With all new features and reported/discovered bugs had been closed, AMS 2.50 Beta 1 will be released in next few days. As a normal procedure before announce to the public, we will try to operate AMS 2.50 Beta 1 in a few environment and make it work. This is environment that we will tested:

PHP:
PHP 5.0
PHP 5.2

MySQL:
MySQL 4.x
MySQL 5.x

Apache:
Apache 1.3.x
Apache 2.0.x
Apache 2.2.x

XOOPS (must 100% compatible):
XOOPS 2.2.x
XOOPS 2.1.X

XOOPS (tested and fix if easy):
XOOPS 2.3.x
XOOPSCUBE legacy
ImpressCMS

Don’t get me wrong whent we not officially support the XOOPS 2.3.x yet. Its in our plan and we try to intercept XOOPS 2.3.x in our Beta 2. In fact, we eagerly waiting for XOOPS 2.3.x to be released as final.

AMS 3.0 SEO

AMS 2.50 actually targeted to add basic modern functionality for article management without scarifying performance. Performance is crucial for AMS and thats what make AMS unique and thats’s the key selling point for AMS.

However, modern article management system will be not complete without SEO optimization and cloneablility. Even it will sacrifice performance a bit, that’s trade-off we need to pay. Better we have a bit slower website with tons of visitor rather than super fast website with little visitor.

Good news for you guys, AMS 3.0 will be SEO optimized (although basic) and we will implement url rewrite capability (aka user friendly url). Thats need major overhaul and need significant effort to do so. Thats why I’ll name it as AMS 3.0. The functionality will be freeze as AMS 2.50 except smaller enhancement in order to put maximum focus on SEO.

Cloneability only will be push on AMS 3.5 or above since to make the AMS cloneable, its sure need to have another major overhaul.