adva-cms 0.1.0 released!

posted by Marko Seppä on January 20, 2009 14:29

Almost a year after we have started the development we are happy to announce the first release of adva-cms! This still is an experimental release and you may encounter bugs and some parts have some rough edges.

The adva-cms project originally was started by Sven Fuchs and was meant to be a rewrite of Mephisto, but in time it grew larger and became what it is today - a bleeding edge CMS platform.

The idea behind adva-cms is that you can plug in different engines, depending on your need. If you only want a blog you do not need to care about other engines than the blog engine. And if you later decide that you need a forum, well, you can just create it by using the forum engine. Unlike other Rails projects, the fresh copy of adva-cms leaves your app directory completely empty. This is meant to be an area for your own application that runs on top of adva-cms as a foundation.

This first release of adva-cms ships with:

  • CMS: Allows the building of multiple sites and hierarchically organized sections.
  • Comments: Allows your users to comment your site contents and sections.
  • RBAC: Dynamic role based access control allows you to give access to different roles to manage your site's contents.
  • Blogs: Heavily inspired by Mephisto.
  • Assets: Allows you to use different types of media in your articles, with the help of buckets. Heavily inspired by Mephisto.
  • Wikis: Inspired by Signal Wiki.
  • Forums: Inspired by Beast.
  • Newsletters: With the newsletter engine you can manage multiple newsletter and deliver issues easily to your subscribers. Contributed by: Priit Tamboom
  • Calendar: Allows you to manage different kinds of events. Contributed by: Thomas R. Koll
  • Private messaging: The private messaging engine allows the users of your site to send private messages to each other.
  • Photo albums: With photo albums you can upload photos and assign them to different photo sets.
  • Theme support: Allows you to theme your website and share themes with others.

Other notable features are:

  • Supports Rails 2.2
  • i18n support
  • Blazing speed through frontend page-caching

The next release of adva-cms is coming soon. Things we have in mind for future releases are:

  • Completing and unifying the test suite
  • Redesign of section/page concept
  • Enabling rbac (backend user interface)
  • Enabling spam filters
  • Widgets
  • Safemode and safe-erb, for safer user input
  • Fixing section templates
  • Replacing legacy plugins
  • Adding content attachments
  • and much more ...

Support and contribute

If you encounter any problems with 0.1.0, please drop by in #adva-cms @ irc.freenode.net or send a mail to our mailing-list, we are happy to help you. You are also welcome to drop by if you want to submit patches or some way or other to help us with developing adva-cms!

Developer team of adva-cms (as of 20.1.2009):

Sven Fuchs, Marko Seppä, Clemens Kofler, Joshua Harvey, Priit Tamboom, Thomas R Koll