Zikula Release Announcement

Back when I was a young Turk, I played a lot with a series of blog platforms and content-management systems (CMS) — early PHP/MySQL “LAMP” — called Nukes.  There was PHPNuke and my favorite, PostNuke.   I used PostNuke for my personal web site and for early variants of Memes.org.  Well, it’s been a long time but PostNuke has come a long way, baby, and is now called Zikula.  I am going to be seeing if I can find ways to use it, both for personal and professional projects.  You should surely check out Zikula, too.  Download it now and check it out: Zikula-1.2.0.zip and Zikula-1.2.0.tar.gz

Main points of this release

• New language management system utilising gettext
• UTF8 support (just mentioned in the upgrade script now)
• Support for internationalisation (correct date and currency display)
• Fully indexable multi-lingual content
• Right to left display support
• Full review of language strings
• CSS and Templates improvements
• Centralization of css classes for Zikula forms (z-form)
• Usability and consistency
• Reworked SeaBreeze theme
• Dozens of bug fixes
• CSS/JS on-the-fly optimisation
• Simplified upgrade process from Zikula 1.1.0+ to 1.2.0
• Improved UI of installer and upgrade scripts
• General facelift to the user interface
• Auto update checker for the core
• Users module introduces an API to let the site’s Profile module to handle the dynamic user data in the Users’ forms (see system/Users/pndocs).
• Outsource further VA modules
• Optimized module installation workflow

Download link:

Zikula-1.2.0.zip (5.45 MB)

MD5: 180425f0a9c3eeab8cdd742a608e9ee2

SHA1: a079331f622020150ab6333cca79b1855b11a4b7

Zikula-1.2.0.tar.gz (4.26 MB)

MD5: a019ea98a85b8d05afb19d2af23fbd5a

SHA1: 451cd39c816ac463f0e96ea31c4d68a6e625f387

Changelog link:

http://code.zikula.org/core/export/27416/tags/Zikula-1.2.0/docs/CHANGELOG.txt

Developer documentation and videos

http://community.zikula.org/index.php?module=Wiki&tag=TranslationIndex

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