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CMS Made Simple 2.2.20 - Saguenay
Posted May 1, 2024 by digi3
Category: Releases
Hello fans of CMS Made Simple!
Today we are announcing the release of CMS Made Simple 2.2.20 - Saguenay, an incremental bug fix and stability release.
This version addresses the much awaited support to the most recent versions of PHP, making it stable with PHP 8.3.0+. We have also tested thoroughly its compatibility with mySQL 8.0+ and found no notable issues while running under these recent versions.
We have thus upgraded our template engine, Smarty, to version 4.5.2, the latest on the version 4 branch. While there is already a version 5 branch there are some important changes that will impact its use with CMSMS, most notably “dropping support for the use of unregistered callables (such as PHP functions) in templates” (see this discussion) which would break pretty much every CMSMS site on upgrade and would need a considerable effort from our users base to convert these templates back to usable ones. That doesn’t mean that there are no solutions, but instead that we are considering our options moving forward so that we can keep compatibility as much as possible, and breakage to a minimum, if any, when moving to Smarty 5.
In the meantime Smarty code will spam server PHP logs if not properly filtered. We recommend that you filter ~E_DEPRECATED on productions sites, to prevent these messages from crowding the logs as this won’t impact the site functionality in any way.
A side effect from using Smarty with PHP versions above 8.1 is that the regular PHAR installer will no longer work on Windows environments. We are addressing that issue but, in the meanwhile, the Expanded PHAR installer still works properly on all platforms and can be used to circumvent that issue.
As an added bonus, the PHAR installer and redirection loop issue, an ongoing obstacle that occurred on LiteSpeed web servers, seems to have been fixed with PHP versions 8.2.16 and above, so using the regular PHAR installer on these servers should no longer present any problem.
The UserGuide2 module, currently available as an add on, has become UserGuide and joined the core modules. It is released with a CMS Made Simple Foundation video course pre-installed, streaming a handful of lessons essential to an editor. These will show an editor how to use the file manager, the content manager and the news module as well as showing them how and where to get further help. For those not wishing to include this module, it can be deselected when doing an advanced mode install/upgrade.
Additionally, this version fixes many minor bugs that have been lingering over the past few years, as well as some usability and performance improvements. Please see the changelog for a full list of fixes and improvements.
As per the Dev Team's official support policy, the only versions of CMSMS currently supported are now v2.2.19 and v2.2.20. Please upgrade at your earliest convenience.
Thank you for your time, and have fun using CMSMS!
CMS Made Simple 2.2.19 - Selkirk
Posted November 28, 2023 by digi3
Category: Releases
Today we are delighted to announce the release of CMS Made Simple v2.2.19 - Selkirk. v2.2.19 - Selkirk is an incremental bug fix and stability release.
For further detailed information, please see the changelog where there is a full list of fixes and improvements.
As per the Dev Team's official support policy, the only versions of CMSMS currently supported are now v2.2.18 and v2.2.19. Please upgrade at your earliest convenience.
Thank you for your continued support and use of CMS Made Simple!
v2.2.17 - Iqaluit Release Announcement
Posted June 19, 2023 by digi3
Category: General, Releases, Announcements
http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/downloads/cmsms
We are pleased to announce the release of CMS Made Simple v2.2.17 - Iqaluit, an incremental bug fix, security, and stability release.
Read MoreRolf Tjassens
Posted May 31, 2022 by paulbaker
Category: General, Community
It is with great sadness that we announce long time Dev Team member and great friend to CMS Made Simple, Rolf Tjassens passed away unexpectedly on the 30th of May.
Read Morev2.2.16 - Truro Release Announcement
Posted January 24, 2022 by scotch33
Category: General, Releases, Announcements
http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/downloads/cmsms
Today we are delighted to announce the release of CMS Made Simple v2.2.16 - Truro. Truro is an incremental bug fix and security release.
Read MoreState of the Project Update 2021
Posted March 1, 2021 by scotch33
Category: General, Announcements
Welcome to this, the first annual "State of the Project" update. Whilst of course we'll continue to update you regularly throughout the year on the day-to-day plans and considerations of CMSMS, the annual state of the project will inform you of the underlying commitments that drive all our decisions for the next 12 months.
Read MoreAnnouncing CMS Made Simple v2.2.15 - Bonaventure
Posted October 13, 2020 by digi3
Category: Releases
Today we are announcing the release of CMS Made Simple v2.2.15 - Bonaventure, an incremental bug fix and security release.
Read MoreAnnouncing CMS Made Simple v2.2.14 - T'Sou-ke
Posted March 30, 2020 by digi3
Category: Releases
Today we are announcing the release of CMSMS v2.2.14 - T'Sou-ke. This is a maintenance release mainly addressing a few minor issues that have arisen since last release.
Read MoreA statement about Corona Virus and the ongoing development of CMSMS from the Dev Team.
Posted March 19, 2020 by scotch33
Category: General, Announcements
Hello. As you all know the world is currently working out how to operate over the next few months as our scientists and governments make moves to mitigate the spread of Covid-19. At CMS Made Simple we understand that for many of our users this may involve some considerable disruption to both their businesses and their personal lives. As a response to that, we wanted to let you know how we will be changing our activities to help you.
Read MoreAnnouncing the departure of Robert Campbell
Posted March 11, 2020 by scotch33
Category: General, Announcements
Today, we’d like to announce that Dev Team member and for many years leading developer, Robert Campbell has decided that it is time to take a step back. Thus, Robert has resigned his membership of the CMSMS Dev Team whilst remaining fully involved with the CMSMS Foundation and continuing to develop his excellent suite of third party modules.
Read MoreAnnouncing CMS Made Simple v2.2.13 - Moosomin
Posted December 4, 2019 by Tristan
Category: Releases
Hello everybody!
Today we are announcing the release of CMS Made Simple v2.2.13 - Moosomin, an incremental bug fix and security release.
Read MoreA response from the Dev Team to some of the points that arose from the Big CMS Made Simple Survey
Posted October 10, 2019 by scotch33
Category: General
As you know, we recently had the Big CMS Made Simple Survey and we were delighted with the response. It’s given us a great deal of food for thought. If you’d like to know a little more about the basic results of the survey, then take a look here.
Another part of the survey asked, ‘what do you dislike about CMSMS’. We were very pleased to see this was the least filled in question! However, there were a small series of points that came up more than once, and because of that, it seemed like a good idea to get a little deeper into them here.
Read MoreAnnouncing CMS Made Simple v2.2.12 - Osoyoos
Posted September 24, 2019 by Tristan
Category: General
Today we are announcing the release of CMS Made Simple 2.2.12 - Osoyoos. This is a critical security release, addressing a vulnerability recently brought to our attention.
Read MoreAnd our survey says…
Posted September 19, 2019 by scotch33
Category: General
A couple of months ago we invited you to take part in the Big CMSMS Survey. We had a good response from a great cross-section of the community. It’s given us, as devs, a lot of food for thought on how we continue to build CMS Made Simple.
Read MoreAnnouncing CMS Made Simple v2.2.11 - Vulcan
Posted September 2, 2019 by Tristan
Category: General, Releases
Today we are announcing the release of CMS Made Simple v2.2.11 - Vulcan. This is a maintenance release addressing a few minor issues that have arisen while we've been hard at work on the upcoming 2.3 major release.
Read MoreNew Module Spotlight: LS Cache
Posted July 9, 2019 by scotch33
Category: General, Modules
Chris Taylor over at B Innovative Business Web Development has sent us details of his 3rd Party Module LS Cache this month. Read more to find out what it is and where it can com in useful to you! If you are a module developer with a new post-beta module or a post-beta version of a module and would like to be featured in our occasional module spotlights, then please mail marketing@cmsmadesimple.org to be considered.
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Announcing CMS Made Simple v2.3-beta1
Posted June 25, 2019 by calguy1000
Category: Releases, Announcements
After countless hours of programming and testing, the Dev Team is excited to begin the Beta testing program for CMS Made Simple version 2.3. We are proud of the effort our team has put in, and are now at the point where the community can help us polish it until it shines.
Read MoreCMSMS Version 2.3 Progress Update
Posted March 29, 2019 by digi3
Category: General
The CMS Made Simple development version, 2.3, is well underway and we are very excited about it! We thought it would be a good time to share our excitement with you and discuss some of the routes your favourite CMS software is taking.
Read MoreAnnouncing CMS Made Simple v2.2.10 - Spuzzum
Posted March 6, 2019 by calguy1000
Category: General, Releases, Announcements
Today we are announcing the release of CMS Made Simple v2.2.10 - Spuzzum. This is a security and stability release. We have fixed some relatively important security vulnerabilities, and fixed some long standing issues.
Read MoreDeveloper's Corner - Redirect all incoming URLs to the correct canonical URL - By Rolf
Posted February 27, 2019 by scotch33
Category: General, Tutorials
Longstanding Dev. Team Member Rolf runs the fantastic 'CMS Can Be Simple' website blog. On there, you'll find many many useful tips, trick and code snippets that will help you superpower your CMS Made Simple site.
The most recent blog (at the time of writing) provides a useful method to redirect any URLs that can reach a page to the correct canonical URL. As multiple URLs opening the same page can have a bad influence on the SEO status of a site, this is a handy article. Don't take our word for it though, take a look on Rolf's website and while you're there, browse some of the other great articles.
https://cmscanbesimple.org/blog/redirect-all-incoming-urls-to-the-correct-canonical-url
Developer's Corner - Smarty Pre- and Post-filters - By Matt Hornsby
Posted February 14, 2019 by scotch33
Category: General, Geek, Tutorials
While upgrading some old 1.x websites recently I encountered a couple of problems that needed a quick and simple solution. Like most things related to CMS Made Simple, there are many ways to tackle a problem, but I thought this would be a fun opportunity to look into Smarty pre- and post-filters.
Read MoreThe CMS Made Simple News Update February 2019
Posted February 7, 2019 by scotch33
Category: General, Announcements
It's February already! Yet as soon as Xmas and the New Year celebrations were over, the Dev team hit the ground running. We wanted to let the community what's going on in the CMSMS universe.
Read MoreMaintenance Release: CMS Made Simple v2.2.9.1
Posted February 4, 2019 by digi3
Category: General, Releases
In order to fix a few significant, though easy to remedy issues in CMSMS we have decided to release an interim version.
This version fixes these issues:
- The phar installer has been upgraded to handle the edge case where the PHP memory limit was set to -1 (no preset limit).
- A minor fix was added to MicroTiny when displaying error messages.
- An edge case in the \CMSMS\Database\Connection::DBTimeStamp() method was fixed which affected the creation of timestamps with malformed input. This mostly affected CGCalendar.
- A fix to the CmsLayoutStylesheetQuery class that affected when the name argument was subject to the {cms_stylesheet} tag.
We encourage you to upgrade your sites at your earliest convenience.
Announcing CMS Made Simple v2.2.9 - Blow Me Down
Posted January 19, 2019 by calguy1000
Category: General, Releases
We thought that it was time we kicked an update to CMSMS out the door. Version 2.2.9 - "Blow Me Down" is a maintenance release, with numerous incremental fixes and updates throughout the system.
Read MoreAnnouncing CMSMS 2.2.8 - Flin Flon
Posted July 28, 2018 by calguy1000
Category: General, Releases
Today, we are happy to announce that we have released an incremental improvement to your favorite content management system: Version 2.2.8 - Flin Flon. The primary change in this version is to support PHP 7.2 by cleaning up the code to remove most of the warnings and notices due to the changes in PHP.
Read MoreWho is CMS Made Simple™ for?
For Editors
Maintain and update your site quickly and easily from anywhere with a web connection.
For Designers
Freedom to design the site you want. Straightforward templating that makes turning your designs into pages a breeze.
For Developers
A modular and extensible Content Management System that, with the Smarty templating engine, is easy to customize to create the sites and applications you want.
Latest Releases
CMS Made Simple Core 2.2.20
1 May 2024
User Guide 2 v1.5
2 April 2024
Review Manager v1.1.3
21 March 2024
AWSSDK 1.1.1
7 March 2024
AWSSDK 1.1.0
7 March 2024
AWSS3 1.1.1
7 March 2024
AWSS3 1.1.1
7 March 2024
Latest Forum Posts
Modules/Add-Ons • Re: Khronos group permissions
By "johnflan" at 1 May 2024 - 17:10
Modules/Add-Ons • Re: Khronos group permissions
By "DIGI3" at 1 May 2024 - 17:06
Modules/Add-Ons • Khronos group permissions
By "johnflan" at 1 May 2024 - 16:47
Announcements
CMS Made Simple 2.2.20 - Saguenay
Posted May 1, 2024 by digi3
Category: Releases
Hello fans of CMS Made Simple!
Today we are announcing the release of CMS Made Simple 2.2.20 - Saguenay, an incremental bug fix and stability release.
This version addresses the much awaited support to the most recent versions of PHP, making it stable with PHP 8.3.0+. We have also tested thoroughly its compatibility with mySQL 8.0+ and found no notable issues while running under these recent versions.
We have thus upgraded our template engine, Smarty, to version 4.5.2, the latest on the version 4 branch. While there is already a version 5 branch there are some important changes that will impact its use with CMSMS, most notably “dropping support for the use of unregistered callables (such as PHP functions) in templates” (see this discussion) which would break pretty much every CMSMS site on upgrade and would need a considerable effort from our users base to convert these templates back to usable ones. That doesn’t mean that there are no solutions, but instead that we are considering our options moving forward so that we can keep compatibility as much as possible, and breakage to a minimum, if any, when moving to Smarty 5.
In the meantime Smarty code will spam server PHP logs if not properly filtered. We recommend that you filter ~E_DEPRECATED on productions sites, to prevent these messages from crowding the logs as this won’t impact the site functionality in any way.
A side effect from using Smarty with PHP versions above 8.1 is that the regular PHAR installer will no longer work on Windows environments. We are addressing that issue but, in the meanwhile, the Expanded PHAR installer still works properly on all platforms and can be used to circumvent that issue.
As an added bonus, the PHAR installer and redirection loop issue, an ongoing obstacle that occurred on LiteSpeed web servers, seems to have been fixed with PHP versions 8.2.16 and above, so using the regular PHAR installer on these servers should no longer present any problem.
The UserGuide2 module, currently available as an add on, has become UserGuide and joined the core modules. It is released with a CMS Made Simple Foundation video course pre-installed, streaming a handful of lessons essential to an editor. These will show an editor how to use the file manager, the content manager and the news module as well as showing them how and where to get further help. For those not wishing to include this module, it can be deselected when doing an advanced mode install/upgrade.
Additionally, this version fixes many minor bugs that have been lingering over the past few years, as well as some usability and performance improvements. Please see the changelog for a full list of fixes and improvements.
As per the Dev Team's official support policy, the only versions of CMSMS currently supported are now v2.2.19 and v2.2.20. Please upgrade at your earliest convenience.
Thank you for your time, and have fun using CMSMS!
CMS Made Simple 2.2.19 - Selkirk
Posted November 28, 2023 by digi3
Category: Releases
Today we are delighted to announce the release of CMS Made Simple v2.2.19 - Selkirk. v2.2.19 - Selkirk is an incremental bug fix and stability release.
For further detailed information, please see the changelog where there is a full list of fixes and improvements.
As per the Dev Team's official support policy, the only versions of CMSMS currently supported are now v2.2.18 and v2.2.19. Please upgrade at your earliest convenience.
Thank you for your continued support and use of CMS Made Simple!