So we have new, a maintenance release that fixes problems reported before, aslo security vulnerabilities is now available for download.

Please also not that this security problems not applicable to sites running on Drupal 5.

According to off.site:

Upgrading your existing Drupal 6 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in this release, but we fixed some notable performance issues too. For more information about the Drupal 6.x release series, consult the Drupal 6.0 release announcement.

You can get your copy [HERE]

Plone has announced Symposium for year 2008, it will be held at Penn State University in scenic State College, PA.

The Symposium will feature presentations, tutorials, hands-on training, and networking opportunities for developers, designers, integrators, technical writers, and users of Plone. One session track will be devoted to the unique needs of institutions of higher education using Plone. There will also be development sprints chosen and organized by Plone community leaders and developers.

This is the schedule:

• Training - March 10 and 11
• Symposium sessions March 12 and 13
• Sprints any time during March 8-16. Exact dates will be decided by leaders of each sprint.
• Symposium wiki: sprint organization, birds of a feather, message board

You can go ahead and register here: http://soar.ois.psu.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/SOAR.woa/wa/campusRegister?productId=200708SP017411

Plone is looking for proposals to give a presentation, so Sign up here.

Its been long wait, but second release candidate of 6 line is here! you can download it here: http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-6.0-rc2.tar.gz

There are still known issues, that being solved rigt now but before that:

we have fixed various issues including the security fixes that come with Drupal 5.6 and others involving caching filtered content, menu item inheritance, missing breadcrumbs, better error reporting in the installer and updates, some translatability issues and lots of code style cleanups, and other small fixes.

The most notable usability improvement since Drupal 6.0 RC1 is that the files directory is now automatically created in sites/default.

Developers promise to release Drupal 6 asap

It is strongly recomended that you update your site right now! There are no new features in these installments only bugfixes.

Drupal 4.7.11 and 5.6 are now available for download. These are maintenance releases that fix problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as security vulnerabilities.

Upgrading your existing Drupal sites is strongly recommended.

See download links here: http://drupal.org/drupal-5.6

What is plone? you might ask, well Plone is a content management framework that works hand-in-hand and sits on top of Zope, a widely-used Open Source web application server and development system. To use Plone, you don’t need to learn anything about Zope; to develop new Plone content types, a small amount of Zope knowledge is helpful, and it is covered in the documentation.

So they are looking for Marketing materials for their Plone Strategic Planning Summit and if you ever sold Plone to a customer, had created any Plone marketing materials to help make the sale, ever presented Plone at a conference that isn’t a Plone conference, or represented Plone at a trade show you can send your materials to

marketing@plone.org

They are also looking donators to cover the travel costs for key participants to attend Plone Strategic Planning Summit which will be held February 8-10, at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California.

however:

The Plone Foundation will match all funds contributed by the Plone community dollar-for-dollar, up to a total of $5000. This means that a $100 donation to the Plone Foundation ends up generating $200 in travel scholarships for the Planning Summit!

You can donate here: http://www.chipin.com/contribute/id/442a64afab6af3f9

Good news e107 users, after the closure of e107hacks on December 31st, the site has been taken over by another e107 user and brought back online for the benefit of everyone who wants to use it.

Taking over from Oz, who had done a fantastic job of building up a range of mods from various different authors across the e107 community, my name is Simon Paul and I own and manage NSNO.co.uk which is perhaps the most widely used e107 site on the net.

You can read full news here: http://e107.org/news.php?item.825.1

and visit renewd site here: e107hacks.org

As you know, CMS drupal participates in “Google Highly Open Participation Contest” (if you dont, you can read it here, or if you’re lazy, listen here)

They already got 54 students completing tasks from Drupal project, so far 67 have been completed but there are still 97 task slots remaining.

There are fewer than 3 weeks left to propose tasks and fewer than 5 weeks left of the contest, so they call for help.

So:

Students may claim tasks until January 22, 2008, which means a couple of days before that is the last date that we can create tasks.

The contest formally ends on February 4, 2008. A few days after that, they’ll choose a grand prize winner who will make the scenic trek to Google Campus along with a member of the Drupal community!

You can view completed tasks here: http://drupal.org/node/205806

The Drupal Association just made announcement that new 2008 Drupalcon will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA from March 3 - 6, 2008 in the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.

This time they are planing to handle 700 guests, they will try to arrange some cross-event access to AIIM International Exposition & Conference (the largest content management technology conference in North America)

Registrations are not open yet, but you can keep eye on http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/ and start packing already.

The easiest, award-winning cms has just been updated! If you are new to scripts and CMS you should really try e107 its very intuitive, easy and yeah - its free!

Speaking about new release, developers said that this is probably last release from the 0.7 branch. Although users been complaining about e107 releases being nothing but bugfixes or security releases, this is as well bugfix release BUT! this release makes e107 completly or 99% bug free and it is really solid release.

When new 0.8 version will be available? Nobody knows, not even developers:

So, when will 0.8 be out? Good question and we have no answer. There’s a lot of new code there, but not really any new features there yet either. However, with not having to worry about the 0.7 branch anymore, we can now devote our full efforts on 0.8.

as you can see there is no “new features” promise in that statement as well… unfortunately…

What is pligg you might ask… well… it’s a digg.com clone… no wait, it really is, but you can use it as cms as well…

What is new?

• core improvements and a lots of bug fixes - pretty much explaining itself
• slight change to the installation process - guess what? when installing you can select language, pligg will connect to the Pligg servers to download the most up to date language pack
• Template Management - Now you can download and install templates instantly, just like in IPB. You can even repackage them
• Akismet anti-spam - just like WordPress
• Captcha module for registrations - which allows for different types of Captcha methods to be used
• Agree-to-Terms - allows you to set up a user agreement upon registration.

After all, you can understand that this is best release of Pligg yet, So GET IT and start producing niche digg.com clones.