New Mambo Offers Users More

Mambo, the award-winning Open Source Content Management System, announced today the release of version 4.6. This is the first major release in almost two years and provides users a leaner, faster Mambo with greatly improved scalability and stability – and more choice.

Version 4.6 is being released in two configurations: “4.6 Complete” includes the core system as well as an assortment of the most popular extensions and templates. “4.6 Lite” is a minimalist distro comprised of only the core files. No longer a “one size fits all” system, Mambo now offers users unrivalled flexibility to create exactly the CMS they want, using either existing extensions, custom development, or any combination that suits their needs.

Core Dev Team Leader Chad Auld noted, “A lot of work has gone into 4.6. The result is better code, improved usability, and more logical structure. 4.6 is not only the most stable, best performing Mambo ever, but is also the most flexible.”

Ric Shreves, the President of the Mambo Foundation Board of Directors added “Mambo is a mature Open Source project with a significant history behind it. Corporate and SMB customers will, I think, find 4.6 to be a giant step closer to the sort of CMS product they want and need. Not only is the product great, but the users also have the assurance of a stable project that stands behind it to assure business continuity and coherent release schedules – the sort of issues that build business confidence in an Open Source solution.”

Download 4.6 now from The Source: http://source.mambo-foundation.org

• A new Language Manager that makes translating the Mambo core into additional languages a breeze.
• Totally revamped embedded Help Screens for context-sensitive help – users no longer need to be connected to the Internet to access help files.
• Improved MySQL5 compatibility delivers improves performance.
• A new customizable WYSIWYG editor, MOStlyCE, based on the latest version of TinyMCE – provides greatly improved editing and content formatting.
• More efficient code generates significantly fewer database calls giving 4.6 better performance over previous versions of Mambo – and over competing systems.
• Several new variations of the default CSS-based template, which provides a great building block for the creation of custom templates.
• Enhanced security makes 4.6 the most secure Mambo ever.
• A new content module for displaying the most recent content items in their entirety.
• A new comments component so site visitors can add comments to content items.