October CMS as you know it is Dead
Posted in Announcements on Apr 12, 2021.
We regret to inform you that October CMS as you have known it for the past 7 years is no more. The founders have decided to make it a paid proprietary product; unfortunately abandoning the open source community in the process as "source partially available" is not open source. The core maintainers of the project have forked, and will continue development as Winter CMS....
Don't use substr
Posted in Tips on Apr 11, 2021.
If you're trying to trim a string to a specified length within a Winter CMS (or even just plain Laravel) project, don't use `substr()`.
All RainLab plugins have been forked
Posted in Announcements on Mar 20, 2021.
As of 20 March 2021, all of the useful RainLab plugins have been forked and are now available as first-party plugins under the Winter namespace. You can start using them on new projects immediately. Drop in replacement for existing October CMS projects is coming in Winter CMS v1.1.3...
We have forked October CMS
Posted in Announcements on Mar 06, 2021.
Former October CMS maintainers Luke Towers, Ben Thomson and Marc Jauvin wish to announce the formation of the Winter CMS project, a community-driven fork of October CMS with a dedication to speed, security, stability and simplicity. Along with Jack Wilkinson, we aim to continue to deliver a professional and feature-rich platform that you can rely upon for your websites and applications...