Today Vasco Nunes informed us about the upcoming version 1.3 beta 1 of Docman. This version will only be available for Mambo 4.5.1 and above, as it makes use of several new features of the upcoming Mambo. Vasco:

"DOCMan 1.3 beta 1 has some new features and a brand new administration section, making use of the new possibilities opened by Mambo. First, it has his own administration control panel, with four administration modules."

The new version of Docman will also comes with several new features:

• An inovative online, browser based updating system, which allows you to update DOCMan without uninstalling it.
• An experimental batch upload function
• HTTP protocol file transfers without uploading
• A brand new general uploading function.
• DocLink addon for Mambo's favorite editors lets you easily use documents in content items

A release date has not be announced, but we await the release very soon.