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The XOOPS Project, world’s leading Open Source CMS (Content Management System), has released recently the newest version of its award winning software – XOOPS 2.3.1. In the first seven weeks this new release has been already downloaded more than 17,000 times, confirming the strong position of XOOPS in the CMS market. For the month of November, XOOPS was ranked as #24 overall project, and the #1 CMS project on www.SourceForge.net. Complete Story Advertisement: read more

I caused a little bit of controversy during my review of ImpressCMS as one of the five most promising CMS. ImpressCMS impressed me so much that I decided to add it to CMS Report's CMS Focus.  ImpressCMS pushed XOOPS off of this list!

The XOOPS Project has released the newest version 2.3.1 of its open source Web CMS. Only two weeks after the release, the company has reported over 5,000 downloads already. Better yet, the new release has some awesome features necessary to keep XOOPS at the top of the list. Some bugs are still there as well.

The XOOPS Project, world’s leading Open Source CMS (Content Management System), has released recently the newest version of its award winning software – XOOPS 2.3.1. The Project Leader, Mr. Jiang Taiwen, stated that this release is significant for two reasons: (1) it is merging the two existent XOOPS branches of 2.0 and 2.2 and (2) it is building a bridge towards the next generation of XOOPS – version 3.0. The major improvements are addition of Extended Profile and Private Messages modules, and standardizing on one Extended DHTML editor as the default across all XOOPS modules. The administrators will also enjoy the addition of EXM Admin GUI.

After much wait and debate the judges from PacktPub.com’s 2008 CMS Awards have announced the winner of the 2008 Best PHP Based Open Source CMS award. This year’s competition came looking to win. They set a standard difficult to match (and judge). And with the changing trends in the way the internet is being used, like the flood of social media and applications, the finalists had to prove they are ready for the future.

Earlier today, Packt Publishing announced the winners of their 2008 Open Source CMS Most Valued People Award.  The MVP is a new category for Packt's annual Open Source CMS Awards.  In this category, "names were put forward by members of the Content Management System's development team and community and represent the exceptional support, guidance, and sheer amount of time that the MVPs have given up to support the development and growth of the respective CMS". 

XOOPS.org: "The XOOPS Development Team is pleased to announce the release of XOOPS 2.3.1 Final. This release is mainly focused on bug fixes for XOOPS 2.3.0 release according to community feedback.A couple of bugs in upgrade scripts from 2.2 to 2.3 have been fixed, as well as profile field access problems. Debug information visibility has been improved according to community demands, debug information level is enabled as a temporary solution.  Meanwhile XOOPS news aggregator has been improved for non UTF-8 charset websites, multiple feeds are enabled." Complete Story

XOOPS, a portal system going the way of the Web CMS, is receiving significant upgrades. XOOPS 2.3 is claimed by the developers to be "the best version ever of XOOPS." The purpose of 2.3 is to build a bridge to the next generation of XOOPS. While version 2.3 has not been released, it is steadily approaching fast as the second release candidate is available for download.

The April issue of Adobe Edge contains the article, Review of open source content management systems. The article provides an overview of what the author describes as "five of the top open source software (OSS) solutions". The five open source CMS included in the author's list are CMS Made Simple, Drupal, Joomla!, WordPress, and XOOPS. After reading the article, I found myself wondering how we "reviewers" can actually improve our reviews of open source CMS. More importantly, I've come to the realization that I can no longer claim to be non-biased in which CMS I believe is the best out there.