Webiva version 0.9.20 Released

We've pushed the 0.9.20 release of Webiva to the master branch at GitHub, while we've got a bunch of fixes along some nice new things in the core repository, specifically 3 new included modules: Simple Content, Web Form, and User Profile (See the previous news post about the first two)

The main purpose of this release, however, is to bring the core up system up to speed with changes we've made for new modules that we've released. These new modules are the "heavies" as I like to call them:

Webiva-shop - A full customizable e-commerce system
Webiva-social - Social networking support including Friend & Groups
Webiva-facebooked - Integration with Facebook, including OAuth2 login support (this module uses the new post-F8 authentication scheme)
Webiva-tweet - Integration with Twitter, including OAuth login support
Webiva-post_stream - A personal updates paragraph with embed media support
Webiva-mailing - A E-mail campaign module for sending targeted mailings

There's also a couple support module we released (Webiva-oauth, Webiva-message) that are needed as dependencies for the above modules.

With the exception of the Post Stream module, which is new, these are all modules we've built over the past three years that represent thousands of hours of work (they're not quick-and-dirty stuff we threw together over a couple of weeks) We've taken the time to refactor and adjust functionality to make them cleaner, more modular and happier working together. They should still be considered to be in a "beta" state, but we will be putting all of them to hard use in the coming weeks in production settings so they are certainly functional.

With these modules, you've got a rich feature set right of the starting gate. We're feverishly working on finishing up two new demo sites (See the previous news item about new CMS Demos to give you an idea of what's in store). Those demos should be up at the new Webiva.org in the next week. We're also going to be putting out some screencasts to show you how to build sites using the new modules.

One module we're particularly excited about is the Post Stream module as it's a powerful yet flexible module that lets you bring a lot of rich media content into your site. You should be seeing a lot more on that module in the near future.