After a long history of providing key modules for XOOPS and ImpressCMS, Instant-Zero has closed up shop and transferred all ongoing maintenance and development to the ImpressCMS Project's developers.

Hervé Thouzard, the principal developer and founder of Instant Zero, said in a statement

"The ImpressCMS project has my complete blessings in releasing and continuing the development of the Instant Zero community modules. I truly believe that this is the very best solution for the users and the module themselves"

Each year, Packt Publishing conducts a competition to determine the top open source content management system. Nominations are accepted from the general public for several weeks, then tabulated to determine the top 5 in each of several categories - Best Overall, Most Promising, Best PHP and Best Other. New this year was a Hall of Fame award for previous winners in the Best Overall category.

1st place  winners in the 2009 competition were WordPress, Drupal, ImpressCMS and Plone.

Here it is - the final release of SimplyWiki 1.1! This version is packed with new features and improvements and you are encouraged to upgrade to this version, if you are using SimplyWiki 1.0, or even an older version of Wiwimod. If you haven't tried this module, yet, SimplyWiki is one of the best wiki modules for ImpressCMS and XOOPS, and the only native module for them. There are only a few small changes since the RC release, addressing the system search results.

SimplyWiki 1.1, based on Wiwimod - a WYSIWYG wiki module for ImpressCMS and XOOPS, has now reached RC (release candidate) status and updated packages are ready for you to download. Beta testing has progressed well and only a few fixes are in this release -

• Date display in admin area for other date formats
• Moved all date formatting to output and not in data retrieval
• Global notification event was not being triggered
• Index tags need absolute URLs (IndexPage and RecentChanges)

Feature development for SimplyWiki 1.1 has been completed and it is now ready for beta testing! SimplyWiki has developed over the past few months, continuing on from Wiwimod, which was last released as a XOOPS module in 2005. This release includes the first new set of features for the module since that time. SimplyWiki (Wiwimod 0.83+) was released in November 2008 and only addressed existing functionality.

This version of SimplyWiki is compatible with XOOPS 2.0.x and 2.3.x, and ImpressCMS 1.0 and 1.1. Known issues are problems with PDF generation of special characters - that will be addressed in the next release with the use of an updated PDF class.