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The cognito website has had a facelift thanks to Mark Lamb. He provided the 
graphics and the html template. Thanks Mark it looks great (in my opinion 
anyway)

Regards,
Josh.

Cognito 0.5 has been released. It has a heap of new features which brings it 
into the realms of the more advanced cms systems - remember if you want extra 
features email the list or enter them in the feature requests at

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=655980&group_id=110319&func=browse

Regards,
Josh.

Major functions added:

* Fine-grained permissions. Groups can be added to give
  templates for users access permissions. Users can be members of multiple
  groups. Users can have extra permissions granted to them in addition to
  the permissions granted to the groups the user is a member of.
* All actions are now logged in an audit trail.
* Content changes create revisions rather than simply changing the data.
  This allows changes to be reverted.
* Added an approval system whereby all users without approval access
  cannot see new content or content changes until approved by a user with
  approval access. Revisions may be unapproved to roll back changes as
  required.
* Added a hardcoded content block called "cognitopanel" where the extra
  function links are displayed when logged in.
* New default template

Bugfixes:

* If the template file doesn't exist, handle it gracefully.
* New content on pages was sometimes placed in the wrong location

The 0.5 release has been delayed as we've been putting in some extra features. 
Here's a few to whet your appetite:
 * Audit trail allows you to see what changes have happened to the website 
recently.
 * Fine-grained permissions allows you to set exactly what different users are 
allowed to do. Create groups and set permissions on those to quickly and 
easily add users to roles.
 * Content now has full revision history, allowing you to see and revert to 
old versions of content.
 *An approval system allows content to be created and modified but not be 
displayed until a user with relevant permissions approves the content to be 
displayed (users with permissions create and modify content without having to 
approve it)
 * Keyword and Description Meta tags can be specified per template or per page 
(page over-rides template) for extra search engine rankings.
 * A hardcoded content cell called "cognitopanel" can now be used to locate 
the extra links that normally appear at the bottom of the page when logged 
in.
* A new rewrite rule has been made so that the url of the pages contain the 
page name. This improves search engine rankings.

 I hope to release version 0.5 in the next week or so.

Regards,
Josh.

Cognito 0.4 has been released.

Major functions added:

* Added ability to use non-table designs, using <div id="content"></div>
  tags to show where content should be placed.
* Page titles are now generated using a prefix from the common.inc.php
  file and the name on the page.
* Image resizing is now performed using the gd library rather than netpbm.
  It was found that ISP's are more likely to provide php-gd or php-gd2
  (gd2 is preferred as it has a much higher image quality) than allowing
  php to execute programs locally or have the netpbm tools installed.
* The common.inc.php and template files are now suffixed by -dist so that
  your changes aren't lost when unpacking the upgrade tarball over your 
  older installation of cognito.

Bugfixes:

* Page previews when in administrator mode would show the login plugin as
  being logged in. The page would then be cached and normal visitors would
  see themselves as being logged in.

Database structure is slightly different, when upgrading from 0.2 or 0.3
please execute the update-0.2-0.4.sql file in the mysql server.

The third cognito release has happened!

Major functions added:

* mod_rewrite support so that images and pages can have real looking url's
  and be able to be cached at the browser / proxy server.
* page caching at the server so that the mysql and webserver have minimum
  load, especially good for high traffic sites. Expiry time is determined
  by the content on the page, publishing dates etc. Maximum cache time is
  24 hours, the cache can be flushed manually by a logged in user.

Bugfixes:

* When deleting a page or moving content, sometimes the redirect went to
  the wrong place or a dead link.

Database structure is identical so the schema does not require changes.

The latest version of cognito is now available from the sourceforge website:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=110319

Cognito is now usable in a production environment. Website administrators can 
now log in to make changes and images can be uploaded / resized / added to 
content all from the online edit mode.

For those using release 0.1 there is an upgrade sql script to update the 
database.

Enjoy the new release, it's now been categorised as beta quality. Any feedback 
welcome!

Josh.

This is the first release of the project.

Most of the basic parts of a CMS are present:

* add/edit/delete templates
* add/edit/delete pages
* add/edit/delete content
* set publishing dates for content / pages Content plugins include:
* html (with rich text editor)
* rss feeds
* menu (generic vertical two-level menu)

The default mode is edit mode until a login plugin is written. This will be in 
the next release.

If anyone is interested in this project please download the code - it is very 
usable as-is and I would welcome any comments or suggestions. 

Regards,
Josh Marshall

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