
The XOOPS Development Team is pleased to announce that a new version of the Top 5 Finalist of 2010 Packt Open Source CMS - XOOPS 2.5.0 RC2 is available for download. Thanks to everybody who tested the RC1 and provided us with feedback and bug fixes! (Don't forget to vote for XOOPS: read here)
The XOOPS 2.5.0 release is a major redesign of the System Module which has been AJAX-ed with jQuery done mainly by Nicolas Andricq (ForMusS), Cointin Maxime (kraven_30), and Grégory Mage (Mage). Other major contributors include Trabis, Voltan, Kris_fr, and Marco. Some of the new features are truly amazing, like the visual placement of blocks, and we're sure that the users will love them
Other major improvements/additions include: - Added: Help System for Admin and modules (see PM module) - Added: MySQL Dump in Maintenance - Added: New Redirect messaging - Added: Column sorting in tables - Added: smarty plugin for icon pack - Added: smarty plugin for breadcrumb navigation - Added: jQuery plugins for display popup or manage drag & drop - Added: File Manager (Plugin) - Added: Maintenance with Cache Clean-up, and Tables Maintenance - Added: Visual module ordering with drag & drop - Added: Visual block placement with drag & drop - Added: Refactor all PHP code for use XOOPS API - Added: Use template in the same way that front user, admin side for module can call a main template define in xoops_version.php - Added: Allow override of template in admin theme like frontend if we set template in ADMIN_THEME - Added: New variable 'system_menu' in xoops_version.php of each module, this variable generate a tab menu for module admin side if set to 1, this feature is for give one unique tab menu for all menu (eg: module PM for). - Added: add jquery plugin in xoops_lib - Added: change install for install admin template and admin setting - Added: manage editor for blocks, comments and for all module if module developper want to use it activate or deactivate system section - Added: choose number of line for admin section - Added: display or hide tips Avatar: - activate/deactivate avatar with ajax Banners: - jquery popup for display banners Block admin: - drag n drop block for manage position and weight - jquery popup for preview Comments: - multiple selection for deletion - purge Groups: - number of user per group - new disposition Images: - lightbox preview + thumbs Modulea Admin: - jquery popup for display info Preferences: - system settings Smilies: - activate/deactivate smilies with ajax Templates: - manage overide of all template online - generated file come from database User Rank: - activate/deactivate userrank with ajax Users: - advanced user management - new disposition - simple and advance search For a detailed Change log, please click here. Videos To see the main features of XOOPS 2.5.0, check out the following videos that were made for the Alpha release: a) In Spanish (by Uskola 2) b) In English (by Vamptrix) c) In English (by Mamba) d) In French (by tutoxoops) Please remember: This is Release Candidate version for features testing only! DO NOT install it on a production site and DO NOT upgrade any production site with it! ==> New in this release - upgrading from older XOOPS version Download it from Sourceforge repository. Please post and discuss all issues related to this release in this forum We also need help with Translations For installation information, please visit

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It's always important to "walk the talk", or Eating your own dog food, so we have updated our Website to XOOPS 2.5.0 RC. This will allow us to find any problems before we release it to you, our users, as a Final release. The update went very smooth, and as you can see, XOOPS 2.5.0 RC is working just fine, handling tons of traffic here
However, please DO NOT use XOOPS 2.5.0 RC on your production sites, it is, after all, still NOT the final release. We have the experts in house, so we can fix things very quickly, which might not be the case with you. So please test it on your local PC and let us know any issues that you might have. We would like to release the Final within a week or so, unless you report any major showstoppers. So let's focus this week and testing and more testing!
And don't forget to vote for XOOPS in the Packt's Open Source CMS Awards!!! We need you vote!!! (Click here) 


