The first Beta release of the upcoming TangoCMS 2.0 has been released for immediate download. A lot of improvements have been made during the time between the release of Alpha1 and now, filling in the missing features and adding quite a few smaller ones.

Feature Freeze

We have now entered the feature freeze of are loose release cycle, meaning that no new main features will be allowed to enter the current code base. All of the time spent between now and the final release (roughly 3 weeks) will be bug hunting and finishing off existing features.

Improved User/Group Management

One of the biggest features missing in the 1.0x series of TangoCMS was a proper way to manage Users and Groups. This was due to the way ACL permissions work within the old code base, and it was just not feasible at the time to implement proper Group management.

2.0 fills this gap perfectly, and due to a completely new ACL library that allows for Group inheritance and other specific ACL rules - a new module called 'Groups' allows you to easily Add, Edit and Delete existing groups, and due to permission inheritance, you wont need to go around every single item and change the permissions for a newly added group.

TangoCMS 2.0 "Chipmunk" will aim to be the most polished and stable release yet, with no rough edges that the 1.0.6/1.0.8 release had. However, as mentioned before, Changes to our Release Cycle means that not all of the planned features for 2.0 will make it in.