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Well it is time for another project update. We have made some very exciting progress over the last few months and it is time to spread the word. Several months ago the team set out to build the next maintenance release, 4.6.6, to fix minor issues and continue building up security. At the same the 4.6.6 maintenance release was being developed the team was also hard at work on the next minor (but in reality fairly major) release. After a while it because obvious that we should just focus our efforts on the minor release since it was progressing so well.

Well I'm happy to report the next minor release is now just around the corner. Instead of doing a 4.6.6 release we have rolled those fixes right into the next minor release which will be 4.8. Why not 4.7? Well it really boils down to bad luck.. Call us superstitious. We were hard at work on the Mambo 4.7 release when we felt the MiaCMS fork was the only way to move the project forward. Since we actually built the majority of the features planned for Mambo 4.7 anyway we ended up taking 90% of them and re-implementing them in MiaCMS 4.6.4 which was based on Mambo 4.6.3. So one could argue we've been running on 4.7 plus more all this time. Anyway, so as not to create more confusion with the past we will call this what is really should be... version 4.8.

OK so on to the good part... what's changed? In version 4.8 we will be introducing OpenID 1 & 2 support, content versioning, general bug fixes, and a brand new JavaScript architecture. Rather than detail it all here I have put up an early set of release notes which you can find here - http://docs.miacms.org/wikka.php?wakka=ReleaseNotes48. We aim to release the first beta next week or shortly thereafter. The team has worked tremendously hard on it and we are excited to let you give it a spin.

That's it for now. Stay tuned for the beta release. We look forward to your valuable feedback. If you like what you see and have not voted yet in the Packt Pub Open Source CMS awards don't forget MiaCMS is up for "Most Promising Open Source CMS". We'd love your support, vote for us here.

We recently wrapped up a presentation about MiaCMS for the Thailand Open Source Festival 2008 as well. It talks about the past, present, and future of MiaCMS. You can view it below.