Drupal is een dynamisch systeem geschreven in PHP waarmee de gebruiker content kan beheren, organiseren en uitgeven. Het bevat veel features die terug te vinden zijn in content management systemen, blogs, collaboratiesites en forums. Een uitgebreide beschrijving van alle features kan op deze pagina tot in detail bekeken worden. Ook is er een lijst beschikbaar van verschillende websites die gebruik maken van Drupal. Sinds vandaag is versie 4.6.0 beschikbaar met de volgende aankondiging:
After six months of development, the Drupal team is proud to announce the Drupal 4.6.0 release! Thanks to those who contributed to this release, either by contributing code, testing the release candidate, providing support or writing documentation.
The key changes since Drupal 4.5 include:For a complete list, please consult the changelog. In addition to all of the above, we made significant improvements under the hood in terms of performance and better APIs. Contributed themes and modules have already begun to take advantage of these.
- PHP5 support.
- Better search usability, improved results and relevancy.
- Personal contact forms for registered users.
- Improved multi-site support to run multiple Drupal sites from a single code base.
- Extensible RSS 2.0 syndication support for enclosures (e.g. podcasts) and categories.
- Ping Ping-O-Matic, to ping all major ping services.
- Usability improvements for permissions, block configuration, statistics tracking, logs, forum configuration, content administration, etc.