The XOOPS Development Team is pleased to announce that a new version of the Top 5 Finalist of 2010 Packt Open Source CMS - XOOPS 2.5.0 RC 2 is available for download.

Thanks to everybody who tested the RC1 and provided us with feedback and bug fixes!

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The XOOPS 2.5.0 release is a major redesign of the System Module which has been AJAX-ed with jQuery done mainly by Nicolas Andricq (ForMusS), Cointin Maxime (kraven_30), and Grégory Mage (Mage). Other major contributors include Trabis, Voltan, Kris_fr, and Marco. Some of the new features are truly amazing, like the visual placement of blocks, and we're sure that the users will love them

Other major improvements/additions include:

- Added: Help System for Admin and modules (see PM module)
- Added: MySQL Dump in Maintenance
- Added: New Redirect messaging
- Added: Column sorting in tables
- Added: smarty plugin for icon pack
- Added: smarty plugin for breadcrumb navigation
- Added: jQuery plugins for display popup or manage drag & drop
- Added: File Manager (Plugin)
- Added: Maintenance with Cache Clean-up, and Tables Maintenance
- Added: Visual module ordering with drag & drop
- Added: Visual block placement with drag & drop
- Added: Refactor all PHP code for use XOOPS API
- Added: Use template in the same way that front user, admin side for module can call a main template define in xoops_version.php
- Added: Allow override of template in admin theme like frontend if we set template in ADMIN_THEME
- Added: New variable 'system_menu' in xoops_version.php of each module, this variable generate a tab menu for module admin side if set to 1, this feature is for give one unique tab menu for all menu (eg: module PM for).
- Added: add jquery plugin in xoops_lib
- Added: change install for install admin template and admin setting
- Added: manage editor for blocks, comments and for all module if module developper want to use it activate or deactivate system section
- Added: choose number of line for admin section
- Added: display or hide tips

Avatar:
- activate/deactivate avatar with ajax
Banners:
- jquery popup for display banners
Block admin:
- drag n drop block for manage position and weight
- jquery popup for preview
Comments:
- multiple selection for deletion
- purge
Groups:
- number of user per group
- new disposition
Images:
- lightbox preview + thumbs
Modulea Admin:
- jquery popup for display info
Preferences:
- system settings
Smilies:
- activate/deactivate smilies with ajax
Templates:
- manage overide of all template online
- generated file come from database
User Rank:
- activate/deactivate userrank with ajax
Users:
- advanced user management
- new disposition
- simple and advance search

For a detailed Change log, please click here .

Videos

To see the main features of XOOPS 2.5.0, check out the following videos that were made for the Alpha release:

a) In Spanish (by Uskola 2) b) In English (by Vamptrix) c) In English (by Mamba) d) In French (by tutoxoops)

   

Please remember: This is Release Candidate version for features testing only!

DO NOT install it on a production site and DO NOT upgrade any production site with it!

==> New in this release - upgrading from older XOOPS version

Download it from Sourceforge repository .

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