockquote>
More info: http://www.toendacms.org

toendaCMS closes its doors

Strelin CMS is a new fork of the popular open source content management system, Joomla!. Forked from version 1.5, this new CMS is described as having an advanced ACL that Joomla! currently is lacking.
The first beta was released on July 12, 2010.
This is a very new project and right now, there's minimal information available on the site about why they decided to fork Joomla! as opposed to contribute to it directly.
As far as we can tell, there is currently very little to differentiate it from from Joomla! (other than an ACL option which is forthcoming in Joomla 1.6) and the website needs quite a bit of work, but regardless, we wanted our readers to know that it's out there.
If you have tried or know more about this CMS, please let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
You can visit the website here: <a href="http://www.strelin.com">http://www.strelin.com</a>

Introducing Strelin CMS - a fork of Joomla 1.5

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