




As always, as the first thing in each newsletter we wanted to express our gratitude to all of you who have donated money to XOOPS Foundation! We truly appreciate your trust and support!
In October our most important event was the release of XOOPS 2.4.0. Also Wishcraft is back with several new and updated modules.
Highlights of the last month:

The XOOPS Development Team is pleased to announce that a new release of the #1 CMS System hosted on SourceForge - XOOPS 2.4.2 Final is available for download.
This release is a bugfix-release of XOOPS 2.4.1, done by XOOPS Core Development Team and XOOPS community: Updates upon community: - Fixed : "embed" is deprecated in banners (kris_fr) - Fixed : bug flash banner (display and count) (kris_fr) - Fixed : Duplicate notifications (trabis) - Fixed : Cannot delete multiple pms in PM module (trabis) - Fixed : removed dependency on Framework Captcha (mamba, ghia) - Fixed : Language problem in xoops mailer (dhcst) - Fixed : XoopsPersistableObjectHandler::get() not allowing getting objects with id=0 (trabis) - Fixed : Cannot redeclare class xoopscaptchaimage (trabis) - Fixed : problem with module menus(article, tags) in oxygen admin gui (trabis) - Added : missing index.html files (mamba, Culex) - Added : Frameworks/compat (trabis) - Added : define language for banner client ID (kris_fr) - Added : users real name can now be used in themes <{$xoops_name}> (kris_fr) - Added : comment for download module and theme in last page "xoops installer" (kris_fr) - Improved : rtl style in oxygen GUI (voltan) - Improved: added Admin toolbar in Zetagenesis theme (kris_fr) Updates from Sourceforge trackers: - Fixed bug #2904049: xoopsform/formfile.php (mamba, Frankblack) Added Language defines: - modules/system/language/english/admin/banners.php _AM_CLIENTID Modified Language file: - install/language/english/finish.php Some of the highlights of the XOOPS 2.4.x series: * a new Admin GUI: Oxygen (Voltan): see picture above * new mechanism to modularize and extend Core via Preloads (trabis) * central support for jQuery (trabis) * improved Installer (DuGris) * WCAG 2.0 - Sight Impaired Assisted Forms (wishcraft) * Themeable Admininstration area (trabis) * support for new WYSIWYG Editors: CKEditor, wymeditor, Xinha, and Spaw2 (wishcraft and Luciorota) * new System Key (wishcraft) * Support to PHP 5.3 (trabis) * profile and pm modules improved by Trabis * code refactoring and improvements (trabis, catzwolf) * Security fixes (trabis, wishcraft) and many more. Please remember: If you're installing it over previous installation, make a BACKUP first! Please also note that some hacks done for previous XOOPS versions might not work with this release: testing before installing is always a good choice Download it from Sourceforge repository. Please post and discuss all issues related to this release in this forum We also need help with Translations

