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News 02/2010
Recently we published LFC 1.0 Final. These are the plans for upcoming releases and other stuff related to Lighting Fast CMS:
Core:
- Adding a live search
- Adding more content formats, e.g. reST
- Complete ajaxification of the management interface
- More powerful tags which can be used within content, e.g. an asynchronous RSS-tag
- Registering, minifying and merging CSS and Javascript based on django-resources
- Versioning and working copies
Add-ons:
- We working on a composition product to easily create more complex pages out of new and existing content
Misc
- Evaluating more WYSIWYG editors
- Integration of Solr
- Improving the default theme
- Improving the official homepage
Release 1.0 Final
Today we released LFC 1.0. This is the first final release of Lighting Fast CMS.
LFC is a CMS based on Python, Django and jQuery.
You can find the installer on PyPI. The installation is described here and should last just a few minutes.
Its main features are:
- Commenting
- Cut/Copy’n Paste
- Easy upload of images and files
- Flexible Databases
- Multilingual content
- Pluggable
- Role based per-object permissions
- RSS Feeds
- Search
- Tagging
- Time based publishing
- Variable Templates
- Variable Portlets
- Variable Workflows
- WYSIWYG-Editor
You can find more information on following places:
- Official Homepage: http://www.lfcproject.com/
- Documentation: http://packages.python.org/django-lfc
- Download: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-lfc
- Source Code: http://bitbucket.org/diefenbach/django-lfc
- Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/django-lfc
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/lfcproject
- IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/django-lfc
Release 1.0 beta 4
Today we released LFC 1.0 beta 4.
What's new?
- Improved caching
- Added lfc_init management commands
- Added detailed permissions for access control
- Added date time picker for date fields
- A lot of bug fixes (see http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-lfc/1.0b4 for more)
More information:
Release 1.0 beta 1
Today we released LFC 1.0 beta 1 - the first public beta release.
What does this mean?
- No new features for the 1.0 branch - only bugfixes.
- The API is stable now. All changes to it will go through a proper deprecation process.
- We will provide migration scripts for all future versions (if necessary).
What's new?
- Added: date dependent publishing.
- Added optional simplification of the management interface (by settings).
- more can be found here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-lfc.
More information:
News 01/2010
This is just a quick note about two novelties:
There is an IRC channel for LFC now: irc://irc.freenode.net/django-lfc Don't hesitate to visit us.
There is an YouTube channel with some screencasts about LFC (more to come): http://www.youtube.com/user/lfcproject.