

The open source community thrived in 2008 and AXcess News predicts that in 2009 the web will go through an "open source revolution" of sorts. We credit much of that to Google's browser and how mobile providers have been going down on one knee to adapt it. Mobile computing is one area where open source has attracted more developers, probably due to the popularity of mobile web activity. Mobile internet access is a big part of 2009's growth market, though more of the web development community is shifting to the popular content management systems offered by Drupal, Joomla and Xoops for running websites.

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First of all, we would like to wish you all a very happy and prosperous New Year 2009!!!!!
We have ended 2008 on a very exciting note - XOOPS China Won OSSContest Award, a very prestigious award of the Chinese software industry. This is definitely a great achievement for XOOPS China, and XOOPS in general, and all XOOPSers all over the world can be very proud of it!
Other highlights of the month:


Well some of you may already do this with your development in creating a time capsule. This is one for XOOPS that will be sealed at the 1st of march.
After few month without news about eXtGallery I release the 1.0.5 version of the module. They are few bug fix and very cool new feature like Online module update and a JavaScript slideshow for block and album. You could find below complete changelog.
This version works only on XOOPS 2.3
In the package, you could find added lang variable on the changelog file. Test the module, make language pack for your country and send it to me, I will add it on SourceForge to allow all your country user easy find language pack for this module.
Thanks to tester and translator
You could find the 1.0.5 package on SourceForge
Changelog :
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2008/17/12: Version 1.0.5
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- Fix bug : XOOPS version checker on index admin page don't work with XOOPS 2.3.x
- Fix bug : cannot redeclare adminmenu() when XoopsInfo or ThAdmin is installed
- Fix bug : Category not visible after upgrading to eXtGallery 1.0.4 or upper
- Add Slideshow for album pages
=> Mootools 1.2 must be available on woll site
=> Slideshow don't work if cache is activated on Slideshow block or Slideshow album pages
- Add a feature to make a module update just by clicking on module admin side. The server will download, install files and update the module.
- Add extention to use Hook hack. This extention is inegrated to XOOPS editor
- Add a feature to rebuild thumb