Genoa Update 0.6.11 and Roadmap Changes 01.11.2010

Genoa updates for November 2010 are available as 0.6.11 release. As usually it contains fixes for recently discovered bugs.

Details and download for Cotonti Genoa 0.6.11

As for more significant changes in Cotonti project, there are 3 most noticeable things:

1. Koradhil has become our Administrator responsible for cotonti.com site reorganization, documentation reorganization and public affairs in blogosphere and social media.
2. Cotonti Siena is in alpha testing and development stage. We have completed over 100 tickets by now, most of 0.9.0 features are already available and are still doing major changes.
3. The Roadmap has been corrected, it is described below.

Our current project schedule looks like this:

• December 1st 2010: feature freeze for 0.9.0. All major changes are to be done by this date. Then 0.9.0 enters “beta” stage when only bugfixes, minor enhancements and translations will be accepted. During December we will stabilize Siena and move cotonti.com site onto it.
• December 25th 2010 - January 2nd 2011: within this period 0.9.0 final will be released. This site will be relaunched with a new layout, documentation section, downloads repository and other improvements.
• January – March 2011: minor releases in 0.9.x branch (0.9.1, 0.9.2. etc.). Goals: rock solid stability, performance optimizations, plugin and module development, easy migration of existing Genoa sites.
• March 1st or April 1st 2011: by this time we expect 0.9.x to be stable enough, so that it will eventually become 1.0.0.

You can locate the Roadmap in our project tracker. Genoa will be phased out some time after 1.0.0 release, most probably when most sites will have been upgraded, e.g. in June 2011.

Genoa 0.6.10 Released 01.09.2010

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
  

More details and Download

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!

Security update for Genoa 15.07.2010

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.

Genoa 0.6.8 and Siena news 16.05.2010

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.

Cotonti Genoa 0.6.7 is available 02.03.2010

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
  

Download now

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