XOOPS CMS usability is getting much better today with the release of XOOPS 2.4.0 : it just got a completely new themeable admin interface, in addition to lots of new features and improvements. XOOPS came also with a support for WCAG 2.0 which make it more ready to adopt for government websites in many countries including New Zealand, Canada, Europe, and Japan. Below the press release :

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) and #1 CMS System hosted on SourceForge.net, is aggressively building on this success and has released a new version of its award winning software – XOOPS 2.4.0.

This release is focused on 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
* Themeable Admininstration area
* support for WYSIWYG Editors: CKEditor, wymeditor, Xinha, and Spaw2
* new System License Key
* Support to PHP 5.3
* Security updates

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.