Security Analysis updated to include MODx CMS and ExpressionEngine

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The recently posted “In Depth Analysis of Open Source Security” has been updated to include an additional open source CMS, MODx as well as one closed source system based on requests from the original post. Thanks to Philipp Krenn for taking on this additional work to his excellent first analysis. Check it out for the additional [...]

The Drupal Release Model and Why it Needs to be Revamped

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Drupal today released a total of four versions of the popular open source CMS. Yes, I said four. Drupal 6.23, 6.24, 7.11 and 7.12 releases were put on the servers today. On the release announcement, they are stating that they want to release version that include only security updates and versions that include security + bug [...]

Concrete5 Gets a Facelift With Twitter Bootstrap

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concrete5 today announced that it has redesigned the company’s admin dashboard to leverage Twitter Bootstrap. An early pioneer of in-context editing, concrete5 gained popularity due to its ease of use for managing the content of websites. With this in mind, the company has leveraged the Twitter Bootstrap toolkit to offer a completely redesigned, centralized dashboard [...]

New Joomla! 2.5 Released; Open Source Content Management System Now More Scalable Than Ever

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Joomla, one of the world’s most popular open source content management systems (CMS) used for everything from websites to blogs to Intranets, today announced the immediate availability of Joomla 2.5. Along with new features such as advanced search and automatic notification of Joomla core and extension updates, the Joomla CMS for the first time includes [...]

In Depth Analysis of Open Source CMS Security

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Recently, I was contacted by the author of an incredibly detailed analysis of the security of a number of popular Open Source content management systems. As part of this breakdown, the analysis goes into detail about which systems have had the most vulnerabilities and the severity of them, coming up with a number of rather [...]

MODx Revolution 2.2 release brings a refined Manager, easier Blogs and News Posts

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The latest release of MODX Revolution has been made available. Version 2.2 promises to be one of the biggest releases yet. According to the MODX development team, they’ve spent alot of time working to refine the manager and administration interface to make the system more aesthetically pleasing and easier to use. A highlight of some of [...]

Liferay Community Edition 6.1 released

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A new version of Liferay Community Edition has been released. Version 6.1 brings with it a huge list of new features. Here is a partial list from the release announcement posted on the Liferay website: In addition to the numerous bugs that have been fixed since 6.0 GA4, Many new features and improvements have gone into this release. Highlights include: Updated [...]

WordPress 3.3.1 available

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A new release of WordPress is out to address some bug fixes and a security issue (a cross-site scripting vulnerability that affected version 3.3). As always, you can grab the latest release through your dashboard or via http://www.wordpress.org  

e107 re-brands and releases version 1.0

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e107 Inc. announces new branding and the release of v1.0 of its website content management system. For the past 9 years the open-source CMS e107 has been mostly a hobby project of a few dedicated PHP developers. Despite its lack of funding or marketing over that time, e107 has continued to be a favorite CMS [...]

mojoPortal 2.3.7.6 Released

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A new release of mojoPortal has been made available. The major highlights of this release are support for Artisteer 3.1 and new Audio Player and Video Player features. There are also a number smaller improvements and bug fixes for things reported in the forums since the last release, and there is a change in behavior when using SSL. The [...]

Concrete5 version 5.5 now available

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A new version of Concrete5 is now available. Here are some of the changes from the release announcement: We completely changed the way installation works so it is much easier to build a starting point. You can even install completely from the command line. We also took the time to rethink Scrapbooks which had evolved [...]

Version 1.1.4 of the Open Source, Enterprise Wiki, Foswiki has been released

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This release of Foswiki comes with quite some new features and more than 160 crunched bugs relative to the previous release. Here are some highlights: Preference variables can take parameters now. This allows to build very powerful macro shortcuts to ease the life of your content editors. JQueryPlugin had a major release in its own [...]