WordPress 2.7 codename "Coltrane"
The first thing you’ll notice about 2.7 is its new interface. From the top down, we’ve listened to your feedback and thought deeply about the design and the result is a WordPress that’s just plain faster. Nearly every task you do on your blog will take fewer clicks and be faster in 2.7 than it did in a previous version. (Download it now, or read on for more.)
Next you’ll begin to notice the new features subtly sprinkled through the new interface: the new dashboard that you can arrange with drag and drop to put the things most important to you on top, QuickPress, comment threading, paging, and the ability to reply to comments from your dashboard, the ability to install any plugin directly from WordPress.org with a single click, and sticky posts.
The 2008 Open Source CMS Award
PacktPub.com has been accepting MVP nominations since early July and for the majority of Content Management Systems, there were a number of candidates that received enthusiastic support. This demonstrates how many different people are key to the sucess of a CMS and how difficult it is to select an individual as the person who has contributed the most.
Security Issues Plague Web CMS PHP Fusion
Security seems to be the topic of the day. With browsers rushing to release security hot fixes and CMS’s trying to keep their systems as secure as possible, the news from Web CMS PHP Fusion comes at a bad time. Yesterday, PHP Fusion announced that someone had hacked their site and changed the download link for PHP Fusion 7 to spendspace and it came as a .rar file.
While not a good scenario, the PHP 5-based (PHP 4-compatible) Web CMS developed by Nick Jones (also known as Digitanium) was quick to announce that anyone who had downloaded version 7 may have gotten a version that contained malicious files. Remember the issues Joomla! had in regards to the Harvard site being hacked? But again, transparency and quick notification can usually eliminate too much backlash from something like this.
So PHP Fusion made the announcement and let the community know. Everything seemed okay…until today. PHP Fusion’s site has now been suspended by their hosting provider. Suspicions are that it has been discontinued due to the security breach, which came as a result of a weak account that a hacker gained the password for and was allowed in as a super administrator.
What does this mean for PHP Fusion? No one is sure yet, but it makes us wonder about other possible security holes in various versions of the PHP Fusion — as in the case with any CMS provider who has its own site hacked to the point of getting it suspended.
There has been no news as to when (or if) the site will be available again. It’s possible that SourceForge (a supporter of PHP Fusion) will have an update in the event if PHP Fusion’s main site is still down. You can still download PHP Fusion version 7 at SourceForge. But you may want to wait until the dust settles, and it’s safe to click that download link.
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New Security Updates for Drupal Web CMS
Drupal is at it again with another round of updated releases. While not major releases, these new versions from Drupal do address a number of security fixes and bugs that were brought to their attention via Drupal’s bug tracking system.
Drupal has announced that there will be no new features added to 6.x or 5.x. They are holding the feature updates and implementation of new features until they are ready to release Drupal 7.x in the near future.