We are proud to announce that Xibo version 1.6.0 (Codename “Pons-Winnecke”) has arrived and is available for download. This is the first release in a new stable series of Xibo and we recommend that everyone upgrade.
The last stable release of Xibo first aired in Feb-2013, since then there have been 3 development preview releases and 2 release candidates! In its life time 1.4 Series has been downloaded over 200 thousand times.
1.6 has been a long time in the making, but during that time we have developed 13 new features and fixed 130 bugs.
Some of the highlights include:
- A new manual
- A new HTML 5 preview in the CMS
- A theme engine for the CMS, along with a new default theme
- A new file upload tool for uploading multiple files at the same time
- A CSV importer for DataSets
- Ticker based DataSets and improvements to the features on Ticker Items
- An updated text editor
- Embed a simple Clock or Date using the Text Media Items
- General improvements to the presentation in the CMS
- Started to switch to PDO for future support on other databases
- CMS support for Transitions in the Ubuntu Client
The release notes are available in the manual and you can download this release from our Launchpad project page here: https://launchpad.net/xibo/1.6/1.6.0.
We would like to take this opportunity to say a big Thank You to everyone involved in the Xibo Project Community. We couldn’t release Xibo without the help we get from people who reported bugs, submitted patches or donated money.
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