We are pleased to announce the availability of the first alpha release of TangoCMS 2.0, which can be now be Downloaded for you to test out. However, please do note this is an alpha release and therefore it should not be used for production use, or anything that needs to be stable.

Major Cleanups

The majority of the work that has been done towards TangoCMS 2.0 so far, has been major cleanups to the previous code base. Nearly every library has been cleaned up, and in some cases - even re-written, such as with the improved ACL (Access Control Level/Lists) library, providing a much more flexible library for managing user and group permissions.

Just like the libraries, the majority of the TangoCMS Modules have also been heavily cleaned up and optimized. However due to restricted time not all modules have been cleaned up and so some of them are not functioning correct, or even not working at all - as the case would be with the Media module.

Features

Alpha1 does not yet contain any more functionality than the existing 1.0x series - in fact, it probably contains less functionality at this point in time (due to not all modules being fully cleaned up and converted to work with the altered framework). However, as can be seen by the 2.0-chimpunk Blueprints we have a lot planned for the 2.0 series.

Chipmunk (The codename for 2.0) will fill a lot of the gaps that the 1.0x series had, focusing a lot more on features for community based/driven websites (such as RSS feeds, increased spam protection with the comments, article/media ratings etc). Some other features that we have in mind is Image Management, so that images (or other media items) can easily be inserted into pages, articles etc.