[Ampoliros-announces] AMPOLIROS 3000 3.0 RELEASED

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DATELINE SEPTEMBER 16, 2002
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


AMPOLIROS 3000 3.0 RELEASED

NEXT GENERATION OF AMPOLIROS PHP WEB APPLICATIONS
PLATFORM SHIPS


September 16, 2002. THE INTERNET. The Ampoliros Team
today announced the immediate release of Ampoliros 3000
new generation, the open source PHP web applications platform.

Ampoliros 3000 generation is a major step for the
Ampoliros project: this 3.0 release marks a leap
forward in Ampoliros stability, usability and maturity
and is even more suitable for enterprise deployment.

"With the experience gained from developing Ampoliros
2000 generation and the useful feedback from users, we
almost re-engineered Ampoliros 3000 to make it even
more powerful and user friendly", explained Alex
Pagnoni, founder and project leader of the Ampoliros project.

"Ampoliros 3000 is an important release," stated Roberto
Ricci, Chief Projects Officer at Solarix. "Our
customers are anxious to have their Ampoliros
installations migrated to this new generation. And this
is only a matter of a mouse click."

In Ampoliros 3.0, you'll see the results of continued
features and stability work, and many performance
improvements. "Developing on the Ampoliros 3000 platform
will take a leap forward with the release of 3.0", also
said Alex Pagnoni.

Ampoliros is supported in a variety of platforms,
mainly Linux-based operating systems, BSD and a variety
of other Unix and Unix-like operating system, other
than Win32 platform; it can virtually run on every
platform for which a PHP port exists.

Various step-by-step installation and usage tutorials
have been created, you can see them in the tutorials page
(http://www.ampoliros.com/en/tutorials.php) of
Ampoliros site.

If you wish to receive email updates about new
Ampoliros and Ampoliros hosted projects releases, you
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Here follows a list of the main features introduced in
this new release. For more information and details see
the full change log: http://www.ampoliros.com/en/docs/changelog.php.

PRINCIPAL IMPROVEMENTS

* New bootstrap phase. Now Ampoliros has a well defined
  bootstrap phase and bootstrap scripts, and a "state", "mode"
  and "interface type" flags. This boasts some
  significant advances for developers.

* Themes. Ampoliros standard web interface now is
  completely theme-oriented. A new section for themes
  in the Ampoliros site has been created here:
  http://www.ampoliros.com/projects/. From
  there you can download various themes and you can
  also contribute with your own defined themes.

* New default theme. A new standard look for Ampoliros
  has been defined. You can see some screenshots here:
  http://www.ampoliros.com/en/screenshots.php.
  From that page you can also view the differences
  between the new and the old interface layous. And, if
  you don't like the new interface style and you
  preferred the previous one, you may install the
  Ampoliros 2000 like theme.

* Better user interface. Some elements like a shared
  menu have been introduced in order to achieve more
  speed during Ampoliros administration.

* P3P support. Ampoliros now supports by default the
  P3P privacy format with the 'P3P: CP=3D"CUR ADM OUR NOR
  STA NID"' compact header, that is now required by some
  new generation browser in order to set cookies.

* New $gEnv environment variable. The previous $env
  environment variable has been completely
  re-engineered and now the new $gEnv global variable
  has been introduced. The $gEnv variable reflects the
  new Ampoliros internal structure and has a rigorous structure.

* New shutdown function. When an Ampoliros instance
  ends, a shutdown function is now automatically
  called. This function can perform final actions and
  system clean ups.

* Interactive hooks. Now the hook events can return
  values and the event issuer functions can check the
  returning value of the called hooks. Hooks are so
  called because these are functions that are
  automatically called ("hooked") when a certain event occurs.

* Total compatibility. Even with all those new big
  features and changes, all the modules created before
  the 3000 generation are fully compatible. No changes
  are required to old modules in order to preserve
  functionalities, even if module developers are
  suggested to implement the new Ampoliros features.

* Many optimizations. Ampoliros code has been
  intensively optimized: about half of the change log
  is about changes and optimizations.

* Various fixes. All the known bugs have been fixed,
  and at this stage no major bugs are known.

OBTAINING AMPOLIROS

Ampoliros 3000 is available for free under the GPL open
source license and is available for anyone to use; it
can be obtained for free here: http://www.ampoliros.com/en/dl/download.ph=
p.

If you wish to get the latest Ampoliros source tree,
you can obtain it through anonymous CVS. You should be
warned that the CVS version is a development version,
and as such, is often unstable, and may not even run
properly. The advantage of using CVS, though, is that
you can get the latest fixes and updates, without
having to wait for the official releases. You can find
more information about CVS access to Ampoliros sources
here: http://www.ampoliros.com/en/dev/cvsrepository.php.

For further instructions on installing Ampoliros 3000,
please consult the installation instructions
(http://www.ampoliros.com/en/docs/installation.php) and, if you encounter
problems, the Ampoliros FAQ (http://www.ampoliros.com/en/docs/faq.php).

ABOUT AMPOLIROS

Ampoliros is an advanced, easy to use and cross
platform distributed web applications platform written
in PHP language, suitable as Internet/Intranet
development and deployment system. It has a very strong
modular architecture and allows very fast deployment of
web solutions.

You can find more about Ampoliros here:
http://www.ampoliros.com/en/features.php

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