One year ago on Feb 1st 2009 Cotonti went public with v0.0.2. With the approach of Open Source Software, a lot of enthusiasm and hard work we have delivered a lot of new features and improvements to this CMS of rich history and traditions. And it is not just new features, as we managed to establish rock-solid stability of our currently available branch Genoa.

Today we celebrate 1 year of publicity with a new stable release Genoa 0.6.6 which brings fixes for 17 bugs detected within last 3 months and an update of markItUp bbcode editor.

View Details & Download Genoa 0.6.6

You are probably bored by bugfixes and a lack of new features. Currently we are working hard on the next generation of Cotonti called Siena. It will include lots of new things such as: a new modern default skin, installer/updater script, dedicated skins for Administration area, customizable string resources instead of hardcoded HTML, built-in AJAX support, SMTP support, improved PFS, improved PM, improved Administration, SEO improvements, a lot of functionality improvements in all modules, a new Cache API, simplified hooks and improved extrafields for developers and lots more.

If you are excited by Siena and want to see it live as soon as possible, then you can help us and your own dream:

• We are constantly looking for skilled developers. Read more, send a request, promote yourself!
• Make a donation to give the development a boost. You can even specify a ticket which you want to reward for.
• Contribute to Documentation Workgroup and help us writing documentation for Cotonti.
• Make your own plugins, skins and submit other downloads. The more quality third-party additions are available, the more users are satisfied and time is saved for everyone.
• Get ready to an early testing stage. We'll start alpha testing in February and inform potential testers on Forums.
• Learn more about Cotonti and share your experience: you'll see it's a lot of fun!

If you have Polls enabled on your site, it is strongly recommended to update to this version. It contains an important SQL injection vulnerability fix for polls module. Some minor bugs have been fixed during the last month too:

• Fixed SQL injection vulnerability in polls
  
• Added Tags in news plugin
  
• Fixed encoding in standalone PFS edit/editfolder
  
• Finally fixed HTML parsing in RSS
  
• Fixed {CATEGORY} in titles for pages
  
• Fixed forum posts pagination links
  
• Fixed a bug in tag search
  

Download now!

Another monthly update brings you latest patches and fixes available for stable Cotonti branch. Changes in this version from 0.6.3 include:

• Flawless HTML parsing support
• A fix for tags output
• A fix for PFS links
• A fix for advanced permission management
• A fix for possible security flaw in users list
• Request source type for sed_import()

You can download the latest version here.

Today we have received the last votes and opinions on the three skins which were selected for the final round of the competition. It was a spectacular race because nobody really knew which skin would take over. Every single point from the jury was very significant. However, now it is time to take a deep breath because here are the the winners and their prizes:

• The Grand Prix goes to Stamatis 'Stam' Kritikos and his SymiSun* 03. It means that this skin will become the new default skin in Cotonti Siena 0.7.
• The 1st prize and $170 goes to MeDBejoHok for his outstanding Veronese.
• The 2nd prize and $100 is deserved by Dmitri Beliavski a.k.a. Kort for his high quality entry Cryo.
• The rest 3 guys who took part in the 1st round will get $20 each for their effort and wish to help our community and CMS to develop.

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The first round of Skin Competition is now over and it has clearly outlined 2 things:

• We have 3 obvious leaders.
• Web polls are not perfect for such contests.

So we decided to combine the Jury vote with Community vote and go for Round 2.

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