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XOOPS 4 "XooSphere" Development Roadmap published

The XOOPS Core Development Team is very proud to announce the start of the public development of the Revolutionary step in web content management systems: XOOPS 4 (codename XooSphere).

XooSphere is the name for the XOOPS 4 dynamic web content management franework, a system built from scratch, based on a highly advanced architecture. The XOOPS 4 "XooSphere" Development Roadmap, detailing the new system and the development processes, is published today.
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CBB calling for team members

CBB, the XOOPS Community Bulletin Board module, is now calling for team members.
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XOOPS 2.1.1 Released

The XOOPS core development team is pleased to give you a preview of what is in store in the upcoming XOOPS 2.2 (planned release ultimo June)

This pre-release is not to be used on production sites, but anyone interested in seeing how it is shaping up is encouraged to download and try it out.

XOOPS 2.0.10-2.1.1 Patch (.zip)
XOOPS 2.0.10-2.1.1 Patch (.tar.gz)
XOOPS 2.1.1 (.tar.gz)
XOOPS 2.1.1 (.zip)
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XOOPS 2.2 Development Roadmap

XOOPS 2.2 Development Roadmap
Written by Mithrandir

Welcome to the XOOPS 2.2 Development Roadmap. This roadmap defines the core development strategy for the XOOPS project for the coming period.

Introduction
A lot has happened since the first XOOPS Roadmap (link no longer available)(released by Onokazu on 21 September 2002, and updated on 13 October and 26 December 2002), set the development path for the XOOPS system.
A tremendous effort of bringing together the knowledge, creativity and skills lead to the creation of an object oriented, extensible, flexible, secure and stable portal system: XOOPS 1.0. With the release of the first public Release Candidates, the development strategy was adapted to fit the needs, ideas and contributions put forth by the growing user community.

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Development Update: 2.1 approaching

XOOPS 2.1 is progressing nicely.

I have mainly been working on the Profile and PM modules for managing users, profiles, fields and registrations and private messages, respectively.

Ralf57 has been working hard on a new default theme that will also be in the administration area and I must say I am quite happy with it.

There is still not much new functionality in the package, but it is structured better and it is easier to add functionality to e.g. the PM module now.
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Development Update: XOOPS 2.1.0 Closing In

*phew*

It was a hard struggle, but I have finally committed some more exciting code (well... I guess "exciting" is stretching it a bit )

In addition to the dynamic user profiles, which are implemented but not integrated sufficiently in the Profile module that is created to manage the fields as well as users, I have just committed something just as eagerly awaited
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XOOPS 2.1.0 Development is on the road

The development of Xoops 2.1.0 has started and developers and other interested parties can follow the development as it progresses.

The goal of the development is to take on as many of the bugs reported on SourceForge as possible as well as adding new features and preparing the move to the next major version of XOOPS (Codenamed "XooSphere") so it has as little impact on current themes and modules as possible.
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Software patents may threaten the future of Xoops!

Innovation, knowledge sharing and building on existing ideas and methods are fundamental and essential to healthy software development, regardless of whether it is open source or commercial. It also happens that these very attributes are exactly the opposite of what of the worlds sociopathic multinational corporations consider to be in their own best interest. It was a very sad day yesterday when the European Council decided to adopt the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive despite opposition from Denmark, Poland and Portugal. Due to technology such as the Internet, software distribution is no longer bound be geographical location, and as such this decision by the European Council will have worldwide implications. There is one last hope for some common sense to be injected into this whole sorry state, and that is if the European Parliament amend or reject this directive. If they fail, then it will become much more a matter of due process for this perversion of democracy to become a reality. It is of critical importance that everyone who uses computers in any capacity have a basic understanding of what the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive means in practical terms. To do this you'll need to know; What are patents? Why are they bad, and who will benefit from them?

What is at stake?

What can you do?

To find out more please read the full article.
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Bug #200 Squished

With the release of 2.0.9, XOOPS has reached yet another milestone: Bug #200 has been closed!

There are still quite a number of bugs listed, but not all are equally critical and not all are confirmed, but with 200 bugs closed, nobody can claim that XOOPS development has stagnated.

It may not be all that apparent to all how much work is going on behind the scenes, but Skalpa is hard at work on XOOPS 2.1 - a development version with a completely new architecture aimed at developers. This version will evolve into XOOPS 2.2, the first official and open version with the new architecture.

In the meantime, it is great to have someone like Onokazu, who can keep the focus on the current version so while some of us develop the system for tomorrow, the users of today are not forgotten and therefore a big thank you goes out from me to both Skalpa and Onokazu for the work, you two do for the benefit of the XOOPS community.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all
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Performance & Scalability Analysis Of Four Major Xoops Article Managers

One of the most important functions of a CMS such as Xoops is to manage content, so it is of little surprise that some of the most popular modules for Xoops are based around providing this functionality. The purpose of this article is to analyse the performance and scalability of four of these modules that are still actively being developed over a range of different hardware, and is the largest single performance analysis ever made for any Xoops module containing nearly 3200 individual pieces of data. The modules analysed in this article are News 1.2.1, WF-Section 2.07 Beta, Articles 0.17, and the new AMS module which is to be released during the first week of December. This article is of great relevance for all those using shared hosting services and/or those with high traffic sites.

You can view the article right here at IT Headquarters.
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