I wish everyone a great 2007. Hopefully this year will bring a lot of good stuff!

Last year, it has been a little quiet, but that doesn't mean that nothing has happened. We're very close to a new release for the .NET 2.0 framework that includes a new solid base infrastructure, new modules and bug fixes.

After the next release, we're shifting up the gears! This is going to be possible because I quit my daytime job and we (me and a former co-worker) are starting our own software company right now. Our main activity will be general .NET development and consultancy, but we're also going to spend serious effort in Cuyahoga development.

About a year ago, Steen Rabol started with a Forum module. It was a welcome addition especially because MySQL and Postgres users can't use the non-official YetAnotherForum module. Due to time constraints he wasn't able to continue his work, but fortunately, Patrick Gahan was willing to continue.

The latest version that Patrick contributed is now in SVN and will be included in the next official release. If you want to try it, check out https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/cuyahoga/trunk/Cuyahoga.Modules.Forum.

It's still in the early stages, but you can get a nice idea of what it is going to be. Any feedback is highly appreciated.

Thanks to Steen Rabol and Patrick Gahan!

Finally, some official action! I know, it has been way too long that there has been some news, but that doesn't mean nothing has happened.

The Cuyahoga version in the SVN trunk is now fully XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant. This was something I wanted to do for a long time, and since the move to .NET 2.0 it became a real possibility. The main reason to choose XHTML 1.0 Transitional and not XHTML 1.1 is the fact that FCKEditor only supports XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

It would be great if some brave souls could give it a little test drive. The latest version can be downloaded with any Subversion client from https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/cuyahoga/trunk.

Also FCKEditor has been upgraded to the latest version (2.3.2)

As you might have noticed, progress isn't going as fast as we all would like to see. But we feel that it's time to get our first 2.0 alpha version out soon because many people have already switched to the SVN version.

This first 2.0 release won't differ much from the 1.0 version functionality-wise, but under the covers things have changed quite a bit to have a solid foundation for the upcoming stuff.

We'll put in everything we have so far and also include some contributions that have been made by various users. Notice that it will be an alpha version, so there might be some small API changes in the next versions.

After releasing 2.0 alpha, the module development guide will be updated, because there are some important changes that benefit module developers.

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