I'm happy to announce the first beta release of MiaCMS version 4.8.  This release has been months in the making and brings with it OpenID 1 & 2 support, content versioning, a brand new JavaScript architecture, a YUI Upgrade, an enhancement to the Related Articles module, a new version of the MOStlyCE editor, and plenty of bug fixes. 

We hope the community will spend the next few weeks helping us thoroughly test the beta.  If all goes well the stable release will follow shortly thereafter.  Detailed release notes and some screenshots can be found here.  Official downloads can be found here.  There will be an upgrade path from 4.6.5 to 4.8, but for the beta there is just the full build as this version is not recommended for production usage yet.

This release goes a long way toward stabilizing/modernizing the codebase and preparing us for the next phase of this award winning CMS platform.  With the official 4.8 release behind us the team can begin to focus on the next major release of the CMS.  The team has been planning and setting goals for the next major release over the last several months.  Some of these discussions even go back as far as 3 or 4 years.  We should have some exciting information to share with the community by the time version 4.8 sees an official release.  More to come on that topic soon...