Thursday, February 9th, 2012 3:42 am

MySQL fork: Drizzle 7 gets general release

Atlanta (ip-192.com): Drizzle 7, a fork of MySQL 6.0, has gone into general availability. The open source database management system is written in the C++ programming language and features a client-server architecture. It also uses SQL as its primary command language. Targeted at the web-infrastructure and cloud computing markets, developers describe the database as a [...]

Joomla 1.6: Better user management

Washington, DC (ip-192.com): Content management system Joomla has released version 1.6. Significant new features include the ability to use template styles and overrides to modify the appearance of pages, nested categories, and a color-coded CSS and HTML editor. A new abstraction layer enables the open source CSS to run on different backend databases. Permissions can [...]

Drupal: Version 7 of CMS released

Atlanta (ip-192.com): After three years of development, Drupal 7 has been released. The open source content management system (CMS) features a new easier-to-use and more intuitive administrative interface that allows user to update modules and themes directly from within the console. A new database abstraction layer offers substantially enhanced performance and scalability options. The blogging [...]

WordPress: RC1 for WP 3.0 available

San Francisco (ip-192.com): WordPress just announced the availability of the first release candidate (RC1) for WordPress 3.0. Main new features in WordPress 3.0 (ip-192.com reported here) include multi-domain and multi-site management from a single installation of the content management system (CMS), a streamlined administration menu, and the ability to add custom menus. The coming release [...]