After much work the past three months we proudly announce the beta release of 5 new packages: GroupsPackage, LibertySecurePackage, ModerationPackage, ModCommentsPackage, SwitchboardPackage. These packages are stable enough to use on small sites, and we are looking for people to test them out. These packages can be obtained from cvs code repository or the links below. If you decide to run them you need to use them with the latest release R2.0.2 or update your install from cvs as well. Many upgrades to bitweaver have happened in the process of developing these packages. Because these are in Beta there will be minimal schema changes, there may in fact be none, but there is the off chance we may make a couple - changes will be posted to the SchemaChangelog.

Download Them Now:

Download Groups (requires all others)
Download Liberty Secure
Download Moderation
Download Mod Comments
Download Switchboard

Website developers will likely find the Groups and Liberty Secure packages the most exciting. Groups lets you create user group spaces on your website like Google Groups or Fickr Groups. However the Groups package goes beyond what you can do with Google Groups, letting groups include any variety of content types within their group. The Groups package fills a missing core component in bitweaver making its base feature set competitive with the most popular open source CMSs. You'll find more information about Groups capabilities on the package page linked above. Liberty Secure for its part is an extension of the custom content permissions of Liberty. Liberty Secure will provide strict permissions enforcement across all access points - most notably lists which under conventional custom content permissions do not limit access on private content. For those trying to run a tight security configuration Liberty Secure is indispensable. Website admins will also enjoy the features of ModComments which let admins and/or content owners hold comments for approval before they are made public.

CMS developers will likely find Switchboard and Moderations packages even more exciting. These are new system services that developers can build other features with. Switchboard is a communications package that provides a central way to register and send messages. It's registry and message sending functions greatly simplify setting up events like sending emails to groups of users. Moderations similarly provides a registry, but for defining ticket like processes. Developers can define the steps of a process and Moderations takes care of managing the process.

If you decide to install any of them, and would like to help us with final debugging please join us on IRC freenode channel #bitweaver and let us know.

Release of a bitweaver Vmware Appliance

Ever wondered if bitweaver could be the solution for your next web project? May it be a blog, a news site with a forum or a portal for much more services. Bitweaver can do this for you.

Yeah, most CMS say, that they have this or that feature, that you can "do it all with just 2 mouse clicks". So how are you going to know, which one would be the right one? Why don't you try for yourself what bitweaver can do for you?

The easy way to explore bitweaver is to just download the bitweaver VM and try it out without having to worry about your own system or configuring a web server or how to set u…

It seems we are facing similar problem like the guys from Openbravo - bitweaver has been actively deleted from Wikipedia. After several failed attempts to create the page, it was even deleted from the List of content management systems. The Bitweaver Wikipedia "issue" should be resolved as fast as possible.

Bitweaver, a web application framework and content management system with power, flexibility, and simplicity is now available. Bitweaver.org announces the second release of a cooperatively developed, open source web application that offers a complete suite of powerful web applications in a completely modular design.

With its second release, bitweaver completes the transition to a modular architecture for its open source web application framework.

Wednesday, October 3rd and Thursday, October 4th, 2007 are official "Squash Us Some Bugs!" Days
Join us in IRC at 1pm UTC

With bitweaver R2 Release Candidate 3 ready for testing, it's time to make one final push and Squash Us Some Bugs! The R2 release is tantalizingly close. If you've been wondering how to help get it out the door this is your chance to lend a hand. We need people of all skill levels to help out, so even if you aren't a coder there will be lots of work you can do. Come help us test-drive new features and fix some bugs! If you have a browser and an IRC client you have all you need to lend a hand. [/w…

Bitweaver R2 is almost here! The development team has been hard at work to get a new Release Candidate ready for testing. Please download it, test thoroughly, and post any issues to our Bug Tracker at SourceForge.

The latest improvements include a number of bugfixes and a complete overhaul of the liberty_attachments mechanism. New to this release is liberty_content_data, which holds a normalized summary of content description (the bit_pages.description column has been moved to that table).

If you already using an…

There is a bitweaver R2 release candidate now available. Please download it, and post any issues to our Bug tracker at sourceforge.

We are going to try to meet up on IRC this weekend for a R2 release review. We'll take our first stab at a Saturday, June 30 @ 20:00 GMT (2PM EST/ 8PM CET/ 11AM PST, etc...) on IRC. Stop by any time if you can. We might try again Sunday if this is beneficial.

Wednesday, June 13th and Thursday, June 14th 2007 are official "Squash Us Some Bugs!" Days

If you are interested in an R2 release and have been wondering how to help us get it out the door this is your chance to lend a hand. We need people of all skill levels to help out so, even if you aren't a coder there will be lots of work to be done. If you have a browser and an irc client you have all you need to lend a hand.

We need people to find bugs, reproduce bugs, test bug fixes and of course coders to squash the bugs. We need people with IE6, IE7, Opera, Firefox and Safari to all lend…

Good bye unclosed HTML tags and broken layouts. Hello automagical strict HTML!

The Bitweaver team is pleased to announce the integration of HTMLPurifier into R2 CVS. HTML Purifier not only removes all malicious code (better known as Cross Site Scripting Attacks or XSS) but also makes sure your content is standards compliant. It will tidy your HTML closing all open tags, and remove any unwanted ones. This is particularly valuable for those wishing to use HTML format as well as for those who wish to allow HTML within the ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and ((bitweaver and bitweaver and TikiWiki format

Another new package was added to Bitweaver recently and we are finally getting around to telling you about it: RecommendsPackage. Recommends is inspired by the recommendation system on http://DailyKos.com. The basic idea behind Recommends is it lets your site visitors quickly rate new content as either worthy of checking out or not. Visitors can Recommend or Not Recommend content for a specified period of time. Content with enough recommendation votes qualifies for a "recommended" list. Once the time period for Recommending closes users can no longer recommend that content. This is great for community sites where you might have a lot of…

The upgrades to bitweaver continue to roll in with another new package making its way into bitweaver: the SitehomePackage, put together by Lugie. This package is perfect for managing the homepage content of your site. The Sitehome Package lets you create a page for designation as your site's homepage. With this package and a little custom configuring to your root index.php file you can set any type of content or combination of content as your homepage, with a clean url. No redirects, no mod rewrite.

You create your site's home page just like you would a wiki page, using any of the plugins and includes and attachments to pull in other s…

Hey, exciting news as we barrel toward R2... right at the last minute we are banging out some major upgrades. Earlier this week we mentioned that the Blogs Package is getting an awesome overhaul. We are right on schedule to get that stable some time next week, meanwhile Nick Palmer and Will James have just slammed together a brand new package, Tags, from scratch. A much desired addition to bitweaver for some time, Tags lets you now do what you always wanted to do, put your content on sale. No, no, Tags lets you tag your content with key words! The Tags interface lets you sort content by tags and of course look at tags as a cloud.

There are…

We have exciting news, we are undertaking a major upgrade of the blogs package! The blogs package has been one of the most in need of upgrading from tikiwiki's structure. The changes are excellent, however they are not complete. And the process of completing this work could be disruptive to existing bitweaver R2 installs. New changes to blogs are being inserted into HEAD branch in cvs. If you are running an R2 site and using the blogs package it is VERY IMPORTANT that you NOT cvs up blogs until the full refactoring is complete.

To avoid accidentally cvs updating your blogs dir, you should:
mv blogs/CVS blogs/CVS_DISABLE

We expect t…

We have released two highly anticipated beta builds - bitweaver R2 and bitcommerce for R2. Please download and post your experiences on the release forum thread.

I just would like to share some insights I got while using Bitweaver on one of my sites - it is called OpenBook Project and runs since May 2006

For some of us, election season is in the air. Never one to be satisfied with the usual field of candidates, I have just built, downloaded and tested a build candidate (download) for ReleaseTwo Alpha 1. If there are no major problems, this will become an official release that we will push over to Sourceforge. Please post your experiences to the newly created release forum.

Many of us are using R2 already for production sites. It is quite stable and packed with new features. We are always looking for help with just about everything - code, site documentation,…

Do you run a Bitweaver site, would like to or are you just interested in a good CMS? A brand new Webmastering Bitweaver blog was created where you can get to know the latest insights from running a Bitweaver website. There has already been 2 post published called Bitweaver from the webmastering poing of view and Bitweaver - the best CMS I have found so far. Feel free to join the blog and share your thoughts too! We are looking forward your reading!

We are proud to announce that our Bitweaver is the 3rd most visited listing at OpenSourceCMS from over 100 CMS listings. Bitweaver achieved a rating of 3.76 and got a total of 201451 hits. The first three places look like this (hits/day): 1. Joomla (1107), 2. AIOCP (1106) and 3. Bitweaver (959).

Bitweaver 1.3.1 is now available. While primarily a bugfix release, 1.3.1 does offer up some very shiny new features, such as an upgrade from phpBB 2.0.19 to phpBB 2.0.20 and updates to the newsletter package.

It is simply impossible to list the number of modifications and updates made by the bitweaver team since the release of bitweaver 1.3. There have literally been hundreds of changes to…

We've added some great new packages recently:

SampleCorp earnings to exceed expectations
We have just started a new package intended to demonstrate how bitweaver can be expanded in a corporate environment. To get things started, it demonstrates the ability to authenticate users from an external database, as described in the Custom Authentication Tutorial. We are working on making this usable for both ReleaseOne and ReleaseTwo. Drop by irc if you are interested in using this.
cvs checkout _bit_samplecorp

StarsPackage shines brightly
Xing's great work on our new content rating system, known…

More stability, more features, better performance, it just keeps getting better! We're happy to announce that bitweaver version 1.3 is now available. The great features we introduced in version 1.2.1 have stood the test, and have been accented with even more tools to make your site management tasks a much more enjoyable experience.

You asked for it, you got it.

With bitweaver 1.3 you w…

Downtown Brooklyn is growing up, literally, and residents are not happy about the way decisions are being made about their community. So Will James, developer of our very exciting GmapPackage, has launched a campaign to defend his very own Brooklyn against cronyism and government corruption. See Will's amazing Google Maps visualization of his neighborhoods proposed development.

Land developer Michael Ratner tried to sneak his plans through the government approval system through the back door. "The problem is the process by which Ratner's plan is being approved. This has been an ins…

We went to talk to the Oracle, and here is what she said:

1. Your installer needs fixing
2. Database objects can only be 30 characters
3. Quoting every column is a pain in the @#$!

We obeyed her comands, and the voila! HEAD now installs cleanly on oracle. See the sandbox for living proof.

Oracle defaults to the SQL standard of UPPER CASING everything that is not specifically double quoted. This caused a catch-22 in the installer by not being able to choose the oci8 or oci8po ADODB drivers for complete functionality. So…

"bitweavercore" leaner than ever

The cvs module named "bitweavercore" is the absolute minimum functionality needed for a clean framework that gives you a complete site. That includes a Smarty based theming system, users, internationalization, and a CMS engine. Snag the SamplePackage, and you are ready to start your own custom php application.

Along these lines, we have been gutting the UsersPackage to include less and less functionality. Anything non-essential has been moved to the new TidbitsPackage.

This means that you'll probably have to execute: in your bitweaver root directory…

We started the LucenePackage this weekend, and already we are thrilled with the results. Wanna see for yourself? Try a lucene search now...

The lucene project is a "is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library" that is maintained by the Apache foundation. It is extremely powerful, fast, and popular. For bitweaver's LucenePackage, we are using the Java lucene.jar as well as the C++ version, clucene combined with php-clucene. The cluce…