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

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]

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]

We have all heared/read about very lightweight, fast and functional blogging engine: Chyrp (if not, check demo here: http://chyrp.net/demo/ at first it was very buggy and that even stopped people to install/try it.

So now, author Alex Suraci focused on bugfixing and even made tons of enhancements, as well as some small changes to the existing Module, Feathers, and Theme engines. A Tumblr importer is in the works as well.

Whats so amazing about Chyrp? well it is free, lightweight, clean, minimalistic and:

All of your content is powered by a unique Feathers system that allows Chyrp to be whatever you want it to be. You can post anything or everything, or just stick to the default Text feather and run a regular blog. Chyrp destroys the fine line separating a blog and a tumblelog.

So wait till 1.0.4 is out and give it a try, good luck Chyrp ( http://chyrp.net/ )

Scuttle is php/mysql based script, and allows you to run own del.icio.us like service. Script features: store, share, tag, watchlist, user profiles and much more capeabilities.

I could not find online demo yet, so you can check screenshots here: http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=134378

and get it here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=134378

Good Luck