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Mambo is a dynamic Web content management tool that is capable of building sites from several pages to several thousand. It comes complete with 10 built-in modules, a WYSIWYG editor, site statistics, an admin interface, multi language support, custom module support, and more.

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Updated 17 Jun 2008 16:50 UTC

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  by Elpie

The Mambo open source CMS project is not a new project. Mambo has been under development since 2000, and became an open source project in April 2001.

The history of Mambo is detailed on Wikipedia, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mambo_%28CMS%29

Over the years, the project has received contributions from dozens of developers. The current core development team works through a process of a pre-commit stage, so code is checked ... [More] and tested prior to being committed. This will result in the ohloh analysis assuming there are only a very small number of developers, simply because Mambo keeps very tight control over the pre-commit process and commits are the responsibility of a small team. This two-stage commit process is only one of Mambo's methods for ensuring quality.

I am not sure how ohloh reached the conclusion that the source code is new. The copyright changed following the formation of the Mambo Foundation, but the source code has been in existence, developed on, added to, and improved, under the GNU/GPL since 2001.

oholoh has stated that the source code repositories show Mambo to be about a year old. I feel the way this information is gathered needs to be revisited. During its life, Mambo has used several different repositories. It is currently using sourceforge after being away from sourceforge for several years. I am sure other open source projects change repositories from time to time, so feel readers should not give much weight to this analysis. Unless all history is included, the report is meaningless.

There is still confusion around as to where the project resides. The former host of the Mambo project is no longer involved with Mambo. Since the formation of the Mambo Foundation, to protect the open source CMS project, the official home of Mambo has been mambo-foundation.org. This site hosts the community forums, the Mambo source code, help docs, and all official information relating to Mambo.

Mambo is a mature, active open source project that is going from strength to strength.

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    Team Mambo Announces Release of Mambo 4.6.5

    Posted 8 days ago by John Messingham

    Mambo 4.6.5, codename Jupiter , has been released. This is a maintenance and security release which fixes some potentially serious security vulnerabilities affecting all earlier versions of 4.6. It is recommended that all 4.6 users update to 4.6.5 ... [More] as soon as possible. Instructions for upgrading are included in the release, which you can download from the Mambo Code Forge here. (http://mambo-code.org/gf/project/mambo/frs/)
    What's Changed?
    Hardened security in /includes/Cache/Lite/Output.php (thanks go to ZonaNet for reporting this issue);

    Fixed includes/core.classes.php - local file include vulnerability (thanks to George from tenablesecurity.com);
    Additional security hardening:
    A number of bug fixes. [Less]

    Mambo Foundation President finalist in NZ Open Source Awards

    Posted 9 days ago by Nicolas Steenhout

    Mambo Foundation, Inc President, Lynne Pope, is a finalist in the inaugural New Zealand Open Source Awards. Selected as one of three finalists for the title of New Zealand's Open Source Ambassador from 130 nominations, Lynne Pope has been ... [More] nominated for her involvement with the content-management system Mambo, and for setting up a website, Katrina Evacuee Help Centre, at www.disastersearch.org (http://disastersearch.org), to assist victims of the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster. Disastersearch, which was formerly named the Katrina Evacuee Help Centre, was built on a base of Mambo 4.5.2 and through the efforts of a large number of volunteer programmers from the Mambo and Joomla! communities evolved to become an application that can be used in any emergency involving the evacuation and relocation of people. It is an ongoing project and continues development under the leadership of both Lynne and her fellow director of Disastersearch Ltd, Dr John Long. John and Lynne are also members of the Mambo core development team. The New Zealand Open Source Awards recognise and promote: * the contributions of New Zealanders directly to open source projects or the promotion of open source generally * exemplary use of open source by New Zealand organisations.Sponsored by Google, Red Hat, Novell, Catalyst IT and a number of local New Zealand organisations, the awards will be presented at a gala function in Wellington, NZ on October 17th, 2007. http://www.nzosa.org.nz/news (http://www.nzosa.org.nz/news) [Less]

    Mambo 4.6.3 Released!

    Posted 9 days ago by Nicolas Steenhout

    Team Mambo announces the release of Mambo 4.6.3!
    Code name Dylan , this minor version release features a number of security improvements and bug fixes.
    These include:

    Stability security improvements
    Performance ... [More] improvements
    A number of bug fixes
    Improved compatibility with 3rd party extensions
    Updates to some core extensions

    What's New in 4.6.3...
    Security Fixes:
    *php mailer security fix.
    *template chooser security fixes
    *XSS fixes in administrator backed
    *sample configuration file renamed to configuration.sample.php [Less]

    Release of Mambo 4.5.6 - the end of an era

    Posted 9 days ago by Nicolas Steenhout

    The Mambo Team announces the final release of the Mambo 4.5.x series of releases. This marks the end of an era for one of the web's most popular Free Open Source Software (FOSS) Content Management Systems (CMS). The enormous success of Mambo 4.5.x ... [More] led to many forks, some successful, some less so. Mambo 4.5 has been a great CMS, a good framework, and a great school to many of us , says Ozgur Cem Sen, Core Team Leader of Mambo.
    We have been overwhelmed with the positive feedback we've received for the Mambo 4.6.x series, initially released over 16 months ago , continues Mr. Sen. We encourage all Mambo users to upgrade to the latest stable release of Mambo 4.6.
    During the last several months, the Mambo Team has been working very hard on the upcoming Mambo 4.7, as well as maintaining and doing minor development on Mambo 4.6.x. The Mambo Team also has been discussing Mambo 5. It is time to look forward, and focus our efforts towards growth , says Nicolas Steenhout, Secretary of the Mambo Foundation, Inc.
    Project Leader, Chad Auld says that this is both a sad and an exciting time for Mambo. It is always sad to see software reaching the end of development, Chad says, Mambo 4.5 has been with us for many years . He adds, Mambo 4.5's time has passed and Mambo is moving forward to an even better future. With 4.7 getting closer to release and planning under way for Mambo 5.0, we have exciting things coming.
    Team Mambo supports those sentiments and wishes to thank everyone who contributed to Mambo 4.5. This is an exciting step forward for Mambo and one which the Team hopes will be supported by the community. [Less]

    MOStlyCE v3.0.5 Released

    Posted 9 days ago by Nicolas Steenhout

    This release includes bug fixes and a TinyMCE core upgrade. There was a bug with the new dynamic image list which broke recursion and also a bug with the file manager url which caused 404 errors when users called the file manager from the frontend ... [More] with IE. Both have now been corrected. The MOStlyCE core is now running TinyMCE v3.0.5 (up from 3.0) which includes quite a few bug fixes as well. Their full changelog can be see here - http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/tinymce/changelog.txt (http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/tinymce/changelog.txt).
    Version 2.x of MOStlyCE is now deprecated and version 3 is now recommended for all Mambo 4.6 users. [Less]

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