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Drupal powers sites across the web, ranging from the personal weblog of Tim Berners-Lee, podcast sites like TWIT.tv, community driven sites like SpreadFireFox.com, artist communities like Terminus 1525 to large media sites like TheOnion.com, MTV and even sites for NASA.
There have been over 492 contributors to the Drupal 5.0 release
submitting 1173 patches, which is 150 more people than our previous
record with Drupal 4.7. These new contributions are seen in the major
usability improvements, a new Drupal core theme, a web-based installer,
and expansion of the Drupal development framework that will afford
themers and contributing developers even greater flexibility and power.
New features added
- Status page and requirement checking: added a status report page with detailed PHP/MySQL/Drupal information and requirement checking.
- Web-based installer: added web-based installer that checks run-time
requirements and that supports pre-made install profiles or
distributions with better support for database table prefixes. It is
also localizable.
- Core theme: introduced a new default core theme, called Garland
(and a fixed width version Minnelli). Garland uses the new color module
to change the theme's entire color scheme on the fly.
- Custom content types: core now includes part of the Content
Construction Kit and allows you to set up arbitrary types out of the
box. For more fields, install the full CCK package from the
contributions repository.
- URL filter: integrated the URL filter module into the filter module. This will cause web and e-mail addressed to be automatically hyperlinked.
- Blocks per role: extended the block visibility settings with a role
specific setting and retained the option to control blocks by PHP snippets..
- Edit block titles: Drupal 5 makes it possible to customize or overwrite all block titles, even set block titles to empty.
- User management improvements: Added support for auto-complete forms
to user profiles. The ability to filter users by role, permission and
status to help better manage users. Made email verification of user
accounts optional.
- Improved module administration: Modules are listed by category and
origin, their versions are displayed, and their dependencies are listed
in the module descriptions as required or optional.
- More logging reports: Drupal now provides detailed reports on
search terms, 'page not found' and 'access denied' errors to help
improve your site.
- CSS preprocessor:
All (cacheable) stylesheets are now aggregated into one compressed
file, which makes your site faster, especially for first time visitors.
- Performance tuning: Key parts such as Drupal's session and access
mechanism have been optimized for faster page loading across the board.
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