Quick News: This is first bug-fixing-only version of the phpMyAdmin, and its first Release Candidate as well!

Download fresh copy [HERE]

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]

It’s been a while and phpbb team was working hard on stability and security. Lot’s of bugs were fixed and some of them were critical, plus 2 minor security related bugs.

Good news is that they still continue to support phpBB 2.0.23 branch.

For full list of what has been changed, you can go [HERE]

So, have fun with latest opensource forum software phpbb3

Or just [GET] your copy for fresh install or test drive

Family Connections - it is actually family related CMS, pretty interesting ha? This CMS was made for people with little to no web design experience to create a fully functional, feature packed, family website.

So that they could keep in touch with family and friends from all over the world. It even has own calendar so you will never forget your wifes birthday or anniversary again… and that is good thing!

Some more features include:

1. Share pictures on the Photo Gallery
2. Communicate with friends and family on the Message Board
3. Keep track of birthdays and anniversaries on the Calendar
4. Store addresses and phone numbers in the Address Book
5. Create a blog with the Family News section
6. More…

So I guess it’s pretty neat peace of code for those who travel a lot, or maybe leave in other country.

You can download it [HERE]

After a month, Movable Type releases first public beta, it was completly based on log files that was submitted by users themselvs, but thats not all, now Movable Type has more features, such as:

1. Threaded Commenting
2. Simpler, Easier Default Templates
3. Updated Navigation and Menus
4. New Template and Widget Listing Screens
5. Template Previews
6. Faster, More Powerful Search — and now with Pagination!
7. Even More Publishing Control

You can get your copy [HERE] and view full release note [HERE]

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There are not much news in scripts niche today, so I thought I share nice theme for phpmyadmin, that I discovered recently

Clear View is free, clean, white and nifty theme (skin) for phpmyadmin, currently tested with phpMyAdmin 2.9, but 2.8 may be good too.

Author, beholder-eye explains how to make this light theme even more beautiful:

If you want more pretty icons (32bit, alpha transparency), then do this:

- rename folder ‘clear_view/img’ to ‘img_8bit’
- rename folder ‘clear_view/img_32bit’ to ‘img’

but these icons will be ugly in IE 6.

It even supports so-called zebra tables, to enable them just uncomment line:

// $GLOBALS['cfg']['zebra'] = '#f5f5f5';

in layout.inc.php file

Setting theme up, is quite streight forward, just upload it to themes folder. Icons are from famfamfam

You can download it [HERE] (scroll down)

Enjoy!

Piwik is open-source, ajaxified, free visitor tracking system, formely known as phpmyvisites, which was closed down… and renamed to Piwik.

Currently Piwik provides widgets, so you can display (embed) graphs and statistic directly on your pages. It counts all the basic stats, such as: visits, keywords, refferes, search stats, browsers, geolocation, and can prepare reports in different formats. Everything is draggable and droppable.

Piwik continues its life thanks to openads team, and it’s mine mission is to

To create, as a community, the leading international open source web analytics application, providing access to all functionality through open components and open APIs

In short, Piwiks aims to be open source alternative to Google Analytics. Lets wait and see…

You can get your slice of Piwik [HERE] or view [DEMO] here

Well, this shop-script is not as well known as Magento, but it offers same functionallity (nearly) and is much more lightweitght for sure, most of features are being still developed, however team released 1RC for our developers needs today.

This release however is under TESTING ONLY tag so far, still yet its feature reach (View feature list here) free and lightweight, you can checkout demo here: http://www.prestashop.com/demo.php

Not bed for 3.0MB ha? You bet, give it a ride.

Hurray, most powerfull, most robust, most feature reach and best of all FREE and opensource, ecommerce shopping cart software script is out of its BETA stage and released first ever production version.

Which of course is good news and you can right now start your own online-shop with it, because its stable enough to be deployed on production sites.

Oh, and there is thank you note of course to you from Varien’s Magento:

To everyone who spread the word about Magento, told a friend, wrote in blogs, posted and commented in the Magento forums, subscribed to our newsletter, downloaded one (or more) of our 11 preview releases, reported bugs, participated in the Magento community, to the online merchants who waited for Magento 1.0, developers and designers who convinced their clients to wait for the product and our partners who recognized the potential — Thank you for believing.

Go grab your own copy of Magento [HERE]

Its been six months now that we heared about new WP version coming trough, and now bloggers favourite blogging script - WordPress gets another great update.

Lots of user requested features, such are:

1. Cleaner, faster, less cluttered dashboard
2. Dashboard Widgets
3. Multi-file upload with progress bar
   
4. EXIF extraction
5. Search posts and pages
   
6. Tag management
7. Password strength meter
8. Concurrent editing protection
9. Few-click plugin upgrades
10. Friendlier visual post editor
11. Built-in galleries

were introduced, most of all I liked built in galleries support which you can use by simply putting [ gallery] (without the space) tag into you posts.

As for multi-file upload, I dont know why but its not working with my IE7 but looks nice in FireFox. Hope that will get fixed.

There are developer side improvements of course:

1. Salted passwords
2. Secure cookies
3. Easy taxonomy and URL creation
4. Inline documentation
5. Database optimization
6. $wpdb->prepare()
7. Media buttons
8. Shortcode API

With new release http://wordpress.org got redesign too, and looks really slick.

Go get your new WP copy here: http://wordpress.org/download/

[Via WordPress]