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21 December 2008 No Comment

MiaCMS is a powerful, flexible, and easy to use open source content management system. It can be used to build websites of all shapes, sizes, and scenarios. MiaCMS features simple installation, graphical (WYSIWYG) HTML editors, RSS content syndication, a powerful 3rd party extension system, flexible theming capabilities, site search, RESTful content access, user management, multilingual capabilities, plus much more.

MiaCMS is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2. It is written with the PHP & JavaScript programming languages and uses the MySQL database. The official project site can be found at http://miacms.org, and an online demo of MiaCMS is available at Open Source CMS Demo.

Requirements

* A Web Server (ex) Apache (version 1.3.19 or above) or Windows IIS
* PHP 4.3.2+
* JavaScript
* MySQL 4.0+

MiaCMS is thoroughly tested on Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. Linux or one of the BSD’s are recommended, but anything else that can run the three pieces of software listed above should work just fine.

MiaCMS History

MiaCMS started as a fork of Mambo. Mambo is a Trademark of the Mambo Foundation, Inc. http://www.mambo-foundation.org. Mambo was originally developed by Miro International Pty Ltd in 2000. Mambo became Open Source software in April, 2001 under a GNU/GPL license. Miro assigned the copyright in Mambo to The Mambo Foundation in 2005 to ensure that Mambo remained free Open Source software owned and managed by the community. The rights to the Mambo CMS codebase, name and copyrights, are protected by the Mambo Foundation, a non-profit corporation formed to support and promote the Mambo Open Source project.

April 2008: Four former Mambo core developers fork Mambo and form MiaCMS. The founding members are Chad Auld, Ozgur Cem Sen, Richard Ong, and Al Warren. The reasons behind the fork can be found on the project’s main site here. The initial fork is based on a Mambo 4.6.3 SVN snapshot just prior to their 4.6.4 release.
May 2008: The first release, MiaCMS 4.6.4, is launched. It’s code name is Flourish. Here are the release notes for 4.6.4.
June 2008: The 2nd release, MiaCMS 4.6.5, is launched. It’s code name is Eclipse. Here are the release notes for 4.6.5. The project also launches it official site designs and creates the official logo.
August 2008: A security patch was released to deal with some XSS issues in the 4.6.5 release.
September 2008: Version 4.6.5 SP1 was released. This version was the 4.6.5 release prepacked with the SP1 patch so users would not have to install and then immediately patch. MiaCMS is also selected as a finalists in the Packt Publishing 2008 Open Source CMS Awards competition under the “Most Promising Open Source CMS” category. Another former Mambo core developer, Neil Thompson, has joined the MiaCMS core development team.
October 2008: MiaCMS ties for 3rd place in the Packt Publishing 2008 Open Source CMS Awards competition under the “Most Promising Open Source CMS” category. One of the teams core developers, Chad Auld, is also named in Packt Publishing’s 2008 list of “Most Valued People from Open Source Content Management Systems”.