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ImpressCMS 1.2 Final is Released

By Bryan - Posted on 14 December 2009

Half a year ago, I posted a video previewing the upcoming release of ImpressCMS 1.2. Unknown to me at the time was that it would take another six months before the content management system was to become finally released. According to the project developers, it's actually been 14 months since the release of ImpressCMS 1.1.

Almost 14 months in the making, ImpressCMS 1.2 is now ready as a Final release! ImpressCMS 1.1 was released at the end of October 2008 and the scope of changes in this release has kept the developers, testers and translators busy.

ImpressCMS has had a short, but notable history - founded in 2007, an initial release in January 2008, 3rd place in Packt Publishing's Most Promising Open Source CMS in 2008 and 1st place in 2009, a 2008 finalist in SourceForge's Community Choice Awards, 32 separate releases and almost 10,000 commits in its code repository.

Some of the new features and improvements in ImpressCMS 1.2 include:

  • Imagemanager, with online editing
  • Fully customizable Profile module, with social networking features
  • Content module
  • Autotasks
  • AJAX Redirect - no more redirect page!
  • HTMLPurifier configuration
  • Captcha configuration
  • Themes for the admin area
  • Separate home pages for each group
  • Textsanitizer plugins
  • Installer - new look, using AJAX and you can install modules while installing your site
  • Search results page
  • Adsense management
  • Centralized Ratings and Mimetype management

Additional details about ImpressCMS 1.2 can be found at the CMS's project site.

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Bryan Ruby is the owner and editor for CMS Report. He founded CMSReport.com in 2006 on the belief that information technologists, website owners, and web developers desired visiting sites where they could learn about content management systems without the sales pitch. Outside of his late night blogging hours, he is the Information Technology Officer for a field office in the federal government.