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