Almost 14 months in the making, ImpressCMS 1.2 is now ready as a Final release! ImpressCMS 1.1 was released at the end of October 2008 and the scope of changes in this release has kept the developers, testers and translators busy.

ImpressCMS has had a short, but notable history - founded in 2007, an initial release in January 2008, 3rd place in Packt Publishing's Most Promising Open Source CMS in 2008 and 1st place in 2009, a 2008 finalist in SourceForge's Community Choice Awards, 32 separate releases and almost 10,000 commits in its code repository.

This release is a Final release, meaning it is ready for use on a live site!

What's New in 1.2?

Too many to list here, but here is a brief list -

• Imagemanager, with online editing
  
• Fully customizable Profile module, with social networking features
  
• Content module
  
• Autotasks
  
• AJAX Redirect - no more redirect page!
  
• HTMLPurifier configuration
• Captcha configuration
• Themes for the admin area
• Separate home pages for each group
• Textsanitizer plugins
• Installer - new look, using AJAX and you can install modules while installing your site
  
• Search results page
• Adsense management
• Centralized Ratings and Mimetype management

There are a lot more things in this release - you can read all about them in the Change Log

Where do I get it?

You can download the latest release from our file release system on SourceForge. The download packages allows you to either do a fresh installation, or upgrade from an earlier version of ImpressCMS or XOOPS.

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 5.2.11 and 5.2.7 has been removed from distribution because of several critical flaws. PHP 5.3 will be supported in our next release

• PHP: 5.2.0+ (5.2.7 is NOT recommended, and 5.3.0+ is not yet supported)
  
• 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 upgrade or install?

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

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

About ImpressCMS

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
• 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 complete the ImpressCMS Team form.

We'd love to connect with you ...

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

Contact:
The ImpressCMS Project
Steve Kenow
Spokesperson
press@impresscms.org