Announcements

We are proud to announce that TangoCMS 2.5.0 "Kiwi" has been released and available for download for all to use. The short time between the release of 2.4.0 and now is due to feature #221 which we wanted to get done as soon as possible, allowing us to be added to Microsoft's Web App Gallery.

As can be seen by our roadmap, this release introduces a few additions and changes to user management which are very helpful for large community sites. For example, an entire user group can now be locked meaning no users within that group can login, and those already logged in will be logged out. This could allow a site administrator to do updates to a website whilst knowing no users can login.

To help keep the security of your users in tune, we've made it possible for user passwords to expire at set intervals. When a users password expires, they will be forced to change it to something different.

Your media module images can now be viewed as a slideshow, thanks to a new feature in Tangobox, whilst having the title/description of the image displayed to your users.

A small handful of bug fixes have been done, and jQuery 1.4 has made its way into this release which helps speed up Tangobox. For a full list of changes, please view our ChangeLog.

The first and last release candidate of the upcoming TangoCMS, 2.5.0 "Kiwi", has been released for all to download and help test. This is still a development release (however is very stable) so should not be used for production use just yet.

This release implements a small handful of features in TangoCMS and Tangobox, however our plans for 2.5 changed early on with many features being pushed back to 2.6.0. The reason being that we wanted to create the Microsoft Web App Gallery installer as soon as possible, so that TangoCMS can proudly be available for easy download and installation on Microsoft Windows running IIS. 

We didn't want to create an entire new release with just 1 feature, so we have spent some extra time implementing many user management features and of course, a collection of bug fixes. Details of what we have implemented will come in the 2.5.0 final release announcement, but as always you can view our Roadmap for 2.5.0 to get a sneak peak.

Some of you may have noticed our updated website mentions our Git repository instead of the older Subversion repository that we have used for nearly 2 years. This is because we have finally migrated to Git for our source control. Git makes a lot more sense to us, it is faster and provides us with features to work more efficiently that SVN simply can't offer.

The SVN repository (svn://tangocms.org/tangocms) will remain read-only for a very long time to come, however no development will be made in SVN from now on. Instead, all work shall be done in our new Git repository.

As always, nightly archives are downloadable as snapshots of the 'master' branch. View our source code repository page for details on getting code from Git.