Siena 0.9.8 is available 2012-04-02

Thanks to the increasing interest for Cotonti Siena in the community during last 2 months, together we have found and solved over 33 bugs and made about 20 requested enhancements. The most important features in this release include:

• Extension categories. Plugins are grouped by category in the Installer and there is Category View in Administration / Extensions.
• A “Multihost” mode which allows the site to run on multiple host names and ports. See $cfg['multihost'] in config.php.
• Built-in CAPTCHA management and Security section in Configuration.
• Extra fields are supported in Forums, Comments and Contact.
• An option to log out from all devices at once.
• Category filter in Recent Items plugin.

Visit the release page to see other new features and more details.

By the way, do you have a cool site running Cotonti? Don't forget to add it to our showcase. It helps to demonstrate the newcomers what can be done using this wonderful system.

3 years on air! 2012-02-01

Our project has been publicly available for 3 years by now! It's hard to believe but time passes so fast. I like measuring the progress by statistics, so here are some interesting facts about what we have achieved during these 3 years:

• 36 releases! it is exactly 1 release per month on the average;
• 20 people have made 4658 commits in our repository, of which 2284 are in the main branch;
• 804 tasks completed;
• 27242 downloads of just the core packages;
• 165 plugins added to the downloads section;
• main branch code base has grown from 30k lines to 63k lines of code.

Quite impressive, isn't it? And how about the birthday present? Here it is! It's called "Siena 0.9.7" and it contains over 30 bugfixes and over 10 enhancements among which there are:

• Improved versioning and dependency checks in Administration / Extensions
• Improved output and error pages for fatal errors, read more... and more
• CKEditor 3.6.2
• HTMLPurifier 4.4.0
• PFS links for comments
• SEO: correct canonical URLs and no duplicate URLs in forums
• Hook for plugins and third-party presets in URLEditor
• Meta keywords for page lists
• Page start date updated upon publications

Now it's time to celebrate!

Genoa 0.6.21 is available 2012-01-15

What's new:

• CoTemplate 2.7.2 backported from Cotonti Siena (supports FOR loops and fixes a bug in expressions).
• Sites can run on custom HTTP ports other than 80.
• All page TPL-tags are available in tag search results (tags plugin).

Happy New Year 2012! 2011-12-31

Cotonti Team and Community wishes you all the best in the New Year 2012. We have prepared some presents which could be useful for you in the upcoming year:

• Adminizio, an alternative administration panel theme for Cotonti Siena.
• A whole garland of fresh plugins: CLeditor, FancyBox, Lastcommentsa, PageMultiAvatar, PHPMailer, OpenInviter, MobiSwitcher.
• Some ongoing updates in Facebook plugins.
• Pieter has updated Gameportal theme for Genoa and just released a Siena version. Dragonzap released his alternative administration panel theme and gallery plugin a while ago.

And guess what? TPL Tags Repository is back online, supporting both Siena and Genoa branches simultaneously!

2012 is going to be a great year for Cotonti project: it will reach v1.0.0, grow stability, documentation, the number of long awaited extensions and new themes. Let it be a great year for you too!

Siena 0.9.6 released 2011-12-05

We continue improving Siena branch on our way to 1.0.0 release. What's new in 0.9.6:

• CoTemplate 2.7 with FOR loops
• Page drafts
• Rightless user groups (more lightweight)
• jQuery 1.7.1
• Debug mode for hooks
• Over 10 other enhancements
• Over 25 bugs fixed

For more information please visit Release notes.

You might notice that we had a poll a while ago to pick the best name for 1.0.x branch. The name of Valencia has been the most popular. However, at Cotonti Team we decided to continue using Siena as the name for 1.0.x branch for 2 obvious reasons: a) 1.0.x is fully compatible with 0.9.x; b) rebranding is quite an expensive thing. So we will use those wonderful names of Avila and Valencia later when it is really time for a new branch name.

Another message from Cotonti headquarters: the developers have shifted their focus from development of new features to stabilization of Siena code, improvements in extension repository and documentation writing. Your input in this direction is highly appreciated.