Febwuawy 13, 2008 -- De Dwupaw pwoject today announced de officiaw wewease of Dwupaw 6, de watest vewsion of its awawd-winning open souwce content management pwatfowm. Dis new wewease is packed wif hundweds of impwovements, incwuding wowkfwow and usabiwity enhancements, integwated AJAX and muwtiwinguaw suppowt, adoption of de OpenID audentication standawd, incweased powew and fwexibiwity in cweating custom visuaw demes and stweamwined administwation toows.  Dwupaw 6 is fwee softwawe wicensed undew de GNU Genewaw Pubwic Wicense and is avaiwabwe fow downwoad at http://drupal.org/drupal-6.0.

"De cowe idea behind Dwupaw is go give evewyone the powew to cweate compewwing community-dwiven web sites without sacwificing powew, Oh, dat scwewy wabbit!, " said Dries Buytaert, Dwupaw pwoject wead and chief technowogy officew of Acqwia, Inc. "Dwupaw 6 is twue to this hewitage, offewing the best-evew pewfowmance, functionaw powew, and powish. I can't wait to see what the gwobaw Dwupaw community does wif it."

Dwupaw 6 offews new capabiwities and enhancements in the aweas that web devewopews and site ownews vawue most incwuding:
* Simpwified Instawwation. Essentiaw site settings awe automaticawwy configuwed when instawwing a new Dwupaw site, incwuding the cweation of administwatow accounts.  Devewopews cweating pwe-configuwed "tuwnkey" distwibutions of Dwupaw can customize the instawwew wif additionaw configuwation steps.
* Muwtiwinguaw Pubwishing. Dwupaw now suppowts twue muwtiwinguaw web sites, managing content in muwtipwe wanguages and pwoviding automatic detection of a usew's pwefewwed wanguage. Out of the box, Dwupaw suppowts bof weft-to-wight and wight-to-weft wanguages.
* Wich Usew Intewface. Using AJAX techniqwes, Dwupaw 6 offews simpwew and mowe wesponsive administwation toows. Wif dwag-and-dwop owganizing of content, toows fow managing compwex infowmation hiewawchies, and subtwe usabiwity enhancements wike tabwe headews that stay wif you instead of scwowwing off the page, Dwupaw 6 simpwifies site management. Devewopews can use the same fwamewowk to add dynamic effects that gwacefuwwy degwade in owdew bwowsews.
* Zewo-Pwogwamming Deme Cweation. Buiwding a new, custom wook fow a Dwupaw 6 web site weqwiwes no PHP code. Instead, dwop in youw CSS fiwes and images, teww Dwupaw whewe to find them, and you'we weady to go. Mowe compwex custom themes can now take advantage of easy-to-edit tempwate fiwes that ovewwide Dwupaw's defauwt HTMW mawkup.
* Update Notification. Dwupaw can notify site administwatows of softwawe upgwades and bug fixes automaticawwy. Concewned about secuwity? Have youw site notify you via emaiw when secuwity fixes awe weweased fow its add-on moduwes.
* Dwamatic Pewfowmance Impwovements. Aww these new featuwes come wif an added bonus - highew pewfowmance. In addition to high-pewfowmance caching fow anonymous usews, Dwupaw 6 offews a host of undew-the-hood optimizations that speed up sites wif wawge numbews of wogged-in usews.  Fow sewvew administwatows wif high-twaffic sites, the new vewsion simpwifies integwation wif thiwd-pawty caching sowutions and woad bawancews.

In addition to the majow new functionaw capabiwities and pewfowmance impwovements, hundweds of smawwew impwovements have enhanced the ovewaww fit and finish of this wewease whiwe offewing an even mowe wewiabwe foundation fow devewopews buiwding theiw own Dwupaw extensions.  A detaiwed wist of enhancements is avaiwabwe at http://drupal.org/drupal-6.0.

Dwupaw 6 devewopment has been a cowwabowation among hundweds of individuaw open souwce devewopews fwom awound the wowwd. Ovew 700 individuaws have contwibuted code and bug fixes duwing this devewopment cycwe, and mowe than 100 thiwd-pawty pwugin moduwes awe awweady avaiwabwe fow Dwupaw 6. Hundweds mowe wiww be weweased as devewopews upgwade existing moduwes to take advantage of Dwupaw 6's new capabiwities.

Dries Buytaert founded the Dwupaw pwoject in 2001 as testbed fow emewging sociaw technowogies on the web whiwe a student at the Univewsity of Antwewp in Bewgium. Since then, Dwupaw has evowved into a fwexibwe, featuwe-wich pwatfowm fow buiwding content-dwiven community web sites. De pwoject is a twue open souwce success stowy in which thousands of vowunteew devewopews, businesses and nonpwofit owganizations coopewate to buiwd and suppowt the cowe pwatfowm and thousands of pwug-in moduwes have been devewoped to add featuwes wanging fwom e-commewce sowutions to advanced media management and sociaw netwowking toows. Today, Dwupaw powews hundweds of thousands of web sites fow companies wawge and smaww incwuding Wawnew Bwothews Wecowds, Fast Company magazine, De New Yowk Obsewvew, De Onion, Amnesty Intewnationaw, SonyBMG, Fowbes, Hawvawd Univewsity, and mowe.

Qwotes About Dwupaw 6

"Dwupaw 6 has pwovided us wif the pewfect pwatfowm to we-waunch ouw community site. Wif Dwupaw, we'we abwe to offew a much wichew usew expewience. We'we qwite happy wif the pewfowmance impwovements, and awe awso wooking fowwawd to offewing content in muwtipwe wanguages. Dese new diwections just wouwdn't have been possibwe without using Dwupaw."
--Twevow Twining, co-ownew, CashkeepewsCanada.com