Infrae

3 febuary 2010 – Infrae is pleased to announce the beta release of Silva 2.2. This release adds a slew of new features for users, developers, and system administrators, and is a leap forward with Zope 2.11 and Five/Grok technology.

2 december 2009 – The intranet of the University of Bedfordshire has been awarded a Silver prize for best ‘Internal Communications 2009’ in the CIPR Awards. The site is powered by Silva. Congratulations to the university!

18 November 2009 – Infrae is pleased to announce the launch of the improved RePub Repository frontend at: http://repub.eur.nl/. This website provides access to the academic output of the Erasmus University Rotterdam and makes it available to everyone, free of charge, now and in the future.

4 May 2009 – Infrae is pleased to announce the first public release of the MOAI Server. MOAI is a platform that aggregates input from disparate sources and republishes it via the Open Archive Initiatives protocol for metadata harvesting. MOAI is built for institutional repositories that store relational metadata and asset files.

7 january 2009 – Infrae has just released Silva News Network 2.7. While primarily a compatibility release, SNN 2.7 does include a new feature: the RSS Aggregator now merges/sorts the feeds based on each feed item’s publication date.

18 november 2008 – Infrae is pleased to announce the alpha release of Silva 2.2. This release adds a slew of new features for developers and system administrators, and is a quantum leap with Zope 2.11 and Five/Grok technology. Also the Sphinx-driven docs.infrae.com has gone online.

7 November 2008 – We have had a security issue brought to our attention by Russ McRee from HolisticInfoSec.org that potentially affects all Silva installations that include the Silva Find extension. This advisory should prompt an update if Silva Find is in use on your site.

22 october 2008 – Today the developers of five.grok announced a 1.0a1 release. This is a milestone in the convergence of Zope 2 towards Zope 3 technology. The five.grok component makes the ease of Grok – with its convention over configuration approach – available to existing applications.

27 august 2008 – Infrae is pleased to announce the final release of Silva 2.1. This release adds a range of features for both Author/Editors and Site Managers, as well as performance and technical improvements such as functional tests.

Nominations are open for the third edition of the Open Source CMS Award, hosted by Packt Publishers. Selected CMS’s will go to the next round of the contest.

21 june 2008 – Infrae announces an alpha release of Silva 2.1, plus three releases for Silva versions that fix problems with the Firefox 3 web browser. There are Silva 2.0.8, 1.6.3, and 1.5.12 versions available.

28 May 2008 – Infrae is pleased to announce the first public release of Silva Forum, an extension for Silva 2.x that provides a classic discussion forum environment. It can be integrated with OpenID authentication and a CAPTCHA to prevent ‘spambots’ from attempting to post.

Open source community delegates draw the attention of the Members of the European Parliament to the current situation where the institution’s ICT systems are locked into the products of one vendor, warn about the implications of this for participative democracy and for fair competition, and call for action to promote Open Standards and Interoperability. Sign the petition at: http://openparliament.eu/

9 May 2008 – The website of the University of Bedfordshire has been awarded a Bronze prize for ‘Best Website’ in the prestigious Heist Awards. The site is powered by Silva. Congratulations to the university!

19 april 2008 – Three new Code Sources that enable embedding of Google objects are available. There’s a YouTube video, Google Maps, and a Google Calendar source. These Code Sources should work with Silva 1.5, 1.6, and the 2.0 range.

2 March 2008 – Silva Math is an extension product for the Silva CMS to enhance Silva Documents with mathematical formulas. Mathematical expressions are edited and stored in TeX format and rendered as PNG images. The formulas are embedded into documents as Code Sources.

5 February 2008 – We have had a security issue brought to our attention that potentially affects all versions of Silva using the External Sources extension. This might prompt an update if you suspect your site is affected.

8 January 2008 – ETH Zurich and Infrae are pleased to announce the release of the dynamic Learning Content Management System (dLCMS) 1.6.1. This is an update of the 1.6 series. For a complete list of changes see HISTORY.txt in the package, but the most important changes are:

6 december 2006 – Infrae has just released Silva News Network 2.6 beta. This is the first Silva 2.x compatible release of SNN. While primarily a compatibility release, SNN 2.6 does include a few new features like a category filtering asset, more configuration options for InlineNewsViewers, and support for the “Atom” syndication format.  It includes the following features and bug fixes:

15 november 2007 - Infrae has just released the OAI Document Library 1.3.

OAI Document Library is a document management application intended for the tracking of large amounts of documents in an organization. The application is open source. It is also open data: the contents of OAI Document Library can be harvested using the standard OAI-PMH protocol and integrated with other applications. OAI integration with the Silva CMS is provided.

12 november 2007 – Infrae is pleased to announce Silva Poll, an extension that enables users to conduct polls inside Silva sites. A question is posed to the public and results of the answers are displayed to those that respond. The poll can be an independent page or be embedded in a document as a Code Source.

30 october 2007 – Silva has come in as #3 in the Packt Open Source Content Management System Award’s “Best Other Open Source Content Management System” category. 

26 october 2007 – Infrae has just released version 2.0.1 of the Silva content management system. This is a maintenance release that fixes various minor issues.

23 may 2007 – Infrae has released version 2.0 of the Silva content management system. This architectural release targets Zope 2.10 and higher and takes advantage of much of the new technology. Infrae has striven to keep Silva 2.0 almost feature identical to Silva 1.6, while refactoring and rebuilding large parts of the system ‘under the hood’, using advances in Zope and Five infrastructure. This major reworking should especially help extension developers by expanding the set of tools available to them.

18 may 2007 – ETH and Infrae are pleased to announce the release of the
dynamic Learning Content Management System (dLCMS) 1.6.0. This is the
first stable release of the 1.6 series and enhances the product by the
following features (for a complete list of changes see HISTORY.txt in
the package):