News

As the year draws to a close, it's time to review the progress PostNuke has made and look forward to what's in store for 2008. This year has been a big one for PostNuke - we've seen the release of 0.8 MS3, RC1 and RC2, development on the .9 branch was started with the reorganisation of the project's SVN repository and the process of deciding on, and registering a new name was started and is drawing to a conclusion as I write this.

We started the new year with news about the pnForms framework, added to .8; pnForms is used in the upcoming PageMaster module, an equivalent of Pagesetter adapted to .8 technologies. Following on from that, we had the release of Milestone 3 in February, which we used to clear up many bugs in the .8 codebase.

Next, we saw the first release of Scribite, development of a high quality WYSIWYG solution for PostNuke sponsored by the German PostNuke Foundation (read about the latest, 2.0 release here). We also had the appearence of several 0.8 only modules - MultiHook, pnUpper (now renamed to MediaAttach) and Publish. More and more modules taking advantage of .8 technologies were developed throughout the year, and there is an ever increasing selection of modules ready to run with .8 when we release the final version next year.

PageLock, for managing concurrent edits of a page was introduced to PostNuke .8 in March. The PostNuke Recovery Console made an appearence in May, as a .8 replacement for the Swiss Army Knife. At the end of May, CoType (which our Docs team is using to author the new PostNuke .8 documentation) was released to the public.

Unfortunately, in June we hit the well publicised problems with the NOC, which continued for a couple of months and hit the development of .8, delaying RC1 until July. However, RC1 met with a good response and many bugs were fixed.

In August, a new Steering Committee was elected, and Jorn's new Content module (which just hit the 1.0 release) was announced. The 4th Annual pnMeeting convened in Osnabrück during September and there were many interesting talks and discussions held by the 30 or so attendees.

In October we had our first bug fixing weekend, followed by further problems with the NOC, forcing November to be a quiet month. However, on December the 12th we released RC2, which we wish to test over the Christmas holiday in preparation for RC3 or a final release early in the New Year.

So what's to come? I'll leave that for articles to be published in the New Year, but at the very least you can expect the release of .8 final, the unveiling of our new name and the rebranding which goes with it, further development of .9, and some results from our documentation project.

Finally, all that remains is to wish everyone a happy and prosperous New Year. Thanks for your continued support!


Simon Birtwistle [HammerHead]
PostNuke Steering Committee