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Dot Net Nuke Corp. released it’s latest version of their framework. Version 5.4.4 is a maintenance release resolve’s two significant breaking changes that appeared in 5.4.3. Those fixes are:

• Fixed issue with ExecuteSql method overloads to be able to handle ExecuteSQL(string, nothing) again.
• Fixed issue with Indirect Reference to DotNetNuke Library errors.

The release of 5.5 Alpha was a surprise to me. I have seen it progress in Gemini, I was just blissfully unaware of it progress. The focus of 5.5 is localization. I know, your going to say that DNN has localization. Well, in part that’s true. This is not the static strings localization, nope, we’re talking content localization.

You can read that DNN Blog on the topic here.

WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard).

New Features
Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies. (Twenty Ten theme shows all of that off.) Developers and network admins will appreciate the long-awaited merge of MU and WordPress, creating the new multi-site functionality which makes it possible to run one blog or ten million from the same installation. As a user, you will love the new lighter interface, the contextual help on every screen, the 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements, bulk updates so you can upgrade 15 plugins at once with a single click, and blah blah blah just watch the video.

RC1 contains a few more fixes, bringing the number of fixed tickets up to 23.  If you are already running Beta 1, visit Tools->Upgrade in your blog’s admin to get RC1.  You can also  download the RC1 package and install manually.  If all goes well, 2.9.1 will be here soon.

WordPress has released version 2.9 of their popular blogging script WordPress which can be downloaded from the official WordPress website. Users who have configured automatic updates can also upgrade to the new version of WordPress from within their blogs. It is however recommended to backup the files and database before initiating the update.

The new version comes with over 500 bug fixes, changes and enhancements which makes it a recommended download and install. Some of the new features include:

• Trashbin: Posts that are deleted are now moved to the trash instead of being deleted irrecoverably. It is possible to recover posts from the trash at a later time.
• Image Editor: A basic image editor that can be used to edit, rotate, scale and crop images.
• Batch plugin support: Update up to ten plugins at once.
• Video Embeds: video embeds for popular sites have become just a tad easier as it is now possible to simply paste the url into the post which will be turned into an appropriate viewer by WordPress automatically.
• Automatic database optimization which can be enabled by adding define(‘WP_ALLOW_REPAIR’, true); to the WordPress config file.
• Post Thumbnails options which can be used to display thumbnails in every post if the theme supports it.
• Better SEO thanks to rel=canonical.
• Custom galleries with the ability to add pictures from several posts.