Drake CMS News

Drake CMS is a light-weight PHP dynamic web authoring and content managment system (CMS) with an embedded flat file database and support for any other database system. Its main features are speed, security, fully internationalization and customizability. Works on any PHP4/PHP5 host.

Drake CMS v0.3.5 Beta revision 1787 has been released.

All Drake CMS v0.3.4 Beta users can update directly from their administrative backend; users who had freshly installed v0.3.4 will experience an error when trying to access the Online updates page, you can workaround this bug (which is fixed in v0.3.5) temporarily setting your error reporting level to "simple" in the Global configuration or creating an empty updates.xml file in the /private folder.... read more

Drake CMS is a light-weight PHP dynamic web authoring and content managment system with an embedded flat file database and support for any other database system. It is fully customizable and its main features are speed, security and easy management.

Drake CMS v0.3.4 Beta revision 1713 has finally been released.

All Drake CMS v0.3.3 Beta users can update directly from their administrative backend applying first the core update to v0.3.4 and then the database update to v0.3.4. A backup is suggested before starting these updates. ... read more

Drake CMS is a light-weight dynamic web authoring and content managment system; its major features are the support of any database system (plus an embedded flatfile database), security, speed, easy management and customization.

Drake CMS v0.3.3 Beta revision 1387 has been released.

All Drake CMS v0.3.2 Beta users can automatically update directly from the admin backend to v0.3.3 without having to re-install.... read more

Drake CMS is a light-weight dynamic web authoring and content managment system; its major features are the support of any database system (plus an embedded flatfile database), security, speed, easy management and customization.

Drake CMS v0.3.2 Beta revision 1306 has been released.

All Drake CMS v0.3.1 Beta users can update directly from admin backend to v0.3.2 without re-installing anything; note: once the update is finished you will be logged out.
We suggest to upgrade because of the many bugfixes and improvements. ... read more

Drake CMS is a light-weight dynamic web authoring and content managment system; its major features are the support of any database system (plus an embedded flatfile database), security, speed, easy management and customization.

All Drake CMS v0.3.0 Beta users can update directly from admin backend to v0.3.1 without re-installing anything; note: once the update is finished you will be logged out.
We suggest to upgrade because of the many bugfixes and improvements.... read more

Drake CMS is a light-weight dynamic web authoring and content managment system; its major features are the support of any database system (plus an embedded flatfile database), security, speed, easy management and ease of customization.

Drake CMS v0.3 is the second major release of Drake CMS. All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Drake CMS v0.3.0; backward compatibility with Drake CMS v0.2 is granted.... read more

In this new release of Drake CMS we have important news to announce: a new module to embed media contents (by legolas558) and important bugfixes on the installation and translation systems.

* added mod_stream (Media Player)
* important bugfixes to the com_language component
* fixed file_get_contents() missing on PHP < 4.3.0
* fixed installation failures with old PHP installations, Gladius DB and folders with 0755 write permissions
* fixed a minor bug in com_fm (admin side)
* changed behaviour: modules load their own language file (pages will load a bit faster)
* fix to lost password retrieval (was not working)
* fixes to the install module feature
* implemented new XML format for module parameters... read more

The Drake community is quickly growing, I would reccomend to interested users the following bookmarks:

* http://www.drakecms.org/ Drake CMS official website
* http://wiki.drakecms.org/ Official DrakeWiki
* http://www.drakeforge.net/ DrakeForge community
* http://www.drakeforge.net/component/option,com_joomlaboard/ Official DrakeForge Forums
* http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/drakecms Subversion activity statistics (CIA bot)

Another early release for Drake CMS; in this one a lot of bugs have been addressed and the mod_lang module has been implemented by our new active developer franky2004. Major changes are being made before the coming soon Beta release.

* added mod_lang module (language selection, to override the default automatic language selection)
* registered users now can change their language from frontend or backend
* bugfix to the installation system (PHP4)
* bufix to the com_language component
* bugfix to site compression (it has not been working up to now)
* fixed unauthorized syslog() bugs in registration and contact components
* fixed a bug in registration (undefined SQL field)
* removed a PHP5 warning shown in admin.system.php
* major works on the internal install system
* removed trex template (not XHTML compliant)... read more

Drake CMS is a dynamic web authoring and content managment system; it can be installed in a few minutes, almost all databases are supported plus an embedded flat file database. Its top features are security, speed, easy management and high customization.

Some features and bugfixing for this new version 0.2.8 release:

* new automatic keywords and description feature
* fixed an automatic patching system bug
* unified smileys code
* fixed the SQL upload bug
* fixed the com_translator missing file bug
* misc. XHTML compliance fixes
* other improvements... read more

The introduction of new important features lead to this early release of version 0.2.7 revision 1220. From this release the online updates feature is partially working and the application of patches will be possible. You will not (hopefully) need anymore to re-install Drake CMS but with a few clicks you will be able to automatically patch your installation.

* fixed online updates (admin)
* fixed patches installation system (now working)
* added RSS feed to admin start page
* fixed some XHTML compliance errors for 'selected' and 'checked'
* implemented 2 error reporting modes (simple and debug)... read more

This is a bugfix release update, the few changes since the previous v0.2.7 revision 1120 are listed here:

* redirect to admin page after login (admin)
* updated patches installation system
* fixed a XHTML compliance bug in the gallery component
* updated latest news and popular modules to show more complete SEF urls (using the introtext from content items)
* install class will now delete temporary files
* fixes to the patches installation system
* other improvements... read more

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All our future activity will be monitored through CIA, don't forget to join the #drakecms channel on freenode irc://irc.freenode.net/drakecms for all Drake CMS relevant discussion.

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The latest v0.2.6 ALPHA revision 1106 is mostly a hotfix release to allow translators begin their work.

* fixed a nasty bug in the com_language admin component
* fixed another bug in File Browse (admin)
* fixed a bug in registration component
* fixed crash when id is not correctly specified
* fixed some login issues (old bugs)
* download sizes are shown in multiple of bytes
* other trivial improvements and fixes

Drake CMS v0.2.6 revision 1095 has been released.
With this version the com_language admin component is now working (it allows easy translations of the language resources, see also http://wiki.drakecms.org/index.php?title=Tutorial:Translating_to_a_new_language ), more improvements have been applied to the install script and a plenty of bugfixing has been done.

* fixed a bug at install time
* fixed some install PHP configuration variables description
* added fatal error for failed gallery directory creation
* various XHTML compliance fixes
* improved string validations (core)
* improved failure cases handling (install script)
* updated adoDB lite to v1.42
* added more talkative errors to stage 5 of the install script
* fixed error when deleting a comment from the backend
* fixed error when reading news (when using SQLite)
* reworked Browse feature (for various admin backend components)
* fixed error when entering subfolders in file manager component (admin backend)
* fixed submenus not shown bug
* the com_language component is now finished and helps in new translations... read more

This release updates Drake CMS to version 0.2.5 ALPHA revision 1071. The most important bug fixed is the missing notice for non-writable subfolders at install time; now the install script will tell if folders and subfolders do not have the proper write permissions set.

* fixed a bug which prevented SQL import to work correctly in compatibility mode
* fixed a bug related to uninitialized fields when importing SQL files in compatibilty mode
* changed SEF urls appendices
* fixed some subsites bugs
* writable (sub)folders are now checked at install time
* fixed some non-standard CSS nowrap syntax
* fixed a bug in the gallery (empty path photos)... read more

Drake CMS v0.2.5 (ALPHA revision 1062) has been released; this is mostly a bugfix and speedup release as there are no great innovations yet.

* fixed some XHTML bugs
* fixed a bug in cross-restoring SQL backups between different database systems
* minor security fix
* bugfix in RSS generation
* bugfixes to the FAQ and Weblinks access level policy
* guestbook captcha can now be disabled
* enabled Guestbook main menu link in default installation
* improved and fixed the contact component
* improved PHP4 compliance
* updated Gladius DB to version 0.5 (faster)
* some XHTML compliance fixes
* fixes to the Limbo import facility
* fixed ghost template issue for admin users
* better error reports
* fixed Google sitemap generation
* simple statistics can now be disabled
* fixed warnings at the final install stage... read more

Drake CMS v0.2.4 rev.1014 has been released to apply some important fixes the previous revision 996; starting from this revision we are (even if unofficially) supporting the database backups.

* updated credits in the About page
* fixed various comment issues
* updated Gladius DB
* fixed Drake Format issues for .SQL files
* fixed the Tarball backup feature (now working)
* moved head tag code from template to Drake class
* fixed a bug in subsites' javascript
* implemented feature for templates from querystring
* fixed some backend template components bugs... read more

The following vulnerability reports:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20998
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451124 (partial)
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/30027

Are not valid, reported vulnerabilities never affected Drake CMS.

We invite testers not to spread invalid security reports as Drake CMS is still under alpha stage development; an apposite bug tracker ( http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=166901&atid=840802 ) can instead be submit using the "private" flag.... read more

Drake CMS v0.2.2 alpha rev.846 was affected by a possible remote file inclusion vulnerability.

The vulnerability could be exploited only when the PHP host had the register_globals INI setting enabled; it has been fixed in subsequent releases.

We remember Drake CMS users that this Free Software is still in the alpha development stage and that its usage is not intended for production websites; deep security tests will be conducted during the beta stage of development.... read more

See the complete changelog here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=420102&group_id=166901

Version 0.2.4 alpha revision 996
* SQL backups now working
* fixed a bug in emailing to multiple recipients
* fixed the subsites feature (now stable)
* update to Gladius DB v0.3
* fixed SQLite database driver (3rd party bug)
* updated TarBackup to v0.2
* correct HTML resultsets shown in query db feature (admin)
* changed captcha font
* bugfix to event component
* fixed content title vs website title issues
* improved installation texts (more)
* improved RSS generation (now with SEF urls)
* disabled version info shown from version.php
* other bugfixes and improvements... read more

A new release of Drake CMS is available, users and testers are asked to download and use this latest release. The latest version is 0.2.3 r916, some of the changes include:

* improved error reports details
* updated internal adoDB lite to version 1.30
* added version status notifier (admin backend)
* added possibility of moving the current database
* removed drake_admin and adoDB lite mysqli driver from official release
* security improvements
* changes to the events table
* fixed com_events component
* com_subsites not yet fully working
* other bugfixes and minor changes
* fixed some month names visualization issues
* added SEF urls to FAQs, search results, weblinks, sitemap
* renewed the Forums component
* removed some rarely used adoDB lite drivers
* core restructuration (removed unused code, misc. optimizations)
* fixes to the Trex template (now with the right panel)... read more

With this new release we move towards a more stable software product, some features have been added and a lot of development has been done on the core. Community feedback will help the developers to exit this alpha stage and finally enter the beta stage (when more features will be implemented).

Read the notes here: https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=420102&group_id=166901

This update contains several fixes and improvements; read the release notes here:

https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=420102&group_id=166901

The first Drake CMS package has been released (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/drakecms/drake-v0.2.0-alpha-veloce_sfx.zip?download ). This is an alpha release intended for testers and curious users, submit feedback to the relative resource trackers available here on SourceForge