Midgard 1.6.0_alpha "Happy Thursday!" released.
Lodz, March 10th 2004 -- The Midgard Project has released alpha version
of the latest 1.6 Midgard Open Source Content Management Framework.
Major changes included in this release:
* Apache module has caching support which increase performance a lot
* Multilang features are now default
* Datagard , the new midgard installer and tool for managing midgard
database and applications.
Why this release is marked as "alpha"?
Apache module
Mod-midgard-preparser is used in this released as better and faster module.
New module has caching support and much better logging facilities.
Nevertheless it still has some bugs related to style and page elements caching.
Multilang
As multilang feature provides more flexibility to Midgard CMF,
it has not any admin interfaces support.
Datagard
New midgard installer and almost repligard frontend for midgard-data package
provides flexible tools for database managing. Datagard was originally designed
as tool based on Debian's debconf package.
Download page for latest release:
http://www.midgard-project.org/download/1.6.0.html
About Midgard
The Midgard Content Management Framework was initially released in May
1999, and has since gathered a sizable user and developer community.
Midgard powers thousands of web sites ranging from simple organizational
websites to major portals like New Zealand eGovernment site and
Playbill.
Midgard is being developed by an international team of professionals.
Midgard's development team includes new media designers, system
integrators and content management consultants. Midgard development is
being supported by several commercial and governmental entities
including the European Union.
Midgard developers participate actively in OSCOM, the Open Source
Content Management community's central organization. More information on
the OSCOM website: http://www.oscom.org/
Getting started with Midgard
Midgard tutorial materials from the OSCOM 3 conference are available
online at:
http://www.slideml.org/files/slidesets/499/title.html
More information
http://www.midgard-project.org/
Piotr Pokora, Midgard Developer, Midgard Release Manager
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