After over 25,000 downloads of its previous version in just five short months, the XOOPS Project, world’s leading Open Source CMS (Content Management System), is aggressively building on this success and has made available a release candidate of its award winning software – XOOPS 2.4.0.

XOOPS2.4_GUI

This release focused on major usability and productivity improvements. Some of the major changes are:

* new user friendly Admin GUI
* new mechanism to modularize and extend Core via Preloads
* central support for jQuery
* improved Installer
* WCAG 2.0 – Sight Impaired Assisted Forms

The new Admin GUI and the Preloads extension mechanism are the highlight of this release. The key for this new release was an active collaboration of XOOPS developers from around the world: China, France, UK, USA, Germany, Peru, Libya, Belgium, Netherlands, and several others. The worldwide XOOPS community is one of its strength, resulting in a quick translation of new releases into over 20 languages.

XOOPS has not only a very loyal base, as the number of downloads suggests, but is also highly respected in the industry. In 2008 it was a finalist in SourceForge Community Awards and in the CMS Awards by Packt Publishing. It also won the prestigious 2008 China Open Source Software Contest Award.