Drupal is een veelzijdig contentmanagementsysteem dat zijn werk doet op een groot aantal platformen. Het programma kan via modules van extra functionaliteit worden voorzien, en met thema's kan een andere layout aan het cms worden gehangen. Zo is het mogelijk om met Drupal een nieuwssite, een forum en/of een collaboratiesite te onderhouden. De ontwikkelaars hebben zojuist versie 6.17 de deur uitgedaan en daarnaast enkele dagen geleden de vijfde alpha van Drupal 7.0 vrijgegeven. De bijbehorende aankondigingen zien er als volgt uit:
Drupal 6.17 released
Drupal 6.17, a maintenance release fixing issues reported through the bug tracking system, is now available for download. There are no security fixes in this release. Upgrading your existing Drupal 6 sites is recommended. For more information about the Drupal 6.x release series, consult the Drupal 6.0 release announcement.
Highlights of changes in this release include improvements of session cookie handling, better processing of big XML-RPC payloads, improved PostgreSQL compatibility, better PHP 5.3 and PHP 4 compatibility, improved Japanese support in search module, better browser compatibility of CSS and JS aggregation and improved logging for login failures. An incompatibility of Drupal 6.16's new lock subsystem with some contributed modules was also resolved. In total there were about 55 patches committed to improve Drupal 6.
The full list of changes between the 6.16 and 6.17 releases can be found by reading the 6.17 release notes. A complete list of all bug fixes in the stable DRUPAL-6 branch can be found at http://drupal.org/project/cvs/3060/?branch=DRUPAL-6.
Given enough bug fixes (not just bug reports) more maintenance releases will be made available.
Drupal 7.0 Alpha 5 released
Our fourth Drupal 7 alpha version was released just over a month ago. Today, we're proud to announce the release of the fifth alpha version of Drupal 7.x for your further testing and feedback. The first alpha announcement provided a comprehensive list of improvements made since Drupal 6.x, so in this announcement we'll concentrate on how you can help ensure that Drupal 7 is released as soon as possible and is as rock solid as the previous Drupal releases that you've grown to love!
This release includes many critical bug fixes, especially around the upgrade path, security issues, JavaScript, performance, and other areas.
Please see the release notes for more details.