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We are happy to announce that Etomite Prelude Final is now available for download from the website... SourceForge is where all future downloads will be located.

Any available add-in's will be avilable either on the eto site or on SourceForge, depending on whether they are considered official add-in's to the core Etomite code base.

There is now a README file in the root directory of the install and everyone is urged to read it in full before attempting either a new installation or an upgrade. Any additional helpful hints will be posted here in the forums.

The site_content table now has one additional data field, named authenticate, which provides visitor authentication as explained below. Anyone who has been following along in the forums is also aware that many new features have been added into this release which address authentication of visitors and/or users from the website side of a site. This means that you can now create custom interfaces which can be used to limit access to certain areas of your website. You can also create custom data management interfaces in an effort to buffer end users from having to deal with the entire Eromite Manager interface itself. We know that this is an area of interest for several developers and are currently working on a tutorial which addresses a variety of possible scenarios which will be available in the very near future.

Due to size constraints of the code base only the TinyMCE editor has been included in the download packages. Both FCKeditor and Xinha will also be made available as add-in's and should work without major adjustments by simply uploading the packages into the manager/media/ directory of your Etomite installation. Once installed, Etomite will recognize that the packages have been installed and will display them as editor options within the Etomite configuration panels.

For support issues we will be setting up a separate forum for the final release. Please make use of this specific forum for any core code base related issues. Other general support issues should be addressed in their appropriate forum threads as usual. Every effort has been made to test this release on multiple server platforms and no major bugs are known to exist at this time. But, as with all projects, at least several issues are bound to arise as installations and upgrades are performed. All such issues will be addressed in as timely a fashion as time allows. We will also be supplying a more in-depth listing of all of the newly added features which have been included in this release as well as examples of how to use them in practical application.

The vast number of changes and additions, although maybe not visible on the surface, were well worth the delays in making this release public.

Enjoy, Ralph & Dean

p.s. We would like to thank everyone for their continued support of the Etomite CMS Project and special thanks go out to those of you who have endured through being guniea pigs (lab rats) during final testing. Also, if you wish to remove your account from the forums, log in and change your email address to a non-existant one, and the board will automatically delete your account in 7-10 days.

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