After six weeks and registering almost twelve thousand nominations, the Open Source CMS Award finalists can be revealed. The following final five received the most public nominations during the course of the six weeks and are listed in alphabetical order:

• Drupal
• e107
• Joomla
• Plone
• Xoops

Congratulations to these finalists and thank you to everyone who nominated. The result was extremely close with very few votes separating the finalists. These five will now go through to a final stage of voting, with the eventual winner being announced on November 14. A panel of independent judges and votes taken from visitors to www.PacktPub.com will go towards deciding the eventual winner. Voting will commence on September 12 and will run until November.

Submission by A.Jan

Hi All,

A new freelance website has been launched.

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is dedicated to Drupal, e107 and other Content Management Systems.

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Submission by Digital Artist

v0.7 is almost a rewrite of v0.6x versions. It's designed to be quicker, leaner, far less server intensive, and packed with many new features. In addition, there are core enhancements designed for themers and plugin coders to take advantage of new features when coding themes and plugins. But that's not the focus of this article. It's about new functionality and enhancements in v0.7 to better manage your site and enhance visitors' enjoyment of your site. There are so many new features and enhanced old features that it's hard to separate new versus enhancements. The list is extensive, so read on!

[http://www.jalist.com] -
I've made a few more small fixes in this version, if you are using v5+ it's important you download and upgrade to v5.04 as there are some important login/admin problems addressed. Seeing as I've had a few emails asking for exact instructions on how to upgrade, here goes ...

[http://www.jalist.com] -

Here is version 5. I'd like to thank he beta-test team who really helped straighten out this version before release. Changes? Hmmm...