A few days only after winning the Most Promising Open Source CMS award, we are very excited to release ImpressCMS 1.2 RC ! This release includes a few bug fixes and improvements from our last Beta.

ImpressCMS, a leading Open Source content management project, continues its strong history of releasing new features for its CMS product with the release of version 1.2 Beta. This much anticipated release contains many new features that keep ImpressCMS at the top of the Content Management market.

ImpressCMS is an active multi-national community of users, developers, and designers participating in creating a superior content management system.

From the initial release of version 1.0 less than two years ago to today, ImpressCMS’s growth has been simply impressive. The project has seen downloads of its product grow significantly from 4,000 downloads to well over 10,000 downloads of it’s latest version 1.1.2.

The open nature of the community and the active participation of users with varied skill sets has allowed ImpressCMS to greatly improve its core functionality with the enhancement or addition of many features.

Fixed and Improved in 1.2

Here are just a few of the highlights of the changes in 1.2

User Improvements

* JQuery Redirect
* Profile module with extended field + social network capabilities
* TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor updates and additon of FCKeditor
* Advanced search capabilities
* Content manager now a full module

Administrator Improvements

* Updated Installer
* Themeable Administration area
* Blocks, Block Positions, User Ranks use new administration pages
* Image manager with online-editing
* Auto-Task (create Cron-Jobs with PHP in ImpressCMS)
* Enhanced groups management capabilities and start page configurable for each group

Developer Improvements

* Removed dependency on Prototype
* Extension of the IcmsPersistableOject Framework for creating and managing objects for the core and modules
* Updates of all 3rd party libraries

Security Improvements

* Enhanced security provided with integrated Protector module
* Admin configurable HTML Purifier
* PHP OpenID updates
* Smarty updates

For a full list of changes, you can refer to the changelog in the download, or view it in the wiki

Upgrade and Installation Instructions:

Install - if you haven't installed ImpressCMS or XOOPS before, this is where you start

Upgrade - if you already have an ImpressCMS or XOOPS install, these instructions will guide you through the upgrade process

Software Requirements

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

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I want to get involved!

If your looking to join the ImpressCMS project, then get on board! All you need to do is head on over and complete the ImpressCMS Team form.

Find us on ...

* Ohloh project
* Facebook group
* Facebook fans page
* LinkedIn group
* Delicious
* Flickr
* YouTube
* Last.FM
* ImpressCMS Toolbar

Contact:
The ImpressCMS Project
Seth Miller and Steve Kenow
Spokespersons
press@impresscms.org