
Features:
e107 includes advanced features such as page caching to improve performance on busy sites, advanced templating techniques, and a robust API. It can provide RSS feeds and automate many tasks, including web indexing of static pages.
Advanced content features are included by default like printer friendly versions of pages, e-mail to friend, PDFs, news articles, blogs, forums, polls, calendars, website searching, language internationalization, and many others.
The e107 software is published as open source under the GNU GPL licence v2.
Timeline of e107 history:
2001: developer jalist, after creating working on LS2K.org and Litestep , starts development of e107, a open source content management system.
April 2002: the first official e107 was released on April 26, 2002.
July 2002: e107 v2 was released on July 21, 2002.
July 2002: e107 v3.0 was released on July 30, 2002.
September 2002: e107 v4 was released on September 04, 2002.
September 2002: e107 v5 was released on September 26, 2002.
May 2003: coders collective e107coders.org was launched on May 3, 2003.
May 2003: First mention of current version numbering: v0.552beta on May 13, 2003.
July 2003: e107 v0.600 was released on July 30, 2003.
March 2004: e107 first dev team was established on March 11, 2004: Cameron, chavo, jalist, Lolo_Irie, McFly
January 2006: e107 version 0.7 has been released on January 16, 2006 (after 1 year, 3 months, 3 weeks and 5 days of development).
March 2006: e107 gets a mention in the March 2006 Issue of PC Magazine.
July 2006: e107 nominated for Packt Publishing Open Source CMS Award 2006 on 24 July 2006.
August 2010: McFly resigns as active developer on August 02, 2010.
Future Development:
The next major release of e107 (0.8) is scheduled as major rework, and is going to be the 'bridge' between old and new in order to maintain a reasonable degree of backward compatibility and provide an upgrade path.
Awards:
"Top 5 Open Source CMS" - Packt Publishing Open Source CMS Award, 2006
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