On Monday, Packt Publishing announced the five finalists in each category of its 2007 Open Source Content Management System Award.  The five categories are Most Promising, Best PHP CMS, Best Other (Non-PHP) CMS, Best Social Networking CMS, and Overall Winner.  In the finals stage, the public as a whole is eligible to vote for each category through October 26th.  While that may seem like a long time for the polls to be open, I'd encourage you to vote early so that you have no excuse for why your favorite CMS didn't make it to the winners list.

Around this time last year, Packt Publishing announced the "top five" finalists for their award (no separate categories in 2006).  In 2006, those CMS projects that made it to the finalist list included Drupal, e107, Joomla, Plone, and Xoops.  When those five CMS were announced, I chose to double my efforts on covering those applications here at CMS Report.  Although the extra categories this year have brought quite a few more Open Source CMS into the foreground, I still don't see why I couldn't keep most of them on my CMS Focus radar scope.  With 16,000 people nominating their favorite CMS for this award, that amount of generated interest is hard to ignore.  Luckily, I already cover many of the CMS that did make it as a finalist...but there are still many new CMS on that list that will shake things up a bit here at CMSReport.com.

Jaws 0.7.0 was released this week.  Jaws is a framework and content management system for building dynamic web sites.  New features in Jaws 0.7.0 include:

• Support for 12 languages
• Database support for: MySQL(i), PostgreSQL, MSSQL and SQLite!
• AJAX in all of the gadgets
• Better antispam support: Captchas (simple and mathematician), Akismet and extra tools
• Friendly URLs

Links for downloading Jaws 0.7.0 is available on the official Jaws download page.  The post at jaws-project.com announcing the stable release as well as the requirements for Jaws 0.7.0 is available by clicking here.

A couple weeks ago, the Jaws developers released the second beta of Jaws 0.7.0.  Jaws is a framework and content management system written in PHP.

What's new in this version?

• Lot of Ajax and fancy stuff you will love
• Full IE support (now *faster*).
• New gadgets
• Romanian and Spanish support
• Many fixes from the first beta and new code!

You can find more information and download links for this CMS by visiting the Jaws project site.

Jaws 0.6.3 released -

"We are announcing a security release, 0.6.3. This version fixes two major bugs:

• SQL Injection with queries using LIKE.
• A XSS bug in a 3rd Party library (magpierss) RssReader uses.

Please feel free to upgrade your version and report any bug you find."

[Jaws]