ImpressCMS 2.0 Alpha 1 / 1.3.2

ImpressCMS is a community developed Content Management System for easily building and maintaining a dynamic web site. Keep your web site up to date with this easy to use, secure and flexible system.

ImpressCMS is the ideal tool to be used for a wide range of users: from business to community users, from large enterprises to people who want a simple, ImpressCMS always proves to be an easy to use blogging tool.

ImpressCMS is a powerful system that gets outstanding results!

Here are some key features of "ImpressCMS":

Database-driven:
· ImpressCMS uses a database to store the data required for running your ImpressCMS site. MySQL is currently supported. Support for other DBMS's is coming soon.

Fully modularized:
· Website content is managed by separate content modules/web applications. Simply install the module which has the features you need: a news module, forum module, photo album module, there are many many third party modules to choose from.

User Management:
· Optional user registration: Registered users are authenticated using the standard ImpressCMS system, or by using LDAP.
· Security: IP banning, restricting content by group, backend security features for database manipulation, security token system for form validation and more.
· Personalization: Registered users can edit their profiles, select site themes, upload custom avatars, and much more!
· Versatile Group Permissions System: Powerful and user-friendly permissions system which enables administrators to set permissions by group.

Supported World-wide:
· ImpressCMS was created and is maintained by a team of hard-working volunteers working from all over the world. The ImpressCMS community has support sites around the world for support of non-English speaking users.

Multi-byte Language Support:
· Fully supports multi-byte languages, including Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Korean, etc.

Theme-based skinnable interface:
· ImpressCMS is driven by a powerful theme system. Both admins and users can change the look of the entire web site with just a click of a mouse. There are also hundreds of quality themes available for download!

Requirements:

· PHP 5.1 or later
· MySQL 4.1.0 or later
· Any server supporting the required PHP version (Apache highly recommended)

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· This version fixes some annoying bugs in the installation routine and the recover user password functionality that were present in the previous releases.
· The new banners module is now included with the core distribution.
· It also introduces the integration of the all-new HTMLPurifier 4.4, which contains multiple enhancements that should make it easier and safer to use ImpressCMS.
· some more legacy functions that have been deprecated
· icms.css has been marked for removal
· icms_module_header and icms_pagetitle should work, as well as the legacy xoops* Smarty variables
· there is an issue when a module has caching turned on in the preferences, the module_header was not being updated (items added with addScript and addStylesheet were not being rendered)
· the protector preload should be copied to the plugins/preload folder during installation, making protector completely active after install. (as long as plugins/preloads is writable during install)
· The iFrame supp...