It's the first day of Autumn, isn't it? Chin up and update your Cotonti! What's new:

• jQuery 1.4.2
  
• markItUp! 1.1.8 with Opera and WebKit fixes and optimized graphics
  
• Fixed keeping of extrafields data
  
• A few small bugfixes
  

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Some news about Siena progress. We have almost finished modularization, currently AdminCP is being modularized. The new fancy looking modular installer&updater is up and running. We've introduced a few developer APIs. More hard work is before us this month, so wish us good luck and many happy hours coding the most different Cotonti ever!

An important security bug has been detected in Cotonti 0.6.x that might affect some sites with magic_quotes_gpc=Off. That's why today we have released 0.6.9 which fixes this bug and also improves our security and authentication mechanisms as requested by the community. Here are the changes:

• An important security fix and improvements for the rc.php static resource compressor
  
• Authentication security and stability improvement backported from Siena
  
• Anti-XSS improvement backported from Siena
  
• Authentication support for multi-domain sites (with "remember me")
  

This update is strongly recommended, download it now. Note: right after the update all users will have to relogin into the site.

If you wonder about Siena, it is still under heavy development.

First make sure to update a few files in your Cotonti Genoa installations, because we have released 0.6.8 with a few minor fixes.

Get details and download Cotonti Genoa 0.6.8

Despite the fact Siena is behind the schedule due to amount of work and developer inactivity this Spring, we have made some important decisions and there are some news that haven't been announced before:

1. The release is scheduled on Summer, currently the date is set on August 1st. The reason is that developer activity will increase in Summer and we will also need some time to test and fix critical bugs.
2. The version number will be 0.9 instead of 0.7. And it is more than just a version number: 0.9 means that most major core and API changes that have been planned for 1.0 will be done in Siena. Therefore there will be massive changes from 0.6 (with migration tools and compatibility layer for existing Genoa installations provided), but afterwards the API won't change significantly until 1.5 or 2.0. We have made this decision because community members claim that it is easier to make big changes to their plugins once rather than doing it smaller portions every few months.
3. Cotonti will use HTML as primary markup language and will come with HTML purifier and WYSIWYG-capable editor. BBcode and other markup parsers and editors will still be supported at secondary level.

Seems like we are completely running out of bugs in Genoa, just a few of them found during the last month and this monthly issue fixes them. What's new:

• markItUp! editor updated to 1.1.6.1, fixes a bug present in 1.1.6
  
• RSS: relative links are made absolute (for better feed burners support), RSS icons are now valid XHTML, pages are accessed by aliases, a bug with RSS cache is fixed
  
• Corrected "&" output in titles
  
• Support for custom validation and $_SESSION['cot_user_id'] for use in third-party scripts
  
• Upgradeable from Seditio v126 and Seditio v130
  

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Siena is on the way, still many miles to go. Don't hesitate helping us (see the previous news post).

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!