On Saturday, 28th of May 2005 the Mamboday 2005 was held in Bonn, Germany. What began as a vision of a few people from the german Mambers.com subforums a year ago finally became reality this weekend. About 200 visitors followed the interesting lectures and workshops in three luckily well climated conference rooms. I was one of the speakers there and made a workshop about component development. This is my report from the largest Mambo event in the world.

One month has passed since our last preview on a CVS version of Mambo 4.6. Many of you might ask yourself, if and how the development continued. We have taken a closer look at the current state of development and downloaded the latest CVS release today. Read on to see what we have found out.

Currently there are two fully integrated forum solutions available for Mambo Open Source. Simpleboard was a small php forum, which was integrated into Mambo from Jan de Graaff. During this integration many new features have been added and Jan also build up a small development team.

Loudmouth, which was converted from Miro's Loudmouth Discussion Server to Mambo, was updated by several developers since Mambo's early 4.0 versions. Since december 2003 Alexander Labunets has taken care of Loudmouth' development. Since then the once small forum has grown up.

Mamboportal.com has tested these two forums to the bare bones and revealed 2 major security holes. Read on to hear the full truth about the two forum components.

MOS 4.5 comes with some new features for a better user management. One of the most interesting things is a new usertype called Editor. Another nice feature is the Mass Mailer and some other small improvements, which I will take a look at in this article:

Mambo Open Source version 4.5 comes with a new and modified database engine. Therefore all developers should change their old scripts. As I develop myself I checked the new database class for you. Here is a small introduction how it will work on MOS 4.5:

Every OpenSource CMS lives from it's community. So does Mambo. Many people are developing extras for MOS like guestbooks, forums, newsletters and many other nice things. In today's article we take a deeper look on how MOS 4.5 handles things.

The following text will give you a brief overview, how the content pages in section categories (called items) will be handled in MOS 4.5. It is almost the same as news entries were made in the old version, but with some nice improvements:

One of the most exiting new features in MOS 4.5 is the Content Section. The new Content Section replaces the existing news, articles and FAQ items and adds a lot extra power. Here is a detailed overview how this section will work: