Drupal 6.0 Beta 2 was release last week, after some rigorous testing and correction made to fix existing bugs and security issues. One of the most notable change is that the long time favourite Drupal.module has not being moved out of the Drupal package. Instead, it will be made available as the contributed Site network module. This approach has helped to improve security in Drupal 6, and support a wider solution for distributed authentication in the form of the OpenID standard.

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Two days ago, WordPress has released the next version of 2.2.x family of WordPress. According to Ryan, it is vital that users of WordPress 2.2 series do upgrade immediately to this version.

Two of the fixes are classified as high priority and is a concern of security:

1. Invalid RSS2 Comments Feed
2. Users without unfiltered_html capability can post arbitrary html

Do not take risk, if you are running a big site using WordPress. Never fall prey to hackers. So, take a bit of effort and time to upgrade your WordPress blog to this version.

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Great news travel fast. The next major release of WordPress 2.3 Beta 1 is now being released. It is definitely a piece of excellent software, as we have been tracking the work on WordPress 2.3 over the last couple of months ever since WordPress was working on it.

This beta release has some changes:
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Simple Machine Forum (SMF) 2.0 Beta 1 is now released. According to the developer, mentioned here, this beta release is a significant milestone release that contains several new features. Some of which are listed below, with more to follow.

For those who are unaware of this software, SMF is a free open-source forum application that can be installed on web servers. In contrast to paid software such as vBulletin and Invasion Forums, SMF is available for free.

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Most users would have already known about YouTube, one of the richest online video archive, powered by Google. Though it is rather easy to browse and search for videos in YouTube directly from its website, it is undoubtedly easier with YouTubeDesktop, an impressive dynamic web application, coupled with modern design for search, watching and even downloading videos from the web!

As according to the developer, YouTubeDesktop is designed based on the key idea; that is, to bring normal desktop experience to the browser. Within the web application itself, windows can be dragged, resized and minimized into a tray. It is even possible to drag-and-drop videos between players and result, all within a single web application, hence making it one of the richest, if not the best web application for viewing and managing video content. The incredible flexibility of the design is encompassed by the user-friend interface and functionality.

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BitLet.org is the latest web application, which runs on Java engine, to allow web surfer download torrent files from the website. It is a simple application which does not require and installation. Users only need to copy the torrent metafile URL and then press Download torrent and the download procedure will begin.

Note that, this is still currently under development, and it may always be successful. BitLet also allows resume support in case a download is being suspended. The applet will resume by default. Furthermore, it allows uploading, as well as capability to configure the maximum upload bandwidth. A simple statistics panel is available to see how much is being uploaded or downloaded. Seeding is also supported. As long as the download window is kept open, the seeding will continue, even after the download reaches 100%.

Access the BitLet.org website today!

In just about 4 hours ago, WordPress has released the next minor version of WordPress 2.2.2 and WordPress 2.0.11. These two branches are released pertaining to security issue.

Since these are only minor security and bug fixes, upgrade to these latest version is highly recommended. They should not have any plugin or theme incompatibility issue.

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Drupal 4.7.7 and 5.2 are now available for download. These latest release are made available in conjunction to security updates and bug fixes which have been troubling previous versions of Drupal software.

It is highly recommended that users perform a full upgrade as the patches do not contain the many additional bugfixes that went into the releases. Applying the patches will leave the site in a somewhat unversioned state, but at least secure.

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WordPress 2.2 has attracted a large number of loyal WordPress bloggers to update to that version. However, it has not stopped them from developing further. WordPress 2.2.1 was just released a few hours ago. It consists of several bug fixes and additional enhancement to improve the features in version 2.2.x.

The full detail of the bug fixes is available here; below is just a summary of the major fixes.

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Similar to WordPress and b2evolution, LifeType 1.2.3 is an open-source blogging platform that supports multiple blogs and users in a single installation onto a web server.

LifeType requires at least PHP 4.3.0 and MySQL 3.23 to run. Regarding PHP, it is recommended to run the most recent version of either the PHP4 (4.4.0) or PHP5 branches (PHP 5.1.0). Apache is the preferred web server but LifeType should run fine under any web server as long as PHP is supported (including Microsoft Internet Information Services).

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