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ImpressCMS 1.2 Makes its Debut! Published by Stranger on 2009/5/6 (1767 reads)

ImpressCMS continues to grow from strength to strength and this now marks our 25th release in little over a year as we head along to our 3rd major version release. We're excited to announce the release of ImpressCMS 1.2 Alpha!

What's new in 1.2?

The team's been working extremely hard, more so now than ever before, as you'll see there are a ton of new features and improvements packed in this release.

Added

  • #19: Themable administrative area (Nekro)
  • #21: Profile Module (stranger)
  • #26: Search improvements (stranger/RLankford)
  • New Plugin manager (stranger)
  • New image manager (real_therplima)
  • Tag manager for content manager (real_therplima)
  • FCKeditor 2.6.3. (skenow)
  • Displayname features (stranger)

Improved 

  • Updated TinyMCE to Version 3.2.1.1. (stranger)
  • Updated TCPDF to version 4.5.014. (stranger)
  • RTL engine (Method we use to render RTL). (stranger)
  • Improving IcmsVersionChecker to use IcmsSimpleRss instead of Snoopy as we were having problems on some config (malanciault)
  • #271: option of unique filenames along with prefix in uploader. (vaughan/stranger)
  • #299: HTML source code is now conforms to w3c specifications - the core now validates! (MrTheme)
  • Improved Function "formatTimestamp" To use Jalali Calendar and use ext_date function. (stranger)
  • ICMS Captcha Class configuration options in administration. (stranger)
  • #459: Using an extended waiting block. (stranger/GIJOE)

Changed

  • Identicon for Gravatar added (sato-san)
  • Admin`s RSS feed to simplepie. (marcan/stranger)
  • Email protection option to a multiple option one using recaptcha. (stranger)

Fixed 

  • #8: Source code editor with syntax highlighting (stranger)
  • #52: Empty Custom Block - Xoops2.3 Upgrade. (stranger)
  • #2324673: Content page edit button shown on user side for wrong groups (real_therplima)
  •  #2215976: Character ' stripped out of website title (malanciault)
  • #2103517: Multilanguage tags & tables break translation (nachenko/malanciault)

For a complete list of changes, read the changelog.

Profile management, is it different?

Based on the article released a while ago, we have looked into a socialized profile solution and merged the popular yogurt module into our profile module which is based on smartprofile.

Where do I get it?

You can download the latest release from our file release system on SourceForge.

Release Packages

Over the following weeks we will release a series of 'Alphas', these are for testing and not for use on a live production website. Alphas tend to be releases targeted at developers to test the code and get familiar with the new additions - but don't let this put you off because we welcome everyone to get involved.

Shortly after we've confirmed all the features are implemented we will then move into 'Beta' phase, during this time we would appreciate all users getting involved and reporting all the bugs found, remember that the quicker we get these reports, the quicker we can make the fixes, then move on the Release Candidate (RC) and then of course the 'Final' (Stable).  

What else do I need?

With this release, we are moving farther into only supporting stable versions of PHP5.  The current stable release of PHP is 5.2.8 and 5.2.7 has been removed from distribution because of several critical flaws.

  • PHP: 5.2.0+(5.2.7 is NOT recommended!)
  • MySQL: MySQL server 4.1.0+ - With UTF-8 Support
  • Web server: Any server supporting the required PHP version (Apache highly recommended)
  • Special characters require UTF-8 support from hosting providers.
  • 16MB PHP Memory

How do I install it?

Installing the full version of ImpressCMS 1.2

About ImpressCMS

In its short history, ImpressCMS has surpassed over 8,000 commits to its code base, been a finalist in the 2008 SourceForge Community Choice Awards and placed 3rd in the Packt Publishing Most Promising Open Source CMS.

The goal of the ImpressCMS Project is to stimulate and promote the open source nature of the CMS in both the core and its modules and establish itself as the premiere CMS by expanding the system to meet the needs of their users now and well into the future.

ImpressCMS is -
* Open Source
* Open Development - Apply now!
* Open Philosophy
* Open Community

I want to get involved!

If you're looking to join the ImpressCMS project, then get on board! All you need to do is head on over and fill in the following form: I want to join the ImpressCMS Team!

We're always on the look out for talented people who can develop, design, test pre-releases, support and contribute to the community in anyway possible, if your unsure of how you can help but have a desire to get involved then get in touch and we'll work something out.

Join us, socialize with us and help promote us!

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trabis
Posted: 2009/5/6 20:26  Updated: 2009/5/6 20:26
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 Re: ImpressCMS 1.2 Makes its Début!
Installation went smoothly, no bugs detected.
Admin area looks great, redirecting are very nice, image manager is impressive. You did a hell of a job refactoring the system module. IPF is showing its power! Congratulations ;-)
UnderDog
Posted: 2009/5/6 20:28  Updated: 2009/5/6 20:29
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And again we're having a new release. Great job guys!
Thanks trabis.
McDonald
Posted: 2009/5/6 21:06  Updated: 2009/5/6 21:11
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 Re: ImpressCMS 1.2 Makes its Début!
Thanks for this release!

Installing on local testserver went smoothly as Trabis mentioned.

So far 2 issues:
1. With Impresstheme set for admin area the header text of tables is almost unreadable because of the white text colour (tcket submitted).
2 With imLinks 1.01 RC-2 the permissions are not working correctly. Normally selecting the box at the right will active/deactivate all categories for a user group. This doesn't work anymore. Also something happened with the style settings... double borders etc.
FaYsSaL
Posted: 2009/5/6 22:40  Updated: 2009/5/6 22:40
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very good job! install goes smoothly on my test online site!
just there is a bug on admin part of imagemanager i cant upload images i've got fatal error!
new ticket have been created on the trac

congratulations! team
skenow
Posted: 2009/5/6 22:41  Updated: 2009/5/6 22:41
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Thanks for all the effort in getting this preview out. As an alpha release, expect there to be bugs and incomplete features. The best type of feedback will be about functionality and how the features are designed - does the captcha configuration need additional options? Does the imagemanager need something else? Is the profile module lacking anything?

Looking forward to a great final release!
Will
Posted: 2009/5/7 3:39  Updated: 2009/5/7 3:39
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THis is an awesome release - proud to be around to see it happen.
ep98
Posted: 2009/5/7 5:02  Updated: 2009/5/7 5:11
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 Re: ImpressCMS 1.2 Makes its Début!
English language bugs:

Everywhere where is added this
define("_AM_LOGINNAME","Login Name");


is addeed as "Loginname"

Pages.php is totaly replaced without a comment
imProfile module is yogurt, it's added too without any description why
and why 1.2 have 2 profiles instead of one

1st is the build in XOOPS Profile, second is the yogurt.

as very earlier release looks ....mmm ok, build in Content have to be extended to maintain sections, categories and comments and to act as News module, otherwise I can't call it Content Manager yet.

Captcha needs a bit changes too
Quote:

Maximum attempts


Then what ?
a) Temporary BAN - defined by the site owner
b) Permanent BAN - ------ || ---------
b2) BAN IP or whole IP Range

From ICMS requirements:
16MB PHP Memory

This have to be lowered, or removed at all.

Leading Hosting companies like HostMonster.com and Siteground.com gives up to 
The Memory Limit of your server is: 10Mb


I can't see why u set such higher requirement, since XOOPS 2.3.3 respectively ICMS 1.1.2 works fine on 6Mb systems.
debianus
Posted: 2009/5/7 8:51  Updated: 2009/5/7 8:51
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I llike as Gnome shows its new releases:
http://library.gnome.org/misc/relea ... ex.html.en
Thinking in marketing, I believe that is better than opur way and for the final release perhaps we could copy some ideas.
skenow
Posted: 2009/5/7 11:25  Updated: 2009/5/7 11:25
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 Re: ImpressCMS 1.2 Makes its Début!
I suggest starting a forum thread for collecting the feedback - article comments are never the best place.

And remember - this is just an early preview of 1.2 - much is left to be done before we go to beta and really start working out the bugs.
UnderDog
Posted: 2009/5/7 11:43  Updated: 2009/5/7 11:43
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See http://community.impresscms.org/mod ... mpost30704
Will
Posted: 2009/5/7 13:58  Updated: 2009/5/7 13:58
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10Mb... lmao... ok. Thats a nice round number isn't it. I means since Memory is scaled in intervals of 8. Yeah 10 makes perfect since.
Ronaldus
Posted: 2009/5/8 6:08  Updated: 2009/5/8 6:08
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Thx for this release!!
Really looks awesome, and big compliments for the work that's been done!!
marcan
Posted: 2009/5/8 10:24  Updated: 2009/5/8 10:24
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Thanks for everyone's hard work with this release !

Let's keep the momentum up !!!
web-M
Posted: 2009/5/8 19:46  Updated: 2009/5/8 19:46
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Well done everybody!!

You guys have worked very hard in the past year which has resulted in this, again impressive (alpha)release

Can't wait till Final will be released. In the meantime translation into Dutch is in progress.